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\"Hey , I know most people respond to give negative review rather than a positive one. I just started your seeds you sent me and they are all going fantastic. I think all 500 sprouted it looks like a chia pet . So thank you, there are a lot of old and non fertile seeds being sold online and I assure anyone reading this they are not.\"
I have collected these seeds June 2026 whileharvesting the fruit of the saguaros on private property to eat or to use to make saguaro jelly. A good fruithas the slight taste of a fig. The seedsare also very crunchy and have a lot of protein. Each fruit has about 2000 tiny black seeds.
Please be careful when purchasing saguaro seeds. Saguaros only grow in the Sonoran Desert. This includes Southern Arizona and the Northern part of Sonora, Mexico. The Cardon and other cactus that look like saguaros are not related to the Saguaros that grow in the Sonoran Desert. If you want saguaros only purchase seeds that come from Carnegiea Gigantea. If stored at room temperature saguaro seeds are good for 20 years.Carnegiea giganteais the only species in the monotypic genusCarnegiea
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This listing is for a packet containing 1/4 tspof very tiny seeds. How manyseeds is that? I don’t know. If you have the patience to count them pleaselet me know. I counted at least 150 seeds in 1/16 of a tsp. You dothe rest of the math!
It is amazing that such a giganticcactus has its beginnings in such tiny, tiny seeds. The little black dots in the picture areindividual seeds
In the first picture one ripe saguaro fruit has been slicedopen to show the beautiful red pulp inside, which contains hundreds ofseeds. The Calyx is the brown “stem” onthe fruit. It is formed from the driedsepals that surround the white flower.If you look closely you can see the dried white flower at the top of theCalyx. Native Americans use the sharpedge on the bottom on of the Calyx to slice open the fruit. The thumb is then used to push and clean outthe pulp.
Picture 1 shows the fruit and the tiny seeds. Picture 2 is of a 3 year old saguaro. The grower said, \"It is fertilized twice a week in small doses, I apply 1 g of fertilizer for every liter of water that I use\"
Picture 3 you see the seeds on about the 10th day from start. Picture 4 was sent to me by a buyer of my seeds. The three pots in front are my seeds. The three pots in back come from 3 different sellers. This was after 24 hours. The 5th picture shows my seeds in the round container on the left. Almost 100 percent of the seeds germinated. The picture was taken at 2 weeks. The 6th picture is from a recent buyer. These seeds are a few weeks old according to the grower. The 8th picture shows the bloom of a saguaro cactus at my home. The 9th picture was taken by a buyer of last years batch of seeds. He recently purchased more seeds. \"This is a 7.5mo seedling from your last years seed, raised in a zippie-bag mini-greenhouse for first six months, under filtered natural light.\" The last picture is of saguaros at different stages of growth. These are being grown by a buyer in Brazil.
How to Grow a Saguaro:
1. Use a clay pot with a hole in the bottomsince they “breathe” and allow for better drainage.
2. Use a mixture of 1/3 potting mix, 1/3clean sand, and 1/3 coarse gravel or pumice.You can also purchase special cactus soil.
3. Using a pencil poke holes about 1/8 inchdeep and 1 inch apart.
4. Place one seed in each hole and coverlightly with a pinch of soil.
5. Using a spray bottle and distilled waterlightly water the seeds. The soilshould never be soggy.
6. Cover with clear plastic wrap. You are making a miniature greenhouse. Keepcovered for 4-6 weeks until a set of true leaves appear.
7. Using the spray bottle water the seedsvery 10 days while they are under the plastic cover. Again the soil should not become soggy.
8. Keep the seeds in a warm place with goodindirect sunlight. Direct sunlight willkill the baby plants and they will probably die if temperatures go below40 degrees. The top of a refrigerator is a goodplace for warmth.
9. After you remove the plastic covering you only need to water about once a month using the spray bottle.
10.Whenthe baby plants reach 1 inch transplant them into their own pots. Thiscould take 1-2 years! Saguaros grow at a faster rate each year as they age. Thefirst 25 years are the slowest. Saguaros can have a 2 foot or more tap root. The rest of the roots are generally 4 inches deep and extend as far out as the saguaro is tall.
HINT: Check out Groovyman 1968 on YouTube for growing suggestions on cactus and succulents. Groovyman 1968 purchases his seeds from me. Groovyman 1968 recently sent seeds to people who responded to his videos. Check out \"Saguaro cactus seeds from Keith\" on YouTube!
