First Update of the growing season:

It is still officially winter here in Sydney, spring starts in a little under 2 weeks, but is has been warmer than expected especially during the day. Recent days are between 19 – 27 deg which equates to about 21 – 30 in the grow room.

First pictures of the season; this one took my eye whilst watering so I decided to take a few shots. It has developed a nice orange colour and lustre on skin.

Astrophytum Myriostigma Cv Kohyo "Orange"

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Winter almost over

Winter is almost over now and the grafts look to have survived. It wasn't particularly cold this season with night time temperatures getting to a low of 4deg in the grow room. Some of them are showing some minor marks on the skin and one has slight splitting at the bottom of the stem. I think from over watering.

They are all just starting to wake up and come out of dormancy. I can see new growth on several of them which is a good sign. At the beginning of spring I will post some updated photographs from the winter period, even though not a great deal has changed.