That sounds adorable! LOL. Can a baby plant be adorable? I guess to me they can. I've raised barrel cactus (and opuntia) from seeds before. I never thought to study them so carefully. Lately I've been acquiring Manfreda-like things from the PBS BX and I'm amazed how long they wear their seed coats. I've even tried tugging them off, without success. Now that I know they're berets, I'll be happy to let them continue wearing them. LOL. Dennis in Cincinnati (where the cold is getting to me) On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:44 PM, David Ehrlich <idavide@sbcglobal.net>wrote: > Back when I was in my 20's, I did a time-lapse study of a cactus seedling > breaking ground. The seedling was way too small to get the camera close, > so I > placed a prism adjacent to the erupting seedling and shot vertically > downward at > the prism. I set the camera on a ring stand and took one or two shots a > day. Barrel cactus seedlings are very amusing -- nearly spherical with > markings > that make it look like a face, the two cotyledons on top are like tiny > cat's > ears, one of which wears the seed coat, like a beret. That was many years > ago, > and the film is lost, alas. > > David E. > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >