I have a couple of quick questions about how to cross to get these.
1. what generation do they tend to pop in.
2. what have you crossed to get these?
I've been doing this to get the new colors and have the purple, bright purple, orange, red and bright red, just from a red cactus (still haven't gotten a blue or yellow). I wasn't sure if i cross the bonsis, spiders, hops or cactus. t
thanks for your help
when you cross flowery cactus, spider trees, or either direction of hops, as far as I know, they always come out one of those 4 types. To get bonsai, you need to cross one of those 4 with the old plants, all except a few at the top of the list(campions through lillies depending on what you cross with). Let's see if I can make this out in a chart that will make sense. This is the information I gathered from Erica's post - I hope it's accurate, but I can't promise it is
pi: pine pl: plum (referencing the original bonsai colors)
plant type...x w/..Fl.cactus.......SpiderTree.........Hops left.......Hops right
campions.......................................................................................
poppies.........................................................................................
snowdrops..............................common (pi)......................................
bulrushes................................common (pi)..........................comm(pi)
lillies......................................uncommon(pi)...common(pi)......comm(pi)
pampas.........common(pi)........uncommon(pi)....common(pi)......uncom(pi)
rushes...........common(pi)............rare(pi)..........uncom(pi)......uncom(pi)
ele ear..........uncommn(pi)...........rare (pi).........uncom(pi).......rare(pi)..
ferns............uncommon(pi).......common(pl)........rare(pi)..........rare(pi)..
ponytail...........rare(pi).............common(pl)........rare(pi)........commn(pl)
palm tree.........rare(pi)...........uncommon(pl)....commn(pl)......commn(pl)
century plant..common(pl).......uncommon(pl)....common(pl).....uncom(pl)
waterplant......common(pl)..........rare(pl)...........uncom(pl)......uncom(pl)
snakeplant....uncommon(pl).........rare(pl)...........uncom(pl)......rare(pl)...
pricklypear....uncommon(pl).....exceptional............rare(pl)........rare(pl)..
single barrel......rare(pl)..........exceptional............rare(pl).......except....
tribarrel............rare(pl)............exotic............exceptional.......except...
sorry for the crudeness of the chart, but hopefully it makes sense - depending on what you want your bonsai to look like in shape, you might try particular crosses and hope for a mutation. (what I did was work on upping my #s of deco plants in storage, growing anything from snowdrops on down the list and crossing them with spider trees)