A couple more, then I have to get back to work. Turbinicarpus krainzianus v. minimus, extra large http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/1355_IMG_1607_1.jpg Turbinicarpus schiedickeanus v. schwarzii ? (old name polaskii) 2 very different plants http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/1355_IMG_1604_...

Thanks Ian The key to using as watering schedule is all about using the right soil and pot for the plant, water guzzlers like Echinopsis can have a big pot and rich soil, Epithalanthas need lean soil and small pots. We almost never use porous clay pots, too ugly. oops, nothing offensive to the clay ...

Finally got some phots of Ariocarpus flowers Ariocarpus fissuratus http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/1355_IMG_1628_1.jpg Another one, we call the "cats tongue" http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/1355_IMG_1626_1.jpg Ariocarpus bravoanus http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/135...

We use alot of top dressing, you just get used to it after awhile. We use it mostly for sale plants. For sensitive plants, I like to leave the soil bare for a couple months, then top dress, after the soil has had some wet-dry cycles. But about a quarter of our good plants are not top dressed, too la...

Mammillaria crucigera

I have alot of sporatic flowering, but waiting for the big Ariocarpus flush. Nothing happening yet, A. fissuatus and hintonii have had a first flusth that I missed. http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/1355_IMG_1559_1.jpg This one opens every evening for weeks. Jutterdinteria suavissima http://ww...

Nice plants, where did you order them from.
That Astro. caput. knob is a flower bud, the plant will develop around the base.
I have been able to root small tubercles like that one.

I just got back from a rock collecting vacation, from western Nevada, up Eastern Oregon, Idaho, then to Seattle. Found alot of petrified wood, apache tears, opal and alot of nice new gravels. We didn't see many cacti, only a couple opuntias. We've had a terrible summer this year in Costa Mesa, its b...

Daiv, I was told that I couldn't do novice anymore in 2000. The Avonia tree didn't get anything, I asked a Judge, Karen, whats the deal, and was told that either they didn't look at it close enough, or maybe it was tied for a trophy between the other Avonia miniture, and they forgot to give it a blu...

Me and Denise put in 18 entries, two of them were collections which make a total of 34 plants. And in the Advanced division, got 8 1st.s, 1 2nd and 3 3rd.s. But no coveted trophies. Here are a couple photos. This Gynmocalycium vatteri won a 1st. A friendly old German fellow told me that it was varit...

I agree about that Matacana Darryl, It looks straight out of the Atacama Desert.
Here another one that blew my mind
Grafted Ariocarpus scraphirostris, Miles

That M. herrerrae is a M. hernandez

One more thing, those big piles of Azetkium ritteri's in the last picture are grafted, but the box for grafted was not checked. A big no no in my book, can't these people read instructions.

Tim
I thought that M. luethyi was grafted, though I may be wrong.
My M. luethyi (non-grafted) got a first place in the miniture division.
Your picture of the Ariocarpus is much better.

Nice Show Buck Here are some of the dream plants from the show. Sorry, but I forgot to note the plant owners, though none of them are mine. The photo quality ain't so great either, I'm just learning how to use a flash. Ariocarpus retusus varities. http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/1355_IMG_150...