I had one of those for years - it never flowered. Got put in a jumble sale eventually.

Wonderful Astrophytums - well done - and I see you also favour unglazed terracotta pots.

As others have said - in my experience they can grow another rib at any time.

My nicest A. myriostigma -

Well done - wonderful melocacti - one genus that I cannot manage here - too cold on my roof in the winter.

Brilliant pics. especially loved the cristata.

Echinocereus is a large genus - not sure what you mean by cultivar??

Did it happen for you???

For what it´s worth, voted for a weirdo.

Long way for me - maybe next year.

It's tempting to go along with those who tell us not to bother with the names and just enjoy the plants but through trying to untangle the names we often come to understand and appreciate our plants more. Stick with it. :) Interesting comment. I do enjoy my plants for their own beauty, but their na...

I have had sick plants which have regrown roots on a number of occasions - good luck with that one.

Great to see them restored to rude health.

Now it looks like the plant has done, I will post some pics. Early in 2013, my largest Lophophora williamsii , a rather nice clump - well I think so anyway, started growing a new head - here it is peeking between three other heads. http://img.techpowerup.org/140810/largestpeyote.jpg A year, and a re...

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People grow plants in what they want and for various reasons of their own and that's their choice, but lets not propagate old gardeners myths as facts here which science and controlled experiments have proved fallacious. Unglazed clay pots do evaporate water through their walls. They don't however ...