A fair amount of activity since mid-April to update. Most are common so I won't bother to bore you with the names. But if there's an ID question, I'll do my best to answer.
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Kamos wrote:Beautiful pictures fanaticactus! Spring is a great time of year !
Thanks, Kamos. Nothing is as great as Spring! Winter is far too long, especially when the weather's crazy enough to give us a warm March and a cold, rainy April. At least yesterday we hit 81 degrees in Burlington!
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The last one pictured, Gymno, and three before that, Rebutia are from Miles To Go. These others from him just bloomed this week:
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This one is an Echinopsis hybrid I've had for several years, and this is the third year in a row it has bloomed. I'm not sure, but judging by some photos I've seen, it may be the 'Flying Saucer' hybrid.
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7george wrote:Nice spring blooms, your cacti are doing well. I liked them all, esp. that Coryphantha, G. uncinatus & Mammillaria deherdtiana.
Thanks, 7george...trying to keep a few mealy bugs at bay. Don't know where they came from, but I'm checking the greenhouse every day now. I see you're in Calgary, so you might be able to sympathize with how unseasonably cold it's been this Spring. Usually by now I've got many of the collection out in the fresh air--and the mealies seem to disappear when the cacti are outdoors. I've got a Parodia rubellihamata with its crown loaded with 13 tightly-packed buds all set to burst, but I think they're waiting for the sun. Keep watching here for the photo.
Catch a falling star--but don't try it with a cactus!
This cactus (Echinocereus daelatti X fasciculatus) should never have had a flower. It spent the winter out of its pot, infested with mealybugs, dried up and with no roots. I kept it in a greenhouse with the temp set at 40F, but on a couple of extra cold nights it got down to the mid-20s, and during the day it could reach 70. As I was going to throw it out in April, I noticed the tiny beginnings of a bud, so I decided to keep it and...well, this is what happened.
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Rebutia pygmeae
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Thelocactus bicolor schwarzii
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And the very similar Thelocactus bicolor tricolor
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And to bring May to a close--finally with some above-average temperatures and humidity--two orchid cacti are opening practically one bud per day. The pink one had 13 buds, far more than the 2 or 3 flowers in the past two seasons. The red/orange/purple one has 6 or 7 buds as opposed to the two flowers of last year. I hope you'll excuse the multiple shots, but I can't get over the interplay of the three colors and the bright white of the stamen.
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Echinopsis/Lobivia hybrid'Rose Quartz'
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This Parodia rubellihamata when first posted had 13 flowers open at once, all crowded together on the crown. Here's the last single flower open full.
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Rebutia pygmeae
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Gymnocalycium andrea
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And in the cold-hardy garden a Echinocer. viridiflorus with four flowers that popped the same day.
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graffiti wrote:I think my 'Rose Quartz' must be special. It's much less compact (yet not etiolated) than any other version I've seen.
I have seen (and owned) many different-looking cacti sold as 'Rose Quartz'--both lumpy (like this one) and long-stemmed--and others that look more like an Echinopsis than the Lobivia heritage. I've had different colors, too: this cherry/magenta one as well as pink and one with more orange in it. They're either mislabeled or there is a huge variety of shapes and colors that seem to be far removed from what the original hybrid was. I'm not even certain of what the original 'Rose Quartz' is supposed to look like. Does anyone have any insight into this?
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Kamos wrote:That Parodia is amazing fanaticactus !
fanaticactus wrote:
cactushobbyman wrote:Thelocactus have great flowers.
And that's a major reason I want to keep these alive, not lose them as I did the first I had.
I recently bought a Thelocactus bicolor, and two other species of Thelos. Can you give me any care tips , or what not to do ?
Hanford is colder than Sanger, so those colder nights below 30 degrees, I would cover them and keep as dry as possible. They like summer heat and a little shade during the hottest part of the day, like this coming week. +105 expected. FCSS annual sale this Sat. at Sierra Vista Mall, Clovis. Lots of well known dealers will be there.
FCSS annual sale this Sat. at Sierra Vista Mall, Clovis. Lots of well known dealers will be there.