Snowfella's cactus trials

[majcka]

SMAKLIG MÅLTID!

[CactIda]

SMAKLIG MÅLTID!

Out of huge curiosity - Do you speak Norwegian???

Snowfella: You have lots of beautiful cacti!! The pictures are also very nice!

[SnowFella]

Thanks.
Can't speak for Maja but I do understand both spoken and written Norwegian as I'm a Swede by birth. Speaking it though is beyond me! lol

[majcka]

SMAKLIG MÅLTID!

Out of huge curiosity - Do you speak Norwegian???

I do not. I can barely speak English. But I get a kick from time to time to use a Google translator.

[SnowFella]

Wouldn't you believe I missed that Lobivia! Went to work in the morning with it still closed and came home to a fully wilted flower, did the same darn thing to me last year too

Luckily I didn't miss these ones as it's likely going to be a few days before I get more. Weather has turned to crap in the last few days, we do need the rain but not in the amounts that we are getting right now.

M. duweii waking up from it's winter shrinkage.


First M. mazatlanensis for the season.


T. horripilus flowered again.


Same with this Rebutia


Another Rebutia something or another.


And what I had hoped it would be, as near white flowered Rebutia as I've been able to find.

[Snowcat]

Wonderful flowers!

[adetheproducer]

I like the last rebutia its vey pretty.

[Eutow_Intermedium]

It's all kicking off for you isn't it.

Some lovely flowers coming on now.

[SnowFella]

Yup, kicking off bigtime. Though if I'm unlucky now it will be quite some time before I can get some new decent photos. Old camera body has developed a glitch that slowly has been getting worse, the aperature/shutter wheel has started sticking/skipping and while taking some photos the other day it finally gave in fully.
Can't afford either repair or replacement at the moment so I've had to resort to a home brew attempt at a fix, hitting it with an electronic solvent/cleaner and hoping it will resolve the issue. Fingers crossed as I won't know for atleast another 20 minutes if it worked, didn't work or killed the camera outright

Here's 3 from the other day.
R. heliosa


First Copiapoa of the season goes to my large hybrid.


Unhappy Mammillaria, body has all of a sudden turned bright red.

[AKNicolle]

Fantastic photos! Growing cacti outdoors year-round is one of the things I miss from downunder.

[SnowFella]

It is indeed beeing somethat spoiled, only plants I bring in for winter is my Melocacti. The rest I just leave dry for the duration of winter and don't really have to many losses.

Few more from the last few days.
R. heliosa X, hybrid of some sort according to the grower.


Gymno saglionis


Gymno damsii?


Gymno that refuses to open


Maihueniopsis something, just look at those new pristine spines


Sunburnt and stressed, still kickin up buds though.

[CactusFanDan]

Nice plants! I wish it was spring here already. That Maihueniopsis looks like M. russellii. That's a nice specimen!

[SnowFella]

Been a while since I updated this post, strangely enough with a warm spring and hot start of summer flowers have been far between on anything other than Mammillarias. Guessing I'm as usual shooting myself in the foot by underwatering as I usually do.

Here's atleast some flowers, buds and new recruits from earlier on in the day.

M. baumii with only it's second flower of the season.


My M. mazatlanensis plants are finally starting to kick in, outdoors grown ones are starting to show buds aswell.


M. polythele inermis is kicking off aswell.


Second Copiapoa of the season, humilis I'm guessing


First flower ever on this desert rose


And first bud ever on this one, might finally find out what it really is as it onlycame labeled as "arequipa". I'm guessing it will turn out to be a Matucana.


Selenicereus bud.


And 2 newcomers to the bench.
First an un-named Copiapoa


And secondly the first S. raushii I've seen for sale locally, alittle etiolated but with the sun we are having that ought to grow out quick. Nice big plant in a 10cm square pot.


And not to worry, I've treated it for Mealies

[hoteidoc]

Thanks for the show, Snowfella, esp. the very happy-looking rauschii -- a plant that I'm still struggling with! My 3rd one is in apparent contented Winter "Snoozeland"! Nice Seleni bud. I got a cutting of one in the "Round Robin" box that I'm not sure is even rooting, never mind signs of new growth .
Dan, you're in deep psychological doo-dah if you're wishing for Spring in the 1st week of January Talk to your resting Babies & tell them you know what a "Great Show" they're going to put on when it's time for them to wake up!

[majcka]

Maihueniopsis something, just look at those new pristine spines

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This looks to me like Cumulopuntia boliviana (or syn.: Maihueniopsis boliviana)