Snowfella's cactus trials

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Duvalia caespitosa?? Interesting...I have a few Stapeliads coming to flower in the next weeks. Getting ready for stinky times!
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Got absolutely no idea what it is to be honest, found it in a pot at a roadside plant stall. "Planted" alongside a Gymno, or more like a few cuttings just poked down into the pot the Gymno was in, separated the 2 and this one has gone absolutely bonkers with growth since then.
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Hehe, well interesting purchase, there are people just collecting those, their greenhouse would be smelling interestingly about now..LOL!
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Guess it's that time of year down here, this one is way ahead of the rest though as there's hardly even signs of buds on them.
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Nice bud on the first pic. Image
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Probably won't be to many more plant updates this fall, everything is slowing down plus I don't really like using the camera with a broken lens for fear that it will break the camera body :?

Couldn't pass this up though, weird way of throwing offsets on this M. multidigitata. Not used to seeing Mammillaria offsets come from underground.
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And there's atleast some flowers here and there still. Multiheaded M. schiedaena starting up.
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Very different, would say seedling but to developed to be from seed. It's nice to be surprised from time to time. :D
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Late reply but still, it's most definately a pup as the plant was repotted no more than a month or so ago.

3 random shots of plants here as I'm testing out a "new" lens.
Unknown Copiapoa with a first bud in my care.
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Another Copiapoa in buds
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And some fruit on my M. mammillaris.
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Some late season photos here, or maybe early season if we are talking winter blomers :lol:

Unknown Copiapoa with likely it's last 2 flowers for the season.
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M. karwinskiana however is just starting up for it's season.
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Wonky Gymno baldianum keeps on being weird, now it want's to throw pups out through bottom areoles. :?
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And this rude little thing seems to want to do the same, kinda hard to see though..
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Finally some new spine growth on this Echinopsis, back got kinda burnt during summer.
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And lastly my largest Copiapoa seems to want to join in on the pup bandwagon with 3 new ones forming all at once from the same head.
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Interesting plants; really love that Copiapoa!
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Second Copiapoa flowered yesterday, first time in my care this one has been in flower.

Yesterday after getting home from work.
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Today as I got home from work, bit more open as it was somewhat warmer today.
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Both photos are alittle bit of an experiment as I'm testing a new lens setup. My "new" (more like 20+ years old :lol: ) Minolta AF 35-70mm F4 lens has an insane 1m as minimal focus distance unless I kick it into a manual focus macro mode, so as a test I mounted it with a 12mm extension tube. Allowed me to get alot closer and still shot autofocused.
Still not happy with the contrast but hoping that will improve once I get the reflector/diffuser kit I just ordered and can start shooting in direct sunlight rather than in the shade.
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lovely flower!
With apologies to the late Professor C. D. Darlington the following misquotation springs to
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
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I have had lots of fun and embarrassment with a similar plant (rude thing)!! LOL! The Unknown Copiapoa is interesting to me with the curly flower pedals...very nice!
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Winter flowerers are slowly starting to kick in here as the temperatures drop, cold enough now overnight that I've brought the Melo and Disocacti indoors.

"regular" zygo's are slowly starting to catch up with their earlier relative, litterally hundreds of buds on them now.
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First flowers of the season on my bigger M. plumosa is starting to show up too.
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Got some other Mammillaria's that are starting buds aswell :D
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Looks like you'll have a Thankgiving soon. Image
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