Ralf's collection - update 01/03/2016

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Re: Ralf's collection - update 06/22/14

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...some more
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Re: Ralf's collection - update 06/22/14

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ah, so you did get some flowers after all! and a very lovely neocumingii!!
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Re: Ralf's collection - update 07/02/14

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Thanks, Arjen!
Yes I'm quite happy this year. The Weingartia flowers for the first time at all. I'm really surprised about its beautiful flowers.
It makes to want more of them. :wink:
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This one is grown from seed, sowed in 2001. Now after 13 years it shows its first flowers. :D
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Re: Ralf's collection - update 07/07/14

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... and the show goes on!
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Re: Ralf's collection - update 07/07/14

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The Weingartia flowers for the first time at all. I'm really surprised about its beautiful flowers.
It makes to want more of them. :wink:
ahahaha, yes they have that effect on me as well
I'll keep you in mind when my seedlings get a bit bigger!
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Re: Ralf's collection - update 07/07/14

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Excellent flowers! So bright and vivid!


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Re: Ralf's collection - update 07/17/14

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Thanks Arjen and Mark!
Yeah, sometimes you have a plant without any flowers for years, but after its first flower your interest raise up for it. :D

Do you like yellow? I have had a yellow week till now!
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Re: Ralf's collection - update 07/17/14

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Very nice Astros! Liking the variation in flecking you have between plants!
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Re: Ralf's collection - update 07/19/14

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Thanks, gem!
You'll never find two identical plants of them except var. nudum. :wink:
I like that too and especially their beautiful flowers.

.....and now, close all vents and be excited whats coming.....
More yellow!
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Re: Ralf's collection - update 07/19/14

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You called my one Frailea and raised it by four!!
Amazing! Love the yellows!
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Re: Ralf's collection - update 07/19/14

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I've only taken pics of that four species but there was flowers on more plants as the shown.
If you know what to do it's quite easy to have flowers on it. Almost all of my Frailea have open flower
except the seedlings in the lower part of the greenhouse.
Full sun and high temps are necessary for that success.
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Re: Ralf's collection - update 07/20/14

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...and again some yellow and somewhat pink.
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Got this from Jens some years ago. Now its first flower ever!<br />Thanks again, Jens! I like this beauty.
Got this from Jens some years ago. Now its first flower ever!
Thanks again, Jens! I like this beauty.
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Its second bud but hopefully its first open flower. I cross my finger for that.
Its second bud but hopefully its first open flower. I cross my finger for that.
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Re: Ralf's collection - update 07/26/14

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It's Gymno time!
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Re: Ralf's collection - update 07/26/14

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Well, Ralf,
I have to admit, that I had not looked at your cacti for a while. Things were just too busy at work and I did not log on to CactiGuide for a good number of weeks. So I went ahead and took a look at the three last pages of digital images that you posted of your plants.
I am impressed with the number of Turbinicarpus spp. cacti in your collection. Of course, I also like the Echinocereus members (my biggest collection contingent), Gymnocalycium spp., Mammillaria spp. etc. I have tried growing a good number of cacti with varying success. Some just do not want to grow for me. Most of the time the sun and the heat it produces is just too much. This year my then only Ariocarpus fissuratus plant - which has survived for five years or so - all of a sudden changed color. Most likely, its epidermis got burned. So I went ahead and threw a little bit of coarse desert sand on top of it. I shall see, if that emergency treatment was successful later in the year, most likely toward the end of September or early October, when this plant usually puffs up and goes into the flowering mode. I would hate to lose it and hope, that it is still with me for a few more years.

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Re: Ralf's collection - update 08/03/14

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Thanks for your kind words, Harald!
Yes, sometimes it's really tricky to have success with the plants. Every grower have different conditions for his plants.
But we all have one point together the passion and delight on them. And of course we wanna share this to other ones.

Gymno time the second!
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