TimN 2012 Photo Topic

[Tony]

Wow!
Your Echinmastus johnsonii are awesome! Put me down for some seed when you get some please....

[TimN]

Thanks Peter and Tony!

Tony, I'll look around to see if I have any of the Echinomastus johnsonii seeds left from '09. I had two mature plants that made seed, but one died, unfortunately.

I'm interested to see when these two start to flower. I had four from the '09 crop, I'm keeping two and sold one last week. The fourth one is on ebay right now.

These have been very vigorous from the start. They are handsome little plants! The pots they are in are 2" square on the top.

[Ralf]

The spines of Echinomastus johnsonii are really gorgeous!!
I'm always impressed about your beautiful plants, Tim!

[TimN]

Warm weather and some water and fertilizer has got things going...

Cintia knizei - got this from Tony. A rodent ate the top off and it's starting to grow back. Hopefully the buds will open...

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Gymnocalycium bruchii - this is a rooted offset showing off. This is how I wind up with too many plants!

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G. netrelianum that I've had for a while.

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Mammillaria hererrae

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M. melanocentra - still recovering from being repotted and then depotted during a wind storm.

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M. pectinifera

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M. senilis

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Mammillaria NOID. I bought this as a M. lasaiscantha, but it doesn't look like any of my others.

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Parodia haselbergii

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Pliospilos nellii - I'm not sure why the birds peck this thing.

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[TimN]

Just a few more....

Rebutia marsonerii - I think....

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Turbinicarpus booleanus

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Thelocactus macdowelii

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[Arjen]

great looking plants as always tim! spring seems to be in full effect there!

[Ralf]

Really beautiful, Tim!

That's Mammillaria humboldtii really a nice one. I don't have had luck with this species.

[Tony]

I really hate when the wind repots my plants!
Thats the clumpiest Parodia haselbergii I have ever seen. Let me guess... A rodent ate the top off?

[TimN]

Thats the clumpiest Parodia haselbergii I have ever seen. Let me guess... A rodent ate the top off?

Ha-ha, nope! spider mites! got all three of them.

If it's not one thing, it's another!

[Minime8484]

That Turbinicarpus booleanus is great - mine just started to bud up too!

[hoteidoc]

All great plants & pix, Tim

[Peterthecactusguy]

Tim, get any rain/wind down in your neck of the woods? Where did you move too?

We got a lot of rain/wind. I brought in all of my plants. I didn't want to have to repot ALL of them since they would have been blown away. Winds were at around 50-60 last night..

[TimN]

Thanks everyone! I appreciate your comments. @Ralf - M. humboldtii makes sense. It does look like some of mine. I have issues with them too. The little guy pictured is doing well so far. It was pretty small when I got it.

@peterthecactusguy - yep, we got lots of rain and some wind. I think I got about 4" of rain in the last two days. I don't have my weather station set up, so that's just a guess based on the water in some containers that were laying around. Oh, the new place is in Cave Creek proper, on the side of Black Mountain behind Harold's Corral. Stop by next time you are in the area.

Snow on the mountains north of the new location.

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Close-up of one of the Parodia haselbergii that got attacked by spider mites. I don't recommend putting spider mites on your plants, but these are looking pretty cool.

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This is the other one.

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Cintia popped one of the flowers open. Unfortunately it got drowned by the rain.

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[Arjen]

great to see that cintia flower, too bad it got drowned..
will it flower again this season?

[Peterthecactusguy]

Tim,
I will give you a call next time I am that way.. I have been around there before, one of my Ex's friends lived over there somewhere
(edit) Last time I got the weather channel's radar to work it seemed like 2 inches was common North/East of Phx.. we got lots of rain here too...