Peterb's new, revised 2012
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Nice H. truncata clump!
Forget the dog...Beware of the plants!!!
Tony
Tony
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Thanks, love that plant. Has really hung in there, here in PHX.
Some Grusonia pulchella photos attached. 2 years old.
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Some Grusonia pulchella photos attached. 2 years old.
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Grusonia
cool plants PeterB
cool plants PeterB
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
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Peter, as always, amazing plants and flowers. I hope some day my seed-growing efforts will be half as successful as yours. And the glasses--way cool, but how many plants would $300 buy?
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Gorgeous Fero spines, PeterB! I shoot a wislizeni (I think - another gift of an old plant) repeatedly on porch in early a.m sun! Also, do I also see early signs of a "closet" Haworthia fan? I've "gone over", but don't know if I can keep them alive! Have several Euro. Flickr fanatics into them Big Time!
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Once bitten by the cactus collecting/growing bug, there is no known cure!
There's no 12 step programme for Cactaholics...so I shall just have to get some more!!
There's no 12 step programme for Cactaholics...so I shall just have to get some more!!
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I love Haworthias but can't really grow them very well here in Phoenix. The summer is just too hot and long. The few I have seem to like the short, cool wet winters, however.
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Two new ones today, the always outstanding Echinocereus berlandieri (often confused with pentalophus and the non-existent blankii) and the amazing Notocactus (Eriocactus!!) leninghausii. The latter flowered for the first time in a few years today, after being very finicky for a long time. Buds, but never flowers. Great to see these crazy, strange flowers again.
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I can see how someone might confuse the E. berlandieri with E. pentalophus with a quick look. However at least my E. pentalophus has much smaller stems and they bend downwards instead of being more vertical.
Nice that you got your Noto to bloom.
Nice that you got your Noto to bloom.
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
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That's a sweet-looking Notocactus! It must have some age to it.
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Nice flowers, Peter. That N. leninghausii is one tall cactus. Congratulations!
Love the E. berlandieri. I saw some of those when I was in Chihuahua Woods Preserve (in deep South Texas) back in late March and they were some of the few survivors of the drought that has killed off many of the cacti there.
Love the E. berlandieri. I saw some of those when I was in Chihuahua Woods Preserve (in deep South Texas) back in late March and they were some of the few survivors of the drought that has killed off many of the cacti there.
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very beautiful, both of them!
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)
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
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Im with Greg. Do you know how old it is?tumamoc wrote:That's a sweet-looking Notocactus! It must have some age to it.
Forget the dog...Beware of the plants!!!
Tony
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That tall ERIOCACTUS (haha) is probably only about 10 years old or so. These grow like mad in the intense heat here, all summer. I could start an ERIOCACTUS farm.
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Great show!
Is E/N/P. leninghausii self fertile? I seem to always get a few thousand seeds dribbling down the plant each year. It's a big plant with many offsets and it's filled the pot, hard to tell if the smaller stems are volunteer seedlings or offsets!
Is E/N/P. leninghausii self fertile? I seem to always get a few thousand seeds dribbling down the plant each year. It's a big plant with many offsets and it's filled the pot, hard to tell if the smaller stems are volunteer seedlings or offsets!
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This one has made thousands of seed in the past, but has also been in flower when my one other Notocactus wwas flowering, so not sure about selfing. But yeah, the seeds germinate like weeds around the bottom of the plant. The seedlings don't make it through the Phoenix summer, however.
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