Cactushobbyman Cacti

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Wow, your collection is VERY impressive! I'm jealous!!
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Minime8484 wrote:Wow - simply stunning!
What is the name of the Echinopsis that was the first in your last post? It's a beauty!
The first one is a Schick Hybrid Daydreamer, my first orange. The second I got from Tony. The new pics happened one day later, Schick Hybrid Cheetah and Seauce.
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Oh yes, I do enjoy my hybrids.

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majcka wrote:Oh my!!!! Image

Do you think I could come camping into your GH???? :-k
Sure, if you can stand the heat. Do a little cleaning and I'll bring you some water. :lol:
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Thanks for all the nice replies. I go for colorful flowers and most do a very good job of it. One of these days both of my T. bicolors will bloom at the same time and maybe get some seeds. :D
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cactushobbyman:

Do you have many Humming Birds visiting the Strausii flowers?

- Jim
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JimHSoars wrote:cactushobbyman:

Do you have many Humming Birds visiting the Strausii flowers?

- Jim
I have not seen humming birds near the flowers. I don't see humming birds around my house during winter, and they flower in early March, so the humming birds may have not migrated back. :-k
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Way up here in "tundra"land, Dennis, when ANY flowers come out, the hummers arrive! So I'm guessing they're back :D
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!!
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More color. :D

It is a true red, poor pic
It is a true red, poor pic
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More deeper magenta than shows
More deeper magenta than shows
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Some more.
Echinopsois hybrid pure red in color
Echinopsois hybrid pure red in color
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great show!
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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Such vivid colors! Such big flowers! Keep posting! =D>
Catch a falling star--but don't try it with a cactus!
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fanaticactus wrote:Such vivid colors! Such big flowers! Keep posting! =D>
Right! If I don't get to see mine in outside beds at least I can look at yours. Image
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:D

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I love this last one! If my monitor is reading the colors correctly, it looks like a very, very pale yellow with just a hint of pale rose on the petals. What is it?
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My camera is not the best, inners pastel rust-orange with narrow yellow to orangish-yellow basal stripe and yellow midrib. Outer petals acute, light yellow to orange. Throat-circle light yellow. Filaments of outer stamens yellow, those of inner stamens dark terra cotta. Schick hybrid, High Noon
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