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Hi, growing season for cacti is back to northern Germany too.
Here are some pictures of this week.

How come it already right season in north Germany and here isn't. We live much more further south. You know?!

Hi Maja , that is very sad, but it should be growing conditions in your place too , shouldn´t it? What happend?

Jens wrote:What happend?

Very warm march and very cold april. That's what happend. But now I ordered some warmer weather and hope for the best. Thank you.

Very nice Turbinicarpus pseudopectinatus. I like!

tumamoc wrote:Very nice Turbinicarpus pseudopectinatus. I like!

Of course. All of them are. Jens sorry I only moan, but I'll get used to the situation and in a few days will be in better mood.

Just asked that same question @ a Gymno. pflanzii blossoming in central Alberta, Canada & mine aren't even showing buds. Reply was their daylight already longer than upstate NY. Same deal? Love the senilis blossoms -- mine struggled mightily to get thru & a couple of spines still snagged blossoms so never fully opened
Peter

Hello Jens,
I too do love your healthy looking Turbinicarpus plants.
Do you have a greenhouse or are you growing your plants on a window sill of a south facing window?
That Eriosyce senilis plant of yours does seem to have been around for a good number of years. Is that one of your first cacti or have you been growing them for a very long time?

Harald

jens, very beautiful plants and flowers!

Thank you all, yes it was a freaky kind of weather this spring. But usuallly I am leaving the bubble film inside the greenhouse until the mid-end of april so I didn´t have exceptionally many casualties this year (except some unloved melocactus seedlings ha ha ).
The Neoporteria buds developed in about 2-3 weeks to flowering size - it seems to depend on the overall size of the plant a little too since the smaller E. senilis are still on their way to flowering here. Many of the bigger ones I sadly inherited from a dear cactus friend named Helmut Huckstorf (HH) who passd away two years ago- I´d rather had him still around with all his old Eriosyce plants still in their original place....
GH in winter Much nicer in summer

Great set-up, Jens! Thanks so much for the view ! I'm renting old farmhouse with (godsend) glassed-in porch. I can appreciate losing a old cactus friend -- having any "old-time" master/istress, especially in plants is a treasure. I'm sure much of him is in you!
Peter

You got yourself a serious GH. Now I get it. No wonder you already have spring time.

Maja - Do NOT refinance the house or rent out the kids! It's just like the Golden Barrels in your front yard!

hoteidoc wrote:Maja - Do NOT refinance the house or rent out the kids! It's just like the Golden Barrels in your front yard!

I read this several times. I put it on on-line translator and still don't get what you're saying.

I will PM you.