Majcka 2012

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My Lobivia glauca var. paucicostata is in bloom again. One more to go.
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Nice flower! Quite a nice plant too! =D>
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Neat looking plant, Maja! Very simple!
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nice plants. Great flowers you got. BTW I agree with Darryl on the Opuntia that you had, I thought the same thing exactly. The one wasn't O. ficus-indica but rather I think it's O. humifusa.. The other one was A. subduntata and is an Opuntiad but not an Opuntia if that makes sense?
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Peterthecactusguy wrote:The other one was A. subduntata and is an Opuntiad but not an Opuntia if that makes sense?
Did you mean Austrocylindropuntia subulata? Or something alse? (just to find it)
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yeah sorry I am tired. A. subulata I must have been thinking about Echinopsis subdunata lol
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Finaly my Gymnocalycium pungens show its courage and flowered:
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That is the piece I got from another (abandoned) collection. It was eaten by Red spider mite (is that correct name???) and healed. For a long time it didn't show any will for anything. Then after a long long time some new spines grown and long after that two buds come out of nowhere. Now it blooms - twice.
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We will sow again. My Parodia erinacea has babys.
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Hoping for another one. Lobivia calochrysea is about to show flower. I hope the weather will last till then.
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Congratulations on your "Save" from the spider mites =D> -- & your patience for not tossing the plant. As usual spines - to me - are what cacti are all about & the 1st thing I noticed was all the nice white spines on the Gymno. :D, even if your photo was focused on the blossoms!
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Thank you Peter. There is one that shows how it used to look:
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The picture is bad but it shows how it was brown to the top.

And on this one you could see how it growed. Brown spots are way down:
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Talking about strange spines: Here is one old pic (well not that old, bot an older one with my cacti):
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All that are not in clay pots are from another collection. Some collector abandoned his collection (now he has bonsais) and gave his cacti to a nursery where I got them (for free, by the way). And this one was first to bloom for me. :D
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With a score like that, I KNOW the Cactus Gods are going to bequeath you a Golden Barrel someday! :D
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hoteidoc wrote:With a score like that, I KNOW the Cactus Gods are going to bequeath you a Golden Barrel someday! :D
Thank you Peter. I hope for it. I have several of them, but are waaaaaaay too small to flower. :wink:
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I never had such yellow flower in my GH.
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wow looks good. wish I had one... :D
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