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Here is a photo I took this morning of three new plants I obtained from the usual souce.

First one is a Ferocatus , that could be Histrix again ?

Second one is visibly Opuntia microdasys var minima

And the last is what I hope is a Pachycereus Pringleii.

A standard plant for any collection.

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Enjoy . . . .
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The columnar looks more like an echinopsis,huascha maybe?
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H'mm ?

Not enough red in the newer spines and glaucous bloom , your thinking then ?

My reasoning was it was a Pringleii with a defeciency of characteristic atributes lol.

You may well be right . .

* picks up plant to have a closer look *
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I was given this 30 yr old Echinopsis by a friend. She said it belonged to her mother , but she does'nt enjoy it like she used to due to having ilness.

It was suffering from lack of water and a bit of root mealy bug and neglect of course.

I used a thin set of pliers to remove the worst of the small offsets and just left the majority of the larger stems.

It is of course an echinopsis.Once it's dried out again I will give it a feed. The plant itself will more than likely be taken to the Greenhouse over the allotment. As for the variety I dont know , but if it should ever flower next year , that would be nice.

Photo taken at Nash's Garden in the conservatory.

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The plant as I recieved it

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Filling a trough

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I did all the tidying up in the Conservatory at Nash's Garden. But due to having it in the carrier on the front of the Ex Postie bicycle on the way home , there was some wobbling going on and more stems fell off. The plant is looking pretty basic now , but it's nothing a few years growing and free offsetting wont cure.
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Today was pretty much a non starter for me. I did'nt get up until well after 2.00pm and I cant say I am too happy about it.

I managed to achieve something today though. Pumping the tyres up on the Camaro GT ( light touring ) bicycle of the Mid 80's.

Just putting the washing away and rattling some crockery and cuttlery in the sink to go now.

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I also went to the usual place today for a sniff around at the cacti selection.

Came out with a trio of small cacti. One looks to me Myrtillocactus Geometrizans , another an Oreocereus , maybe Trollii , and also an unknown Mammilaria. My current computer is currently in the Apple store having it's data moved to the new iMac that I am getting in the next few days.

So I am currently on the Win XP/rebuild at the moment. It has a crappy Asrock muvvahboard in it and it's a right pig and slow. So I dont have any pics of my new aditions at this moment.
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The Echinopsis should flower next year with lots of sun. 8)
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Thanks

If there's something that Echinopsis is going to get , it's sun. I think the greenhouse faces E to W but there is minimal shade except for late in the afternoon when the sun drops behind my old mans shed and behind the trees and random housing in the distance.

This growing season is not done yet , but it will be further growth and not flowering. It would be nice if it bloomed profusely next season. I could let Barcellos know. I'm hoping to give her one of the many offsets that I took off the origional. I selected the best and potted them up in Multi Purp comp till next year.

Some are already showing signs of roots at the bottom of the pots , and the little ones are looking a bit happier now.
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Another selection of new plants in. The top three of them come from IKEA ( croydon ) and the the lower plants from the Wembley store.

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This pic was taken over the Allotment .

I am guessing the top plants to be from left to right

Oreocereus Trolii
mammilaria sp ?
Myrtillocactus Geometrizans

Bottom plants

Pilosocereus Pachycladus maybe but with extra ribs
Chamaecereus Silvestrii ( the 1 and original )
Unknown ?

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Any further identification hints would be much appreciated.

As you can see one is completely a mystery to me =^~^=
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Also these two clumps of plants

I know they are all Espostoa. I know not which one , but they seem to vary in hairiness. The more hairy it is, does it make it E. Senilis or just a hairy form of another Espostoa.

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I think I am finaly onto something with this trio of plants. Unfortunately Carnegia Gigantea and Pachycereus Pringlei are so similar that even looking through umpteen picture via Google did'nt help me to identify these plants. There just does'nt seem to be enough in the way of new red spination at the top of the plants for it to be P. Pringlei and when I looked up C. Gigantea I ended up even more unconvinced and without a name for these fella's.

And yet I am so close. But unfortunately so far. if it's not identical it's not named.
Anybody else have any idea's ?

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Here are plants I got from my local garden centre yesterday.

Years back you used to just get the boring old common stuff. Not that they wer'nt good , becuase they were. The trusty beginners cactus.

But to find Epithelantha Micromeris and a nice Copiapoa Humilis is pretty exciting for me. that Copiapoa is litteraly busting to get out of the pot, and is screaming for new accommodation.

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And as you can see the slow growing and everybody should have one plant Lophophora Williamsii is there. I am going to give it another go , but they mark , split easily and I do wonder if maybe they like certain soil conditions . I will probably have to look that one up. Bit bored of getting L. Williamsii in and it does'nt last out.

Almost as bad as me having plants of Echinocereus Rigidissimus * shakes head * . Just cant keep them for some reason.

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That E. Micromeris had three seed pods on it when I bought it so that was a [ R ] [ E ] [ S ] [ U ] [ L ] [ T ] . I've allready sown them in the Anerley Stone grit mix.

I bought a new heated propogater yesterday so i'm pretty chuffed. As basic as it is , it does appear to be working * fingers crossed *
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I grow lots of L. williamsii and I've never had one split yet. I've split many Astrophytums and some Turbinicarpus, but no Lophos. Obviously you need to get it out of it's current potting compost, that's just been for the benefit of the grower, probably Dutch, to get it to a saleable size in the least time.

But to find those three in a non-specialised retail outlet is quite an acheivement, well done to you, I'm never so lucky.

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Onzuka wrote:I grow lots of L. williamsii and I've never had one split yet. I've split many Astrophytums and some Turbinicarpus, but no Lophos. Obviously you need to get it out of it's current potting compost, that's just been for the benefit of the grower, probably Dutch, to get it to a saleable size in the least time.

But to find those three in a non-specialised retail outlet is quite an acheivement, well done to you, I'm never so lucky.

Steve
Dont know how I done it but I did split one the once. I think that was the one I got up to 2 1/2 in across .

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I dont think I will be aiming to sell The L. Williamsii. But yes as you say , all three of these need to come out of the rubbish peaty compost or at least be repotted.

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Yes it seems the Wyevale Garden centre's have come good in recent years .

Not only have I got these three just yesterday but I previously bought a parodia Mairanana. That is also a realy nice plant.

So basically I have access to three super sources of plants.

The local Wyevale garden centre's
IKEA
Kent and Conniseur's cacti.

As for the July BCSS Bromley meeting. That was just crazy. Walking out with no less than four big Thelo's and a Matucana for a cheap as chips price.

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I went to the the local GC yesterday and on failing getting an Insurance Lophophora Williamsii to back up the one I bought that already has a rot hole in the side.

I turned down an Aloe Somaliensis , as nice as as it was for these two plants.

A good sized plant of Gymnocalycium Mihanovichii , the yellow flowered form

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And also a plant of Mammilaria Spinosissima ( Un Pico ) a variant form.

The plant itself was a twin seedling it seems. One side branched into two , whilst the other side went a bit crazy a nd formed a clumping head. I put a knife in between and split it into two different plants.

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The last BCSS Bromley meeting and lecture resulted in the acquisition of three more plants.

Plants of Mammilaria Glassii ( Named after Charlie Galss ) and Mammilaria Matudae were purcharsed from the lecturers selection provided.

And a plant of Thelocactus Hexaedrophorus that I had my eye on from the start. Although John pilbeam had provided a very good selection of plants .

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The girlfriend secured plants of Turbinicarpus Pseudmacrochele , her own Mammilaria Matudae and a plant of Echevaria Eilenee.

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Selection of plants that Mr pilbeam provided.

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News : Mr Pilbeam's new Agave book. he was'nt all that happy with the printing of the first batch. Apparently there was some yellow missing , so he's ordered an improved batch. If you have ordered a copy of this book , get in touch with the man.
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Secured me a nice plant of Notocactus Mammulosus today. Also a collection standard the Haworthia Cymbiformis and also an Opuntia Microdasy's ablispina.

Still several plants to have identified.

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A friend of my Girlfriend produced a cactus the other day after we popped round. My eyes pretty much popped out of my head when I saw this plant that she had rescued from the now late neighbour of her's Barbara. When she brought it out it was obviously a plant of Charmaecereus Silvestrii. But I sware down this plant must have been 30 years old. The stem bases that were once the young parts of the plant back in the day were all but spineless and looked almost woody in appearance , rather like bootlaces. The plant was suffering from lack of water. but being in a terracotta pot and having sitting I the same compost for all those years. I'm not suprised the plant look so tired.

I spent some time trying to unravel the mess of interwoven stems. Most of the limbs fell off and I left Linda four of the best cuttings and took the rest with me. There was also a small waste pile. Well today I must have potted up 20 or more 2" square BEF pots with a Charmaecereus cutting in each. If I can get these old skool ( peanut cactus ) to grow. I might be able to hand them on next year.

Years ago when I was in the gardening trade as a job. We had a job called Marge Moon. Basically her work for us was just a Grass cut with some shrub maintenance . Her entire garden was on an upward slope and at the top of the garden was a Greenhouse , and what was in the greenhouse , yes plants of Charmaecereus Silvestrii ( the original ) I had urges to swipe a cutting but I am a good by so.

The strange this is. My girlfriends friend is Called Linda Moon ( not related ) to Marge Moon , and also the reoccurance of C. Silvestrii. But as my Grandpa Rex would say " History always repeats itself "
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