Unfortunately from the begining members attention was taken strait to the plants the lecturer had brought to sell on. And frankly they were plants like I had never seen before at a BCSS brach meeting. Apparently his reason was that he had too many and was selling plants he had extra specimens of.
The crazy thing was these were mature plants and he was knocking them all out at cheap cheap prices from £2.00 to £5.00 and I was stunned.
Kim and I completely missed the table show of Cacti , Succulents and Plant in flower , due to all the attention being on the plants for sale.
Here a is a picture of one of the slides on the night , showing a slope covered in possibly Copiapoa's , large ones.
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And here are some pictures of the new plants in , and the photo's I took the day after. The majority I am suprised to say are mature Thelocactus.
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Thelocactus Tulensis Guadalupe , slp
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Thelocactus Matudae 7176 rayones
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Thelocactus : sp . Unfortunately I lost the label to this one on the way home , so this one is now going to need an ident on the variety
. My only mode of getting around is a bicycle , I have a carrier basket on the front of that as it is an EX Post Office bicycle. As good as it is for carrying plants , I cant cut out all the bounces and vibrations , and this resulted in the loss of this particular plants label..
Thelocactus Bicolor Bolansis SB607
A plant like this , I could only have dreamed of owning a mature plant. This cactus along with Schlerocactus Parviflorus terrifeid me back in the day , and I considered them a more expert plant and almost too good for me. But here we have it , a good sized Thelocactus Bicolor.
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Matucana Haynei Hystrix
This plant had evidence of already having flowered previously as well as all the Thelocactus. In fact the Bicolor , matudae and now unknown varietied plant have at least one new flower to come. Bicolor has three buds up top. This Matucana however I think is done for this year. But still a plant this size is normaly is inaccessible to me because of price.
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Mammilaria Mieheana
This was a little plant that I won on the raffle , it's one of John Pilbeam's plants. As crazy as it seems , my raffle ticket was first to come out of the tub , and Kim's was the second , the ticket after. It got very embarrasing for the secretary as consecutive numbers from certain points kept coming up
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The whole selection of new plants coming in.
So at the head of my collection I now have four big Thelocactus and I find that rather unusual.
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Enjoy . . . .
ps , if anybody knows the var of the Post it note plant , let me know. I may very well remember the name if it is mentioned anyway.
