my collection so far....

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Some pictures from today
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Caught it open today
Caught it open today
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More loph flowers
More loph flowers
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Two for one
Two for one
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Most of my plants
Most of my plants
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Turbinicarpus flowers tomorrow hopefully.
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Copiapoa tenuissima cristata flower more on the way.
Copiapoa tenuissima cristata flower more on the way.
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Couple of pictures.
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darn snails
darn snails
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Thats bettter!
Thats bettter!
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I know just how you feel mate =^~^=

I've had a lot of snail damage to my Rebutia's this season, never known it like this " Rogue snails "

My GF's Rebutia Krainziana was destroyed. My Rebutia Perplexa is disappearing one head at time after recovering from Red Spider. mother reason why I don't keep R. Perplexa ( red spider ) Rebutia Heliosa rooted pups have taken hits and my Mammilaria Spinosissima un pico have been hit badly and all I have left it two offsets I potted up, hoping they will take.

And several Echinopsis Eyreisii at Nash's Garden.

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That crested copiapoa looks lovely. Congrats !
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The rebutia it one of my outside cacti its just under a shelter from the rain, its the second time the little monsters have chewed a chunk out of it. They had an offset last time so I just pulled it off but they hit the main head this time. Ah well add to the list of cacti not to heavily invest in they are clearly too tasty. The Copiapoa does look good should be better tomorrow there are 8 buds on it so still a few more to go. My turbinocarpus macrochele has two ready to open and my lophophoroides is almost ready for another flower so they are all doing well.
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Darn snails! I pulled a sleeping snail off my big Leuchtenbergia today. :P Fortunately it hadn't eaten anything other than a few petals off a neighbouring plant. Snails don't tend to bother eating my plants, apart from maybe the occasional seedling. :evil:

Other than that, your plants look great. :)
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CactusFanDan wrote:Darn snails! I pulled a sleeping snail off my big Leuchtenbergia today. :P Fortunately it hadn't eaten anything other than a few petals off a neighbouring plant. Snails don't tend to bother eating my plants, apart from maybe the occasional seedling. :evil:

Other than that, your plants look great. :)
Its only this one they seem to eat, there are trails of slim on the other outside cacti but no damage. they deffinatelly don't like my mexican species, probably too bitter espetially the lophs.
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Quick update. Some flowers and seedlings. Also harvested and planted turbinicarpus alonsoi seeds from a pod in the top of my new one. It had about 30 seeds so hopefully will have soom more so. Got about 10 Epithelantha seed pods drying out so they ready to send out soon.
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Gymnocalycium damsii var rotundulum
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Later in the day
Later in the day
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Turbinicarpus macrochele
Turbinicarpus macrochele
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Turbinicarpus lophophoroides
Turbinicarpus lophophoroides
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Lophophora williamsii
Lophophora williamsii
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Seedlings
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Turbinicarpus lophophoroides
Turbinicarpus lophophoroides
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Discocactus
Discocactus
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More fruit too
More fruit too
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What beautiful flowers!
And the seedlings wonderful.

Best wishes

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Cheers K.W.
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Some more pictures taken by my wife.
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And finally it has opened echinocereus rigidissimus
And finally it has opened echinocereus rigidissimus
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More gymnocalycium vatteri flowers
More gymnocalycium vatteri flowers
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New addition echinocereus pulchellus
New addition echinocereus pulchellus
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The bees liked the eriosyce flower, kept coming back to it all day. It was on my diffusa too but would not stay long enough to get a picture.
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Epic heat wave we are having. Some more turb flowers soon. Sown some seeds today some l.williamsii and some more e.micromeris.
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More seeds delivered yesterday I had ordered a pack of echinopsis panchanoi from botanical-archive via ebay and they also sent me a free packet of ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus var. macdowellii pectinantus...happy days I only just read about this species the other day and now Im growing them:)
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The turbinicarpus alosoni have started to pop open, got one little green seedling so far with other ready to go any time. I think the lophophora williamsii are starting to send out root hairs too so all is good in my light box at the moment.
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