my collection so far....

adetheproducer · Post by **adetheproducer** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 10:16 am

Some pictures of my seedlings all the unknowns where from a mixed packet if seeds. I have got more but too many to upload in one go.

kristian_Fossmo · Post by **kristian_Fossmo** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 8:35 pm

Those Epithelantha micromeris looks nice. How old are those Lophophora?

adetheproducer · Post by **adetheproducer** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 12:10 pm

The Epithelantha are about 1 1/2 years the lophs about 9 months.

adetheproducer · Post by **adetheproducer** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 3:46 pm

Flower season is open, my astrophytum myriostigma has opened its first bud, my wife has taken a picture but very grainy image so have not uploaded it will try and get a better quality picture when I get home after work if its still open. Got many more buds on the way, should have some pretty pictures soon.

so far I have got buds on
l.jourdiniana
t.bicolour
e.viridiflorus loads on this one I can't wait
t.valdezianus
g.damsii
g.damsii rotundulum
e.knipperlianus reyesii and kruegeri
and probably a few more by the time I get home.

Did loose a prise plant, I killed my ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus elephantidens. I must have over watered, it was growing with new tubercles popping out but I had moved the plants around the shelf to make more space so must have affected the drying time of the pot and stayed wet. It had rotted quite badly underneath with nothing worth rescuing to try a graft. I was in a plastic pot so I think that was the main mistake, will need to move my one fissuratus out of the plastic pot to a clay pot they dry much quicker and don't want to loose that one too.

kristian_Fossmo · Post by **kristian_Fossmo** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 6:41 pm

Maybe smaller pots to the Ariocarpus, or bulk up along the edges whit bigger rock so they dry up quicker?

adetheproducer · Post by **adetheproducer** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 7:52 am

kristian_Fossmo wrote:Maybe smaller pots to the Ariocarpus, or bulk up along the edges whit bigger rock so they dry up quicker?

The one I lost was in the smallest pot, the other have much bigger pots and are fine, I think I just miss-judged the heat and direct light the pot got at its new position. Well its a tough mistake to learn from but now I do have room for a small pot again, still on the look out for a lophophora alberto-vojtechii and koehresii now I have space. I do much better with lophs.

adetheproducer · Post by **adetheproducer** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:42 pm

And finally some flowers opened today. Should be more tomorrow a few of the lophs look like they will open up and my echinocereus pulchellus looks like its ready to pop out about 6 buds.

adetheproducer · Post by **adetheproducer** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 10:34 am

Lots of flowers

adetheproducer · Post by **adetheproducer** » Sun May 03, 2015 5:26 pm

Still waiting on my echinocereus viridiflorus to open, my e.pulchellus and e.rigidissimus got 5 or 6 furry tufts pocking out each so should have a good show from those in the next fee weeks. My turbinocarpus macrochele have got a bud now sticking out of the fur and my surviving stenocactus has got two buds. Yey I like summer they get much more interesting.

adetheproducer · Post by **adetheproducer** » Mon May 04, 2015 11:57 am

Another lophophora flower today.

adetheproducer · Post by **adetheproducer** » Thu May 07, 2015 5:55 pm

Had a good bit of sun today so this one started opening the rest of the buds should open tomorrow weather permitting. Akso got 3 of my l.williamsii open today so will be cross pollinating o ce the kids are in bed. Happy days.

Arjen · Post by **Arjen** » Sun May 10, 2015 6:33 am

beautiful flowers ade!

adetheproducer · Post by **adetheproducer** » Sun May 10, 2015 5:32 pm

They are coming along nicely this year. My Thelocactus bicolor should open tomorrow so that should be nice, surprisingly large bud on it.

adetheproducer · Post by **adetheproducer** » Sun May 17, 2015 9:49 am

Some more flowers. Should have flowers on my turbinicarpus lophophoroides, gymnocalycium damsii and rotundum, baldianum and got buds startting om my gymnocalycium vatteri, eriosyce esmeraldana and mammillaria melaleuca so some nice treats on the way but did loose my copiapoa laui which im quite disappointed with turned to mush.