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Cleistocatus Flowers

We have 3 clones of Cleistocactus winteri subsp. colademono
we like the name "Monkey Tails"
the "regular one", the "Fat One" and the "White One" which has not flowered yet.

The regular one
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The "Fat One"
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Our Cleistocactus samaipatanus had about 300 flowers this week
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If you like spiny things, then you got to love Cumulopuntia boliviana
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I thought I better take a photo before it gets de-jointed to be made into 6 plants

This is a hybrid Turbinicarpus
probably T. alonsoi x T. swobodae
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Turbinicarpus subterraneus boolianus
Hidden in a little nook under another pot
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Mammillaria schumannii flower frenzy
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Discocactus zehntneri buenekeri
Night blooms with a flash
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Nice plants I really like your Mammillaria theresae. I have a few seed grown plants that went half dead on me but I think will eventually re grow?
They germinate one at a time over many years and then grow super slow for me.
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Growing some at the top , it used to be all green but bad things happened to it over the years so I re potted it in half pumice. I think I have pictures of it on this site showing it a year ago looking pretty sad. I think I let it dry out too much ? Too much sun ? hard to say. it was seed grown many years ago like maybe 20 years.
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It's been awhile
Unfortunately, all the time I used to spend taking photos and posting is now taken up with planting, making cutting, sifting sand and counting seeds.
Oh the tortures that have to be endured to have a hobbyist succulent nursery.

Let's start off with me and Denise's vacation to Holbrook area.
We go there to collect petrified wood at legal collecting areas on BLM land
We went to one spot 3 years in a row, and walked past these cactus time and time again without seeing them

This year they went plump from the recent rains and were actually quite common
I know it's a Sclerocactus of some kind, but sure on the species
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Here is what the area looks like, we just walk around and fill our backpacks up with the stuff, and then walk back the hilly 1/4 mile to our truck with 60 lbs of pet wood weighing down
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We find pure agatized wood at a different spot
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Some more photos
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Flowers
Eriosyce bulbocalyx
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Echinopsis (Lobivia) saltensis
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2 Different Thelocactus bicolor
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Nice Astrophytum hybrid
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A couple Echinopsis hybrids

"Bridgette's Beauty"
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Our hybrid "Mountain Girl"
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a lot of vegetative energy goes into producing these giant flowers
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Welcome Mr Fry......I am Lenore Savage from Roswell New Mexico USA and we share the same birthday. 8)
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November 22, 1958
The same as Jamie Lee Curtis

and the 11/22/63, the day JFK was shot

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My Uebelmannia buiningii never looked so good

So I had to force myself to take some photos
Some plants just need to be photoed, the timing may be short to get the flowers or colors that are seldom seen

It's not so easy, I have to find some good lighting, get the background from the garage, find the latest memory card I'm using, load it into the camera, set up the plant, move it around, take about 8 photos, and if I'm smart, I will do a couple other plants while I'm all set up.
Some days the lighting sucks, so of course I get lousy photos

and then I have to load them on the computer, edit, reduce, post
It takes hours that I don't have many to spare

so after all that whining...


I will have many seeds as a reward
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Do you prune the large Pterocactus tuberosus? I find I can't keep the tips from getting spindly. Pruning also seems to promote flowering :dontknow:.
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Yes, we do prune our P. tuberosus.
Usually mid winter, we pluck off the spindly growth and only leave couple bigger stems.

And you are correct, the new growth next year will have flowers at the ends of some stems.

The stems are so easy to root, we put them in our garden and they have 4 inch tubers in 6 months.
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I've already had a couple flower flushes on my Ariocarpuses this fall

Not sure what instigates the flowering, but they usually flower about 2-3 times from September to Late November.

I'll post more photos, I can see many buds forming on the best plants today.

This plant is a puzzler..??
Not sure when I got it, or from who, didn't even notice it until it had this bicolored bloom!
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The tubercles look like this other A. retusus trigonus hybrid I have, which has white flowers
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This is Ariocarpus retusus confuses, which has pink flowers
The tubercles are way different, these are pointed like daggers
I've had these plants for about 7 years and they haven't flowered yet
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Ariocarpus trginus horacekii
I have another rich in buds
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You can see some baby horacekiis growing around the base


My one Ariocarpus scaphirostris needs a mate...
So if you know of any for sale or trade, let me know.
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IMG_9734.JPG I can see some really nice old cactus in that picture like a giant Turbinicarpus alonsii dead center =D>
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