Welcome Craig Fry!

[Mark]

Wow great looking plants. Really like those Ario's! The Yavia seem to grow crazy when grafted, but I'm sure you get plenty of seed for sowing.


Mark

[C And D]

Echinopsis,
Those Yavia seedlings are just spectacular, do you have any secrets to grow them?
No one else I know has achieved such success..

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The little seedlings in the G. vatteri pot are Tubinicarpus viereckii

[Echinopsis]

Thank you C and D.
I don`t have any secret`s, but the problem is: They crow very, very slowly!

[gemhunter178]

I just remembered this- Have you tried to graft your Yavia on Opuntia humifusa? I hear some species retain/are closer to their natural shape when you do so.

Spectacular plants, by the way! Love the retusus v. pectinatus!

[KittieKAT]

Literally i die when looking thru your posted picture's Creig, i want everything you have and sum....and i don't have the space lol

[C And D]

I get so wrapped up in my winter growing succulents that I neglect the Cacti

The buds are building on some of the Winter blooming Cactus like the Mamms and Turbs, so I hope to catch some more color soon

Here is the only one for now

Mammallaria laui subducta

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It's time for a repot, it's been in that pot for a least 6 years

[Allison 17]

the mini-sized flowers are so lovely!!!

[C And D]

Well it's sad that some growers don't have any flowers this time of year.
I have too many plants in flowers to count, I took a bunch of photos of them but realized that most of them were just too common to bother with,

oh the horrors of having to live such a great geographical location that provides the growing conditions that almost every succulent loves.
But of course I will never be able to recreate the heat of places like Tucson, we just have to grow different plants that thrive in our environment.

Flowers coming any minute now

[C And D]

Lot's of Winter flowers this February.

Uebelmannia buiningii

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Cintia knizei

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Some soft spined Mamms
Mammillaria schwarzii

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Mammillaria carmenae

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Some hooked spined Mamms
Mammillaria perezdelarosae

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Mammillaria stella-de-tacubaya

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Nice Straight Black Spines
Mammillaria ritteri

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And an out of season Rebutia
Rebutia glomeriseta

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[adetheproducer]

Stunning, the cintia knizie look great.

[C And D]

I have 5 Cinteas in my collection, and 2 others floating around

and they all look kind of crappy, mostly dehydrated, I guess my soil is a little too lean for them
They rarely flower the same day as one of the other plants, since they throw off a flower at random over the winter

I should freeze some pollen now, otherwise I will not get any seeds this year.

[adetheproducer]

You might want to pot a couple in the same pot, its proven a lot of plants communication chemically via root/fungi networks it might stimulate them to flower in sync a bit more.

[luigonz]

I really like those mammillaria. Pays off in Winter to be a mammillaria lover

[C And D]

Good idea Ade
They have huge tuberous roots, it would be easy to pack them into a deep pot, and save room on the bench.

[C And D]

Of course all Cacti lovers know what also blooms this time of year!

Turbincarpuseses!!!

T. andersonii

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Turbinicarpus bonatzii

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Turbinicarpus hoferi
I need to check my tags and make sure that they have only one "f" in hoferi, it's not hofferi like some say.
It's for sure one of my Favorite Turbis

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T. monbergii x

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The monbergii clan

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