Welcome Craig Fry!

[K.W.]

Wonderful "Show plants," I love the Sulcorebutia frankiana and S. rauschii also.

Thanks for the photos Craig!


Best wishes

K.W.


PS Denise´s Gymnocalycium stenopleurum

[C And D]

I better bump my thread before it slides off the first page.
More Gymnocalyciums

Denise's G. horstii

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More to come, with or without flowers

[CactusLover]

Craig and Denise, I've noticed you have some Tylecodon seeds for sale. Have you ever tried growing Tylecodon from seed? If you have, any advice would be very appreciated. The only info I could find was that they are very difficult to grow from seed.

Your plants are AMAZING!!!!!!!!

[C And D]

Well the photography has been shut down by the unseasonable early Monsoons!
We are getting rain, lots of clouds and humidity. We even had a lightening storm yesterday, and they shut down the beaches.

So it's been to dark to get any photos for the past 2 weeks.
I did get this one.
Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum paucispinum
It's growing less and less spines as it ages.

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Growing Tylecodons is not that hard from seed. The seeds are like dust, and I can't separate the dust from seeds, so you just sprinkle the dust and seeds onto the soil. Sow in the Fall, and try and pump them up as much as possible before Summer.
You can water lightly in Summer, but try and keep them cool and shaded.

For the past 2 years, my seeds of T. noltii germinate like crazy, but die a month later from getting too dried out. I will try again this year.
My T. singularis from seed (which I do not have for sale yet, hopefully next Summer 2 of them will flower)

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[CactusLover]

Thanks for Tylecodon tips. Do you use the baggie method?

[C And D]

I have a seed growing thread
http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtop ... 16&t=34225" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Instead of baggies I use clear containers.

[C And D]

Back to the Gymnos


This is your typical Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum
3 bicolored spines, 2 out sideways, one down

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Here is a kind of monstrose one

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Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum piltziorum
Very slow growing, stout spines

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Gymnocalycium ochoterenae

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Gymnocalycium ragonesei

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[adetheproducer]

Beautify gymno's.

[C And D]

The Orange County Cactus and Succulent society is having our 2015 Summer Sale and Show


July 24-26, 2015
10-5, Fir
9-5, Sat
12-4. Sun

at the:
Anaheim United Methodist Church
1000 S. State Collage Blvd.
Anaheim, CA 92808

http://www.occss.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Come and see us if you live in the area.

There are many plant venders, including C and D, Steve Duey, Gary James, Dean Hart, John Mathews and several others including many club member sales, and potters.

Weingartia neocumingii brevispina

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[Tiggy]

Just love those Gymnocalyciums.

Susi

[C And D]

All the Gymnos are too dark, it's my stupid laptop, if it's tilted slightly, all the darkness levels are off
I redid the photo above with "Auto Brightness" and it looks wrong as well, I will have to redo the originals

[C And D]

Here's some stuff from last month

Copiapoa laui

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Copiapoa haseltoniana

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Copiapoa krainziana

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Copiapoa grandiflora
little red egg like buds

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Neoporteria recondita v. vexatus

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[C And D]

Peniocereus are one of the more difficult Cacti Genera to obtain and keep alive
Bill Hagblom gave me this Peniocereus rosei a year ago

This is it's first flowering

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Beautifully multicolored

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What makes Peniocereus so difficult?
It's the giant tuberous root that will easily rot if overwatered
There are several pounds of tuber underneath that soil

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[C And D]

More flowers

I'm not sure what the name of this is anymore
I called it Lobivia thionantha v. glauca
But there is no glauca on CactiGuide

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Maybe this is a Echinopsis thionantha
I didn't get a name

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Lobivia (Echinopsis) amblayensis
This isn't on Cactiguide either?

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Turbinicarpus alonsoi

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Turbinicarpus schmiedickeanus polaskii

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Escobaria hesteri

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[phil_SK]

thionantha glauca can be Acanthocalycium glaucum (the basionym) or Acanthocalycium thionanthum ssp glaucum (what I would call it) or Echinopsis thionantha ssp glauca. If you want to treat it as a species in Echinopsis it has to become Echinopsis glaucina as the name Echinopsis glauca is in use for something else.

The middle one could be a thionanthum form at a stretch though they seem to be missing that tiny black point to the petals that you'd expect to see. My gut feeling is that it's an Echinopsis haematantha form.
Lobivia amblayensis is another Echinopsis haematantha form. The name Lobivia haematantha v. amblayensis has been published but Echinopsis haematantha v. amblayensis hasn't.