peterb's 2012

[peterb]

Some flower pics from today.

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[John C]

Beautiful flowers!

[Mark]

Great looking seedlings and flowers Peter!

[TimN]

Love the Pedio flowers. They look kind of delicate for such a spiney "hard" looking plant.

The name on the Gymno, beguinii - do you pronounce that "beg-win-e-eye"?

[peterb]

I think I say beg-win-ee-eye. Woody Minnich tells a funny story about taking a group on a tour of mexico and telling them "Tomorrow, we are going to the big weeny eye!" (at least that's what one of the tour group members heard).

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[Arjen]

beautiful flowers peter

[mughal113]

Beautiful flowers

[peterb]

a few of one of my favorite earlier bloomers, Echinofossulocactus phyllacanthus var. violaciflorus, slightly confused today by the sudden drop in temps.

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[peterb]

Seedling pics at 6 weeks. Ready to go outside into fresh air and shaded natural light, regular watering/drying cycles in another couple of weeks.

[Arjen]

great looking seedlings! you grow them in open air right?

[mughal113]

Who says Cacti grow slow... Your seedlings look huge already

[angelo]

great list,Peterb. I sown E. russanthus fa. cowperi in november 2008 and flowered after 2 years:
Blum et Al, call this species chloranthus ssp. rhyolithensis.
when I arrived from A & M.Ohr, the label was written
russanthus ssp. rhyolithensis fa. cowperi RC7/95 (but on this acronym I have not found anything)
here the picture

[peterb]

Angelo, interesting that cowperi is considered a synonym of rhyolithensis. I have about three tiny cowperi seedlings right now, so we will see what they do. Yes, I grow seedlings in a tray and pots without baggies. I like to interact with them a lot.

I think they only look huge because the photos are super macros, using a tripod. But I love looking at the details. It turns out also that photography is a good way to inspect the pots for problems, etc.

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[angelo]

the name ryolithensis was given because the habitat of this species is covered with igneous red-brow rock.

[amanzed]

Wow, I'm really impressed. By all the seedlings and before that, by the Pediocactus (I don't have), the Mamm lasiacantha (this seems to be the subpopulation of M lasiacantha without the feathering on the spines), and that Stenocactus. Nice work!