BRC's cacti adventure...in a flat

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Very beautiful flowers... I have 7 steno plant and really hope they put up as good a show this season.
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Some minor updates...

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Nice blooms! a Lophophora and a parodia, am I right?
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Yes you are gem :)
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Well had the day of so...took out my camera for a few shots :)


My notocactus/parodia still flowering away :)

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Here side by side by another one of my cactus in flower, my Parodia...

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That Parodia Werneri is very sneaky, she flowered for the first time last week (only one flower) but i totally missed it, but i wont be missing the two remaining flowers. Unfortunately the weather as been a bit bad, it isn't really that sunny so i assume the flowers wont open much more than this :(


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Another one of my lophos in flower, they tiniest one any of my lophos ever produced, but still wonderful :)

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And finally some growth on both of my T. articulatus papyracanthus

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Wonderful Lopho bloom!!
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indeed, and a very pretty p. werneri too!
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So finally the sun is out after over a month of rain, rain and more rain!!

So to celebrate i took some pictures of the two gymno cacti i have flowering at the moment...

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You should pollinate them and see what happens!
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so even in portugal the weather was like that? :shock: good to see your gymno's enjoying the sun!
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I actually did that gem, with one of my fingers :P, let's see what happens :)

Yes struckto the weather was just like that here too, and it s not over, as next Thursday, we are expecting a drop in temperature of 10ºC, it seems the rain might come back with a vengeance... :(

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Temps. are due to drop here too. Lovely pictures, have really enjoyed looking at them, (am still hoping for the weather to improve to kick-start mine). I too am quite new to this and trying to learn as I go along. :salute:
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What type is the last gymno? I love the flower and must have, lol. Nice show :)
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Well been away for a while and the weather as not been the best, as a result my cacti have been very shy when it comer to flowering, and the pictures unfortunately reflect that...i actually have been feeling a bit down by that had allot of hopes...oh well.

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This guy here on top, as you can see has glue on him...he was a rescue, he had one of those horrid straw flowers on him, but that did not prevent me from having him and rescuing him from a terrible fate!! As a result he presented me with lovely flowers :D

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I've had a few more in flower, but due to lack of sun they didn't really opened and eventually expired :(

PS: Hello Sharpy!! I'm not sure but it might be a G. baldianum :)
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Not bad, well your cacti don't seem shy at all actually! =D> It's more than what I have....
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