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A Blooming Thread
- greenknight
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Re: A Blooming Thread
Late August heat wave in the upper 90s f (~36*c) stimulated my Mammillaria rhodhantha ssp. pringlei to make a big flush of flower buds - now blooming a few at a time, with temperatures in the mid 80s f (~30*c):
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- bigfishtools
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A rescue from the bulldozers Ferocactus wislizeniv
Marana, Arizona
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- nachtkrabb
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...GOSH!!! bigfishtools, who would want to murder such a lovely cactus...?!
Please do tell the story behind that picture & that sentence.
N.
Love and Revolution!
...and still more cacti.
...and still more cacti.
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Sorry the leave you hanging. Yes a property going to be bulldozed. They had 8 of these some as high as your waist. I got one, a landscape company grabbed the rest. We call it our "rescue". She is doing great!
Marana, Arizona
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- greenknight
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Re: A Blooming Thread
Due to the strange weather - a cool, late spring, and now warm weather lingering into autumn - my Setiechinopsis mirabilis are blooming unusually late. Blooming or trying to, that is - the first one started budding the first of September and just bloomed, the other one is a bit later and I don't know if it will make it. Here's the one flower starting to open, about 9:20 PM -
A half-hour later I couldn't see any change, so I took a nap. Didn't get back to it until 2:00 AM, and it was in full bloom, maybe past its peak, some of the petals starting to curl a little. Temperature was 54*f -
By 4:00AM, the petals were really starting to curl, it was all downhill from there -
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The things we go through to see our plants bloom! Who needs sleep!
Jerry Smith
Bloomingdale, NJ
45 inches (114 cm) rain equivalent per year, approx. evenly spread per month
2012 USDA Hardiness Zone 6b: -5F to OF (-20C to -18C) min.
Bloomingdale, NJ
45 inches (114 cm) rain equivalent per year, approx. evenly spread per month
2012 USDA Hardiness Zone 6b: -5F to OF (-20C to -18C) min.
- greenknight
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I missed the one flower I got from them last year, so I watched them like a hawk this timejerrytheplater wrote: ↑Mon Oct 17, 2022 3:09 pm The things we go through to see our plants bloom! Who needs sleep!
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Ha Ha.greenknight wrote: ↑Mon Oct 17, 2022 3:15 pmI missed the one flower I got from them last year, so I watched them like a hawk this timejerrytheplater wrote: ↑Mon Oct 17, 2022 3:09 pm The things we go through to see our plants bloom! Who needs sleep!
Jerry Smith
Bloomingdale, NJ
45 inches (114 cm) rain equivalent per year, approx. evenly spread per month
2012 USDA Hardiness Zone 6b: -5F to OF (-20C to -18C) min.
Bloomingdale, NJ
45 inches (114 cm) rain equivalent per year, approx. evenly spread per month
2012 USDA Hardiness Zone 6b: -5F to OF (-20C to -18C) min.
- nachtkrabb
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Re: A Blooming Thread
Mirabilis? Now here is a plant that earns its name. Thanks for the pictures, greenknight.
N.
Love and Revolution!
...and still more cacti.
...and still more cacti.
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Re: A Blooming Thread
Temperatures cooled down after that one S. mirabilis bloomed, the bud on the other one stopped growing. Rainy season has started in earnest, the cacti are indoors now in a cool room with little light, haven't been watered since Sept 20. None of this has stopped the M. rhodantha ssp. pringlei:
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Re: A Blooming Thread
It is that time of the year. Deep snow outside.
If your cacti mess in your job just forget about the job.
°C = (°F - 32)/1.8
°C = (°F - 32)/1.8
Re: A Blooming Thread
Originally posted this in its own thread because my search word capabilities apparently stink; I couldn't find this thread!
New to this wonderful hobby, and yes, I've read all the newcomer/newbie posts, but admit that I may still mess up so please let me know if this is inappropriate.
Anyway, the reason for my post? My Peruvian apple cactus is close to blooming! I'm posting some pictures here. The first one is from three days ago. The second one is from this evening. It's opening up!
And then last night, not two hours after taking the above pictures, this happened!
Close-up:
New to this wonderful hobby, and yes, I've read all the newcomer/newbie posts, but admit that I may still mess up so please let me know if this is inappropriate.
Anyway, the reason for my post? My Peruvian apple cactus is close to blooming! I'm posting some pictures here. The first one is from three days ago. The second one is from this evening. It's opening up!
And then last night, not two hours after taking the above pictures, this happened!
Close-up:
Cheers,
Mike
Mike
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Good for you Mike. It is always exciting to see blooms.IronMike wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 5:01 pm Originally posted this in its own thread because my search word capabilities apparently stink; I couldn't find this thread!
New to this wonderful hobby, and yes, I've read all the newcomer/newbie posts, but admit that I may still mess up so please let me know if this is inappropriate.
Anyway, the reason for my post? My Peruvian apple cactus is close to blooming! I'm posting some pictures here. The first one is from three days ago. The second one is from this evening. It's opening up!
And then last night, not two hours after taking the above pictures, this happened!
Close-up:
Jerry Smith
Bloomingdale, NJ
45 inches (114 cm) rain equivalent per year, approx. evenly spread per month
2012 USDA Hardiness Zone 6b: -5F to OF (-20C to -18C) min.
Bloomingdale, NJ
45 inches (114 cm) rain equivalent per year, approx. evenly spread per month
2012 USDA Hardiness Zone 6b: -5F to OF (-20C to -18C) min.
Re: A Blooming Thread
Don't need to keep and wake up a ground hog : I know the spring is coming!
M. lasiacantha.
If your cacti mess in your job just forget about the job.
°C = (°F - 32)/1.8
°C = (°F - 32)/1.8