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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 5:38 am
by John P Weiser
Tony
It is the fastest growing Cylindropuntia I have.Mine grows upright and if it tries to spread out too widely I trim it.
It dosen't always pay to baby Opuntias. They will take advantage of kind treatment by growing unruley. Some times they need you to crack the whip!!
Teach them who's boss!!
Be careful they do know how to defend themselves.
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 7:55 pm
by John P Weiser
Here are pictures of Opuntia fragilis flowers from the Dave's, Devils Tower collection. These flowers are of the third and fourth clones The pads were shown in this thread on the 25th. I was surprised again by the pink flowered one. I tend to agree with Andy. I think the first and fourth may well be hybrids.
Flowers from the third clone.
Fourth clone.
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:41 pm
by Andy_CT
Wow what a pink flower!! definitely a polyafrag on that one.
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:44 pm
by ihc6480
Woot, those frags are sweet John
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I tend to agree with Andy on the pink one being a poly/frag.
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:14 pm
by CoronaCactus
Spectacular!
Beautiful plants, John
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:26 pm
by RayC
The day after I found O. Humifusa on the shorline here in CT and saw my first flower in person, mine decided to open its first bloom. To bad my garden is shaded in the afternoon so its mostly closed. Hopefully one bloom will happen to open on weekend. This is only my second hardy plant to flower.
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:31 pm
by ihc6480
Heck yeah Ray
Good to see your hardies are coming to life and hopefully you catch that humifusa flower fully open.
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:10 am
by daiv
Great Cholla flowers John!
John P Weiser wrote:Here are pictures of Opuntia fragilis flowers from the Dave's, Devils Tower collection. These flowers are of the third and fourth clones The pads were shown in this thread on the 25th. I was surprised again by the pink flowered one. I tend to agree with Andy. I think the first and fourth may well be hybrids.
You mean BOTH the yellow and the pink are from Devils Tower?
That rocks! I don't even have the ones I got planted yet. I sure hope I end up with both colors too.
How totally awesome is that!
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:20 pm
by Andy_CT
My mini O. fragilis (pads 1" or less) is putting out a new pad.
Well no big deal there but wait somethings coming out of an exposed root
This is pretty cool cause I wasn't aware of any fragilis that could grow pads right off a root.
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:16 pm
by John P Weiser
Freaky man!!
I've never seen that before! You got a good eye. I don't think I would have noticed that.
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:34 pm
by CoronaCactus
Very cool!
I guess they have areoles on the roots?
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:47 pm
by Andy_CT
CoronaCactus wrote:Very cool!
I guess they have areoles on the roots?
Can't see any but I guess something is there
Dem crazy opuntias
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:53 pm
by daiv
Yeah, very cool indeed - I didn't know they did that either!
Never know what I'm going to learn next around here.
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:59 pm
by ihc6480
Thats a cool find Andy.
Now I'll be looking at mine for oddities
Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 2:45 pm
by RayC
Today will be my best blooming day for my meager selection of hardy s I expect to flower this year.
7-ish this morning O.Hunifusa:
And at 10-ish:
