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Hello everyone, it's been a while but I have finally found the time to share some pictures here again.
Here's the first one for this season:

Rebutia marsoneri

Aylostera (Mediolobivia) eos RH362



Aylostera (Mediolobivia) aureiflora



Rebutia minuscula var. senilis DH398

and some more

Echinocereus viridiflorus



Aylostera (Mediolobivia) canacruzensis WR642

Hello Arjen,
your cacti are looking good thus far. I do like the new presentation method you are using, i.e. showing the whole plant and then a vertically dissected blossom.

Harald

Thanks Harald, I have made a habit of photographing floral cuts for myself to study.
Then I figured it is a good bit of extra information as well for others, flowers can be very defining sometimes.
I won't be doing it on every picture though, in the last few years I have specialized in the high andean globular cacti.
I also study echinocerei, call it a guilty pleasure.
I photograph flowers from about everything fitting those descriptions, but I sometimes have other plants in bloom as well!
today is a great example as I'm starting of with a Lophophora:

Lophophora williamsii


Aylostera (Mediolobivia) haagei



Weingartia kargliana WR677

Thanks arjen
Looks very nice, ilike the cuttings too.
Nice cacti collection from the netherlands.

Thanks Alexander, here's some more

Rebutia marsoneri WR818, its flower bases too deeply entrenched to cut one out


Reicheocactus (Lobivia) famatimensis



Weingartia westii fma. camargo

Hi Arjen,
you do have a nice collection of cacti blooming this year. I am especially impressed by that healthy Lophophora williamsii, with one of the blossoms being produced by the little offset on the right side of it. It looks to me, like there are at least three other new heads growing from the mother plant.
It is kind of silly, that I can purchase a shotgun or even a semi-automatic assault rifle, but cannot legally own a L. williamsii. I am not sure, if the other species of Lophophora are also prohibited, but I am afraid, they are, because they do not look much different from the outlawed plant.

Harald

indeed, that does sound a bit silly to me, I wouldn't try my luck with the other Lophophoras, the american justice system is equally notorious
of course you of all people know that, having worked at customs or are you still working there?
here it is the other way around, it is almost absolutely forbidden to own a gun, yet I can grow any plant I want, except for marihuana

here's some more:

Echinocereus arizonicus Xdavisii



Echinocereus knippelianus



Echinocereus pulchellus ssp. sharpii SB1569 (wasted one flower on a cut, failed, didn't want to risk another one)


Aylostera (Mediolobivia) friedrichiana



Sulcorebutia frankiana VZ308a



Sulcorebutia tarabucoensis var. aureiflora



Weingartia neocumingii HTH177



Weingartia westii SL25

rebutia padcayensis HE276/8



rebutia margarethae RH1369



weingartia cintia (cintia knizei)

Hello Arjen,
I do have one "dumb" question: How do you pluck the flowers from between all those spines? Do you use tweezers or a special instrument?
If you were to rip them out with tweezers, would it not cause damage to the appearance of the blossom?

Harald

hello Harald, there is no such thing as a dumb question
I use a small boxcutter and a chopstick to make room for navigating it, that's all

no flowers today, I have made new benches in my greenhouse because the old material was all crooked and crumbling
I don't know what this material is called in english, here we call it "trespa", it is very durable and hard as a rock
before applying it here it was attached to a friend's house for 20 years, undamaged!
this was probably the last time ever I had to renew the benches, in this greenhouse

video here:

The flowers of your Echinocereus pulchellus are very beautiful, the petals as well as the throat!

thank you, I love those flowers my self as well!

Aylostera heliosa



Aylostera narvaecensis



Lobivia cinnabarina



Sulcorebutia aguilari HE94/6



Sulcorebutia juckeri VZ429



Sulcorebutia langeri HS240



Sulcorebutia sp. torotoro JK486/8

aylostera fulviseta



lobivia salitrensis JK418



aylostera (mediolobivia) ritterii var. pelifera



sulcorebutia santiaginiensis HS110



sulcorebutia sp. anzaldo KK1799



weingartia pulquinensis var. lagarpampensis LB2494