Mrs.Green windowsills-growing cacti against the odds (links on page 9)

[7george]

Interesting. I have never washed roots of my indoor cacti. The hardness comes when you deal with peat-bounded root systems of commercially grown plants. If we start change of our own soil things go much easier. I do most of my soil change during the winter using an wood stick (to remove sticking particles), collect old soil in containers and fill wholes in the back yard after the snow is gone. Even roots get damaged there is enough time till next growing season to fix this: just leave those cacti standing bare-rooted for several weeks or even months.

[Mrs.Green]

Update; I haven’t been on the forum for a while mainly because of a setback from my point of wiew.. I have most of my small cacti collection ( or rather the non epiphytes) in a separate room . To add to the space I put up a shelf in one window. Before the cacti was moved to this room they were all repotted in new substrate and with great care to avoid any transmittion of possible bugs. I washed my hands with care between each plant and made sure that there was ample space between each plant.

Everything seemed to be working well but since it was( is) winter I didn’t visit the room more than once a week or so. Not much exciting things to excpect happening in low temperatures and light, right? Well.. I was wrong.. a visit a time ago I found all my carefully planted and separeted cacti in a big heap with cacti and substrate well mixed.. :/ Note to self; using only one screw on each side on the windowframes to secure the shelf, is not enough..:p
Since everything have been blended together, no point in being extra careful with the second repotting of the poor plants. How this will work out, well I guess I will know when the temperature rises and the cacti ( and possible bugs) wakes up.

[Mrs.Green]

Update; All plants seems to have survived winter and the ‘earthquake’ exept the baby E.grusonii who seems to be dying.

‘Downstairs’ the Rhipsalis ramulosa I bought a few months back have several buds. A pleasant surprise and by all means the flowers are very sweet but seeing them IRL , I guess people don’t grow this species for it’s flowers.. They are really tiny!

[Mrs.Green]

Rhipsalis ramulosa flower

[Mrs.Green]

Rebutia pulvinosa ssp perplexa

[Mrs.Green]

Small flowerbuds also on the Euphorbia obesa or meloformis.. we will have to wait and see if the flowers appear on stalks or not , then its true identety should be revealed

[Mrs.Green]

Look! <3 I am in love! This may seem silly for those of you who are used to see lots of flowers on your cacti but for me, its marvellous I know I can’t take any credit for the blooming since I only have had the cacti for a few months but still..

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The Euphorbia has opened one of its flowers, its a she, isn’t it?

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..and look, more flowers seems to be on it’s way ..

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[jerrytheplater]

That Rebutia is really beautiful.

[Mrs.Green]

That Rebutia is really beautiful.

Thank you Jerrytheplater I have to agree


Flowers on the M.bocasana too;

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This Epiphyllum guatemalense is a rescue. For months the only thing that happened was that the cladoles just dried up more and more. Since I don’t like to give up on plants until they are well and truly dead, I kept it. That paid off, now there is new growth on the cactus!

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And last, not cacti at all but the crocus flowers blooms in the garden

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[jerrytheplater]

That Rebutia is really beautiful.

Thank you Jerrytheplater I have to agree


Flowers on the M.bocasana too; FCE503BD-AF49-47AB-A43D-B1B931C07B41.jpeg

This Epiphyllum guatemalense is a rescue. For months the only thing that happened was that the cladoles just dried up more and more. Since I don’t like to give up on plants until they are well and truly dead, I kept it. That paid off, now there is new growth on the cactus! C9F65353-6457-4139-B870-48F063F25678.jpeg

And last, not cacti at all but the crocus flowers blooms in the garden 506C4F20-974D-43E1-B8FE-D0F0F7BADFD9.jpeg

Our Crocus are long finished. Even the daffodils are gone. Fruit trees are done blooming too. My hardy water lily has about 12 leaves already. I'm seeing some tall bearded iris already, mainly the rebloomers (Remontant).

[Mrs.Green]

That Rebutia is really beautiful.

Thank you Jerrytheplater I have to agree


Flowers on the M.bocasana too; FCE503BD-AF49-47AB-A43D-B1B931C07B41.jpeg

This Epiphyllum guatemalense is a rescue. For months the only thing that happened was that the cladoles just dried up more and more. Since I don’t like to give up on plants until they are well and truly dead, I kept it. That paid off, now there is new growth on the cactus! C9F65353-6457-4139-B870-48F063F25678.jpeg

And last, not cacti at all but the crocus flowers blooms in the garden 506C4F20-974D-43E1-B8FE-D0F0F7BADFD9.jpeg

Our Crocus are long finished. Even the daffodils are gone. Fruit trees are done blooming too. My hardy water lily has about 12 leaves already. I'm seeing some tall bearded iris already, mainly the rebloomers (Remontant).

The crocus are still blooming here and the daffodils are just small green leaves so far. But the frogs have laid a lot of eggs in the ponds already and every evening they have a concert, its finally spring here!

[Mrs.Green]

Ooops..I did it again ..

I just ‘happened’ to visit Plantasjen, ‘just to have a look’ which offcorse never happens, I always come home with something.

I really took off and these came home with me. All have to be repotted since they are in huge terracotta pots ( clearly repotted in these before sale)

Correction; the smallest one and the biggest one are in plastic pots. The biggest one is about 15 centimeters in diameter. As seen several of them have flower or buds, hope they don’t abort the buds, would be great to see what the flowers look like

[mikethecactusguy]

Mammillaria supraflumen

[Mrs.Green]

So, to the difficult part, trying to ID the new ones.. The first one; I think it could be Chamaelobivia/Echinopsis ‘Rose Quarts’. Second; A Mamm of some sort? , Third a Mamm too? , Fourth a Parodia? Fifth; The biggest one, about 15 cm in diameter..possible a Ferocactus of some sort? The sixth a Gymno.

Last; the big pot with several plants; I belive its a Mammilaria matuda in one of the corners? The Aloe a variegata? The poor Espostoas seems to be completly dead.

[Mrs.Green]

Mammillaria supraflumen

Which one is you talking about? I couldn’t see any resemblance to any of the new ones?