Welcome Craig Fry!

[Aztekium123]

Mammillaria bertholdii
first described as a new species in 2013

My plant is grafted and has never flowered yet
Hoping to buy a couple more clones so I can get seed
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I used grafted plants and obtained seeds, but they grew very slowly after germination. And the vitality is not very strong, after about 20 seeds germinate, only these few are left.

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The plants in the picture were sown and sprouted by me in 2021. It is about two years old now.

[C And D]

Very nice, never seen seedlings before

[C And D]

People kept asking me if I had Gymnocalycium spegazzinii var. unguispinum
Never heard about it at first
Then when I finally saw them for sale, I bought 3
hoping for seeds soon

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Love how the new spines form

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The grafting stock is different, looks like some kind of Echinopsis
This Pelecyphora looks like the grafted by the same person, probably from somewhere in Asia
I planted some cuttings, waiting for a flower

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Not sure why this Matucana madisoniorum is now growing spines from old areoles without spines
More Fert?, more light now from the new roof? hotter? colder?

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[C And D]

Summer Photos

Mammillaria hernandezii
It formed a flower mid summer, which is odd, since it flowers normally in winter
Then a pup formed from inside the flower, never seen that before.

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Pink Flowered Matucana madisoniorum

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My special selected Lizard Skin, flowers tinted with red
from seed

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Gymnocalycium buenekeri seed pod

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Ariocarpus retusus, "Blue Boy"
from seed

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My "Kikko nudum" has fattened up nicely

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[C And D]

We have some nice hanging Jungle Cactus
The heavy rains this Spring encouraged flowering

Selenicereus anthonyanus
Rick Rack, Fish Bone

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Selenicereus pteranthus
We call it the Octopus, since it's got long tentacle like limbs
The buds start out with a covering of fuzz
and take a couple weeks to develop

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[C And D]

Unknown Gymnocalycium
yellow green flower

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[A_G_R]

Summer Photos



Ariocarpus retusus, "Blue Boy"
from seed
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That's a nicely grown A retusus!!!

[nachtkrabb]

Great pictures. Thank you for sharing.
N.

[Mark]

Those jungle cacti are cool! They look great.

[greenknight]

Your unknown Gymno is just the standard G. mihanovichii: http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... hanovichii

[K.W.]

Great plants and great photos of them!!!

K.W.

[C And D]

Thanks

Ariocarpus hintonii,
20 ish year olds

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Ariocarpus scaphirostris
cross pollinated

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Some plants from seed

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[Vingames1]

Looking good. Very clean

[SarrCrazy]

We have some nice hanging Jungle Cactus
The heavy rains this Spring encouraged flowering

Selenicereus anthonyanus
Rick Rack, Fish Bone
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Selenicereus pteranthus
We call it the Octopus, since it's got long tentacle like limbs
The buds start out with a covering of fuzz
and take a couple weeks to develop
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Absolutely stunning selenicereus flowers . The anthonyanus is really amazing. Do you know if you can cross it with dragon fruit? Thanks for sharing pics!

[C And D]

Frailea atrobella
Hard to get the purple color right in bad lighting
From Tony Marino

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More purple
Sulcorebutia rauschii
Cherry Bomb, from seed

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Uebelmannia buiningii
Many flowers this year

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Ariocarpus retusus trigonis hybrid?
Still have not ID'ed this form of retusus
It has no areoles, whitish flowers that don't form from the center

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