G'morning 7george, First I thought that cacti are totally forbidden in Australia because of that old story with Opuntia and rabbits. I have lived in just two states, New South Wales and South Australia and I do not know the situation of other states. Opentia species are "pest plants" in So...

Just one cactus was in flower in this morning. The cactus is an Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus f Rio Verde which is shown on the attached photo.

G'morning Fatich and Nino_G, Have you ever checked the roots from time to time? How long after it started rooting? Checking roots during rooting process is not a good practice and so I have never checked roots. I set an off-set for the rooting in spring and the off-set is rooted by autumn which mean...

The attached photo is one of rooted Aztekium hintoniies. 3 off-sets on a grafted cactus were removed and set for rooting 4 years ago. Size of off-sets were around 3 cm in diameter. Aztekium hintonii grows very slowly. Current size of cactus on the photo is around 4 cm in diameter. I can see a new ri...

My current cacti collection is 4th which means I restarted 3 times from Nil. All interraptions of collections were caused by relocation in relation to my jobs. Between 3rd and 4th, I moved from Northern Hemisphere to Southern Hemisphere. Climate, available cacti, available potting-mix and pot and lo...

G'morning oriky, 1. am i right? is there miracle gene on those plants? 2. there is different between those thwo plants on the flecking of those plants, even they arrived from the same mother, can you give me more detials on the flecking? is there are names for those plants/flecking pattern except &q...

May is the last month of autumn and winter starts in June. Flowers of ariocarpus species have almost finshed.
The photo is cacti and cherry tree in my backyard.

Just two cacti were in flower in this afternoon.

G'morning keith, Strombocactus do you grow them enclosed in plastic ? They germinate easy but so small and more difficult than other tiny seed succulents like lithops. Dry out or rot is my experience. I sow seeds in a 10 cm square pot. Pots are accommodated in a large plastic box which is 80 cm x 40...

G'morning Nino_G, Yes, they're not much faster than Aztekium species. Price is much lower, though (at least in Europe), due to low demand. How old are your seedlings? Seedlings on the photo are 6 and a half years old. The germination rate of good seeds is quite high. I am not sure but it may give lo...

Seedlings of strombocactus disciformis grow very slowly.
I sowed many seeds but about 50 seedlings have servived. The photo is some of them, 10~15 mm in diameter.

More ariocarpus species were in flower yesterday.

May is the last month of autumn in here but two uebelmannia species were in flower yesterday afternoon.
Flowers of uebelmannia species are quite small.

Some ariocarpus retusus related species were in flower yesterday afternoon.
The cactus on the 1st photo seems mixed some other ariocarpus species but I am not sure because my friend gave me the seed.

G'morning AirWreck, I found the central meristem of the last remaining scion to be infected with a wee spot of rust fungus. I have never experienced to graft white Coryphantha species but experienced Astrophytum asterias. White asterias seedlings are possible to graft. I am not sure because I do not...