Hi all! Can anyone identify these three plants? I'm not sure if the first two are Mammillaria (the first two photos are of the same plant of course)... The fourth was identified as Ferobegia. :shock: Could it be Leuchtenbergia principis? Thanks in advance! :wink: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...

I think you are right! Thanks, guys!

Hi everybody! Can anyone help me ID this plant? I think it's an Eriosyce, but I'm not sure... Thanks in advance! :) http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/totinda/N0056.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/totinda/N0059-1.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/totinda/N0061.jpg http://i7.phot...

Great plants, and great photos!
Does this nursery sell online? I ordered from an Italian site once, but I can't remember the name. It wasn't Cactus Art, I have ordered from that one too... Can anyone help me? António? Que inesperado encontrar aqui um compatriota!

Regards,

Florinda

Echinopsis subdenudata

I have seen something similar when repotting some cacti in my collection. It looked like a new plant was growing under the surface, attached to the mother plant. Since I didn't know what to do about it, I just repoted the cacti with the albino under the soil, as it was before. I wish I could remembe...

Hi all!

Can anyone please identify this Gymnocalicium?


Thanks!

Florinda

I had a carnivorous plant once, but my cats destroyed it. :cry: I think they are cool. I don't know if it's common for cacti lovers to have carnivorous plants too, but it seems that many grow orchids as well as cacti, two kinds of plants as different as cacti and carnivorous plants. :wink: All the b...

Thanks for the tips, John! :D As for Portuguese names, as a general rule, names ending with an "A" are for girls and names ending with an "O" are for boys. Some names don't end with a vowel, like Manuel, Emanuel, Miguel, Rui for boys, or Isabel for girls. These may be a little tr...

Once they get a year old, I transfer the cactus into regular cactus soil and water them every 3 weeks or so. I have sown some seeds in the end of May and the seedlings will be around 6 months old when winter comes. I have them outside now (no direct sunlight) and they seem to be growing well. My do...

Really?!
Now I just have to convince my mother.

ihc6480 wrote:...and they will go a longtime between waterings.

What is "a long time"? Two weeks? A month?
I thought you were the expert on Opuntias around here, Bill.

All the best,
Florinda

Hi John. That would make sense in my mother's plant case. I can't convince her not to water the cacti like all other plants in her garden. She will argue that she's had the Opuntia for years and it's still alive. #-o As for my plant, I don't think the problem could be overwatering, since it hardly r...

Hi all! For as long as I can remember, my mother has kept an Opuntia which I believe is Opuntia microdasys. The problem is that in more than 20 years, it has never grown very much and it certainly hasn't produced any flowers. It produces new pads every year, but it loses the old ones, so the plant i...

I don't know if I can find that Provado in Portugal. I know that it's very hard to get advice from people who sell that kind of products. When I asked for a systemic insecticide to kill mealy bugs, the young lady said "We do have a few insecticides, but I don't know if they are systemic". ...