Hi Nes 🙂 The last pic, the Loph (?) to the right, have they grafted it upside down? Looks like the roots are on top..😮 It's a butt graft. I've seen people do it with seedlings and larger plants. If you leave a few areoles on it, it should pup out of the areoles. I've also seen pups come out of the ...

1/6 weeks of summer field camp finished. 35 more days in Kalamazoo, MI. Just booked my flight home, I can't wait to be back in a desert climate. I miss home so much Asclepias Syriaca, very common out here a.syriaca7162022.JPG a.syriaca7162022.1.JPG Don't know whose Loph fricii grafts these are but m...

That's impressive, must be really tedious.

fused how?
Fused roots?

Your’e welcome 😊 Good idea , getting another one. Have to comment one the spines on the G.cardenasium again..😍 I do enjoy flowers on cacti of course but the spines, those you can admire every day. The gymnocalycium is definitely another one that I want two of so I can start reproducing them. I have...

Hanazono wrote: ↑Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:19 am I think your A. trigonus is still young. I can see areoles on top of two new tubercles. My trigonus has no areoles and tubercles are thinner than yours.

Not sure how old it is but yes it's a small seedling.

mikethecactusguy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:52 pm Nes.. did you once say you like to grow all your plants hard?
Mike M

It's likely that I've said this. All these plants are growing in 90-100% pumice and rarely receive water.
They get direct unfiltered morning sun for about 7 hours, depending on the season

Ariocarpus trigonus a.trigonus772022.jpg Ariocarpus fissuratus a.fissuratus772022.jpg Turbinicarpus saueri ysabelae t.ysabelae772022.jpg Echinofossulocactus multicostatus e.multicostatus772022.jpg Turbinicarpus nieblae t.nieblae772022.jpg Dudleya pachyphytum x caespitose purchased at last year's int...

Going to be my last post of plants here on the balcony for a while. Leaving to Michigan to do my geology field camp tomorrow morning. Took these pictures in a hurry, about 95% of my collection was captured. Some I simply didn't snap, even though I thought I had. Sinningia Macropoda potato showing ne...

MrXeric wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 11:16 pm How old is your plant? I think these only grow one or two tubercles per year? I estimate these flower at 4 or 5 years of age.

My caput is only two years of age. It has a fuzzy pre pubescent bud on it, but it didn't flower.

This cactus is very light deprived. It looks like two completely different plants because of the etiolated growth.

Looks awesome in my opinion, definitely an impressive mutant. As to what it is, I have no idea, would have to see it in flower.

Mrs.Green wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 6:58 pm Congratulations on landing the job! Love the T. rinconensis spines!

Thanks Mrs. Green, those spines are definitely getting larger with age. Can't wait till it becomes a mature plant. I might purchase another one so it can have a breeding partner.

I don't know, I'm sure there's literature on it but I think I'll keep this myself and investigate when I get the chance..

Pretty cool seeing caput on a graft. Mine only has 4 tubercules and is on its own roots. Thinking of slab grafting the tubercules

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