Lobivia and Echinopsis shouldn't have any problems with a cold winter rest. My plants doing well at about 41F (5°C) during the winter. More important is to start watering and feeding as early as possible. Some of my Lobivia show flowers again and again till fall. Anyway I guess you know this alread...

...and some more. 39_Echinocereus_triglochidiatus_HK1296.JPG 40_Echinocereus_triglochidiatus_HK1296.JPG 41_Echinocereus_triglochidiatus_ssp._octacanthus.JPG 42_Echinocereus_viridiflorus.JPG 43_Echinocereus_viridiflorus_SB872.JPG 44_Escobaria_missouriensis.JPG 45_Escobaria_missouriensis.JPG 48_Opunti...

I'm not sure whether minimal care is right for Echinopsis and Lobivia . They require more water and fertilizer than e.g. Echinocereus and Mammillaria . On the other hand your care conditions seems to be the best for your plants. Everybody make his own experiences on the way to sucess. Last year I go...

The first one P127 is definitively a pure baldianum. I'm quite sure. The second one with the light red flower could be a hybrid. But the spines seem to be typical for both plants. Anyway it's nice to see them flower. 69_Lophophora_williamsii_var._caespitosa.JPG 70_Lophophora_williamsii_var._caespito...

The new season has already started. So let me first show some pics from earlier this year. 29_Agave_utahensis_var._kaibabensis.JPG 30_Agave_utahensis_var._kaibabensis.JPG 34_Echinocereus_coccineus_ssp._rosei_BW63.JPG 35_Echinocereus_oklahomensis_HK1844.JPG 36_Echinocereus_reichenbachii.JPG 31_Echino...

Sue, I know about that, but who cares what's growing in the secret corner of your greenhouse. :wink: In the past I've seen several strange Gymnocalycium with that kind of pink flowers. Who knows the tiny difference of Lophophora and Gymnocalycium? Except some cactus experts at the CactiGuide forum. :)

Great show!
That Lobivia acanthoplegma v roseiflora is now on my must have list.

Wow, really nice flowers, Arjen!
Especially the whole Lobivia are awesome.

Thanks, Arjen! Some more? 59_Escobaria_dasyacantha_SB907.JPG 60_Escobaria_dasyacantha_SB907.JPG 61_Gymnocalycium_baldianum_P127.JPG 62_Gymnocalycium_baldianum_P127.JPG 63_Gymnocalycium_baldianum.JPG 64_Gymnocalycium_baldianum.JPG 65_Echinocereus_fobeanus.JPG 66_Echinocereus_fobeanus.JPG 67_Lophophor...

A couple weeks ago we had a forum meeting at the world's oldest cactus nursery in Erfurt, Germany. This meeting of that German cactus forum held every year. There you'll meet up old fiends in can find contacts to new members or whatever. Every time it starts with a guidance through all greenhouses o...

Absolutely great plants and flowers!

It's a lot happened in the past weeks. So let me show what. 46_Glandulicactus_wrightii_JM100.JPG 47_Glandulicactus_wrightii_JM100.JPG 50_Turbinicarpus_pseudomacrochele.JPG 51_Turbinicarpus_pseudomacrochele.JPG 52_Turbinicarpus_pseudomacrochele_El_Fraile.JPG 53_Turbinicarpus_pseudomacrochele_El_Frail...

The beginning is done! Beautiful!

Thanks for your comments folks! Glad to see the E. davisii, Ralf! I have a couple of tubs started since last Fall, but germination not the greatest & they've been very slow growing on top of it all! Does that sound familiar to you or not? Glad you're seeing Spring -- ours has been late, slow &am...

Really nice, Harald! My outdoor cacti show its first buds but it takes some weeks more till they flower.