This 7 month old graft of Ariocarpus fissuratus, from seed sown last year, bloomed yesterday before the rain. I've been watching the bud form for the last couple months, thinking it was an offset at first since it didn't form on the the apex but lower down, almost Mammillaria-like. https://imgur.co...

They look great! You are doing an amazing job

Salazar wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 2:55 am I disagree, M.zeilmannia has hooked central spines. The reason this one isn't as spiny probably because it hasn't been growing in enough sunlight.

I see what you mean, more sunlight and better soil should bring out the true spines

Third one looks like zeilmanniana to me, not enough spines to be spinosissima

Notocactus

Strombocactus disciformis : Last November I noticed that the seedlings were completely drowned by green algae, though their round shape was still discernible. I spray the pot with hydrogen peroxide, but the algae was persistent so I took the pot out of the bag and let it dry. Over the next several ...

I think the last one is a Gymnocalycium

Also, forgot to add that about 2 weeks ago I purchased a mammillaria(or cochemeia) schumannii at a nursery for 5 dollars. About a week later I saw "cactusquest" selling the same mamm in the same nursery pot for 25 dollars. I personally recommend you find the low cost mammillarias while yo...

Very nice photos!! It's good to see those big nurseries handling all those rescued cactus, and not somebody just selling them off of Ebay.

I would use at least 50%

Very nice grafts MrXeric!!

Niven wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 10:35 am

A_G_R wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 2:05 am Finally figured out how to upload photos, ha!!! Let me start with this beauty from Baja

Amazing！

Thank Niven!

Second one looks like a small cutting of a Cereus peruvianus (or whatever it's called now)

That's probably just a typo for Myrio, not Mario, look for Astrophytum myriostigma kikko koh-yoh

Really nice plants! That E pulchellus ssp sharpii is really sweet