Hello Cactus Friends, usually I post images on Saturdays or Sundays, because that is when I do have the opportunity to photograph my cacti. However, this time my day off was today. Some of my cacti bloomed and I took advantage of it. :) Of all my cacti, there are some species, which do flower unexpe...

Hello Gabriel,
that Echinopsis mirabilis is a quite interesting plant. With its long stem, the flower looks almost like a cut flower.

Harald

Thank you very much for your compliments, Gabriel and Jerry. I try my best to photograph every flowering cactus, but being at work past 6:30 p.m. does not allow for success each time. Today I did spot a partially open blossom on one of my Echinocereus sp. plants. Judging by the spine color, it does ...

Hello Cactus Friends, despite having had some frisky weather with a cold spell, cloudiness and a bit of rain, there were a number of cacti either still flowering or starting to bloom. The Ancistrocactus uncinatus has been flowering since April 15th and is still not done. Anc_uncinatus4.JPG I am real...

Hello Cactus Friends, well, it happened as it does pretty much every year: Some of my plants will not accomodate me and flower during the weekend. :lol: Undeterred, I still went ahead and took a few photos of those non-obedient plants. Fortunately, some of them will flower again sometime in the near...

Hello Cactus Friends, except for the prickly pear cacti and the Echinocereus dasyacanthus only one cactus is flowering. It is doing so for the first time, however. It is another hybrid E_coccineus x E_dasyacanthus named Echinocereus x roetteri. Here is a photo of the single stemmed plant with its si...

Hello Gabriel,
Echinocereus viereckii ssp morricalli is also present in my collection, but it is getting hard to spot among all those prickly pear cacti.
It is yet another of the beauties within the genus Echinocereus.

Harald

Hello Cactus Friends, here comes a somewhat lengthy assortment of various cactus flowers. First off, I start with another Turbinicarpus, which flowered for the first time at the end of March. It took me a while to figure out, what the scientific name of that plant is. It turns out to be T. schmiedic...

Hello Omega 2008, you will need to cut enough tissue off, until there is no discoloration present anymore. Also, make sure, that the last cut at least is done with a sterile knife blade. You could of course use isopropyl alcohol, bleach solution, or heat sterilization of the blade after each cut. Yo...

I would check first, if that blackened area is softer to the touch than the rest of the plant. Most likely it is. Then you are dealing with either a fungal or bacterial infection, which does require surgey. You could go ahead and remove the area near and below the discoloration, in order to find out...

Hello Cactus Friends, despite experiencing a not so good weekend, which manifested itself with strong winds, cloudiness and low temperatures for this time of the year, I did get to photograph a few flowering cacti, some of them for the first time this year. I am going to start with one of my Opuntia...

Hello Keith,
those two Mammillaria spp. (herrerae and humboldtii) are both very pretty. They and also M. teresae, M. hernandezii and probably several more within that genus could almost persuade me to also grow a good assortment of Mammillaria spp.

Harald

Hello Cactus Friends, Thank you very much for your comment, K.W.. It certainly would be nice to have a camera, which all by itself would spring into action, whenever it notices a cactus flower. The next best thing would be to use a timer set in advance for that moment. Once I am retired, however, I ...

Hello Cactus Friends, I did have a three-day weekend and there was no flowering to speak of. Today, while I was at work, three cacti did bloom! Because I arrived home at around 6:30 p.m. all three blossoms had already closed and I am not sure, if any of them will be open again tomorrow. Here are the...

Hello Cactiger, I did download your images and magnified them electronically. The cause of the discoloration(s) or lesions is still not obvious to me. So the best thing is most likely to wait a while and see, if any changes happen. The Tephrocactus has those very well defined discolored - and what s...