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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:32 am
by Lewis_cacti
wow, amazing plants Craig.. keep them coming
That is the best looking Mammillaria i have ever seen.
i'd take one of those M. luethyi in a second.. too bad i can't get them through customs either Paul. Ive never even seen one here.
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:02 am
by daiv
Paul, I don't think you'll have too much trouble finding one in the UK. Hob, Ian, etc. will probably be able to point you in the right direction.
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:19 pm
by lordarutha
OK. do any of you guys have one of these going spare?
Happy to buy or trade my grannie, she aint bad for 86 and still gets about ok.
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:50 pm
by hegar
You would do that, Paul?!
All for one cactus? I think, you have totally succumbed to cactus mania.
Harald
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:31 pm
by lordarutha
hegar wrote:You would do that, Paul?!
All for one cactus? I think, you have totally succumbed to cactus mania.
Harald
No! Of course not, how could you think that Harald. I am really hurt that you would think that of me. I would want at least two plants.
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:16 pm
by Craig Fry
Good luck in finding Mammillaria luethyi
Its pretty rare in cultivation
Mine are cuttings from a graft
Otherwise, I couldn't even find any seed
The photos are from my first plant, but the graft and plant died a couple years ago, so I got another one 2 years ago, which the new rooting cuttings are from.
I'm hoping that they are different plants, so when the second one finally flowers, I can get seed.
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:27 pm
by peterb
The mammillaria luethyi situation is set to change fairly soon, with several growers producing very large quantities of seed and grafted seedlings, including one Arizona nursery I visited recently.
peterb
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:35 pm
by hob
daiv wrote:Paul, I don't think you'll have too much trouble finding one in the UK. Hob, Ian, etc. will probably be able to point you in the right direction.
Paul i looked at several places and did'nt see any for sale
i don't have one myself, not really my thing.
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:38 pm
by peterb
Miles to Go has 1 inch grafts for $6. For example. Must have been some of the huge crop I saw at Anderson's nursery when I visited last fall.
It's always this way with recently discovered cacti. They are made immediately available to a few collectors, most often through unscrupulous and nefarious means (haha) and then slowly become part of the trade. The same will eventually be the case with Digitostigma caput-medusae. The only exceptions are when a plant is so doggoned hard from seed or difficult in cultivation that it remains rare in the market. Someone was telling me that Yavia cryptocarpa is an example.
peterb
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:45 am
by daiv
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:21 pm
by Craig Fry
Talking about new species, heres my astropyhtum caput-medusae seedlings
And my other Fave babies, Dinteranthus pole-evansi
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:31 pm
by Craig Fry
Ariocarpus selection
The big one
Long turbicles
Ariocarpus retusus x trigonus,
no aeroles, white flowers from between old turbicles, not from the center
Standard Ario fissuratus
Ario fissuratus intermedius, we call it the cats tongue
And then the retusus X fissuratus
looks like a Haworthia
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:37 pm
by Craig Fry
A couple of succulents
Avonia quinaria in flower
The buds always make me think "Please feed Me"
Haworthia truncata cv Lime Green
Turbinicarpus krainzianus minimus
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:42 pm
by Craig Fry
We found this plant at the Orange County Cactus Succulent Society camp-out at Anza Borrego, near the McNair Ranch
Its called Pholisma arenarium, a parasitic plant
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:50 pm
by peterb
Jaw dropping, as always Craig. I love looking at Ariocarpus hybrids. Though the stability/time/patience required must fall into the "watching paint dry" category.
The Digitostigma seedlings look great. What a wild plant.
I'm actually a big fan of plant parasites and those Pholisma are otherworldly for sure.
peterb