Welcome Craig Fry!

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:47 pm

Wow! Wow! Wow! Great stuff ya have there
That parasite looks like it came straight out of the ocean, Awesome

Thanks for shareing that.

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:05 pm

Stunning plants Craig, some real eye poppers!
I agree, the parasite plant looks like it could be at home on a coral reef!

iann · Post by **iann** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:49 pm

Oh my, the Gibbaeum album is stunning. I just about wet myself!

The Lithops and Ophthlamophyllum are pretty cool too, and I like Dinteranthus and Avonias too

I have D. pole-evansii seedlings just a little smaller than that, funny how they start out like D. vanzylii and then change shape.

peter · Post by **peter** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:51 pm

Stunning plants!

lordarutha · Post by **lordarutha** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:54 pm

Wonderful Craig, Arios are now my favourite but I only have a few smaller ones, it's nice to see what they will grow into.

Lewis_cacti · Post by **Lewis_cacti** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:10 am

Absolutely amazing plants Craig!

Those arios are incredible and the parasitic plants are very unusual.

peterb wrote: 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

That, or you have a country with strict quarantine regulations, relatively low population, high demand level, very limited stock etc and certain plants were rare, are rare, and will be rare.

peterb · Post by **peterb** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:29 pm

oops, yes Lewis, I was making a rather America-Euro-Japan-centric observation.

peterb

iann · Post by **iann** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:11 pm

That, or you have a country with strict quarantine regulations, relatively low population, high demand level, very limited stock etc and certain plants were rare, are rare, and will be rare.

Strikes me as an opportunity, not a problem

I like growing from seed, excess young plants are worth next to nothing in Europe but are like gold dust down under. I have even sold plants into Australia. Shhh, if the outback is taken over by Neohenricia sibbettii, it wasn't me!

lordarutha · Post by **lordarutha** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:58 pm

I agree with Ian, if there is strong demand, get in on the supply! Get those seeds going Lewis.

Craig Fry · Post by **Craig Fry** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:13 pm

Me and my wife went camping last weekend.
Echinocereus triglochidiatus

Tortise

The color is bad, I had my camera on the indoor light setting.

Craig Fry · Post by **Craig Fry** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:27 pm

Heres whats happening this week
The tiny mexi cacti's

Close up of the Pelecyphora strobiliformis

Mamm spinosissima

Stromb esperansa

Craig Fry · Post by **Craig Fry** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:38 pm

The Astrophytums are starting to come alive after a dry winter

Turbinicarpus valdezianus, the center big plant is the mother of 30 seedlings growing together

Gymnocactus subterraina

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:48 pm

Awesome plants Craig!
I really like your assortment of pots.

Craig Fry · Post by **Craig Fry** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:05 pm

More

Gymno from the side

Titanopsis primosii white flower

Rebutia hybrid "Sunrise"

peterb · Post by **peterb** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:43 pm

wow, Craig just jaw dropping as usual. Beautiful plants and photos.

Continuing my campaign for fine distinctions in the claret cup group of Echinocerei: the picture from your camping trip is definitely Echinocereus coccineus, not triglochidiatus.

peterb