My Chilean Collection 2011

Christer Johansson · Post by **Christer Johansson** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:14 am

This thread will show the progress in my Chilean Collection - flowers, grafted, de-grafted and seedlings.

I start with last year pride and joy

Eriosyce taltalensis ssp. pygmaea TJ 80

Peterthecactusguy · Post by **Peterthecactusguy** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:42 pm

Christer,
cool. I can't wait, you got lots of nice plants!
Nice flowers on that Eriosyce. I don't have any of those yet but I will fix that problem once I get some more money

john b · Post by **john b** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:04 pm

Looking forward to more posts...

John

Christer Johansson · Post by **Christer Johansson** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:10 pm

This is the first sign of new flowers...

Eriosyce taltalensis ssp. pygmaea TJ 80

Christer Johansson · Post by **Christer Johansson** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:13 am

One more bud found, well, it will be a bud later I guess

Eriosyce heinrichiana dimorpha

hegar · Post by **hegar** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:23 am

Hello Christer,
you are correct with your assessment:
The first cactus is special. I love those spines. They remind me of my favorite bamboo: Phyllostachys nigra (black bammboo).
To keep plants in such good shape and have them flower without a greenhouse at the latitude you live at is truly remarkable and admirable. Good job growing these "babies".

Harald

Christer Johansson · Post by **Christer Johansson** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:20 am

hegar wrote:Hello Christer,
you are correct with your assessment:
The first cactus is special. I love those spines. They remind me of my favorite bamboo: Phyllostachys nigra (black bammboo).
To keep plants in such good shape and have them flower without a greenhouse at the latitude you live at is truly remarkable and admirable. Good job growing these "babies".

Harald

Thank you Harald!
Yes, it do remind about that beautiful bamboo Phyllostachys nigra. I really like that one

This winter it was easy to get the temperature down to 10°C (50°F), or lower, in my "sleep" window.
And this spring I've got a lot of sun and heat in my windows that trigger the plant to put out buds

Christer Johansson · Post by **Christer Johansson** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:25 am

And this is a interesting one and first time ever flowering. Grown from seed...

Eriosyce odieri ssp. krausii FK 773 (Eriosyce krausii, Thelocephala malleolata var. solitaria)

Arjen · Post by **Arjen** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 6:17 am

really beautiful and healthy looking plants christer!

Peterthecactusguy · Post by **Peterthecactusguy** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:27 am

Christer,
interesting. I have bad heaters in my house and so it stays in the 50s and dips to the 40s sometimes. My cacti when they are inside seem to like it.

(a lot better then being outside in below freezing temps, at least)

Nice plants you got. I too am amazed at how many cacti you have that you grow in your windowsill

Christer Johansson · Post by **Christer Johansson** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:49 am

Peterthecactusguy wrote:Nice plants you got. I too am amazed at how many cacti you have that you grow in your windowsill

The real problem I have is the light. If you put my town at the same latitude but in North America then you will end up here at the green arrow

And here it is for real in Sweden.

Peterthecactusguy · Post by **Peterthecactusguy** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 9:18 am

Christer makes sense. During the winter how many hours of daylight do you have?
How about during the summer?

(I ask this outta curiosity mostly!)

Christer Johansson · Post by **Christer Johansson** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 9:47 am

Peterthecactusguy wrote:Christer makes sense. During the winter how many hours of daylight do you have?
How about during the summer?

(I ask this outta curiosity mostly!)

The sun goes up/down in January:
8:52/15:02 = 6 hours and 10 minutes

..and in June:
2:34/21:17 = 18 hours 43 minutes

iann · Post by **iann** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:17 am

I bet it doesn't go dark at all in summer. Even here the sky in the north stays bright all night for a few weeks in June and July.

SnowFella · Post by **SnowFella** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:33 am

Not much light in it though, it's more twilight at that latitude during summer nights.
Was born some 110km north of Christers location and still have all my family there apart from a kid brother that lives right under Christer's location pointer lol.

@Christer: if you ever visit the local hospital and get treated by a mid 20's something male nurse with the lastname Olsson say hi from his emmigrated big brother