TimN 2012 Photo Topic

[TimN]

Back after a long hiatus. Guess what? Pictures of my plants!

Some Astro flowers. The mottled light is bacause of the shade cloth. The group of four in the center are volunteers.

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One of my favorites! Escobaria minima, a very small specimen. I don't recall where I got this. The pot is about 3" x 5"

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M. grahamii volunteer in with my Echinocactus polycephala. There's another mamm volunteer behind it and a Turbinicarpus volunteer around the back. I'm going to have to repot this thing to get all the extra plants out.

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I think I know what this is every once in a while, but I never write it down.

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Mammillaria tlolocii - a ssp of M. crucigera. Not sure I buy that, but there are similarities.

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A couple of Turbis flowering like mad. All of my Turbis have been throwing seed and making seedlings. I've been much more successful ignoring them than I have been actually sowing seed. One of these days I'll bring my turbi book out and try to put some names on these things.

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Wigginsia (formerly Parodia) sellowii. This is a plant from my older plant. I really like these with the gray felt on the buds and the nice dark green.

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So, that's it for now.

[Steve Johnson]

Nice collection, and good to see you back, Tim! Don't know if you remember this -- I purchased a 4-head Pelecyphora strobiliformis from you through eBay back in April 2013. I'm midway through my 2018 end-of-summer review at Member Topics, and when we get deeper into it, you might like to see what the strobiliformis is up to these days.

[TimN]

Wow, I can't believe I sold a four-headed P. strobiliformis! Ah, well, I sold a lot of nice plants a few years back. I am definitely interested in seeing what it's up to now.

I visited a few of my old plants at Tony Marino's last weekend. Bittersweet.... Bitter because I'm sorry they're not mine, but sweet because the plants are doing really well.

[dinfelu]

TimN


that beautiful blooms and that cactus so helaty and strong you show us

Congratulations

[TimN]

Thanks dilfenu! I'm glad to be back taking care of my plants. They seem to be liking the better location and care.

[TimN]

I was taking some pictures over the past few days.

Both P. strobiliformis flowering at once! I pollenated, so we'll see if we get fruit/seed. I've never had fruit on these two, but I think this is the first time they've bloomed at the same time.

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I bought these two as normal plants with single stems. Then came the rats. Both grew back with 20 or so heads. Then came rats II and now they both have 30+ heads. This winter, it got a little chilly and some it killed the growth point on several stems which are now offsetting. The root is enormous underneath all that. I'm excited to see what it turns into.

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Two Turbinicarpus lophophroides. These two have generated a lot of seedlings.

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Mammillaria magnimamma (or whatever the kids are calling them these days) looking quite fruity!

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A recently purchased Mammillaria theresae that I got at the Gates Show/Sale. Bought from Kyle himself!

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[Steve Johnson]

Wow, I can't believe I sold a four-headed P. strobiliformis! Ah, well, I sold a lot of nice plants a few years back. I am definitely interested in seeing what it's up to now.

Took a long time to get there, but I finally have something to show you:

http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtop ... 72#p363072

I hope you'll enjoy seeing what the 4-head looks like these days!

[TimN]

Now I remember that plant! The big one of mine is from that same batch. The doubleheader I got in Pasadena. I traded one to Tony Marino and it is doing quite well. I got them from plantaseca, as I recall. He used to sell groups of plants.

Great collection of plants! I'm still looking for an asseliformis. Not easy to come by! Great ritterii too!

[Steve Johnson]

Now I remember that plant! The big one of mine is from that same batch. The doubleheader I got in Pasadena. I traded one to Tony Marino and it is doing quite well. I got them from plantaseca, as I recall. He used to sell groups of plants.

Great collection of plants! I'm still looking for an asseliformis. Not easy to come by! Great ritterii too!

Thanks, Tim! Okay, so you, me, and Craig Fry -- that makes 3 of us looking for P. aselliformis. If you find a source, please PM me ASAP.

[TimN]

These are the plants I bought at the Inter City Sale. Sorry for the bad pictures...

This was cheap, not sure exactly what it is.

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Gymnocalycium dubinorum from Cactus Data. Not offered commercially often, not a common plant.

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Escobaria minima. I thought the plant on the left was a small form. Then I saw these. There were several to choose from. I've never seen this form before. From Plantaseca.

Also from Plantaseca. It's a match for one I bought from him previously.

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Gymno ragoneesii - another Gymno for my collection. I like the brown-skinned varieties with cool spines.

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Escobaria sneedii from Cactus Data. It goes with my Escobaria sneedii ssp leeii

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This was labeled as M. solisiodes. I think it's M. pectinifera. I've had both in the past. I'm kicking my self for not buying the three he had for sale. From Kyles plants.

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A two-fer. Mamm standleyii, because Mamm I don't have and a beautiful Echinocereus. The Echino was from Cactus Data.

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Mamm. surculosa. I forgot I've been looking for this. It's one of the Dolichothele group with hooked central spines.

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Mamm theresae from Kyles plants. This is the pair for one I bought from him at the Gates show/sale. Not sure why I don't buy pairs when I buy the first plant.

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Mamm tlolocii - I bought some from Mesa Gardens years ago and still have them. I was surprised to see this one on the table, so I bought it.

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Ariocarpus trigonus. I've been looking for one of these for a while. There were quite a few available, most were large plants will large price tags. I found the larger one, then I found the smaller one on the Miles2Go table for $7. I've never seen this offered on his site.

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That's all. I got a few that have been on my list and a few that were impulse buys.

I got my plants from Mesa Gardens yesterday, I'll take some pictures soon.

[TimN]

Not sure why peresdelarosa jumped out of queue....

[TimN]

I've been working on rehabilitating the garden areas in the front of my house. There were originally a couple of rose bushes and three massive Opuntias.

I gave the rose bushes away through Craigslist and chopped the Opuntias into pieces and dumped them in a shallow grave (trash can).

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With a few exceptions, these are all plants from my Mother's yard. I put them there when I didn't have a good place for them. The small Organ Pipe (in the far bed) was grown from seed. I don't recall where the T. geometrizans came from but I've got a lot of them.

This is my first experience planting cactus in the ground at my house.

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I bought this Thelocactus macromeris from Arizona Cactus Sales over 10 years ago. It was in a 3 inch pot when I got it. The pictures don't really do it justice.

I should be able to finish this part up soon, now that the weather is cooling off.

[TimN]

When I got home yesterday there were bees buzzing around the Astros. Weather is getting colder (72F, this morning) and most plants are winding down.

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[Sarraceniacrazy]

Beautiful stuff! What's the plant behind the E, sneedii? The red one. Does it have orange blooms?

[TimN]

Beautiful stuff! What's the plant behind the E, sneedii? The red one. Does it have orange blooms?

LOL. To the left is an Echinocereus, to the right is a Mamm. melanocentra. The orange flower is plastic and was hot glued to a G. saglionus I got recently. I stick it on different plants depending on my mood.