Got Buds ? Post them here :)

My columnar's are just starting to form flower buds here in Sydney. Please everyone else show off your plants I would love to see them. In the mean time check out these


T. Scops




T. Pachanoi



Polaskia Chichipe



T.Thelogonus



T. Cordobensis (Super Pedro)

Hi all

Some plants are budding in my collection. More to follow
Sulcorebutia arenacea


Mammillaria spinnosissma 'Un Pico'


Echinocereus rigidissimus var. rubispinus

Thanks SK689 nice plants, I like that Echinocereus Rigidissimus !

I should have said in the original post, not just buds but open flowers too they are the impressive part

Hi all

Many plants have flowered, here are some

Gymnocalycium ragonesei


Sulcorebutia arenacea


Astrophytum asterias


Echinocereus buds are forming slowly, blooms coming soon

One of E. grusonii seedlings ??? has pushed flowering buds up.
I sowed seeds in September 2000.
21 seedlings have survived in my vegepatch.
They were buried in weeds during winter but are showing bodies becuse weeds are going to die.
The seedling with flowering buds is 40 cm diameter.

Hanazono, nice golden barrels

Echinocereus reichenbachii var caespitosus in flower today, a bit closed after i returned from school.

Very similar in flower to my Echinocereus reichenbachii var. baileyi that flowered the other week.


Got more buds coming right now than what I really could post, just about all my Echinopsis and Gymno's are in bud at the moment while alot of my Mammillaria's already have passed their flowering peak.

This is a true hanazono kabuto, pushing 21 flowering buds up together.
I bought 14 seeds in 2003 and sowed. True hanazono kabuto was just 1.
I grafted the seedling and the scion made many offsets.
This is one of offsets grafted on a Myrtillocactus stock.
The plant is elongated, 13 cm diameter and 19 cm height.
The history of cultivar hanazono kabuto is unclear.

Amazing plat Hanazono, elongation would be due to grafting I suspect, Or was the original plant never grafted ?


It really is disappointing at how low of a percentage of 'true' plants your get from a crossing. Last year I was lucky and got a heap (80%) of true to form cultivars that looked very promising, the only problem is most of them are dead due to the Mice infestation I had at he end of last season. Who would have thought Astrophytum ...and in particular Asterias would be so high up on the food chain. I even lost a few mature Myiostrigma and even an 20cm diameter Capricorn which they managed to eat around the spines ??, I suspect this damage was due to a rat rather than a mice, the amount eaten was incredible.

I finally got some good rodenticide and I look to have beaten them. P.S don't bother buying any mice/rat killer from Bunnings all of it was rubbish besides the Tomcat all weather blocks but they have stopped stocking them in my area. I bought 5kg of Ratsack with Warfarin in it, they just ate it all like It was dinner. All gone in less thank 3 weeks and nil dead. Then I bought the stronger Ratsack all weather blocks, they worked for about 2 days and the mice caught on and stopped eating them, apparently they are not palatable enough.

IF you can find it get Tomcat or even better Tomcat II (Red Pellets), just be real careful with the red pellets they will kill anything, birds, dogs, wildlife etc. Apparently 5-6 grams will kill a large dog, so you need to be very selective where you put the bait stations.

Over the last 6months I have learnt a lot about Rodents, they are quite smart and adaptive and have a strong sense of survival. You really need a systematic plan to completely get rid of them. My problem is my greenhouse backs on to the neighbours fence where they have a huge bird aviary and obviously a massive rodent problem. I guess I should go and speak to them about it. There must have been hundreds before I killed them all off.

HN

Edit: Sorry I got a bit off topic I just needed a good old fashioned rant

Ha HN! We all need a good rant now and again, whether or not we admit it

Hellonasty

The elongation comes from the grafting. Own-root hanazono kabuto is very flat.

More flowering buds coming up!
Asterias, pollination with this flower can make variegated seedlings.


Aztekium hintonii


Discocactus heptacanthus v griseus
I assume this one opened flowers last night.

Great photos here keep them coming.
I will add some as well but I keep missing mine as they are mostly open when I am at work

Hanazono you have so many stunning plants the variegated flower is very cool and 21 buds that is going to be one hell of a show.

Here are a couple of Trich buds

Scop x Bridgesii



Super Pedro


And this one I am exited about crossing. You can just see the hair of the first bud
Trichocereus peruvianus ( Len )



Lastly a non Trich
Gymnocalycium stellatum



Cheers
Midlife

frailea castanea

Gymnocalycim with strong spines is hard to open flowers.
The photo is G. monvillei v horridispinum.
I bought seed and sowed on 16/10 2004.
The current size is 15 cm diameter.

Hi all,
nice pics!
I also like to show some....nothing spectacular
Parodia ottonis ssp. horstii


Parodia magnifica


Parodia erubescens (schlosseri)


Echinopsis hybrid


Echinopsis (Lobivia) ? No name, seed grown, 3 years old.


Echinocereus knippelianus, three years old.


Cheers Snah

Those ottonis buds sure are wooly! Very nice photography, what are you using to shoot these photos?

I use a Ricoh G4 wide. The camera was ok till I got those problems with my eyes. The
LCD display is now by far to small or lets say: my arms are to short to see it proper .
Here are some more buds:
Echinocereus subinermis, four years old.


Opuntia macrocentra


Ferocactus (Hamatocactus) hamatacanthus


Rebutia lauii ? seed grown.


Graptopetalum pentandrum


Cheers Snah

Nice photo's and plants Snah. Good to see another West Aussie on here.

Cheers
Midlife

Just a few buds...

E. Senilis with 2 buds




M. Hahniana with around 50 buds (sun wasn't out today so flowers weren't open)




Epiphyllum ? Flower is over 15cm




Hylocereus X ?




Echinocereus ?




Labelled G. [bodenbenderianum] intertextum


T. swobodae


1 year old cutting of G. baldianum with 13 buds!



Not the best photography and poorly sized images... Enjoy

There are some more buds to show:

Parodia leninghausii:




Echinopsys hybrid:



Mammillaria magnimamma ? :



Rebutia heliosa:



Echinopsis huascha:




Euphorbia woodii ? :



and a hungry, uninvitet guest:



Cheers Snah

Bloody hell, you lot have some stunning cacti!
Keep up the glorious work!

~Kandahar

It's not a bud anymore but an open flower

Hylocereus X





Rhipsalis lone bud on a cutting




Rhipsalis sp. flowered a couple of weeks ago
Now fruiting

The temperature in my greenhouse was 53 'C this afternoon.
Frailea come to fruition without opening flowers normally but some plants pushed flower buds up because of very high temperature.
The photo is Frailea castanea cv oogata shidou.
I assume the flower bud will open sometime in this afternoon.

Very nice Hanazono, is the cv oogata shidou the Japanese cultivar that grows about double the size of the normal ones?

IXOXI

Yes it is.
Oogata means large type and shidou is just Japanese name of castenea.
The photo one is 5 cm daimeter, will grow larger.

Hanazono