Show us your cacti

Cheers HN. I will keep my eye on it nonetheless, maybe I should thin out the clump a bit? It has (estimate) around 50+ pups on it.

lewis wrote:

ah okay. looked like rot from where i am sitting. keep an eye on it, if it is just sunburn it will, probably, recover, if not either re- or degraft. with the degrafted one did it root readily?
and what is the loph graft next to the hakuun?? looks quite healthy.

p.s am i blind or do i notice an apparent lack of Gymnos in your collection? not to worry i will have to post heaps of flower pics in summer to convert you + HN to the dark side.

Unfortunately it didn't root easily - It dehydrated and became very
concave and then rotted at the first sign of any moisture (my own
fault) I'm not too keen to degraft this one.
The grafted loph next to it is just a williamsii . It has been
steadily growing for while and has just erupted with several pups about to
burst. Great little plant

Re: the Gymnocalycium, I'll reserve my judgement untill I see your flowers... not convinced yet....

Yeah I'm with WT on the Gymno front Lewis. Still not convinced......Time will tell.

well i've found gymnos to be more addictive than astrophytums and mexican minis, so with a bit of luck it will rub onto you guys.

i got a new one yesterday, G.buenekeri. it's been on my wish list for ages. $4.50!

From my modest collection, a couple of photos I took last night.

Unknown Lithops sp. from Bunnings and A. myriostigma.

^Great photography!

Great Photos love the black and white shot

Your lithops looks like L. fulviceps.

Hi All!
This is my first post here so i thought i'd introduce i few of my cacti:

Echinopsis. (species ID appreciated)




Astrophytum myriostigma. (a bit sunburnt)





Trichocereus pachanoi. HDR composite photo.

Hi


Heres a link to my photostream if anyone would like to check out my other plant and cacti photos.



http://flickr.com/photos/plantsoma/

Nice forum!

Great pics Plantsoma! Welcome to ACF.

Not sure what species of Echinopsis you have there, but I love those flowers.

Those San Pedro look ghostly, interesting effect. I take it that you have edited in photoshop perhaps?

Enjoy the forums.

Awsome plants everyone has
I had the brilliant idea to go out the bush yesterday and attack the red ants nests... well steal their top layer of gravel, wonder where i got the idea I found a reallly big nest and got a great big bucket full, it looks really nice aswell.

hehe, I just had a look at this. its funny to see what all my plants were like.

I will repost some pics - I haven't changed much of the placements so the pics will be the same just bigger.

Turbinicarpus alonsoi


Trichocereus terschckii


Trichocereus wendermanianus



Copiapoa sp


Melocactus sp

Nice shoe I like that crest too, looks like a Tricho ? Pachanoi ?

lol

yep t.pachanoi.

I thought I'd take some up to date photos of my plants and post them, the sun was setting when I took them and my mobile phone camera doesn't like low light levels so some of them are a bit blurry. If anyone wants closeups or IDs of the ones in here I'll post some




The seedling bench:


My entire cactus bench fell down the other day so a few are missing because they haven't been moved back in but it's only a few pachanoi. I'm really lucky none of the cacti were too seriously injured, only a few uprooted and prickling eachother.

love it! like me you havent settled on just one genus , i love em all too

Yes I agree that's a nice collection Sponge. Well done with the grafts and seedlings, some of thoose are fairly difficult to raise and it shows how dedicated you are to have done so. I particularly like the pachypodium just left of center in the first pic...nice!

hey long time no see,I'm back with some updates

this grafts adventures, its some gymno hybrid on pereskiopsis






and some seedlings had germinated in the fruit!



various other poop, from my outside plot









seedling orgy + porn!!!




epithelanthea micromeris


astro asterias


astro myrio


stenocactus sp


melocactus



some newcomers







some grafts:

trichocereus terscheckii on pereskiopsis



and terschekii own roots seedlings



asterias on selinicereus



penis plant on hylocereus and on selinicereus



various other plants



exposed to the elements for second year, astro myrios and euphorbia enoplas



trichocereus pachanoi tip eaten by mr snail. a beautiful snail. the tip made it after all!

monstrosa t. pachanoi

Latest purchase in bloom, picked up just the other day along with an M. compressa, N. submammulosus and E. grusonii. Got to love getting gift certificates for christmas


Labeled a Dolichotele "Birds Nest" but guess it should really be Mammillaria camptotricha.

Trying to figure out how to repot the compressa without damaging it right now, it's outgrown the plastic pot it came in with the pups being badly squashed against the sides.

Christmas/New Year being the time of impulse buying — my new pet c/o Hamilton's Nursery:

Got to get out to Hamilton's one of these days, it's got to be no more than a 20 minute drive from where I'm living. Funny I never knew it even excisted untill a week or so ago.

Not mine but the neighbours wild growing cactus. Getting ready to bloom any day now.

Thats a nice Caput region, sorry to ask but what did they want for that ?

Being an impulse purchase, I parted with $35 for, what would it be, a 2-year old plant? The rest were about 30% larger but they wanted $70 for those.

I'm now beginning to think I may have seen these in the past being sold by private growers at the CSSNSW spring/autumn shows, maybe labelled as Digitostigma.