A selection of my Mexican friends

Aztekium hintonii


Geohintonia mexicana


Pelecyphora aesiliformis


Pelecyphora strobiliformis


Turbinicarpus alonsoi


Strombocactus disciformis


Ariocarpus retusus








Lophophora entroque huizache


Lophophora cardona

That's a really nice collection cactusjack.
I particularly like the Aztekium and the two Pelecyphora.
Not to mention the maturity of all the Lophophora there.

Great work!!
It's obvious all the time and love you have put into your plants.

Have you been collecting long or have you bought these plants at an older age?

Been collecting for over nearly 9 years, most of the plants you see in these photos were picked up around the place from different growers in different states, the smaller plants in photo 9 are my own seed grown plants, also have plenty more seedlings in the shed.

I am growing the following from seed: Ario's (mainly retusus & agavoides), lophies all species, turbs (mixture of species), pelecyphora (mixture of species), obregonias, mam pectinfera, epithelantha (mixture of species), gymnocactus mandragora and beguinii and astros (mixture of species and cultivars)

Also grow some Euphorbias and couple of dozen tricho's

retusus elongatus


scapharostris

Nice cacti Jack! Some real rarities there. It's not too often you see a Geohintonia mexicana in cultivation in Aus. Must try and get some seeds for that one. How hard are they to cultivate?

Those Arios are real nice and those lophies are amazing. That caespitose one is huge, any idea on the age?

Also that looks to be a crested loph is that one you grew from seed?

Very impressive selection of extremely well-grown rarities! i really like the Pelecyphora strobiliformis.
That last Lophophora seedling is very interesting, it looks to be either cresting or branching dichotomously..hopefully the former.
TFS

Very nice.

Can I ask, are you from Melbourne?

trigonus wrote:

Nice cacti Jack! Some real rarities there. It's not too often you see a Geohintonia mexicana in cultivation in Aus. Must try and get some seeds for that one. How hard are they to cultivate?

Those Arios are real nice and those lophies are amazing. That caespitose one is huge, any idea on the age?

Also that looks to be a crested loph is that one you grew from seed?

I have only had this plant for a couple of months, apart from being very very slow I have been told they dont post
any major difficulties in cultivation.

No idea on the caespitosas age, I have had it 7 years, my friend had it for at least 10 years befor I got it.

The last pic is from a batch of 50 or so plants I grew from seed aprox 20mths old now i am hoping for a crest only time will tell.

KanJe wrote:

Very nice.

Can I ask, are you from Melbourne?

Yes from Melbourne.

Wow...

Those Aztekiums and Geohintonias are great - I haven't seen many of them in collections down this way. The Arios and Lophs are downright drool-worthy.

Cheers for the pics!

Got to be happy with a collection like that cactusjack. Well done. Nice specimens.

That Lophophora baby crest...hmmm....I'll give you my house and my wife for that plant! BLOODY AWESOME@!