My cacti + succulents

Outside project, most planted Aug09


[planted dec09]

part of the collection this summer



new bought batch


ditto - automn newcomers


summer09

Nice plants mutant

Nice plants mutant

some real beauties there mutant... looks great!!

Thanks guys. I think the upcoming growing season will let me get lots of even better shots. Cacti in ground, columnars and grafts taking off, etc.

This is a great place to share this!

damn you europeans and your t. pachanoi crests;) i'm so jealous.

to crested/monstrosa in oz? Hard to believe....

OK here some more, some are from the macrophoto thread

Your plant look great Mutant. It looks like you have a really decent collection.
I really like your Lithop collection with the rocks, looks awesome.

Thanks Kanje! Here are some more!







mystery solved. why my first ever grafts [lopho on myrti] hardly ever grew, even after I cut off all areoles! The bastards were pupping underground!!!!


Gymno horridispinus


Turbi & steno


steno


turbi [macrochele]


some graptopetalum

WOW! I love the Stenocactus flowers, how much full sun do they get? i have only one, but i like their wavy ribs and cool spines....

yeah, I love this genus

the spines got biggy only when they left the nursary and got to my roof where they get plenty of direct sun

[that yellowing left - its not a variegation after all as I hoped!]


Euphorbia enopla... seems it's fertilised?


melocacti


astro myrio


astro asterias


some echinopsis I don't remember the species


trichocereus wendermanianus I did this from seed, my best grafting result yet

I love the seedling photos... they all look so cute nestled in there together.

What can you tell us about the T. wendermanianus? How old is it, is it still grafted (like a below-ground graft), etc?

That little Echinopsis looks like an arachnacantha to me. They can produce some humungous flowers from tiny plants.

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What can you tell us about the T. wendermanianus? How old is it, is it still grafted (like a below-ground graft), etc?

Sure, this is by far my most successfull graft , I will be posting pics of the ungrafted seedlings that are currently taking off.

seed from US, not further info

this was on a pereskiopsis graft for a year and on its own for a year more or so. So it's more or less at a bit less than 24 months from seed.

As far as I remember, there was a little bit pere stock left, but less than a cm or so. I don't know if some portion of the pere rooted, but I doubt it would made a difference. Anyways, it kept becoming wider and wider after it had formed roots and was repotted. I think it still is getting fatter!

Don't have years of experience behind me, but this is a seriously fatty tricho. And a beautiful one btw. These photos don't do it justice, they don't show a lot of this curvy spines

and yeah, it's e.arachnacantha, thanks for reminding me

the three ones on the left are the seed grown T.wendermanianus. Compare to the two previous pics

Some unnamed mammilaria... maybe you know what it is...



Hamatacanthus




pereskiopsis flowering & some mesembryanthemums flowering

astro myrio nudum



my asterias newcomers flowering




my biggest lopho in mass




portulaca


turbini

newcomers!!!

Nice plants and photo's. Especially like the Pygmaeocereus, not too many people grow them...

yeah, thanks, I have a thing for lesser known/prized/collectable cacti, and a thing for columnar cacti, so miniature columnars are a fascination of mine, including the Euphorbia enopla family, which are not cacti btw.

I like how you figured out it's a pugmaeocereus, you sure know heaps of stuff about cacti...