Did you ever try to graft any of them? I have a few currently that have 1-2 tubercles and you are right they have very nearly 0 in the way of roots, but I have a couple grafted ones that I'm just waiting on them to flower.

Very nice flowers. After seeing this post I may have bought a flowering size echinocereus dasyacanthus thanks for showing me that one!

My absolute favorite guy hands down is miles Anderson with miles2go.com But he wont have any lophs for you. You can try eBay for both. One guy I like is dubenkactus he is in Czechoslovakia I think but he has a cites certified nursery(legally import) and will provide photo sanitary certificates to yo...

Ferocactus eastwoodiae maybe. Just a side note. You may wish to be careful with native plants. I understand rescuing them, but the state of Arizona does not.

That's very cool! Glad that you are preventing some of the plants that people are illegally importing from all being destroyed. It's such a shame that people do that.

Sorry for the irrelevant post , but how do you recieve border confiscated plants? Someone getting them is way better than them being destroyed, but I was just curious as to how you got them

Ouch!

Ha ha ha DaveW that was my exact same thought when I saw this, but I neglected to post it.

It is definitely a fruit. It could be that it flowered before you got it so the seed contained could be entirely viable. Fruits can take months to develop before they start to show, some slow ones like ariocarpus will flower in the fall of one year and then fruit the following fall. So it could be a...

The individual pups have their own vascular systems and will be able to root themselves and survive on their own without the mother plant.

I would actually say mammillaria zeilmannia.

Wow those look great! I love the mammillaria herrerae in the back left. That "mammillaria" in the front row is great!

That is very cool! I have heard of this technique but never seen it done. I don't know that I could hold my hand steady enough to mess with an embryo of anything smaller than an avocad ha ha!
Very nice

Bottom right: appears to be mammillaria spinosissima

Wow as always amazing! Especially... well all of them. :) How many pelecyphoras do you think you have. I don't know what it is but there is something about those pectinate spines of aselliformis! Do you ever intentionally pollinate any of your plants? It seems to me that with so many you could get s...