toadstar's cactus

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A little warm outside today but snow is forecasted for tomorrow. The christmas cactus knows what's up.
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Sometimes the old favorites are still the best. I have 3 "holiday" cactus - one for Halloween, one around Thanksgiving & the old lady who will be blooming for another 2 weeks or so. Then the pale yellow T-Day one re-blooms the end of February. No idea why.
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Texas Nipple Cactus (Mammillaria prolifera) first spines. Thank you for the seeds, leisurely.
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Mmmmm.... Sweet, sweet ferocactus secretions.
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The prairie prickly pears (Opuntia macrorhiza ?) are blooming on this beautiful day.
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Some people really ought to pay more attention when they're flying.
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These look just like mine, perhaps mine are prairie pads
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A few bunny rabbits
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Young golden barrels
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Wild opuntia
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Echinopsis
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And this nice one from a mixed seed packet that I am not quite sure of but maybe a gymnocalycium ?
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What to do when your cacti have grown so much over the summer that you've run out of room to put them inside for the winter? Have a cactus sale!
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Maybe that cactus you don’t have an I’d for that came from a seed pack is an Echinopsis silvestrii (not chamaecereus) or e. Ancistrophora hmmm
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It does seem to resemble the latter. It about doubled in size this summer into this nice somewhat torus shape. I'm hoping it's big enough to flower next year.
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Some days my cacti get more mail than I do.
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toadstar wrote:What to do when your cacti have grown so much over the summer that you've run out of room to put them inside for the winter? Have a cactus sale!
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May i ask what's thr opuntia on the right?
There are more cacti in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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That's a good question. It came from a mixed opuntia seed packet that contained:
http://www.cactusstore.com/category_42/SEEDS-Cacti-O.htm wrote:Opuntia Species Seed Mix. (Prickly Pear). Opuntia engelmanii, aciculata, rufida, macrocentra, paraguayensis, phaeacantha, santa rita, basilaris and others.
And to further confuse the issue, two pads were planted into each pot which came from different parent plants in the batch of seed. The spines seem to be a bit different from one another.
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