New cacti

CelticRose · Post by **CelticRose** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:52 am

I went shopping for new plants yesterday.

I've got all the cacti repotted. You can see their original settings here: http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10676 and here: http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10675.

M. bombycina

Notocactus (Parodia) roseoluteus or rutilans, not sure which -- I'm told I need a flower for a positive ID.

M. vetula ssp. gracilis that is offsetting and flowering despite the fact that it was in an overcrowded dish garden with glued-on rocks that was overwatered so badly that it had grass growing in it!

And a freak (it came with the dish garden

).

cactuspolecat · Post by **cactuspolecat** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 8:42 am

Nice additions to your collection, CelticRose.
Yes best way to be sure which noto you have is to check out the flowers, roseoluteus flowers are usually a little paler in colour than rutilans, and the stigma on rutilans is dark maroon colour, while pinkish in roseoluteus...

rutilans...

roseoluteus...

CP.

cactuslee · Post by **cactuslee** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:27 am

hey, thats no freak. i bought a whole flat of those at walmart one time for a penny apiece and had people asking me for them. everyone thought they were so cool. i think they are a really cool cactus.

tvaughan · Post by **tvaughan** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:02 pm

Gotta get me a M. bombycina

Moonbeam · Post by **Moonbeam** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:14 pm

tvaughan wrote:Gotta get me a M. bombycina

Me too!!! They make the pot of white fuzzy balls.

peter · Post by **peter** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:18 pm

Nice additions!

Saguaro123 · Post by **Saguaro123** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:22 pm

Very nice. I went shopping for cacti too.

CelticRose · Post by **CelticRose** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:12 am

Thanks, everyone.

CP, after seeing your pics, I can't wait till mine flowers!

And if you can't tell them apart without a flower, then I don't feel so bad about my inability to positively ID this one.

Folks, the M. bombycina is an Altman's plant from Home Depot and it was only $2.97 (in a 4" pot). I didn't really want another Mamm (I want some variety in my limited space), but this one was too beautiful to pass up.

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 4:34 am

Looking good! (even the red top

)

CelticRose · Post by **CelticRose** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 5:03 am

Thanks, Darryl.

hegar · Post by **hegar** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 5:50 am

Hello CelticRose,
I too think, that you purchased some nice cacti. I am intrigued by the small clump of Mammillaria vetula ssp. gracilis. Judging by the name, the plant does not grow large, but it seems to flower when still small. How big is the stem that is developing the blossom?

Harald

P.S.: I wish you a very happy and successful cactus growing year 2009.

CelticRose · Post by **CelticRose** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:01 am

hegar wrote:Hello CelticRose,
I too think, that you purchased some nice cacti. I am intrigued by the small clump of Mammillaria vetula ssp. gracilis. Judging by the name, the plant does not grow large, but it seems to flower when still small. How big is the stem that is developing the blossom?

Harald

P.S.: I wish you a very happy and successful cactus growing year 2009.

Thank you, Harald.

All of these plants are in 4" pots, except for the freak which is in a 3" pot. That should give you some idea of scale.

I think you were referring to the stem on the left? That one's 1.25" tall. The other two are 1.5" tall.
Not including offsets, of course.

All three stems have buds and spent flowers on them.

Post by **daiv** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 5:23 pm

For whatever faults that have been cited with big commercial growers, it is nice to have such an inexpensive source of plants. Even if they common species, they still are fun to grow!

CelticRose · Post by **CelticRose** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:36 am

The freak is a goner. I found a couple of black spots on one of the offsets tonight, so I tossed the whole thing, pot and all, before it could infect any of my other plants. Fortunately, I had set it on a file cabinet which gets a little sun because the temperature today was going to be too low for it in the morning, so it wasn't near my other plants. I had been keeping it away from the others as much as possible anyway, just to be safe -- I didn't think it looked too healthy.

My first loss, but at least it was one that I didn't like anyway.

*Barracuda_52* · Post by ***Barracuda_52*** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:27 am

CelticRose those are some beautiful cacti ya got there, sorry to here of the loss

of the one you called the freak, i see them all over in the stores up here but never got one, there pretty but i just dont care for grafted cacti.