John's 2009 Topic

CelticRose · Post by **CelticRose** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:41 am

Nice plants!

Cereusly · Post by **Cereusly** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:43 am

John, you have a very impressive collection here, and I never get tired of seeing the new growth on the Opuntias.

Have you ever seen any Ariocarpus growing in habitat? I never have much luck with them, and I'm sure it's because of our cool night temperatures.

Even the Ariocarpus seedling I grafted on Pereskiopsis last year shows very little growth. Tony

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:11 am

Lookin good John,

I guess that unknown mamm. is melanocentra. Have you seen the flowers?

John C · Post by **John C** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:41 pm

Thanks everyone!

Cereusly wrote:John, you have a very impressive collection here, and I never get tired of seeing the new growth on the Opuntias. Have you ever seen any Ariocarpus growing in habitat? I never have much luck with them, and I'm sure it's because of our cool night temperatures. Even the Ariocarpus seedling I grafted on Pereskiopsis last year shows very little growth. Tony

Thank you.
I have never seen any ariocarpus in habitat, but I really want to!

John C · Post by **John C** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:42 pm

Tony wrote:Lookin good John,
I guess that unknown mamm. is melanocentra. Have you seen the flowers?

I'll look that one up.
No, I have never seen the flowers.

John C · Post by **John C** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:55 pm

Speaking of Ariocarpus,
This weekend I went on a short trip to San Antonio. I found a cactus nursery down there, called Paul's Desert. Great nursery! Nice guy! Lots of very nice plants!

He likes ariocarpus so he had a lot of them. So I bought 5!

2 Ariocarpus Fissuratus (1 large one and one smaller one)
1 Good size Ariocarpus Trigonus
1 small Ariocarpus Fissuratus Loydii
1 large Ariocarpus Retusus

All of the plants are very nice and seed grown.
Sadly I cannot show pictures of them due to the fact that my camera just broke

Hopefully I can get the camera fixed, then i'll post pics!

TimN · Post by **TimN** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:45 pm

If that is a M. melanocentra the seed pods should turn red and enlarge (vice versa, actually). Then they are easy to take off. You just have to wait until they're ready.

John C · Post by **John C** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:35 pm

Remember the damaged Echinocereus Viridiflorous? Well, it just went from 1 pup to 5 pups!

But once again, no camera to take a picture of it.

Post by **daiv** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:47 pm

Bummer on the camera. What kind is it and what happened?

I don't know if you caught my story with the Canon that I broke. Anyway, I had a really positive experience with their repair facility - service was really good all around.

John C · Post by **John C** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:12 pm

daiv wrote:Bummer on the camera. What kind is it and what happened?

I don't know if you caught my story with the Canon that I broke. Anyway, I had a really positive experience with their repair facility - service was really good all around.

So sorry Daiv! I completely missed your post somehow.

It is a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5. Accidentally dropped it and then it wouldn't move or focus anymore. We are sending it to the main repair center or watever it is called to be fixed.

John C · Post by **John C** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:40 pm

While waiting for the camera to be shipped and fixed, got a new camera. It is a Sony Cybershot W290. I am not sure what I think of it, the pictures don't seem to be that great of a quality most of the time. Here are pictures to what I mentioned about in the above posts and some other test pictures all taken with the Sony.

My new small Ariocarpus Fissuratus.

It's got buds on it now!

( Sorry I couldn't get the focus right)

My new larger Ariocarpus Fissuratus. It also is growing some buds!

Let's hope that both plants flower at the same time!

My new little Ariocarpus Fissuratus Loydii

My new Ariocarpus Trigonus

And finally my new Ariocarpus Retusus

My whole Ariocarpus collection

The Obregonia has decided to flower again. This thing almost never stops!

1 out of 2 of my new Echinocactus horizonthalonius
that I got at this months cactus society bingo night.

This is the other Echinocactus

My new Echinocereus Dasycanthus also from bingo. It is growing kind of odd.

A new Opuntia from bingo.

My new Copiapoa tenuissima Monstrose from bingo

A little golden barrel seedling from bingo

Alluaudia procera from bingo

And a Hylocereus also from bingo.

Lots of new growth on the Adenium!

Nice and Bright new growth on my Ferocactus

The damaged echinocereus pups are growing like crazy!

2 other pups

And another pup!

Turbinicarpus is growing some buds too!

I think that covers everything! The greenhouse is filling up VERY quickly!!!!!

Post by **daiv** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:03 pm

Super bunch of plants - seem happy in their new home too.

For those close up pictures with high contrast top-dressing in the background you have to go with manual focus. OR you can hold the button down part way and lock the focus and then move it so that the plant is in focus if you are lazy like me.

Saguaro123 · Post by **Saguaro123** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:48 pm

Awesome ariocarpus, and nice prizes from bingo!

John C · Post by **John C** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:57 pm

Thanks Everyone!

John C · Post by **John C** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:12 pm

A few more flowers today.

Obregonia

Turbinicarpus

The new camera seems to take pretty good pictures!