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Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 9:15 am
by Mrs.Green
When I saw this eastercactus ( H gaertneri or possible a hybrid with rosea?) , I had to buy it. In my view, the most beautiful eastercacti I have seen. It is covered with the most delicate white flowers. Speaking of flowers..I am pretty sure that I read somewhere that produsers ( or at lest some of them) uses gibberellic acid on the plants to increase the number of flowers?
Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 5:19 pm
by Mojave Chris
Beaver-tail Cactus (Opuntia Basilaris) Mojave Desert . These are from my yard here in the Mojave. I planted these from cuttings with 2 or 3 pads on a stem. They grow to full size in just a few years when you do them that way. They don't get any special treatment from me except a light sprinkle about once a month.
Last year they didn't bloom at all (the drought hit hard out here).....Looking good this year!
Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 5:38 pm
by zpeckler
Mojave Chris wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 5:19 pm
Beaver-tail Cactus (Opuntia Basilaris) Mojave Desert . These are from my yard here in the Mojave.
Great looking flowers! It's always awesome to see people gardening with native plants.
Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:42 am
by 7george
Blooming never stops.
Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:13 pm
by positrontime
My first cacti to bloom:
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Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2023 11:04 am
by Holunder
Small cactus, big flower...
Gymnocalycium andreae
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Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 9:16 am
by madkactus
Astrophytum senile
Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2023 9:46 am
by madkactus
Astrophytum myriostigma
Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2023 5:44 pm
by nachtkrabb
I have only a couple of pictures at hand, but this year really a lot of my cacti are flowering.
What I especially admire is how much a bud may grow on the last day before opening. 5cm = 2in are nothing!
Enjoy,
Nachtkrabb.
- Gymno saglionis
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- Gymno saglionis
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- Rebutia fabrisii
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- Selenicereus grandiflorus with the evening sun shining into it
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- Selenicereus grandiflorus -- I wear gloves size 8 (Germany), so I have quite big hands
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- Selenicereus grandiflorus
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- Parodia magnifica flowering for the first time in its life
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- Astro. myriostigma var nudum usually does it a couple of times per year (at my place since 2021)
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- Echinopsis subdenudata -- night 1
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- Echinopsis subdenudata -- night 1
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- Echinopsis subdenudata -- night 2
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- Echinopsis subdenudata -- night 2: Those are the buds of night 1!
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Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2023 5:49 pm
by nachtkrabb
Especially I do like those Beaver-tail Cactus (Opuntia Basilaris) in the Mojave Desert by Mojave Chris.
But they are all gorgeous!!! I am greatful for all those pictures, thanks.
Please pardon me for posting so many; I didn't want to show off. I just haven't been around for a while and so didn't realize the postings from February till today and wanted to revitalize this wonderful thread. So I added "some"...
Well, sh*** happens...
N.
Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:27 pm
by greenknight
My Setiechinopsis mirabilis that bloomed last October died over the winter. The larger one, that produced a late bud in autumn that failed to bloom, developed 2 buds this spring. I missed the first blooming - but on Aug.3, I went out to water and feed the cacti about an hour before dark, and found the second bud was already opening. Here it is at 8:44PM:
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Here it is at 11:11, full blown - the petals are just starting to curl:
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Finally going to get a crop of seed, which I failed to get from the fall bloom.
Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 3:02 pm
by nachtkrabb
madkactus wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2023 9:16 am
Astrophytum senile
Hallo Madcactus, that is a very nice Astro you got. ...aaaand with double flower! Wow!
I just wonder about the name. Is it possible that it is a A.capricorne...? Or are those names synonym...?
N.
Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 3:04 pm
by nachtkrabb
greenknight wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:27 pm
My Setiechinopsis mirabilis (...)
Hello Greenknight,
that Setiechinopsis really earns its name "full of wonder". Such a cactus & such a flower...!
N.
Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 5:44 pm
by madkactus
nachtkrabb wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 3:02 pm
madkactus wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2023 9:16 am
Astrophytum senile
Hallo Madcactus, that is a very nice Astro you got. ...aaaand with double flower! Wow!
I just wonder about the name. Is it possible that it is a A.capricorne...? Or are those names synonym...?
N.
Thanks nachtkrabb.
I believe the name is synonymous. I've seen this species listed with both names together.
Re: A Blooming Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2023 1:53 am
by MrXeric
nachtkrabb wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 3:02 pm
madkactus wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2023 9:16 am
Astrophytum senile
Hallo Madcactus, that is a very nice Astro you got. ...aaaand with double flower! Wow!
I just wonder about the name. Is it possible that it is a A.capricorne...? Or are those names synonym...?
N.
Yes, a synonym. You can see a list of former names here:
https://caryophyllales.org/cactaceae/cd ... c0fcf7977c
According to Llifle:
Astrophytum senile is a variety of Astrophytum capricorne, differing in its larger stems, which generally lack hair-flecks, and so densely wrapped with soft spines that the body is hardly visible, and looks like a dry grass bundle. Up to date many botanists don’t recognize the variety rank to this taxon which does not differ conspicuously from the other forms of the species.
https://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CAC ... senile.jpg