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I created this topic separately from the inventory topic for general pictures. I hope you enjoy them!

My Turbinicarpus plants...
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T. pseudopectinatus with buds. These have been working on these buds for a couple of months. Very slow progress...
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T. pseudopectinatus inermis with tons of buds, but they are very tiny.
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And finally a P. nelii trying to squeeze out a flower. I swear I can hear it grunting, trying to get out...
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awsome lot of turbs!! I have a pseudopectinatus with small/tiny buds that just wont do anything.. How do you work them to make progress/bloom?
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I love those turbs! The buds do have a way of sitting there for weeks and then they flower very suddenly, sometimes. Can't really do anything to rush them as far as I know.

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Nice collection, keep us posted on your flowers

Mine are at the same point, just kind of waiting
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Thanks all!

Craig, several of the plants I got from you recently flowered when they were in my propagation chamber. A little bottom heat woke them up and got them going. I brought them outside yesterday to make room for my Pereskiopsis stocks.

I"ll definitely take pictures when they pop open, but I think it's going to take a few more weeks, judging from past performance. Unless of course we get a heat wave.
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It's a very nice Turbinicarpus collection, congratulation.
The buds on mine T. pseudopectinatus are since December and they don't open before April.
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Thanks for the confirmation Ralf. I got the T. pseudopectinatus late last spring, so this is my first flower cycle.

I'm really looking forward to the flowers!
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You'll be surprised how pretty are this Turbi flowers. I can't get enough of it. I've more than 40 different plants of it, excluded Gymnocactus.
The special of this Genus is you can collect many species on limited space.
I love it!
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This big one has been in flower from Decemb til march
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Those T. inermis's are still building up steam
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I have crossed the top plant with this, T. mombergerii, for a more pectinate form?

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Awesome plants, Craig! Interesting that the flowers are mostly white, they buds look so dark like they'll be red or purple.

I can hardly wait. It was sunny and warm again today, but were getting a couple of days of clouds and rain showers. I'll just have to be patient I guess...

Thanks for the preview!
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Great collection Tim
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More buds and some flowers too!

New plant, Avonia quinaria - continuing my slow foray into succulents.
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New plant, Copiopoa tenuissima monstrose - now start looking weird!
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New plant, Discocactus buenekerii - I felt I needed a disco cactus...
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Ferocactus glaucens - I took these offsets about a year ago. They took their time, but they are growing well now.
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Fenesteria flowers - still a little evidence of past predation. Making tons of flowers now!
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New plant, Lophophora hoehreshii - I only had L. willies up to now. Figured it was time to diversify (a little).
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New plant, Lophophora williamsii - another one...
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Mammillaria coahuilense with more flowers.
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Mammillaria haageana ssp. elegans making blobs of flowers (?)
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M. herrerae without flowers and M. lasaiscantha with. The flowers are more brownish in person.
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M. nazacensis with a little yellow flowers. They are kind of scruffy looking but they have weird orange pubescent hooked centrals.
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M. perezdelarosa - a preview of what's to come...
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New plant, M. sempervivi
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The recent warmer weather opened some Stenocactus blooms.

S.coptogonus
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S. crispatus
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Another S. crispatus - it looks like a traffic jam in there!
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Wider shot of the three Stenos.
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T. bonatzii on the left with flowers, T. klinkerianus on the right without.
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Other Turbi buds inching closer!
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Stunning stuff, Tim. The Disco buenekeri flowers are nice, very fragrant, nocturnal in the heat of our summer.

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awesome collections! My favorite is the Copiopoa tenuissima monstrose, have never seen that before!
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Nice!
Those Stenos are fully loaded!
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