To minimize the chance of it's death it's better to keep it warm and with additional light and water just 1 bit more rare then in summer, once in 3 weeks...

2 more pictures... All flowers are opened (some even faded away already) http://www.alphatraveller.org/gallery/i.php?/upload/2015/11/15/20151115021319-93802519-me.jpg And one more picture... Today we had fist strong snow in this year http://www.alphatraveller.org/gallery/i.php?/upload/2015/11/15/201...

Thanks alot!

Beautiful plant! But it would be better with its own roots. That's my opinion. Thanks! I cannot grow Ubelmannias on their own roots. Russian climate is deadly for them... But I have a plan to reroot it with a much shorter portion of lower plant and make it a hidden graft. Right now I have a U. Erio...

Yep the pictures are taken today. It has 5 flowers now and like 8 more still open in coming 1-2 days so I can make even more pictures.

Hello everyone! I just wanted to share some pics of an Ubelmannia minninensis f. rubra. It's a grafted plant and it's flowering right now in November. http://www.alphatraveller.org/gallery/i.php?/upload/2015/11/13/20151113025651-798978ce-me.jpg http://www.alphatraveller.org/gallery/i.php?/upload/201...

cortez753 wrote:Taste it, many cacti secrete a sugary substance out of their areoles. How do you know it's salt?

This was not a joke, right?
Because I did it No, it's not sugar. It tastes slightly bitter.

Yep but Cleistocacti also happy with warm winter, they do not suffer from it.

Echinopsis genus now is WAY TOO WIDE now... It includes plants with completely different habits. So I prefer using their "outdated" names, it gives more information...

It looks a lot like red spider mite damage Yes, this looks really alike. But you can clearly see the mites on your picture... And I don't see mites on my cacti, not with a loupe, not on photos. Maybe they've "visited" my collection at summer (when I was absent) and then they left somehow....

Ok I could not sleep and decided to take pictures now, Here are 2:1 shots. Twice closer then "true 1:1 macro", so very fine details are visible. Still look as salts for me... http://images.vfl.ru/ii/1446597292/540fdf31/10378752_m.jpg http://images.vfl.ru/ii/1446597292/5447f0d1/10378753_m.j...

Hmmm fungus that eats ONLY one genus and only slow growing brown skinned plants? Is that even possible? It does not spreads to others, it is not something new in my collection, so I am sure it's not contagious. Maybe it's dead already now... I've gave my plant anti fungus treatment in Spring, so may...

Thanks, James!

BTW, what happened with your site? Several key pages are missing (http://jp29.org/brdir.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)...

I can share my experience. I have a great problem with keeping cacti cool in winter as I grow them in a living room. In addition, I have a north-east facing window, with little to no direct sunlight. But now, after almost 3 years of cacti cultivating I can say that nothing is impossible. First of al...

Hello everyone! I have a question about some Gymnocalyciums. Some flat slow growing gymnos, like G. spegazzini, G. ragonesei, G. occultum are covering with something that LOOKS like a coating from slats that are left after water drying. I am not sure this is really a salts lefover, but it surealy lo...

No1 is some kind of Cleistocactus
No5 is definitely Cereus Peruvianus f. monstrosa
No3 is Mammillaria of some kind. Maybe spinosissima
No4 is Notocactus, not sure which