Thanks all...appreciate your comments

Friends I have a fairly mature Ferocactus outdoors (roughly 12” tall x 6” wide). It’s very healthy. Each year about this time, it forms 5-6 large flower heads on top, but they never get to open because of a handful of thick spines that block their ability to fully open. I’m tempted to cut some of th...

Wayne,

Thanks for asking. Will send you the pics offline. Ours look very similar. I've had mine outside most of the year but had to bring them inside with this awful cold weather.

Larry

Hi Miguel - I'll send you a PM

Just wanted to publicly thank Aiko for the willingness to continue to offer a variety of seeds. Thanks to you, I got several packets of seeds that helped me experiment and learn and many of those seeds are still viable seedlings nearly a year later. I really appreciate your generosity and wanted the...

Thanks - that looks like a good one, just what I am looking for

Thanks to all for the suggestions!

Travelling from San Antonio through Phoenix to Las Vegas later this month. Any recommended nurseries close to the route (I-10)?

Sorry to hear that...good luck! Definitely start again...

Thanks for the tips. I've created a more mineral mix and will repot tomorrow.

OK, great. Well if you ever get time to share some pics, I'm sure it would be interesting!

OK, thanks!

Not sure if hoteldoc is still on here, but 3 years later I'd be interested to know how this worked out for you?

True. I figured if I had a better idea of what the plants were I can use the taxonomy list to see if they are more likely to be self fertile or not. #1,2 and 4 all appear to be Mammilarias but I'm not familiar with #3.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I see a couple of species that is resembles but this helps me narrow.