Is your turbinicarpus actually this ? Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele ssp. krainzianus ? I thought Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele had open spines and pink flowers ? I have one yellow flowered I think T. krainzianus it has denser spines hard to see plant bodies ? I have Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele ...

your M. theresae is outstanding. this is another difficult plant for me from seed and after. here's mine in Phoenix doing OK BUT hasn't flowered much since I've moved back to Moorpark. Didn't help it was blown out of its pot a few years ago in the windstorm disaster I had. Also lost my M. guelzowian...

M. deherdtiana one of my old timers that didn't survive Phoenix AZ , too hot I guess ? yours look great. I've killed allot of cactus over the years come to think of it. oh well I have a small one hope I can get it up to the size of my original plant.

Mammillaria herrerea from 2012 now out with mature cactus same sunlight , etc. My own seeds which are not easy to get requires steady hand, tweezers and 4X magnifier.

mammillaria supertexta grew from seed a long time ago doesn't really look like supertexta to me? And the Ario waiting for fall flowers hopefully

i think that tretment once weekly might be good and in the winter should i add systematic to my watering every once in a while?" Once a week ?? probably not that often I hope ?? I use Merit and kelthane once a year at most. Insecticide soap yea once a week because it doesn't work very well on m...

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MOORPARK, Calif. - The California Department of Food and Agriculture has notified residents living in the vicinity of Moorpark College that an Asian citrus psyllid has been detected in their neighborhood and chemicals will be sprayed to deal with the pest. So I believe I will transfer my portable ca...

Hi Steve, yes we have the same style of growing cactus in the hand built wood frame benches. Long ago I had a bench setup just like you do back when I lived in a Townhome. It was back then I started growing cactus from seed. I found Mesa gardens from a tip received at Abbey gardens in Carpenteria, i...

Straighten the picture camera software shows it straight but loads it at 90 degrees off.

Been very hot here in S. CA. Cactus are all growing now just like the end of monsoon season in the desert where they are from. Lost a few cactus and germinated a few more 2015.

And here's some seeds that needed no bottom heat, no baggie, didn't even bury them just threw them in the pot with the boojum tree and left it outside.

Hows Summer growing going ?

I find Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus easy to grow but very slow. I would add fine gravel to the top of your pots filling around the neck of the plants until its almost flush with the top of the " root " North Africa yea that's hot, I would grow them in 50% shade. There is a SAN FRANSISCO vari...

Mammillaria grahamii/mammillaria microcarpa, Arizona fishhook cactus. This is a higher elevation type from around Boyce Thomson arboretum the ones found in Phoenix get taller with paler flowers. very common in Arizona. Likes heat and flowers in the middle of the monsoon so around August in AZ. Fewer...