Frailea atrobella Hard to get the purple color right in bad lighting From Tony Marino IMG_1551.JPG More purple Sulcorebutia rauschii Cherry Bomb, from seed IMG_1561.JPG Uebelmannia buiningii Many flowers this year IMG_1564.JPG Ariocarpus retusus trigonis hybrid? Still have not ID'ed this form of ret...

Euphorbia horwoodii
This new growth on this grafted stem should be interesting

Really great plants
good work

Some new friends had some great new plants for me

Albuca dilucula Trachyandra tortilis
that are way more wavy than my form Muiria hortenseae

I've been making successful crosses of Astrophytum caput-medusae not sure of the species it crossed with, for sure not myriostigma My first one was mystery cross from a batch of pure caput seeds, 2015 IMG_8586.jpg I grafted it after a year IMG_9094.jpg It grows like crazy on it's own roots named &qu...

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Ariocarpus hintonii,
20 ish year olds
Ariocarpus scaphirostris
cross pollinated Some plants from seed

Unknown Gymnocalycium
yellow green flower

We have some nice hanging Jungle Cactus The heavy rains this Spring encouraged flowering Selenicereus anthonyanus Rick Rack, Fish Bone IMG_1050.JPG IMG_1054.JPG IMG_0859 (1)a.jpg Selenicereus pteranthus We call it the Octopus, since it's got long tentacle like limbs The buds start out with a coverin...

Fall Succulent Time

Gibbaeum neobrownii
more like a Conophytum to me
from seed, and will have plenty of seed next year Lithops amicorum Lithops dorotheae Conophytum violaciflorum Conophytum maughanii Special Red Form

Tuff = Pumice Tuff is compacted pumice It abounds around Mono Lake, and I as well have collected the pumice there, since it is easy to collect and already clean All from the violent eruptions of the local volcanos I used to ride my Mt. Bike down steep slopes of pure pumice nearby, it was like skiing...

Summer Photos Mammillaria hernandezii It formed a flower mid summer, which is odd, since it flowers normally in winter Then a pup formed from inside the flower, never seen that before. IMG_1389.JPG Pink Flowered Matucana madisoniorum IMG_1408.JPG My special selected Lizard Skin, flowers tinted with ...

I like to keep my seedlings in more assessable areas
I do like using it to grow established 1-3 year old's to grow them on

Flat of Mesembs seedlings growing like crazy in a deep flat of 100% commercial Coir and Perlite
less than a year old

Deep Flat
Using 100% Commercial Coir & Perlite
100s of mesembs Close up of Cereria pygmaea seedlings