Very beautiful work!

Hanazono wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2023 12:23 am I am no sure why but spines of your alonsi thick and different from my alonsoi.
I attached a photo for your information.

Hi Frank
Thanks for the information.
This is my T. alonsoi with flower.
Is it an alonsoi, isn't it?

beautiful as always

Thank you Spence and Dave!

Just to help you figure out what is going on, I am sending pictures of my plant of the same species. It is perfectly healthy and nevertheless it has a white stuf. This white stuf is the new growth of the plant. This part of the plant will always be white. However it seems you have mealybugs also, wh...

Ok...so... is it a mutant (which I really enjoy) and not "formally " named as brevispina, although this could be a good name for it... Did I get it right? It is curious to have two plants with the same mutation. Which makes me think of the original source (which I dont know). I'll try to c...

leland wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 1:12 pm In northern Nicaragua between Esteli and Condega. Much of the west coast from Mexico through northern Costa Rica is seasonally dry forest.

Cool, thank you

If I cross these two plants the offspring will be brevispina? Sure I will try it

Thanks for the replies So "brevispina" is a condition that can happen to any species, such as monstrose, crested or variegated? Is it a mutation? Or some species have the variety "brevispina"? Wow...~6 years in the forum and I never payed attention to brevispinas...very happy to ...

How would you call this plant? The only name I can find for this one is Tephrocactus articulatus papyracanthus. However, I have another plant tagged with this name, and it is quite different: segments are much more rounded and the spines are shorter, with wider base and are more curling (plants in t...

Thank you Frank for the information
I dont have Strobocactus so the pollen donnor must be another plant.

Here is a picture of the T. alonsoi with a new fruit coming up.
Seeds of the previous fruit resulted in zero germination.

Ok...thats annoying...any time I upload pictures , the first one appears like an abstract thing...

Let me try again the first picture:

These two plants were grown from seeds of Mammillaria sheldonii. They are different from the other plants (normal sheldoniis) of the same batch. What are they? Mutants? Other thing? 20221224_094638-01_copy_800x798.jpg 20221224_094629-01_copy_798x798.jpg The flowers never open...they keep this way, a...

Could it be the new aoreoles of the plant ? In other words, the plant growing
It does not discard the presence of mealybugs but I cant see them in the pictures

Interesting. Where is it?