Contest 33: Discussion and Related pics

Andy_CT · Post by **Andy_CT** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:44 pm

Here's the flower from my bud

iann · Post by **iann** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:19 pm

Inflorescences are a whole lot of buds, right?

I can add some flowers from my buds but I can't promise that the flowers match the exact bud in the photo

mendel · Post by **mendel** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:52 pm

Awesome plants iann!

John C · Post by **John C** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:14 pm

Hey I can enter this one!

Now I got to go take pics!

Nice plants everyone!

iann · Post by **iann** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:17 pm

Here's Thelocactus setispinus. Its very willing to flower even when small. Large shiny flowers. Not so cute as it gets bigger, and those hook spines are a pain!

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:49 pm

This buds for you!

Aloe sp.

Cylindropuntia bigelovii

Ceropegia sp.

Echinocereus engelmannii
If you look close at pic 2, you'll see left over fur from a not-so-awesome possum who decided to try and take this plant with him. Darn near uprooted the whole thing

He then walked through the middle of O. basilaris and knocked off about 8-10 pads. Lucky for him he avoided the 4 chollas.

Echinocereus fendleri v. kuenzleri HK1914

Echinocereus reichenbachii ssp. fitchii

Echinocereus pectinatus v. 'Coahulia'

Echinocereus reichenbachii v. albertii

Eriosyce napina ssp. glabrescens

Eriosyce subggibosa

Euphorbia viguieri v. ankarafantsiensis

Pachypodium brevicaule

Parodia buiningii

iann · Post by **iann** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:58 pm

I like the fuzzy buds best.

LuvDemCacti · Post by **LuvDemCacti** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:57 pm

Daiv,
Thanks for directing me to the correct site. I'm not sure how to remove the image on the discussion thread.
Vic

Post by **daiv** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:00 pm

Vic,
Little did you know that the power of suggestion is all you needed - pic deleted!

Daiv

hegar · Post by **hegar** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:35 am

Here are the other three prior candidates for the cactus bud contest:
1. Echinocereus chloranthus, almost ready to bloom.

2. Thelocactus heterochromus
This is an old picuture. The cactus bloomed last in 2002, if I recall things correctly.

3. Ferocactus latispinus
The image was taken in October of last year and the plant flowered until February 9th of this year.

It looks like a lot of cacti have already started to bud, except the "early bloomer" Echinomastus intertextus, which I placed in the ground last summer. Perhaps they suffered from transplant shock.

Harald

GeneS · Post by **GeneS** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:05 am

Until I read the rules again and found the "NO FLOWERS ALLOWED" provision, I was thinking about one of these -both taken today.
Oroya laxiaerolata -KK323

or Ferocactus glaucescens

Cheers ... GeneS

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:28 am

Those are sweet Gene!

My Bruchii today,

Moonbeam · Post by **Moonbeam** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:33 am

Here's mine...I was going to shoot these buds, but they bloomed!!!

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:16 pm

Great pics everybody!

Gene,
We so commonly post flower pics, by having the contest limited to just the buds, it offers something different. Buds still make really cool pics, no?

Plus, i figured with the weather in the northern states and across the world, ppl would have a better chance of having buds than open flowers.

Buck Hemenway · Post by **Buck Hemenway** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:38 pm

Here's one that you don't see very often, Crassula barbata. It's monocarpic, unfortunately. We really like this little plant, having seen it in habiat in South Africa. No offsets and probably no seed, we're looking for another one.

8 weeks ago, bloom just starting.

Yesterday, buds ready to open soon, leaves beginning to die.