Comments on Picture Contest 8

Post by **daiv** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:01 pm

Hob, welcome to the forum and glad to see you jump right on in! That is a form of Mammillaria elongata. If you've got some catching up to do on cacti, this is the place to do it!

hob · Post by **hob** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:10 pm

thanks for the welcome.......i bought 10 plants in a sale at a local garden center......to add to the few i already had....they all seem to be mammillaria's of different types.....all without names.....looks like i need a trip to the id section

just bought another 10 named plants too.....and some packets of mixed seeds......also been given some plants from a man at work when he found out i was interested.....most are in a bad way, but i'm hoping to rescue as many as i can.

Post by **daiv** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:17 pm

Sounds like a good start to me!

hob · Post by **hob** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:25 pm

these are the ten named ones .......with some of the un-named mammillaria's in the background.

Post by **daiv** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:40 am

Those ones look to be in good shape to me!

taliesin · Post by **taliesin** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:28 pm

welcome hob...those are cracking plants there.

cactusveda · Post by **cactusveda** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:58 pm

healthy ones!good start.keep it up.

taliesin · Post by **taliesin** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:56 am

are my eyes deceiving me

On the comp page, posted by ajaxas...a myriostigma producing offsets

is this the normal one

I thought they didn't, ah well, shows what I know

Buck Hemenway · Post by **Buck Hemenway** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 4:29 pm

These are not offsets. Occasionally, astrophytums among others will produce multiple headed plants. I thought I had a picture of the huge one that Woody Minnich exhibits at the large LA shows, but don't.

hegar · Post by **hegar** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:48 pm

Hello fellow cactus growers,
this may be an odd question for you. Because I do not grow cacti in pots I had not even thought about it until I saw all these big clumps, which in a lot of instances were quite a bit larger in diameter than the opening of their pots.
My questions to you are: How do you water these kinds of plants? How do you handle them? and How do you keep the top-heavy plants from falling over?

Harald

Post by **daiv** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:17 pm

Harald,
I think nobody is responding because there isn't anything different with those really. The water works down in-between the clumps. On pots that are top heavy, you just have to prop them up against the wall or next to other pots, etc.

Daiv

GeneS · Post by **GeneS** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:44 am

When I posted my entry for contest#8, I mentioned that my first choice was taken by Daiv and my second by eduart. Then there was the proposed outlawing of 100MM macro lenses :-)

Just to share, here is my version of R. heliosa, as seen through a Canon 100 2.8 macro lens!!

http://dgimages.smugmug.com/photos/78701067-L.jpg

Cheers, GeneS

perrycornish · Post by **perrycornish** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:56 pm

What a super pic of a very healthy and lovely cactus

Long live macro

Post by **daiv** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:09 am

That's a show winner for sure Gene!

ihc6480 · Post by **ihc6480** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:41 am

I like it

Great shot GeneS

Comments on Picture Contest 8

Comments on Picture Contest 8

offsetting myriostigma