Days of my cacti lives - in pictures

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Very nice collection and outstanding images. I'm just arriving at that point of seasonal weather change, too . I'm also 1,000 feet higher up in the Salt Lake Valley. We got snow on the 10K foot mountaintops Saturday night and cool rainy temps Sunday.

Saturday I bedded down all my cold hardies and will bring the others indoors in a week or so. Cool nights are here.
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Thanks Steve!

Nothing is really in bloom right now so I'll picture some of my seedlings.
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Echinofossulocactus dichroacanthus/Stenocactus obvallatus

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E. erectrocentrus SB309 (Stenocactus multicostatus).
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Some unknown Weingartia (Sulcorebutia) from this spring.
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Growing very fast and looking for brighter sunlight from this early age.

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And this above is some older stuff: Notocactus mammulosus, Echinocactus grusonii, Echinopsis aurea 'Leucomalla'.
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That is the only cactus in bloom for now.

But some plants still show some growth.
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Discocactus boomianus - one grafted and another is on own roots.

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A new offset on the my Ortegocactus...
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Just wanted to say; Beautiful cacti and photos! :)
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Mrs.Green wrote: Mon Nov 02, 2020 12:42 pm Just wanted to say; Beautiful cacti and photos! :)
10x!
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From last week.
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Shortest days of the year (7:54 h), not much movement in the collection.

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Just waiting for the sun to come up and the new season to start.
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Tomorrow's my favorite Pagan holiday.,.the Winter Solstice. Not that I celebrate like a pagan or druid...but for the fact that we get back two minutes of daylight each day until June 21st.

Merry Christmas!
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Have to put here something from 2021.

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Winter bloomers are in charge.
Turb. valdezianus
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One more (is still) blooming now.
Reb. minuscula
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One flower but is opened for 3 days already.
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My recent pest-bio-control solution. :wink: I founded a volunteer.

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Some will already need an umbrella... :sunny:

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... if no dense felt or spines covers the top.

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First flowers on these two.
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Some very first buds on these seedlings here:
M. zeilmanniana
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Looking good.
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potted in back yard
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Went outside today. Ice age is ending soon? 8)
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The spring is here, blooms are many. Some even are in growing stage.
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west window cacti
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Do you "torture" sulcos hard enough this time of the year? Some will say "no pain ─ no gain".

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Behind (in front of) the curtains.

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And some new flowers from the same plants.
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One of the Lophs here is making a new growth point from inside...

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Another look outside:I'll need some new cold-hardy pots.
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April is here again....
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Rebutia pygmaea.
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Sometimes even having just 2 plants of one kind we can get their flowers opened in the same day.

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Discocactus
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May comes with more flowers.
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Two different variants of Reb. pygmaea opened first ever flowers.
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This Gymno opens a flower after 2 years of "rest".
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Regular bloomers.
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First buds and a flower. Has to be W. pulchra (Sulcorebutia callichroma) most likely.
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First buds & flower: Aylostera muscula seedlings.
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