Oldest plant in your collection

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Traveller
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Shane wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 4:54 am
Traveller wrote: Tue Aug 17, 2021 3:04 pm I have a Mammillaria bocasana that was planted in 1972. I can take a.photo if anyone is interested
I'd definitely be interested is seeing a photo. Did you plant it yourself?
It would be a pretty good trick if I somehow had managed it, as that was the same year I was born. :D

The sun is low, I'll grab a picture tomorrow morning and add it in here.
Zone 10, Sydney Australia
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madkactus
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Shane wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 4:54 am
Traveller wrote: Tue Aug 17, 2021 3:04 pm I have a Mammillaria bocasana that was planted in 1972. I can take a.photo if anyone is interested
I'd definitely be interested is seeing a photo. Did you plant it yourself?
me too. :!:
Traveller
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Re: Oldest plant in your collection

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Traveller wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 5:50 am
Shane wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 4:54 am
Traveller wrote: Tue Aug 17, 2021 3:04 pm I have a Mammillaria plumaria that was planted in 1972. I can take a photo if anyone is interested.
I'd definitely be interested is seeing a photo. Did you plant it yourself?
It would be a pretty good trick if I somehow had managed it, as that was the same year I was born. :D

The sun is low, I'll grab a picture tomorrow morning and add it in here.
She did NOT like being repotted but was bursting out of the previous one. The clump measures 39cm diameter, but was at 42cm before repotting.
So at this time we are 49 years.
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