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[Mireno78]

Here’s another one of my cactus without Id.the plant is really small and is been that color since I got it for over a year now.hasn’t done much

[Tom in Tucson]

It looks like a bit of damage to the original growing point of this Gymnocalycium caused it to offset. I'd give it a richer soil, more shade, and greenhouse levels of warmth.

[Mireno78]

The thing is that there’s a bunch of plants like that in the place I got it.they were all in two inc squares pots.

[Tom in Tucson]

The thing is that there’s a bunch of plants like that in the place I got it.they were all in two inc squares pots.

If this is a typical plant from this vendor, I would go elsewhere. Life's too short to waste time on trying to grow plants of this ilk.

Good luck, and good growing!

[DaveW]

If they are giving the casualties away to get rid of them is worth trying to propagate a healthy offset from them. But as Tom says if you have to buy them its not worth the effort unless its something rare and no longer available in the trade either as seed or plants you may find in some old collection.

[Mireno78]

I passed by the same nursery yesterday and took some pictures…when I bought it I did because they looked different to me and they have a bunch that looked the same,like they were like that.

[Mireno78]

I don’t know how to post the pictures I took yesterday into my reply.

[Mireno78]

Pictures from yesterday

[Mireno78]

Maybe that’s how they propagate it?I have mine for a year and it hasn’t done anything…I live in the Miami area ,there’s just a few cactus nursery’s and unfortunately most of the plants don’t have any ID

[BryanT]

IMHO, it's possible nothing wrong with the plant, just check the root.
Possible Lobivia arachnacantha or similar species that grown under full sun.
Should be clearer when it flower in spring/summer.

[Mireno78]

Thanks everyone.I would definitely be on the lookout for the flowers

[DaveW]

Its strange that all the other plants around it are growing quite healthily, therefore unless they are potted in a different soil mixture why? Could it be a chlorophyll deficient form that survives but does not grow very well on its own roots? Interesting to graft a head and see?

[anttisepp]

I have the same Lobivia arachnacantha though without red mites' damages.
Keep it dry in the sun and you'll get flowers this summer, from yellow to red.

[Mireno78]

I think that’s a good idea.I’m going to try grafting one head to see what it does.

[Salazar]

To me it looks like a very sun stressed Frailea grahliana, that would also explain why it has so many offsets.