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Pretty awesome thread. So many very well grown cacti.
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Winter flowers
Stenocactus crispatus
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Cintia knizei
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Strombocactus disciformis buds
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Neowerdermannia vorwerkii, I wish I had more of these little gems
Hasn't grown much in the 8 years since I got it.
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Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele
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Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele krainzianus
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Turbinicarpus beguinii hintoniorum
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2 different Turbinicarpus pseudopectinatus inermis
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Acharagma aguirreana
Will have plenty of seeds this summer
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Finally got a couple of this new species

Aztekium valdeziana
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Wow, Craig. Those Turbinicarpus pesudopectinatus inermis plants are huge. How long have you had them?
I only recently started to cultivate mostly members of the genus Turbinicarpus, because all of my plants are still rather small after many years of growing them in my front yard. I am fascinated by their small size and large blossoms. My favorite one thus far is T. pseudopectinatus ssp. jarmilae.
A tiny plant sent from MIles2Go measured only 10 mm in diameter, yet produced a flower which measured 30 mm across! So it is surprising to me, to see a T. pseudopectinatus plant, which has achieved the size of your plants.
The biggest Turbinicarpus I do have in my collection is a T. horripilus, which I only purchased last spring from Miles. I hope, that I can keep this plant alive for a number of years and see it form clumps.

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I would just like to wish you well, and also to the other growers that rely on local and regional shows to sell and promote their plants. With all of the cancellations it makes for a tough time. Hope all works out. Your photos help me think about what a lot of my plants might look like some day. But then I realize mine will probably never look as nice as yours. But I will keep trying.

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Our Show and Sale was cancelled due to the Pandemic
But since we moved last Summer to the City Orange, we have plenty of room to grow the plants until the next sale when ever that may be

Those Turbinicarpus pesudopectinatus inermis are grafted. They are hard to grow on their own roots, but I have a nice small one growing still.

Flowers from Spring

Grafted Turbinicarpus rioverdensis
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Turbinicarpus pseudomachrochele
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Turbinicarpus mombergeri
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Grafted Ortegocactus macdougallii
This species rarely flowered for me in Costa Mesa, this year I have all my plants flowering like crazy
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On their own roots
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The last picture I see some brown stuff. I have that on one of my Ortegocactus macdougallii and thought there was something wrong with it. I have another one and it has no browning ? corking?. Is that normal for that plant?
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cactushobbyman wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 1:09 am The last picture I see some brown stuff. I have that on one of my Ortegocactus macdougallii and thought there was something wrong with it. I have another one and it has no browning ? corking?. Is that normal for that plant?
Apparently it is normal behaviour for this species to do so :)
This species has a strange and unmistakable lime-green-grey coloured epidermis, each stem extends with the years, reaching a diameter of 3 to 4 cm. However, as these plants age, they tend to develop rust-coloured spots on them even in the care of the most accomplished growers. This rust-coloured spots are a common feature of wild plants too, and seems to help them to blend with the rust-coloured likens that grows in the background.
http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACT ... cdougallii
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Some Ortegocactus clones are more susceptible to the brown crud than others
It seems to develop mostly in the winter, but I may be wrong, since I see it coming out on some of the new growth on a couple of my plants now.
This one clone below stays very clean.
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Flowering Aztekium valdezii
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Flowering Aztekium hintonii
unfortunately not at the same time
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Flowering Frailea angelesii
The plants are only about 3/4" tall
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With a self fertile seed pod
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Uebelmannia pectinifera
with fruit
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Uebelmannia pseudopectinifera
green bodies
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Echinocereus triglochidiatus inermis
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Echinocereus rigidissimus rubrispinus
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Mammillaria blossfeldiana
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Mammillaria huitzilopochtli
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Mammillaria deherdtiana
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Mammillaria spinosissima
Really old, needs repotting
but a repot means it will lose a lot of spines
they fall off with the lightest touch
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Escobaria lloydii
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Piles of turds with flowers?
Lobivia famatimensis
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Gymnocalycium tucavocense
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Rebutia hybrid; Peach Melba
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Rebutia hybrid; Pink Shadow
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Rebutia albipilosa
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Rebutia krainziana
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Sulcorebutia santiaginiensis
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Sulcorebutia canigueralii
Small crested rooted cutting
Rarely flowers for me
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Big Day!!
They are finally flowering at the same time
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This Echinocereus reichenbachii minor stopped growing areoles at the apex
It'll probably grow some new heads from the area
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Eulychnia castanea
crested area
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Hi , great plants!!
How i can contact with you?
I want order some seeds from you
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Hope you got hold of us
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Opuntioid Time

I couldn't tell the difference between Pterocactus tuberosus and P. kuntzei
Until P. kuntzei flowered (P. tuberosus has yellow flowers)
P. kuntzei has orange flowers
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The Tephrocactus alexanderi v geometricus flowered like never before
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The flowers are very frilly and delicate
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Maihueniopsis subterranea
Regular form
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Maihueniopsis subterranean "Laslo"
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Maihueniopsis bonnieae "Major"
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Tephrocactus molinensis "Copper Spines"
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New Unknown Opuntioid
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After seeing the article in the CSSA about Opuntia fragilis minor,
I think we have a name for the above.

I got it from Duke Benadom when we visited him last winter
He gave us a truck load of free plants, and there are a couple more unknowns to be IDed.
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