RayW wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 8:07 pm One of the smallest plants in the collection .

One of my self created Chamaecereus hybrids has flowers like that

Its interesting how Weingartias can make multiple flowers from a single areole - and so be coverered in flowers. Well done!

Terrific. If you can ever find it - have a go at P. tricolor - with red / white / black all in the same flower...

I'm with Stuart on this...

I had one which seemed to stop growing - then new heads "burst" out through the skin... Never give up on these...

Impressive!

MatDz wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 7:39 pm A lovely surprise in my "community pot" of epiphytic cacti after almost 2 weeks away. This one came from Ralph I believe, but I lost labels from this pot long time ago. More flowers on their way!

That cerise coloured Rhipsalidopsis x was a hybrid created by my father. It has no name.

Here's my suggested approach. Get some stout paper or plastic sheet, put it on a workbench, gently lie the plant down on the sheet, and wiggle the old pot off and tidy up the roots. Prepare the new pot with some compost in the bottom. Get some thick leather gloves, and carefully pick up the plant wi...

Phil, thanks for pointing this out. The plants in front might just be Aylostera pygmaea, but i presumed they were offsets on the bigger one behind. To me, the flower looks more like an Echinopsis flower in terms of the number / arangement / tapering shape of petals. Most A. pygmaea forms that come w...

Ralph, which sp. is this? I've got O. pseudofossulatus as tall as I am and I'm ever hopeful that it'll flower one day :grin: It's growth rate has been relatively much faster than your Dad's plant. It's labelled as O. fossulatus. However, my dad grew several Oreocereus spp. from seed. I know its not...