The way to tell the genera apart is:

Rebutia: Flower tube and fruit smooth, or at most finely hairy
Aylostera: Flower tube hairy and bristly

Some good colours in that lot...

Sooo many flowers...

Lovely.

Well done.

Plenty here - but what I have lacked in the last few days is some sunshine to get them to open. Last week was better...

Perhaps you had better start writing!

There's almost enough fruit there to make some Melocactus jam...

I expect Chris may well chip in, but conophytums are easy to propagate in their growing season from cuttings. Single heads or small groups of heads are likely to be easier than woody old stems at the base of larger clumps, I reckon.

Herts Mike wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:08 am ADBPLS offered a nice range of Aloes this year but germination has been poor to non existent.

I find Aymeric's cactus seed germinates pretty well. Perhaps he got the Aloe seed in from elsewhere...

Its grown a lot quicker than some Epithelanthas I grew from seed...

Thanks Nick. Perhaps chat to Paul D and see if you can work something out....