try posting it on cactiguide.com forum. Looks like North American - engelmannii, artispina...

Now when you are not watering you could dust your benches with salt. It keeps them out.

And more. The blooming stems have that wider at the apex stem feature that is common for oreocerei and is probably an apical cephalium that is the distinguished feature of Oreocereus seems like. The colour redemption of the pics is accurate - the flower is peach-pink, very fainted red dye I cannot s...

Sorry I should have said that - this is not a habitat shot. The greenery at the background is a giant Yucca actually, that is a Mexican plant. That plant grows in "Arizona Garden" of Stanford University. The plant is large enough to be one of the original plants from early 1900-s, but I do...

Good start!:)

The right one is.. hm.. The right one. Maihueniopsis that is.
Here are mine two. The other pot is miquelopuntia from Juan

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Flower is assimetrical, hairy bud. Spines about 5cm long.
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One of the things I do to get opuntoides to germinate is I put them under the rain. It is trickier here in CA then you may think. I may not have another one till November :) Who would guess that lack of ran can be a problem in growing cacti But anyways. I just put the thray out in the drizzle for co...

Sorry for off topic..

Juan & Flo, do you check your mail?? I wanted some more seeds

Vlad