Beautiful plant Diane, may I ask if that is one plant that has divided over many years ?

Nice one Ian, great pics of nice plants.

Nice looking plants. Myself I would leave well alone until the Spring. What temps. do these plants like in Winter ?

WoW, that’s a show stopper of a plant, strange about the non flowering aspect. Looks old enough to flower in my view. Perhaps a Copipoa expert coiled comment.

Here is another interesting plant. C. kranziana. I received this as a cutting many years ago from Brian Moss of S Wales branch.He had split up his original plant. It sits in a twelve inch bowl. On the label it reads “plant raised from F Ritter seed 1950.” It has never flowered for me. IMG_1073.jpeg

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It is still a very nice plant and well grown too.

Hi Benjy, as Tina points out there is quite a variety out there. I can see how my seed supplier may have got it wrong. Thanks for the update.

For the Summer I sunk my four foot high plants in their pots into the garden. They are now due to go into green house for Winter. Is there any need to re pot them due to the fact they may have “wee beasties” or such in the soil. I do not need any thing nasty in my green house. Thanks

Very nice plants indeed, and if you are patient you could end up with something like my C taltalensis. Seed grown from 1987 lol

Hi Mat, not a mysterious compost at all but different. I decided to do away with the cat litter part of the mix. I think it is more of an Ariocarpus. type compost. I used a clay type loam from my daughters garden lol, with grit and chippings of small and large sizes. Ratios, 4 loam, 3 grits various ...