Hi Tina:
Yes your seedlings look right and as I remember them nice and healthy.

Hi Tina:
It is difficult to remember now but I am pretty sure they did.

Hi Tina: This is not the first year of flowering it has flowered for the last 4 years but I have only ever had two flowers at one time. I think it must be just a variation as as my other plant which came from the same seed batch is a much smaller plant and has many more curved spines and indeed has ...

Hi Mal:
Thank you for your comments, no I don't grow my plants hard. In fact I think I perhaps overdo it when I care for them sometimes.

I grew this plant from Society Seed in February 2002. It is now in a 12 cm pot and is the largest of the two plants that I kept from the sowing. This is the first time it has had 4 flowers at one time. The flowers are nearly always a little distorted as they struggle through the strong spines. Echin...

This is my plant of albiflora it is around seven years old now and is on a graft, I do find it a slower grower than the normal forms in my collection:-

Hi Bill:
I second everything that has been said above.
A Big thank you.

My highest temperature in the greenhouse was yesterday of 43.3c that is with the double doors open, 13 auto vents open, and four sets of six louvres open and a fan going phew, needless to say I didn't venture in there until the evening.

I have various forms of Sulcorebutia rauschii in my collection but this one is my favourite as I love the flower colour:-

Lovely Diane - mine too are really going for it now.