My normal method of watering the collection is by hosepipe over the top with a Miracle Grow hose end feeder on it using the soft rose which does not seem to disturb the grit topping on the pots. I have a plastic container that contains any fertiliser I happen to get, Miracle Grow, Bio etc etc all mi...

Just done a Google Image search Vic and if you scroll down this one there is a Soehrensia picture not dissimilar to yours:- http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cact.cz/pictures/12_Soehrensia.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cact.cz/kaktusy/sbirka_012.htm&h=375&w=500&sz=75&...

That is definitely Soehrensia bruchii Graham, or as the New Cactus Lexicon will now have it " Echinopsis formosa ssp. bruchii "! Soehrensias are high altitude plants and will stand a fair amount of cold. Vic Soehrensias are variable in the amount of wool they have on the flower I have had ...

Yes this year, still in the 2" pots they were sown in.

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DaveW

You may be correct Phil, I said something about it looked familiar. I have three large Soehrensias that flower in my central bed, two flower red but S. formosa flowers yellow. This is a picture of my football sized S. bruchii in flower so you can see the side of the flowers and the hair covering of ...

My best seed raising to date was in 2005 when I had a bit of a blitz on Echinocereus . They were brought into the house their first winter but after that top shelf of the greenhouse. I run a 18'-0" x 12'-6"cold greenhouse with no heat in winter and the seedlings this time were just left in...

I have had it and lost it on it's own roots. I did read somewhere that these difficult Mamms, contrary to the majority of the genus that do not mind a neutral or alkaline soil, in fact prefer an acid soil plus rain water, as do most S. American cacti. I have never tried this though, but will if I ev...

You still have not got the record Marty. I am on a specialist macro forum and a chap there put 55 pictures into one post! No doubt they will now be introducing a limit on images per posts because most sites limit the numbers per post, some to only three images per day. "The strange thing is tha...

Not a Notocactus Marty, most of them have red stigma lobes (but not all) and not as filimentose as those. The flowers look typically Lobivioide but I cannot tell if the flowers have a hymen. The plant looks rather like an Acanthocalycium but with that type of Acanthocalycium I would have expected re...

Diane,

The plant in the picture is single headed, more or less globular and about 2" in diameter. This is it's first flowering. Possibly they flower quicker on a graft and take longer on their own roots?

Dave Whiteley