Lucky to spot this flowering today - I keep the evil ones at the back on a top shelf

My valentinii decided to bloom today, and there were two buds before I moved it for the photo.......

My couple of dozen Gymnos got relegated under the bench last year to make room for other genera. Funny thing is the Gymnos look way much better compared with previous years - they now get maybe 2-3 hours max. direct sun down below. You could let yours root/reestablish in more shade to reduce the str...

Thanks - I will grow on the LF plants and see what they all turn out like, as you say; I agree with an albolanata-like appearance for the fluffy ones.

A look in the pot under the bench with other seedlings from the same packet shows variability too:

Here are a pair of Lobivia haematantha v. rebutiodes I have grown from seed, with FNs LF53 and JO541, respectively:
Natural variation or is the one on the LHS hybrid?

Sometimes they do come up like cress without any treatment. In the last decade I've probably bought seed 8-10 times and had a decent crop of seedlings on three occasions, plus a lone seedling on a fourth. I can't claim that I do everything the same every year but I can't see that my inconsistencies...

Yes, I completely agree with Terry

I can wander from my office into a lab to do this at work - thought the results were worth sharing though.

Nobby's tip: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=163860&p=243978&hil ... ic#p243978

Yes (a tip from this forum - thanks Nobby!) and yes, LF807 and JN1183