This early? on mine there are no signs of buds yet.

Just wait til the day you retire

yes, they are easy to flower but need full sun for the flowers to develop in my experience. there are always lots of buds that never flowers !

Really goodlooking plants . And you do seem to know what you are growing....

AND BEWARE OF MEALIES!

I for one find that mealies suddenly appears on plants that i have had for maybe ten years and there are no others in the vicinity of the affected plant that have mealies ? Some years there are no mealies whatsoever, other times there might be ten-fifteen plants affected. Since there are relatively ...

I have not begun to think of my demise yet, but since my health isn´t too good i have started to reduce my collection starting now .Next summer it will be reduced (hopefully) by 60% ,so it will contain just over 1000 plants. In a couple of years it will be down to a few hundreds and then it would be...

In our small Group here in Stockholm I would say the split is about 65-35 in male favour, but were are expecting better odds for the female part of the succulent World!

I have recieved issue #1 of 2015, but nothing since.It seems also that Joel Lode has had to much to do with his books and that Cactus Adventures also is slipping way behind Schedule...
Thord

Yes, a very nicely marked Astrophytum indeed! Take good care of that one, you don´t see markings like that every day!