Eriosyce esmeraldana FK795

[fatich]

Seed source: succseed.com
±3.5 years old.
Pot size 5x5

[iann]

Are those pups? Or crowded seedlings?

[fatich]

Are those pups? Or crowded seedlings?

They are pups. I seperated this one from the other seedlings. The rest are in the 8x8x9 pot and none of them grew like this one. But they also started to produce pups.

[juster]

Looking good, well done!

[fatich]

This is how it looks now.

[Christian]

Amazing how proliferous this is! Beautiful plant...

[juster]

That's done really well and looks good

[Mike P]

Time to start propagating it and selling as var prolifera!

[rodsmith]

I've got two plants that I acquired as Neoporteria esmeraldana at a branch auction a couple of years ago. They are in rather poor condition but appear to be surviving. I am puzzled, though, in comparison with fatich's plant. Mine are both solitary and covered in fluff. They haven't flowered for me so far. I assume they are the same species as I believe Neoporterias have been subsumed into Eriosyce. Judging by the amount of corking, mine are probably quite old. Comments welcome.

[Mike P]

I put this down to the difference between growing in coastal Chile and growing in a Northern European greenhouse but I have to say neither really resemble the plants in habitat where they are pretty much flat on top and buried in the gravel.