April 2012 photo competition - LITTLE and LARGE

[Lithos]

Ernie, he is a lucky lad, my grand fathers died of hard work before I was born.

Ariocarpus fissuratus - One very old plant, and seedling, 17 years old

[Tina]

Here's a couple of my duplicates, Trichodiademia bulbosum & my youngster I have been growing for 4 or 5 years ( they are slow). If this one recovers from it's repot it may go to the National.
Saw a funny photo in the CSSA of one that had had it's roots painted brown, wonder what the Uk judges would make of that- succulents wearing makeup.

Pachycormus discolor- what a beauty, the young one is seed sown 2007 so another slow one.

Idria columnaris, I really love these plants & have an assortment of sizes, the smallest one is seed grown from 2006, my largest plant is too big for me too move and in the other G/H.

and the best for last, my Euphorbia poisonii's, mum & offspring from seed 2008 ( I think). They were grown under lights for the winters so never stopped growing

euphorbia poisonii 4_12

[Chris L]

Was rather amazed to see a purple speck on the offset of this Gymnocalycium. Little and large may possibly flower later in the year. Offset head is 12mm across.

[Lithos]

Tina - I've seen a lot of cactus and succulent show judges wearing make up sometimes red faced, or slightly purple, otherwhen flacid and pale, or slightly green.

[chrisg]

A normal head growing on my cristate aeonium.

[Jim_Mercer]

Astrophytum myriostigma

[Bill]

H. truncata (giant form from Japan) & H. truncata minima

[AnTTun]

Where is that minima? Can't find it...

[Lithos]

Good to see folks joining in - I was a bit worried, when there were no entries for a while - here's a picture taken today,
Euphorbia phillipsiae - cristate and normal

[McFarland]

Sorry to rain on your parade Lithos old buddy, the plant on the right is E. phillipsiae, the plant on the left is E. phillipsioides (cristate)

I'll try and get round to posting my contribution this month, where has all my time gone