Echinocereus knippelianus

[Phil Hocking]

My Echinocereus knippelianus is still quite small and the flowers easily overwhelm it

Echinocereus knippelianus

Echinocereus knippelianus

Phil Hocking

[Mike]

Such enthusiasm from one so small! Beautiful flowers, and very pale. My plant of this species has darker blooms, generally from low down.
Mike

[rodsmith]

My small specimen has just provided me with 5 blooms. This species seems to be particularly free flowering.

[RAYWOODBRIDGE]

Hi Phil ; nice plant and flowers, mine have only just reappeared from below the gravel. ( They disappear down into the compost each winter, I must keep them a bit too dry )

Ray

[rodsmith]

mine have only just reappeared from below the gravel. ( They disappear down into the compost each winter, I must keep them a bit too dry )

Ray

I thought mine had died last December as it shrunk considerably and went soft. Fortunately I read somewhere that they do this when dry in the winter, so I left it and it is plumper than ever and flowering.

[Phil Hocking]

The same happened with mine and I was sure it was a gonner but as I tend to water dead plants for some considerable time I was proved wrong. I mentioned it on the forum a year or two ago and that might be where you read it.

Somerset Phil

[rodsmith]

I mentioned it on the forum a year or two ago and that might be where you read it.

Somerset Phil

I think You're right, Phil. If so, thanks, as I had put mine in the "dead plant" bowl!