Argentinian Pyrrhocactus

[Peter Cupial-Jones]

Thanks for the tips gentlemen - will keep you posted on progress!

[DaveW]

This ones flowering again at the moment but did not bother to photograph it again, so here it is from last year. Think it supposed to be villicumensis rather than vertongenii though, if they are not really synonymous:-

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Grafted plant.

[Mal H]

I have been attempting to grow a few of these Argentinian pyrrhocacti also, with some successes.

First villicumensis and megliogli from BCSS seed a few years ago, these are the good ones

[Mal H]

The not so good ones, that grow...kind of

[Mal H]

And some strausianus, from Rowland and BCSS seed (LH one)

[Jens]

Mine have come out of the bag recently, having been in for about 4-5 months. I've been introducing them to sunlight in the GH and keeping them moist. They're doing quite well. One of them even has a tiny flower bud on it.

Hello Dan, just saw the pictures of your 5 month old seedling on the other forum, with what in fact is nearest to a flower bud on top .Did it develop any further?

[CactusFanDan]

Mine have come out of the bag recently, having been in for about 4-5 months. I've been introducing them to sunlight in the GH and keeping them moist. They're doing quite well. One of them even has a tiny flower bud on it.

Hello Dan, just saw the pictures of your 5 month old seedling on the other forum, with what in fact is nearest to a flower bud on top .Did it develop any further?

It's still growing. I'll give you a before and now shot.

Before

Several minutes ago.

It's growing fast! Hopefully I'll be around for when it opens, but I'm away for the next few days. Give it another week or two, I say. Also, do you know anything about this locality? The field number is PEM 504, which isn't on Ralph's database. The seeds were sold as Eriosyce sp. too, so any ID help would be nice. They looked similar to E. bulbocalyx seedlings to begin with, but now they look more like my E. villicumensis or E. vertongenii seedlings.

[Jens]

It seems to be sold as a form of umadeave by a Czech seed merchant.

http://www.kaktusy.cz/eshop/index.php?productID=66529
Pyrrhocactus umadeave form/new area,exclusive hard central spines/PEM504 Salinas,p.Jujuy,Arg. 100s/60Kc

[Mal H]

First time flowering for this Pyrrhocactus villicumensis.

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[Mal H]

The flower never opened very wide despite a sunny day

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