Hi, You have some nice plants and a nice setting. I expect quite a few will develope into quality specimen plants. There are some larger growing cacti which can form imposing specimens and would be impossible to slip into a handbag or rucksack. Unfortunately you would probably need to grow them to s...

Thanks Ed.

I can’t say for sure how old they are, at my best guess the plants above are somewhere between 27 and 31 years old. I grew seed when I was in my early twenties, and not again until my late 40’s. They could be grown quicker with more consistent care.

Nice plant Ed.

I grew one from seed many years ago, but lost the roots several times, it’s now a very small plant at the moment after having rooted down again late last year, but it should probably be the size of yours! I havent feed it enough by a long way.

A few Mammillaria seedlings.

Thought I would post some photos of some larger plants.

I grew these from seed many years ago. I grew a lot more at the time, but these are three of the few plants I have left from my original collection.

I entered all three of them in the 2020 virtual national show.

Eriosyce aurata germinated fine for me in 2019, several seedlings have grown quite well.

Usual seed germination techniques worked.

Personally, I think all the talks discussed previously were interesting, and even with the connection issues of the mesemb talk, I enjoyed them, learnt a lot and found them to be a worthwhile use of time. The mesemb talk even gave me ideas on staging, as well as lots of info on winter growing. Norbe...

Very attractive flowers, similar to a lot of Eriosyce

Turbinicarpi are very attractive and so interesting to look at.

Thanks for posting these two.

Hello KarlIR,

Nice plant you have there. It’s one of my favourites as well, used to have one when I was a teenager, and have three seedlings currently, two of which flowered in 2020.

Can I ask, how do you produce your labels, what label printer do you use?

Thanks.