I bought this grapefruit sized globe cactus from ebay, its labelled echinopsis hybrid. Is it? The base of the flowers seems to have fruits, my other echinopsis have pups grow underneath.

Can anyone identify it please?

I can now see how much my first one grew, I acquired some more. Hopefully they will do as well as my first. If I like a particular plant I tend to buy more, Im a bit of a collector.

I thought people might be snobbish about them, but I really like this one. This and a few others were almost the start of my cactus obsession but not my oldest cactus, thats an echinopsis I was given 17 years ago. I draw the line at painted succulents and fake flowers! One day maybe I will create a ...

I have a really nice moon cactus. I have had it over 3 years, its one of the first plants I bought for my new conservatory. I realise its grafted. I read they have short lives, but this one is really healthy and was bought from a garden centre that sells good quality plants. I have made two picture ...

Sorry if the names are wrong, they seem to keep changing what I know as Christmas and easter cactus. My Easter cactus cuttings have done really well this year. I decided to buy some different colours of Christmas cactus to propagate. They seem to shrivel a bit. Wondering if my method just suits EAST...

Thankyou all so much thats very reassuring. I wasnt sure but hopefully it will perk up.

Sometime last month I bought a haworthia cooperi. To cut a long story short I realised it had been overwatered and maybe the pot it was in was on the large side. Its leaves were sort of deflated. I took it out of the pot which I thought was overly large. A lot of roots were lost, but I rinsed it cle...