Found this quite tiny flower on the P. valentinii today. It gets bigger when you go nearer though

Thanks Dan this fulva is about 8 years old, flowering the second time for me. But I don´t hurry up the plants - so they could flower earlier than 7 years old when given more fertilizer and not being stressed by the sun. Edgar and Brian Lamb wrote that all Neoporteria do best in bright but shaded lig...

Another one in flower today, fulva now is drawn in to glabrescens. But I´m still using the Kattermann system for reasons of convenience....

Tephrocactus don´t like root disturbance , do they?. Apart from the flimsy fibrous roots I found in the pots, the seedlings were hasitating to grow on after repotting. Some didn´t like the non sterilized Compost I put them in and decided to die of (fungal?) disease. Krankheit Fäulniss an Tephrocactu...

One step back to E. krausii, because it flowered today - I really like the flowers (and it is quite close to the plants RMF photographed in habitate)

Dave , I think it is not only how many players are from the own country but also how good they are trained and how well they rae prepared for international competitions . For instance the spanish team won three titles in a row having many foreingn players in their national league. They just managed ...

Some clones of Tephrocactus bonnieae (Puna b.) are in flower at the moment over here. Puna bonniae Klon1 2014 Juli02.jpg Puna bonniae HPT11 2014 Juli03.jpg The spineless form only added another few footballs (sorry to mention the bad word guys) Puna bonniae v. inermis 2014 Mai13.jpg

The huge Pterocactus gonjanii plant only had one flowering segment this year either, but a nice one.

Never sowed them but i keep the three seedlings , that I got from a friend, on the top shelf near the greenhouse door. Same treatment for the adult plant. I water it after it flowered in (early) spring. It feels kind of soft all the time . Cintia knizei ex Flaskamp 2013 April28.jpg In fact it grew i...

North to t. esmeraldana is only T. weisseri / T. malleolata ssp. malleolata v. weisseri ( Hoffman and Walter). It can be found around Cifuncho. My plant is a rooted cutting of a grafted plant and it never flowered. The flower should be a little more on the orange- yellow side. The spines are reddish...