Copiapoa krainziana

[iann]

Quite variable! Fingers crossed I can go this summer without scorching the big hairy one.

[juster]

Interesting variation Iann, this is one of my favourite Copiapoas, but I find it shy to flower. Thinking about it, I’ve had my plant for over 30 years and I don’t think it’s ever flowered, so I’m getting something wrong

[iann]

Mine don't flower either, so I'm clearly not getting something right.

[Stuart]

I've two soft spined ones, the larger one in the foreground has flowered well over the summer. It was originally a seedling from Ken Burke. The Copiapoa in the left-hand corner was another of Ken's seedlings and flowers prolifically. It's a hybrid from Ken's seed when he had a single Krainziana in flower and crossed it with another flowering Copiapoa rather than 'waste' the flower. I'm not sure if the stiff-spined one at the back has flowered.
They all could be repotted but I try to restrict my Copiapoas to a 3 x 2ft section of staging.

Stuart