A few Tunillas

[Mike P]

The Tunillas are really starting to flower now

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[Tony R]

A note to myself - I must give mine some more food and water!
Looking good, Mike.

[ralphrmartin]

Nice bright flowers

[RAYWOODBRIDGE]

Hi Mike you seem to be about a week ahead of me all Tunillas/Airampoas are loaded with buds, it seems to be the small North American Opuntias in flower at the moment.

[Tony R]

A couple of mine this morning:

[Phil_SK]

I had a cull last year and reduced the number of plants from 21 to 13. I then repotted them all from their already generous trays: 9 into 8" x 11"ish food containers, 2 into 10" square ones. One was already in a big round pot and the other one is a tiny thing in a 3.5" pot. I think there are 4 that have never previously flowered that are doing so this year - only the little one isn't. Although I grow these principally for the stems (and that was the main factor in deciding which not to bin last year) their flowers are a very welcome bonus and they're far more floriferous than they get credit for, perhaps because too mny of us underpot them, treat them mean and subject them to restarting from cuttings too often.
Not quite at peak flowering here yet -

[ralphrmartin]

Very impressive, Phil...