Pterocactus tuberosus HUN1744

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Pterocactus tuberosus HUN1744

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A couple of nice flowers on this plant this afternoon
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Big flowers on such narrow stems! (tu)
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Great flowers!
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The contrast between stems and flowers just superb (tu)
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Nice. Less brown in the flowers than most.
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Mike P wrote: Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:25 pm Nice. Less brown in the flowers than most.
Yes, mine out today has the 'more typical' dirty brown/yellow flowers:


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This one has a nice yellow flower.
This one had two tatty arms as top growth which I removed in late March.
Over the last few months it has grown just one new 'segment' which has flowered today.
In a 6 cm pot.

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That's a lovely flower, pretty colour (tu)
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Tony R wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 4:51 pm This one has a nice yellow flower.
This one had two tatty arms as top growth which I removed in late March.
Over the last few months it has grown just one new 'segment' which has flowered today.
In a 6 cm pot.


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Tony, do you find removing old top growth helps in the long run and promotes flowering? Presumably a stem that has flowered before won't flower again?
Growing in Nottingham for the past 4 years and recently found my way to a Nottingham branch meeting. A few plants on a windowsill has very quickly turned into a greenhouse full!

Attempting to grow a range of caudiciforms, tylecodon, euphorbia, coryphantha and turbinicarpus along with anything else that takes my fancy. I avoided mesembs for a long time but conophytums have recently broken my resolve.
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