Hi everyone,
Decided to join this group as I would consider myself a novice cactus grower and hope to gain more knowledge on growing them to their best.
Compared to many on here I have a small collection of mainly cacti and a few succulents, many of which I am unsure of the correct species. One plant I rescued from an old fire bucket that was being used as a doorstop, the plant hadn't been watered in years as the premises had been empty for some time, I found a barely green piece among the pile of brown dead cactus and liberated this and potted it up not expecting much, this has turned into my most successful plant to date as it flowers profusely every year and produces viable seed that I have also grown on to healthy baby cacti. I believe it is a Rebutia.
Many other cacti were bought as random groups from ebay and other places with no names.
Anyway enough for now, here's a couple of piccies.
Steve
Stechad
Varied collection of Cacti & Succulents, Grown cacti since mid 70s as a kid but only recently taken a real interest.
Welcome to the forum Steve.
Cracker of a flowering plant.
Endeavouring to grow Aylostera, Echinocereus, Echinopsis, Gymnocalycium, Matucana, Rebutia, and Sulcorebutia. Fallen out of love with Lithops and aggravated by Aeoniums.
Currently being wooed by Haworthia, attempting hybridisation, and enticed by Mesembs.
stechad wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 3:42 pm
Hi everyone,
Decided to join this group as I would consider myself a novice cactus grower and hope to gain more knowledge on growing them to their best.
Compared to many on here I have a small collection of mainly cacti and a few succulents, many of which I am unsure of the correct species. One plant I rescued from an old fire bucket that was being used as a doorstop, the plant hadn't been watered in years as the premises had been empty for some time, I found a barely green piece among the pile of brown dead cactus and liberated this and potted it up not expecting much, this has turned into my most successful plant to date as it flowers profusely every year and produces viable seed that I have also grown on to healthy baby cacti. I believe it is a Rebutia.
Many other cacti were bought as random groups from ebay and other places with no names.
Anyway enough for now, here's a couple of piccies.
Steve
Welcome to the BCSS. That is a beautiful Rebutia, plenty of flowers.
stechad wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:33 pm
I think it is "Rebutia Aylostera" grows like wildfire, 2 years before this photo it was just 1 dying offset.
Rebutia and Aylostera are two names used for the genera that these plants are in.
They're more commonly known as Rebutia but more correctly (at the moment anyway) should probably be called Aylostera.
I'd guess yours was a hybrid with a fair bit of Aylostera muscula in it. Southfields Nursery has bred loads and they are fantastic plants in my opinion.
stechad wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:33 pm
I think it is "Rebutia Aylostera" grows like wildfire, 2 years before this photo it was just 1 dying offset.
Rebutia and Aylostera are two names used for the genera that these plants are in.
They're more commonly known as Rebutia but more correctly (at the moment anyway) should probably be called Aylostera.
I'd guess yours was a hybrid with a fair bit of Aylostera muscula in it. Southfields Nursery has bred loads and they are fantastic plants in my opinion.
Cheers Ed,
Exactly why I'm never sure on the correct names, I originally had this down as Rebutia Muscula until seeing the majority of images on the Web saying rebutia aylostera.
If it is a hybrid it will be interesting to see how the seedlings turn out "now 12 months old", the plant must be self fertile as nothing else was flowering at the time and they were hand pollinated.
Stechad
Varied collection of Cacti & Succulents, Grown cacti since mid 70s as a kid but only recently taken a real interest.
Don't know if you've been to one of our branch meetings before or not, but Ralph Martin is the speaker at our next meeting in September and he has a lot of Rebutias/Aylosteras etc (as well as lots of other very nice cacti and succulents too... ) in his greenhouse and no doubt will be showing pictures of them and talking about them at the meeting.
) in his greenhouse and no doubt will be showing pictures of them and talking about them at the meeting.