mutant Posted May 2, 2010 (edited) Edited May 2, 2010 by mutant Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted May 2, 2010 (edited) [less than 1 year old from seed gymnocalicium X, seems to be making a dozen [!?!] of buds] Edited May 2, 2010 by mutant Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PD. Posted May 2, 2010 (edited) Very nice, love the last gymno shot in the first post Edited May 2, 2010 by PD. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted May 2, 2010 a split! [some days after I fertilised this cereus grafted lopho] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted May 2, 2010 (edited) PD>> it's a G.horridispinus Edited May 2, 2010 by mutant Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
holymountain Posted May 3, 2010 beautiful stuff. great photos. a really awesome collection and they all look very happy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eccentro Posted May 3, 2010 Nice. Thanks for sharing. Hard work really pays off. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kindness Posted May 3, 2010 Great looking collection you've got going on there mutant! Really stunning photos. Looking at that building etc, was it you that had the massive HBWR growing up the staircase? If so how is that baby going? (Bit off topic but I was just wondering). Interesting grafts you got going there with your lophs... the picture with three of them next to a lighter, what have you used as stock there? thanks for sharing Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magicdirt Posted May 3, 2010 Excellent photography and an interesting collection. A rooftop seems like the perfect environment for cactii and succulents. I'm a newb and I was wondering what are the little brown things that look like little brains ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dworx Posted May 3, 2010 Great photography and spectacular plants.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C_T Posted May 3, 2010 wow they look unreal, thanks for sharing Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bℓσωηG Posted May 3, 2010 Looking good there in sunny Greece! I wish i was on a rooftop away from ants etc... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ace Posted May 3, 2010 I'm a newb and I was wondering what are the little brown things that look like little brains ? Lithops sp. Great little succulents that resemble rocks and are often called 'living stones'. Mutant, stunning collection! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted May 3, 2010 (edited) Thanks a lot for good words guys hey ace where's you avatar? Re:meanies Looking at that building etc, was it you that had the massive HBWR growing up the staircase? If so how is that baby going? (Bit off topic but I was just wondering). yep that was me. My argy in it's third year has settled down to this annual scheme: it wakes up mid-april ~ begining of may [first forming new leaves, then new vines, up to mid~november when it stales. So now it's just making the first new leaves of the season. Flowering occurs in automn so far [maybe begining from summer, but seed production went on all winter] Interesting grafts you got going there with your lophs... the picture with three of them next to a lighter, what have you used as stock there? Some echinopsis, resembling E.oxygona, spherical clumper. There were 5 of them but they were transgrafted due to stock wound and failure from my carelessness. Those three look very promising though.. we'll see! Edited May 6, 2010 by mutant Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zelly Posted May 3, 2010 Hey Mutant, stunning pics & plants. Next time, would you mind telling us what each plant is? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kindness Posted May 4, 2010 sweet. I'm going to have to dig up your HBWR thread and post in there if this goes on much longer but... what kind of temps do you get over winter etc. I have read before that in seed set doesn't occur into cool temperate / mediterranean zones - although your plants seem to be achieving this which is great. Why did you choose to use echinopsis as the stock for your grafts? Was this all you had to hand? Are you able to get peres in greece? I don't really know what the difference in growth rates is for various stock but i know that both trich's and pere's have made my lophs go ballistic . How old are the loph grafts? peace Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KanJe Posted May 4, 2010 I really like your Gymnos and Feros, they're looking great Mutant. Is that a Strombocactus near the start? It looks great! Many props for the strombo. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
san p Posted May 4, 2010 really nice plants and pics mutant! a rooftop in greece sounds like such a good place for cactus to live Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rabaelthazar Posted May 4, 2010 (edited) Very nice collection!! What's that furry hand-like graft in the second-last cactus pictured (there were three shots of it)? On a different note, I'm always amazed at how intelligently cacti design their armor. I wish I could be a plant for a day and get a true understanding of plant consciousness (although after reading your "Warning on Subs" posts, I wouldn't be surprised if you have some arguments against the idea of plant consciousness (he he)). Edited May 26, 2010 by Rabaelthazar Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted May 4, 2010 (edited) Next time, would you mind telling us what each plant is? well, from the start, in the first group is yellow flower Notocactus uebelmanianus, and I think the pink flowered ones [note the similarity in flowers] are somewhere near that, Notocacti for sure, but only the yellow one is a sure ID then is Strombo, ver esperanza [magenta-pink flowers] on harissia then is some erect woody mesembrianthemum [two flowers] then Gymnocacilium horridispinus the first flower from the second post I have to search for the ID. I used to know the genus.. Its a strange succulent and makes leaves like Geranium , only succulent ones. Then is the grafted gymno, it's an unknowm hybrid , but I know the possible parents as its from a know collection. Time will tell. then are the close ups and flowers of Euphorbia enopla and an alike species then red gymnos on hylo then notocacti again and then some Turbinicarpus with the striped flowers , I thinks it's my pseudomacrohele then chives flowering then in the group photo were 5 are flowering, Mammillaria leuthii up and right then lopho on echinipsis then lithops then echinopsis 'terscheckii X ruby visions' from SAB , I don't really know anything about this one. Do you think it's variageted or something has to be done? then next post stenocacti flowering then the same mesembrianthemum thne CLose up to 'breast plant' tip, myrtilocactus geometrizans mostrosa then the rooftoop shot where a portion of the collection is seen then fero chrysacanthus, golden spines fero gracilis red spines then unknown feros in the mext post, the seed grown trichos are wendermanianus, pechanoi, peruvianus and terscheckii... finally the 'hand' monostrosa grafted to selinicereus is monvillea spegazzini monstrosa so... updates G.horridispinus buds are still growing. Are they gonna open tommorow? "peyote love tore the scion apart" blowng Looking good there in sunny Greece! I wish i was on a rooftop away from ants etc... who said a roof is immune to ants????? the little fuckers cultivate green fly and relatives on my sedum also mealy. Ants are a pest where I am from time to time. last epithelanthea micromeris, been flowering for some days, today I captured the sensitive self fertile tiny flowers === sidenote I wish I could be a plant for a day and get a true understanding of plant consciousness (although after reading your "Warning on Subs" posts, I wouldn't be surprised if you have some arguments against the idea of plant consciousness (he he)). heh, the beauty in plants are that they're so simple to understand and make them happy. I think they are entities and that they respond better when loved, like with humans, normally. Edited May 4, 2010 by mutant Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted May 4, 2010 (edited) We transferred to another outside spot ants!!!!! they are bigger here! my officialy first cactus that got me into cactomania, gift from incognito pachanoi kk339 and at its right echinocactu grusonii var white spines penis! myrtilocactus, t.bridgesi, parodia mammulosa and a dog skull little ants atracted by ferocactus latispinus nectar thing the ferocactus spot. the big on is F.emoryi Stenocereus thurberii Pachycereus, propably pringley T.bridgesii + myrti. Edited May 4, 2010 by mutant Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted May 4, 2010 wild stuff wild poppy chamomile Silybum marianum fighting with weeds some mesemb mixed in the wild flowers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted May 4, 2010 a beautiful butterfly!!!! a mammi, been though a lot, but it's still alive and flowering! 3xturbinas *********wild asparangus goes 'monstrosa' due to some bug!!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites