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Various cacti & succulents from my collection

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[less than 1 year old from seed gymnocalicium X, seems to be making a dozen [!?!] of buds]

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Very nice, love the last gymno shot in the first post :)

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a split! [some days after I fertilised this cereus grafted lopho]

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PD>> it's a G.horridispinus

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beautiful stuff. great photos. a really awesome collection and they all look very happy.

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Nice. Thanks for sharing. Hard work really pays off.

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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

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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 ?

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Great photography and spectacular plants..

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wow they look unreal, thanks for sharing

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Looking good there in sunny Greece! I wish i was on a rooftop away from ants etc...

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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!

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Thanks a lot for good words guys :) hey ace where's you avatar?

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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!

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Hey Mutant, stunning pics & plants.

Next time, would you mind telling us what each plant is? :)

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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 :blush:. How old are the loph grafts?

peace

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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. :worship:

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really nice plants and pics mutant!

a rooftop in greece sounds like such a good place for cactus to live :)

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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)).

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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?

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"peyote love tore the scion apart"

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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?????

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the little fuckers cultivate green fly and relatives on my sedum also mealy. Ants are a pest where I am from time to time.

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last epithelanthea micromeris, been flowering for some days, today I captured the sensitive self fertile tiny flowers

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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.

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We transferred to another outside spot

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ants!!!!! they are bigger here!

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my officialy first cactus that got me into cactomania, gift from incognito

pachanoi kk339 and at its right echinocactu grusonii var white spines

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penis!

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myrtilocactus, t.bridgesi, parodia mammulosa and a dog skull

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little ants atracted by ferocactus latispinus nectar thing

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the ferocactus spot. the big on is F.emoryi

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Stenocereus thurberii

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Pachycereus, propably pringley

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T.bridgesii + myrti.

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wild stuff

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wild poppy

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chamomile

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Silybum marianum

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fighting with weeds

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some mesemb mixed in the wild flowers

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a beautiful butterfly!!!!

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a mammi, been though a lot, but it's still alive and flowering!

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3xturbinas

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*********wild asparangus goes 'monstrosa' due to some bug!!!!!

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