cactus

The one on the left, with beautiful curved spines, is Gymnocalycium saglionis, and the other one, with white hair around spines is Pyrrhocactus floccosus, a pretty rare one (at least in Japan). Hope they like their new home!

[!Sabozoom1.jpg](https://postimg.cc/4Ksq0gk0) [!Sabozoom2.jpg](https://postimg.cc/rD6vS4hM)

They were all so purdy that I couldn't help myself. Surprisingly affordable too, even the bigger ones, which is always nice.

I posted about my grafted bois before here (I wish there was a way to share instance-agnostic links, maybe some day...), but I have an update - one of them decided recently that having another cactus forcibly implanted on top of it is not nearly enough, and he started sprouting all over the place! What a little overachiever, eh?

The first pic is unedited, and here's the version I played with a bit, what do you think, is it too much?

[!Cacti-Edited-1.jpg](https://postimg.cc/NKGBLnW9)

Here's a few more, should be clear by looking at them, but unedited version first, edited one after:

1:

[!Cacti-Unedited-2.jpg](https://postimg.cc/K1QcNbnD) [!Cacti-Edited-2.jpg](https://postimg.cc/TKkGb96k)

2:

[!Cacti-Unedited-3.jpg](https://postimg.cc/B8VqrC78) [!Cacti-Edited-3.jpg](https://postimg.cc/2qMDcS3h)

3:

[!Cacti-Unedited-4.jpg](https://postimg.cc/KKzGpWfS) [!Cacti-Edited-4.jpg](https://postimg.cc/jWLT47qR)

I think I might have gone overboard with the Aztekiums (first pic), but other ones look kinda nice to me. Still a lot to learn though, one day I might be able to show how pretty these are in real life!

I haven't even had it for two months and it does this.

Bought it 2019, flowering now for the first time. No idea what variety it is. Each flower is open only 1 or 2 nights. There were seven flowers in total.

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I'm looking for good information on how to care for them and identify them as they weren't labelled. I guess that it's not as simple a giving them very little water?

If anyone knows a good website or book, I'd be grateful.

Edit: Typo

New flowers keep opening almost every hour - glad at least these bois seem to be loving the scorching Tokyo weather, because I sure as hell am not :)

Aaaaaanyway, here's more:

[!Cactus-Bloom1.jpg](https://postimg.cc/Xp7BMph0)

[!Cactus-Bloom2.jpg](https://postimg.cc/XXWy82kq)

[!Cactus-Bloom4.jpg](https://postimg.cc/c6ct5QFm)

This pic is of a big boy that looks a bit like a lophophora underneath the flower, and here's one of an amazing grafted ball of fun I got last year (rootstock is slightly sun bleached, but quite healthy otherwise):

[!Gymno-Bloom2.jpg](https://postimg.cc/k2y9fVpz)

Looking forward to more and bigger flowers soon!

Edit: one of my gymno triplets also started to bloom some time between 3 hours ago and now! I was hoping all flowers would open up together, but it's still pretty :)

[!Gymno-Bloom3.jpg](https://postimg.cc/5QQPZ1rC)

The original graft started puping at the end of last August and are now at about 10” & 8” respectively.

These were the first cacti my wife and I grafted ourselves at a workshop last year in August. Both took, and are growing FAST - love how healthy they are!

For reference, here's a pic from last year (doggo for scale). Unbelievable how much bigger they are in less than a year! [!Grafted-Smol-Bois.jpg](https://postimg.cc/ygjVvtsq)

It was very hot, very crowded and yet still worth it - finally got not just one, but both known species of Aztekium without going bankrupt - I wanted one for a long while, but they tend to be stupid expensive in Japan.

Love the two cute jellybeans too - Conophytum burgeri. Hell, love all of them, that's why I bought too many yet again :)

Here are a few closeup shots: [!Tokyo-Grand-Bazaar2.jpg](https://postimg.cc/mzRYSqhs)

[!Tokyo-Grand-Bazaar3.jpg](https://postimg.cc/N5yHRYbX)

[!Tokyo-Grand-Bazaar4.jpg](https://postimg.cc/JD1XXkd7)

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/16645819

2 buds hiding under the flower ☺️

First bigger shopping trip this season, and I bought way too many again.

I'm kinda tired now, so just a quick brag before I properly id them :)

Here's some more shots: [!New-Cacti-May2024-2.jpg](https://postimg.cc/xkdhq8Hc)

[!New-Cacti-May2024-3.jpg](https://postimg.cc/QHwvVhmb)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/20923434

> Was grown from seed. > Last time I posted about it: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5241154

And yes, the bumpy one is putting out a pup!

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It's been a while since I've grown cacti, if anyone has tips for growing in AZ/Phoenix area, lmk

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/18233414

> Today's haul from a small succulent show in Tokyo. From the left, Adromischus marianiae var. herrei, a hybrid Orthonna (cremnophila X herrei), Myrtillocactus geometrizans also known as "Boobie cactus" (no, really!) and a pwetty wittle Pseudolithos cubiformis. > > Love every single of'em already! > > Here's another angle: > https://i.postimg.cc/Ghgz2cSW/Succulents-May2.jpg

I got this one from cactus affinity couple years back and it has been doing really well. I had to chop it a little over two months ago because it was getting too big & needed a repotting. It finally pupped last week and is great

Sown last feb (15th). 4 varieties (clockwise starting in top right quadrant): Huizache, Cardona, Coloradas, and Texania.

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/11535232

> I still can't stop myself from getting succulents. These two just arrived today - a fuzzy-wuzzy Mammillaria plumosa on the left, and a cute spiky potato (Pachypodium densiflorum) on the right. > > Not the best time for potting, but I saw them online and couldn't help it :)

Top: pollinated. Bottom, not.

You can tell by color and how plump the top one is behind the flower. Also, unpollinated flowers will fall off. I’m not a botanist so I can’t tell you what the parts of the flower are called.

I read that this cactus was not self-fertile but brushing the flowers together has produced fruit. It doesn’t mean the seed is viable but I will try down the line.

Grown from my own seeds, the only kohyo nudum in a tray full of onzuka, kikko, quadricostatum and not many nudum.

and a recovering Pach Jessica x Pach Yowie in the background

Ordered online, and it looks even better than in the photos! Just extraordinary - instantly became my favorite one in my collection!

Got these before my wife physically dragged me out of the venue to prevent me from buying any more ;)

Group pic above, and here are indiividual shots, filenames are the name of each plant:

[!Tephrocactus-articulatus.jpg](https://postimg.cc/S2981Lfg) [!Tephrocactus-articulatus-var-papyracanthus.jpg](https://postimg.cc/2qsLWbNh) [!Cephalocereus-senilis.jpg](https://postimg.cc/nj17tFNm) [!Neoporteria-senilis.jpg](https://postimg.cc/fJyd6hC3) [!Mammilaria-hahniana-f-lanata.jpg](https://postimg.cc/vcwRKQbh) [!Mammilaria-bocasana-Fred.jpg](https://postimg.cc/06BF0vVp)

The last two photos are both mammilarias - kinda neat how varied they can get within the same genus :)

These were the exhibition pieces, not for sale. Some impressive specimens there, in some cases I didn't even realize some of these can get so big...

The link is to an image gallery - embedding that many photos directly in the post is probably not the best idea.

I'll post my haul from the show later, I'm still on the train home :)

I posted a fruit pic a while back and thought I'd share the whole story (so far)... Flowers: 2023-07-20 Fruit: 2023-08-31 ish Seeds: 2023-09-15 Sown: 2023-09-22 Germination: 2023-10-03 ...date of pic. I saw it pop 2 days ago, but didn't get a picture until today.

Just this one segment is like this. The whole rest of the plant, including segments further down the branch are normal.

A lovely Mammillaria parkinsonii on the left, and a super cute Echinofossulocactus on the right, but I'm unsure of the species - maybe some experts here can help?

Anyway, love the way they look - lucky finds, both of them!

Yeah fresh seeds :D

Found them online, and I'm super happy that they're now mine.

Group pic on top, and the bottom row from left to right are a really cute Mammillaria perezdelarosae, a Turbinicarpus pseudopectinatus I decided to grow in water after my previous one suddenly and unexpectedly died on me for no discernible reason, and a Pseudolithos migiurtinus that looks like it came from space and I love it :)