cactus

This was last July.

There were seven flowers in total. Each flower opened just a few days at most. Some of them opened a few apart, so I had flowers to admire for about a week.

I trimmed the garden (grow tent) a few weeks back and some tips already started rooting. So I figured I’d take advantage of a nice day & get everybody in some soil. It is a well draining mix/substrate capped off with a little top soil.

So I’ve been chopping & prepping cacti for propagation and noticed this on the BD. I’m going to give it another week or 2 before cutting it now. Hopefully that will give them a better chance at rooting 🤞 idk if the left stalk is cresting or branching or what! So cool

Here’s a few more pics of the whole cactus..

Edit: previous post https://lemmy.world/post/17021556

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/29912340

I'll need to properly ID them later since they only have tags with their Japanese names, but I'm reasonably sure the top row from the left is a Leuchtenbergia, an Obregonia and a Crassula, and the bottom row is some kind of Gymnocalycium, a Haworthia, Blosfeldia liliputiana and another Haworthia.

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!

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?

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

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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.

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.

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:

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):

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 :)

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!

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:

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:

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!

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