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Post by balc2 on May 8, 2023 12:13:45 GMT
Eli you have a beautiful collection of succulents there! 
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Post by balc2 on May 9, 2023 20:30:07 GMT
One of the 6 Cacti I have on the kitchen windowsill has flowered today for the first time ever!
My granddaughter helped me repot them just a month ago. I didn't expect it to have made such a difference so soon. I had hoped for flowers perhaps in the summer but I never imaged they might flower just a month after being repotted!
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Post by Eli on May 9, 2023 21:19:59 GMT
Many cacti flower in the late spring/early summer balc2 especially Mammillarias. This one is M. bocasana, I had two large clumps of it at one time but only two small plants now.
Nice that it has flowered for you. What does your grand daughter thing of it ?
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Post by balc2 on May 10, 2023 20:38:11 GMT
Eli Thanks for the id of this cactus! I forgot to tell her when she was here this afternoon! I'm sure she would be very pleased!
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Post by Eli on May 30, 2023 19:17:00 GMT
Mammillaria oruga :-
Gasteria flowers :-
Unknown but I believe it's a type of Pachyphytum :-
Another unknown :-
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Post by balc2 on May 31, 2023 5:16:48 GMT
Your plants are looking good, Eli. My cacti look really healthy in the kitchen windowsill! I never expected to see so much difference in them in such a short time! I will see if I can get a couple of photos of them, maybe tomorrow. |
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Post by Eli on May 31, 2023 7:57:13 GMT
I shall look forward to seeing them balc2
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Post by balc2 on May 31, 2023 15:15:35 GMT
It will still be tomorrow before I get a picture, Eli, sorry.  |
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Post by SueA on May 31, 2023 18:13:18 GMT
Those gasteria flowers are really beautiful Eli, do they last long once they're open? |
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Post by Eli on May 31, 2023 19:19:04 GMT
There's no hurry balc2
They open in succession up the stem SueA and each one is open for several days before it shrivels up. There are two stems on the plant this year, and I have a few plants.
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Post by balc2 on Jun 5, 2023 5:20:42 GMT
I've taken a few photos of the 6 cacti I have but as they are on the computer and not on my phone anymore I can't show you them until later, perhaps this evening.
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Post by balc2 on Jun 6, 2023 19:51:26 GMT
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Post by balc2 on Jun 6, 2023 20:03:34 GMT
Eli ,do you think pictures #1 & #5 might be the same species? To me they look very much alike that's why I ask. But perhaps can see them better in the last picture. Seeing them closer together I now realise they seem to be different. BTW, #3 you once told me was dead & I should throw it away but as there was still some green in it I decided to leave it a little longer - that was perhaps 2 years ago! It did look bad but after a few months with some watering it picked up but since I repotted it (as well as the rest of them) a couple of months ago it has grown a lot! Do you think there is any possibility of it flowering during the summer perhaps? Can you identify it? In picture #4, the columnar cactus, I would expect it to flower again this year as it has flowered 2 or 3 times before with a ring of bright magenta pink flowers around the top. None of the others have produced any flowers since I've had them - about 3 years now.
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Post by Eli on Jun 7, 2023 6:19:32 GMT
Thanks for showing the cacti balc2, I'm glad the one you thought was dead is still alive and growing. It shows it's never a good idea to throw plants too soon.
Numbers 1 and 6 (not 5 as you say) are probably the same species - Mammillaria bocasana. No 6 looks as if it hasn't has as much light as no 1, or it could be a different cultivar of the species.
Numbers 2 and 5 (right of back row and centre of front row) are Mammillarias. They usually flower easily.
Centre of front row is probably M. spinosissima
Right of back row I think is M. backebergiana (it looks like it anyway, although there are many simmilar species)
They both have magenta flowers.
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Post by Cherry on Jun 7, 2023 15:14:07 GMT
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