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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!
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:
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
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
