Springtime is when the cacti bloom and here are some more Turbinicarpus flowers. The first is T. alonsoi and the second T. schmeidickianus
Sulcorebutia is still quite pale, it hasn't fully woken up but the first flower has popped open and there are more buds.
Quite a variable species, this one has red spines and is generally more red, UI was happy to find this one last year on a sale.
One of my baby Astrophytum asterias hybrids flowered for the first time, I have quite a few seedlings that I'm busy rooting, I'll show them once they have settled down, I got them for the equivalent of about 5 cents of HBD and they will need a season or two but I like buying seedlings , they adapt more easily than adult plants and it annoys me to buy large expensive specimens that promptly die
Parodia mammulosa hybrid showing off
I'm still busy preparing for the show, as well as spraying bugs and repotting plants, capturing escape artists like this little Haworthiopsis tessellata that made it out of the bottom of the pot:
It went to join the parent above in a larger pot along with the other wanderers I found in the soil.
So far I have potted up over 300 seedlings that I bought in trays like these Mammillaria, Parodia, Gymnocalycium, Astrophytum and Frailea.
I only hope I sell enough of them and others that I have been growing in November, they are taking up a lot of space!
I bought a Euphorbia piscidermis aka Fish skin Euphorbia with a friend, they are rare and have always been on my want-list. We bought this cluster to split up and see how we manage. It terrifies me but it is a beauty, just look at those scales!
I'll make a separate post on separating the pups. This plant has been degrafted but they can grow on their own roots, they are just very slow
