Blooming cactus - Mediolobivia atrovirens

Patience my dears... you will need tons of it when you decide to grow cacti from small cuttings or even worse - from seeds.
It is not a plant that you plant and will bloom in the same year and then every year, cause that what is expected of them. They can be fussy, will slow down if its too hot, too cold, they were moved to new place or new pot.

But it is worth it if you enjoy those prickly friends and their extremely colorful blooms.
(Plus you have a whole winter off as they just go dormant and don't do anything.)

Mediolobivia atrovirens

I have this one since 2018. The very tiny green cutting spent the first year growing roots and adjusting to new place.
The next year wasn't much different. But it was alive and growing.

It only bloomed for me for the first time last year with two flowers if I remember correctly. It grew a bit again, but it is still a very small cactus and it will stay like that.

This year it has another little offshoot that maybe will bloom as well next year, and a total of 5 flowers.
We have progress :)

Mediolobivia atrovirens also called Rebutia atrovirens is native to Bolivia and Argentina and can be found on 3000-4000 m above the sea level. It grows on rocks often hiding between some gasses. And here is a good advise I actually took from fellow orchid growers - knowing where the plant comes from and what are it's natural habitat is the key to successful growing. Only the info above tells me that it like to have dappled sun (growing on grass) and very fast, rocky substrate to grow. It can also withstand lower temperatures and big temperature differences between day and night (the elevation it grows on).
_{Info from my last years post, where you can see the plant and compare}

Those are the first two flowers that opened, there are 3 more buds to go.

The blooms are amazing! Huge comparing to the size of the cactus. When fully open they are almost flat. That, plus the rounded petals made me wanna have more of this type.
Big cacti are overrated. Get the small ones with ballsy blooms! :D

The camera tends to eat the colours on this one. The flowers are a bit darker and more red. The photo below is the closest to the real tone.
Absolutely stunning!

My other blooming cacti:

Chamaecereus hybrid	Sulcorebutia Canigueralii	Mammillaria camptotricha	Mammillaria Glassii
Gymnocalycium baldianum	Mediolobivia mudanensis	Lobivia Arachnacantha	Rebutia hybrid
Mammillaria Bombycina	Mammillaria Gracilis Snowcap	Mammillaria haageana	Mammillaria backebergiana
Chamaecereus silvestrii	Mammillaria prolifera	Rebutia Fabrisii var. Aureiflora	Lobivia Wrightiana
Aylostera Flavistyla FR756	Parodia concinna	Mammillaria Copper King	Gymnocalycium Bruchii
Mammillaria backebergiana	Gymnocalycium damsii	Echinopsis subdenudata	Rhipsalis pilocarpa
Mammillaria Prolifera	Lobivia arachnacantha v. vallegrandensis	Mediolobivia atrovirens	Mammillaria magnimamma
Sulcorebutia langerii	Sulcorebutia frankiana	Chamaelobivia no ID	Rebutia Albiflora
Mediolobivia atrovirens var. ritteri	Gymnocalycium damsii var. tucavocense	Notocactus Ottonis	Gymnocalycium Friedrichii
Turbinicarpus Viereckii	Rebutia neocumingii