Been building a new Cactus house

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  1. Zigs

    Zigs Young Pine

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    Tee hee :D

    Haven't done this year's flowering cacti summary but here's a short vid from the spring in the meantime :)

     
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    Adore your informative and 5 flowering cacti videos.:smt026
     
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    Beautiful Zigs
     
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    Zigs Young Pine

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    Thank you good people :)

    Looking after a "Cactus in a Keyring" that a friend gave me...

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    It's doing better out of the bottle :D
     
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    It’s a cutie..
     
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    Do you know what it will turn into? :eek:
     
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    Another monster I expect Logan :suspicious: upload_2022-10-26_23-22-14.jpeg
     
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    Looking a bit prickly…perfect for .
     
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    Zigs Young Pine

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    Seed time for some of the cacti :)

     
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    The flowers and seeds looks great Zigs you will have a lot of cacti from all that seed.
     
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    Zigs Young Pine

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    Ta Logan :)
     
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    Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele. A minuscule solitary or slowly clumping cactus from Mexico. Very slow growing, needs a very well drained soil. Keep dry in winter, hardy to minus 4c for very short periods. Potted these seedlings up in May, they are 2 years old.

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    Zigs Young Pine

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    Gymnocalycium mihanovichii with the first ever seed pod that has set on any of my Gymnos :)

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    Pricked out these Mammillaria seedlings today

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    Don't look like there's that many there but there were 77 plants :eek:

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