South of Arid Land

Saturday, 14 October 2023

The cactus shown on the photo is also an Astrophytum hybrid which is senile x super kabuto.

This 1st filial hybrid is also created by myself.

The cactus is 14 cm in diameter and 14 cm tall.

1st filial Astrophytum hybrid, coahuilense x super kabuto was in flower yesterday.

The hybrid was created by myself.

The cactus shows an abnormal flowering formation as an astrophytum species, which is clusterd flowering.

A matured Astrophytum asterias cv super kabuto was in flower yesterday.

The cactus was a normal super kabuto but it started to show the hanazono character from this year.

It seems the cactus can not open flowers completely physically.

An aztekium hintonii was in flower yesterday afternoon.

This one was grafted once but the scion was degrafted/rooted when the scion reached to 3cm in diameter.

It was the 1st flowering for the cactus. The rooting of hintonii is not easy but I got 5 successful results.

A gymnocalycium ambatoense was in flower yesterday.

I bought small plants in 2003. 3 plants have survived.

They all have pushed flowering buds up but just one was in flower.

A pelecyphora strobiliformis was in flower yesterday afternoon.

The cactus is a degrafted scion which relies on own-roots currently.

Strobiliformis on the photo is a small cactus, 8 cm in diameter.

I grafted 48 scions last year which were 24 ariocarpus fissuratus cv godzilla and 24 ariocarpus retusus v furfuraceus cv Suguri cauliflower.

Although I stopped watering in winter, the watering was restarted lately.

The photo is scions of A. fissuratus cv godzilla. They have started to regrow.