Eriosyce occulta, single plant with fruit. It does this every autumn, sometimes two at a time, not always with actual seeds. Never got any of it to germinate, though; probably should research it for real at some point.
Eh?
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Eriosyce occulta
Adenium obesum, "Rik Ni Ran" cultivar, grafted.
Adenium obesum cultivar from a cultivator in Taiwan, Mr Ko. He has since retired but his nursery used to be the hot thing in the 2010s. This one, he called "Star of Black Night". Yes, they all had names like that; I will bet it's an awkward translation into English.
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Hard to tell with these plants, so far out of their native habitat. They are either blooming because they are content or giving you a final show before they curdle and die. You don't get to find out until autumn whether the post-bloom curdle is death or dormancy.
Tylecodon tuberosus, terror-inducing bloom
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Tawilis is an endangered species. WTF.
Monilaria moniliformis.
Conophytum obcordellum declinatum, surrounded by (clockwise from left) some gibbaeum, adromischus, Ihlenfeldtia, mitrophyllum, titanopsis. Most if not all conophytum, when shedding old leaves like these, should not be watered.
Mitrophyllum grande. These are dormant and very turgid from the ambient humidity. The cluster started from a single plant from Mesa Gardens
Summer mesembs
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Photo taken with a normal phone camera. Cluster of T. reticulatus flowers. The flower stalks harden to hard spikes after the flowers die off. This cutting has bloomed before but the spikes had to be trimmed off while it was recovering from a mystery infection. This is the first time the plant has bloomed since.
Nikon D780 with kit lens and Kenko extension tubes on a tripod with focus rail. Macro shot of a couple of T. reticulatus flowers. Each is about 8 to 10 mm long and 3 to 5 mm across. They are odorless to me but then, I'm not a bug.
Tylecodon reticulatus
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It will abort the grand opening out of direct sunlight, I think.
GET AN OFFICE-PORTABLE SUN! lol
Mammillaria duwei
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When you have plants that hate tap water, this is the most important growing equipment.
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Haworthia bayeri x Haworthia bayeri cv "Aboukyuu"
From hand-pollination to pod ripening for seed harvest: 5 months.
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Opuntia humifusa. Hardy AF.
Give it a bit of time to get a bit warm. There is a clump of the same plant in our yard that came from a single seed that some bird dropped. I found the seedling and moved it. They do this in late spring, then keep at it all summer.
Poppy, a surviving youngling after the main clump died for unknown reasons.
Orange iris finally bloomed.
Rutgers dogwood.
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A blooming clump of a creeping plant. I don't know what it is.
Mixed groundcover sedum with sporadic asiatic lilies.
When your MIL succeeds spectacularly, planting various peonies in random spots in the yard.
Some kind of extremely slow-growing dwarf lilac.
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lol this is an awesome plant.
Photo of a mature plant, approximately 15 cm tall. Purchased as a rooted cutting in 2016, already with a dense reticulate crown leftover from previous inflorescence. The plant was oozing pink goo when it arrived and had to be rehabilitated for 20 months before going back into the pot for another attempt at rooting. That process took another two years. The crown had to be trimmed off because you can't walk near the thing without it snaging on something. I keep it in a heavy pot to force me to be careful when I move it. It is growing in full sun, inside a wire cage built to protect it from squirrels and birds.
T. reticulatus is classified as "Least Concern" but its population in habitat is declining due to aggressive collection. When I bought it in 2016, I only checked its conversvation status and assumed it was grown from seeds (the seller had a solid reputation and had been in business for decades--definitely enough time and experience to have grown such plants from seeds). Although it was diseased on arrival, it had the magnificent weathered look only found in habitat-collected plants, especially caudiciforms. I may be wrong, but I don't think I am. So, well. Shit. I have since gone into several rabbitholes, learned some depressing shit and hardened on what plants I will and will not buy. Still, I own a habitat-collected plant. I am embarrassed that I have it, but here we are. Oh, and it is blooming for the first time. At least I didn't fucking kill it.
My POS (Plant of Shame)
Tylecodon reticulatus
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It's probably about to bloom, if it happened that fast. Sempervivums are monocarpic so that one rosette will die when it's done blooming. Needs direct sun for the smaller rosettes to produce chicks.
South African shrub, supposedly grows up to over a meter. This one is fairly young, about 18 cm. Never seen it bloom yet.
Tylecodon paniculatus, 13yo
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These will be good for tylecodon yearlings since they need to be grown hard to stay compact.
Thank you! I'm glad I can continue to mostly ignore this one.
As an aside, I experiment with pots as well and mostly stay away from glazed ones--no patience to learn it. Maybe for taro.
I've tried pumice pots, too; but they took up so much winter space I had to ditch them until I depopulated a bit.
I was hoping you'd say that. It's just that it has sprouted an offset after a severe crushing injury. I wondered if I can just leave them alone.
Greetings. How deep a pot do they need? I have a diffusa that has been in a mug since 2015, I've been wondering if I should move or leave it alone forever.
Huh. I didn't see that. I got stuck in glassy bubbles.
Extreme close-up of two fleshy leaves just emerging from their cotyledons. They look like a couple of sticks with green glassy bubbles stuck to them. From seeds sown in Feb2025. One-year survival rate is typically about 30 percent. It is definitely higher if you are careful and actively paying attention. (Nikon d780 with LAOWA 25mm macro and extension tubes. Forgot the diffuser)
Mitrophyllum clivorum, first true leaves.
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Grown from Mark Dimmit seeds sown in 2012. Leaves start to grow back when temps rise above 25C.
Adenium arabicum, 12 yo
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Grown from Mark Dimmit seeds sown in 2012. Leaves start to grow back when temps rise above 25C.
Adenium arabicum, 12 yo
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They will, when days are longer. In spring, they tend to grow new leaves and use up the water stored in the old leaves. So be careful--watering them while they are absorbing old leaves can drown them, too. They'll survive prolonged drought but not prolonged wet soil. Don't worry, you got this.
When temps start going over 26C to 28C during the day and over 20C at night, stop watering. These go dormant in hot summers. Make sure they get air circulation, too.
Well, I killed enough of them before I learned to ignore the little brats. I grow mine in a mixture of 20 percent organic material and 80 percent 3mm pumice. Do not overpot; they don't tolerate community pots too well, either. And they'll do better if you forget to water them.
Water only when the substrate is really, totally dry. Keep the leaves DRY. If it's humid (above 60%), put it where it will get a lot of air movement. And I never let them bloom--flowers produce a lot of drippy nectar and the plant succumbs easily to botrytis. When temps hit >28C, stop watering.
