I absolutely love your Cactus! just keep up the good stuff! Hate to call it work,.. its more like educational, hobby, fun, and addicting all at the same time, stuff!
What fun to have blooms from different plants for over a month! The few I have seen are beautiful and almost translucent. Hopefully the pollinating works for you.
It was such a treat to see so many flowers last fall, Nancy! 🤞🤞🤞 Gosh I hope some of them were successfully pollinated by this giant 🐝. Let's see if any fruits emerge this spring
Such an insanely beautiful collection of ariocarpus 😍👌🏻. I'm from India and i had never seen it here. I have been searching for a person who have some extra seeds of ariocarpus.
Thank you so much, Niral! And hello from Arizona! There's gotta be some Ariocarpus growers in India, that would be so cool! I hope you find some seeds!
@@niralpatel0911 if you can't find any locally, perhaps online? Hmmm I'm not sure I've seen Ariocarpus growers in India. I'll let you know if I come across any!
wow, you def got a show. good you pollenated. i'm still waiting for my blooms, looking at my notes they hit in oct last time. it was so hot this year i think they may be later. maybe cool weather triggers it.
Are you in Arizona too? The fissuratus seem to flower first and I can see some tufts of hair developing, possibly indicating incoming flower buds. It's almost Ariocarpus season!
@@cookiescacti arizona? i wish. up here in cloudy rainy maryland. but i have a number of fissuratus with their hair standing up indicating buds. it looks like i'll have 90%+ going to bloom looking at the bulging hair tufts. i talked to a guy in michigan grows under lights, said all his already bloomed for this year. i thought that was strange. maybe some of my 10 year old retusus seedlings will bloom for the first time also, they seem to be showing the signs. i need a much bigger greenhouse now.
@@cookiescacti so the first fiss bud popped 9/29, and they all completed blooming 10/17 a week ago. out of about 25, only 2 did not bloom. i will repot and baby those 2 this coming year. some of them had 8 and 9 blooms each open at the same time. i have never seen anything like this before, feeling blessed to see 2 blooms occassionally. i was preoccupied with pollinating for the whole 2 weeks. i had striped petals, drk pink petals, light pinks, frilly petals and straight petals. i tried keeping striped crossed with striped, frilly with frilly, straight w/ straight, etc. i did cross my dark pink with all others trying for darker pink petals. why did i get so many blooms? i used miracle grow 3 or 4 times on them this year for the first time. i used a heaping teaspoon/gal of acidified water. who knew arios were such heavy feeders. i do use a inorganic soil mix, pumice/perlite/turface/limestone chips/red scoria. fairly humid here with weaker sunlight than you get in az. high temps let me get away with frequent heavy watering this year, once a week. don't think they ever dried out. have backed way off the watering since the blooms and cool weather has commenced. now waiting to see if i get any retusus blooms. cheers.
I've lost one from rot too, Millie, so devastating when that happens but we keep trying! I plant them in a gritty mix of 25% cactus soil and 75% pumice, but keep in mind that I live in a very dry and hot climate. In the summer they dry out quickly, especially the retusus, so I water roughly once a week but I don't have a set watering schedule so it's all over the place. The fissuratus seem to need less water. Last winter I put all the Arios in my little unheated greenhouse and kept them dry. This year I left them where they are under the pergola so they've been getting rained on. We'll see how they do once spring comes around... Hopefully minimal deaths...
Hi Jenny, what an awesome collection of Ariocarpus you have! Im jealous I dont have any in my collection yet. Im attempting grow some from seed but ill probably die before i see them look anywhere near what you have shown LOL! Thank you for sharing the beauty of your collection, always a pleasure to see.
Omg you and me both, Angel. If any of my seedlings even survive to maturity (which would be a miracle in my case) I'll be dead before they get to any size LOL. But on the bright side, there are some more affordable retusus that'll give us a chance of possibly seeing them do something in this lifetime!
Hi just found your channel & I love it! I am in SoCal but I have been traveling to AZ since I moving 40 yrs ago because mumsie stayed living there. Sorry TMI... So I am quite familiar with the nurseries you video about. I have 1, only 1 ariocarpus, retusus I believe. I've had it for probably 30 yrs it has never flowered! What are the conditions needed for that to happen? It seems to be doing well otherwise as I do notice growth. It has been in a size appropriate glazed pot & repotted several yrs ago. Thanks for any help!...
Wow!! That's so amazing that you've had your Ariocarpus retusus for 30 years! That is absolutely incredible. I don't know what the secret is to get them to flower. My guess would be the growing conditions. I leave them outdoors year round, so they experience full temperature swings and rain. My suspicion is the exposure to the temperature swings, the stress tells them "I need to reproduce" lol. Where do you keep your plant?
Great idea! To be fair the only credit I can give myself is managing to keep them alive for the past year and change. All the mature ones were purchased mature... so I really don't get credit for their size and age. Hopefully I can give them decades more growth though!
Thank you so much, Manuel! Spring is definitely on its way, I think the coldest part of winter just ended here. Actually, I haven't been fertilizing my mature cactus. I do use a light fertilizer on my seedlings only. How about you?
@@cookiescacti Hello! Hello! I have not use any as I fear I might burn my cactus 🌵. I started growing and propagating Cactus a little after the pandemic. I find myself making Cacti trips to the Phx area every now and then. I’m from Yuma County.
@@manuelmontejano9512 I am a pandemic cactus person! LOL! I swear if it wasn't for the shutdown, my cactus obsession wouldn't have gotten quite so crazy. There are some organic cactus fertilizers out there with 1-2-2 or 1-1-2 NPK ratios that should be gentle and safe for our plants. Actually, now reading your comment, I wonder if I should give the plants a light fertilizer with their watering when spring arrives.... hmmmmm.....
@@cookiescacti I have an obsession for skinny, spiralis, and obese totem poles. I’m also into columnar and Montrose cactus. I appreciate your insight. You are very lucky to live in an area which has an abundant of cactus.
Hi! Nice plants! What size of you lloydii in flower? I watched many your videos but every time I can't figure out exactly what size the plants are. Are this normal lloydii or lloydii cv Latus? Very huge tubercules, awesome.
Thank you, Alex! It's got some nice short fat tubercles for sure. It was sold to me as a regular lloydii. I think it's roughly 4 inches or so, I'm trying to remember the diameter of the pot that it's in....
@@joshualennox3599 Awww thank you, Joshua. I wish she could get better but I think this will be chronic health management probably for the rest of her life. Sigh... we'll do the best that we can.
Hello I just subscribed to your channel, love all the ariocarpus you have, they are my top three cactus that I collect, but the one you said is a agavoides, are you sure its not a ariocarpus bravoanus?
Hello! Thank you so much for subscribing! I think you're right about the mis-ID. If I remember correctly (although I have terrible memory) someone else also left a comment about it being bravoanus. I have a terrible time telling the difference when they are small. Thank you for the correction!
@@cookiescacti yes a agavoides tubercles are a lot slimmer, and there flower is a pretty magenta color, if you ever want to re-home the bravoanus let me know 😃 do you have IG so I can follow on there also?
