Spines farm

Isn't this a lovely view...
A bunch of tiny, spiky babies growing all together. Like a little lawn of green little balls :)

Notocactus mueller-melchersii

But it is not all candies when growing them from seed. It is multiple repoting every time they grow a bit to a larger and deeper pot. Not too big, cause they don't like that either. A rule of thumb say to keep the gaps between them of their own size. When they start touching each other, you repot them again leaving a gap of between the same as their size... and so on. Until they are big enough to put them their own separate pot leaving 1-2 cm space around.
So yea... it is lots of repoting, lots of spines puled from fingers and lots of dead cacti in the meantime.

Those look pretty good though. And they seem to be one of the toughest cookies! Those are babies of Notocactus mueller-melchersii also called Parodia mueller-melchersii. Here they are almost one year old and still not even close to 1 cm in diameter. Still some time until I see the flowers.

And all together with two other Notocactus types on both sides.