Are you guys bored yet?
I still have so many cactus booms to show and I am still waiting for at least 10 more to open. It has been a good year. And it is almost what I was aiming for - a lawn of colorful flowers. Slowly getting there :) Pity the blooming season is so short though and most of them will only flower in spring for a very short time.
Chamaelobivia no ID
I did say before that this one is my favourite one. Huge (comparing to the cactus itself) and very pink flower that lasts a few days. Easy to grow and easy to propagate from cuttings. Those started to grow way before it bloomed for the first time, so I could just snap them off and have few plants by now.
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I am almost sure it has some fancy name. It looks like one of those hybrids with large flowers. But someone would have to confirm it.
Last year I tried to cross it with my Chamaelobivia Silvestri and both produced seed pods. Of course I sowed both and there are tiny cacti growing. But it will take a while until I see if it worked and I will have different coloured flowers. That would be cool. I don't care about names.
The cactus is very compact with very short spines. I'd say it could be a bit bigger, but I keep it a pretty sunny spot and it gets all the heat possible in the summer. This is when it slows down a bit.
One more bud to go
Last year it bloomed with one flower, this year there are two buds. The second one is taking it's time though.
Below you can see a single flower from last year. It didn't even grow that much since then.
As a bonus a little blooming at the same time bunch:
My other blooming cacti:
 Chamaecereus hybrid |  Sulcorebutia Canigueralii |  Mammillaria camptotricha |  Mammillaria Glassii |
 Gymnocalycium baldianum |  Mediolobivia mudanensis |  Lobivia Arachnacantha |  Rebutia hybrid |
 Mammillaria Bombycina |  Mammillaria Gracilis Snowcap |  Mammillaria haageana |  Mammillaria backebergiana |
 Chamaecereus silvestrii |  Mammillaria prolifera |  Rebutia Fabrisii var. Aureiflora |  Lobivia Wrightiana |
 Aylostera Flavistyla FR756 |  Parodia concinna |  Mammillaria Copper King |  Gymnocalycium Bruchii |
 Mammillaria backebergiana |  Gymnocalycium damsii |  Echinopsis subdenudata |  Rhipsalis pilocarpa |
 Mammillaria Prolifera |  Lobivia arachnacantha v. vallegrandensis |  Mediolobivia atrovirens |  Mammillaria magnimamma |
 Sulcorebutia langerii |  Sulcorebutia frankiana |  Chamaelobivia no ID |  Rebutia Albiflora |
 Mediolobivia atrovirens var. ritteri |  Gymnocalycium damsii var. tucavocense |  Notocactus Ottonis |  Gymnocalycium Friedrichii |
 Turbinicarpus Viereckii |  Rebutia neocumingii |
Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm lens
All photos and text are my own.