Cactus ID: Mammillaria prolifera **Characteristics:** This kind of cactus is of particular fast growth and reproduction. It's easy to grow new independent plants from its ramificactions (this particularity is responsable of the name it is given). It has an arbustive kind of growth with an estimated height of around 8-10cm. Like every plant of this genre, it has lots of mamillas from where the spines grow (5-15 central spines and about 30-40 radials, being the centrals of a…
Cactus ID: Cereus peruvianus var. monstrose **Characteristics:** This is a variety of Cereus that gets it's name "monstrose" due to the deformations in form of tubercles. Just like the "normal" Cereus peruvianus, this variety has a columnar-type growth and has a lots of ramifications. Has a slow-rate growth and are able to reach incredible heights (some times even over 8 metres). That is when they are planted in soil, given that when potted it's growth gets limited. It has…
Cactus ID: Cereus peruvianus **Characteristics:** Also known as Cereus uruguayanus, this type of cactus is of columnar-growth, showing a range of ribs from 5 to 8, and multiple ramifications once they reach certain age. From the areolas grow the spines and also the flowers. The first one varies in quantity and one can find more usually 4 or 5. When growing in nature, the C. Peruvianus can reach a height of over 10 meters, but not so much if they grow in nursery. **Cares:**…
Cactus ID: Gymnocalycium marsonerii **Characteristics:** This particular species provide us of a variety of shapes, being some specimen quite globular and some a little columnar. It has around 8 tuberculous ribs, from where the spines (and new specimen) grows. It usually has one central spine with 3-4 radials, being them of a white-yelowish color when the plant is young and they star turning grayer as the plant grows. It is usually a small plant, reaching 15-20cm (maybe…
Pot transplant Hi! So, as you may have noticed, I'm a cactus enthusiast. I have a small collection but the specimens I have already produced some small pups. Several of them were already in their own pots, some in a "collective" one, but they all needed a new "house", especially because my intention is to put some of them for sale: So I started pulling them from the soil (which was already kinda old)... And at the end of the day this was the result.. Now I hope the sales go…
Cactus ID: Echinopsis pachanoi (perhaps) Okey, so first of all I wanna state that I'm not 100% sure that this is the correct ID for this cactus, but from reading from some books, searching the web and consulting some fellow cactus enthusiasts, I believe that it is an Echinopsis pachanoi (will be more certain about it as it grows and develops). Anyway, here we go with some pictures and information about it: **Characteristics:** It is a columnar-growing type of cactus, with…
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