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Spines farm

BY: @ewkaw | CREATED: Aug. 6, 2019, 10:54 p.m. | VOTES: 114 | PAYOUT: $1.03 | [ VOTE ]

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

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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.

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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.

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@mesembs | Aug. 7, 2019, 6:34 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

That's a serious farm you have there!

@ewkaw | Aug. 12, 2019, 12:20 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Mass production! :D

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@bambuka | Aug. 7, 2019, 1:37 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

In the photo they are quite peaceful, but it’s better not to touch them :D

@ewkaw | Aug. 12, 2019, 12:20 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

While they are small they are harmless. The spines are soft. But next year... hmm

@bambuka | Aug. 12, 2019, 4:44 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

My friend convinced her cactus that she loved him.
As a result, the cactus dropped its thorns.
It was :D

@ewkaw | Aug. 15, 2019, 9:24 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Is the cactus still alive? :p

@bambuka | Aug. 15, 2019, 8:38 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

they reciprocate each other :р

@qwerrie | Aug. 8, 2019, 3:38 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I really wonder, why you need them in such quantaties?
do you plan to change your local place, turn all the mossy-lichen environment into a cacti desert?..

@ewkaw | Aug. 12, 2019, 12:19 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I don't :P
But I had lots of seeds, so I sowed them all. Otherwise they would be wasted. Besides lots of babies die before they actually reach blooming size. Those are super resilient to any treatment though. I will have lots to give away...

@qwerrie | Aug. 12, 2019, 12:25 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

a! got it.

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@ewkaw | Aug. 12, 2019, 12:18 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Yay! Thank you :)

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