Fruity nivosa

My Mammillaria nivosa is now well in fruit after several rounds of blooms earlier this year. I'm tempted to reap the fruit so I can sow the seed but I'm holding back and watching them so I can reap when they are getting ready to fade. I only hope I can still get good seed.



I have a few of these seedlings that are coming along well, and I find these fairly easy to grow so I want to try some more. At worst, I'll end up with too many and need to sell or give some away.

Pachypodium

This is the only Pachypodium I own - I've had it for a few years but was not confident that I knew what conditions it liked. So I gave it lots of protection and it has been languishing in the shade of a philodendron under the shelter of an awning - getting little sun and little water. It stayed alive, but not much was going on in terms of growth.




I pulled it out into the "open" early in July, and it has been so happy to get the rain - I can hardly believe it is the same plant! I hope it continues to do well.

Update

So I just need to post something, since I've been so delinquent. It's not that nothing has been happening but I have too much to do and no time to blog!

It's been raining nearly every day for weeks now and although the mature plants are holding up well (only a few casualties), a whole tray of seedlings took sick and several of them expired. They're stronger than I thought, though, and the rest are still alive but now need to re-root -I hope that will happen soon. Most of them are Mammillarias about a year and a half old. I lost a few that I only had one surviving seedling, but such is life. The younger batch of seedlings is still doing well.

I picked up an Agave at the Denbigh agricultural show, and I think it is Agave geminiflora - I'll have to see how it changes as it matures.



Several old faithful Mammillarias are coming back into bloom now, but some have been opening secretly since I just can't seem to see them open, much less to catch them on camera. I'll keep trying, though.

So that's my quick update, until....