Not much happening

Not much to report except that I still am struggling to maintain my plants - maybe I've reached the point where I now have too many to be able to give them the attention they need so now they are keeling over right under my nose. The biggest problem is root mealy bugs and now I have taken to just unpotting the plants that seem at risk and leaving them bareroot because they are then less susceptible to rot when a shower of rain might pass. If I repot, the bugs migrate into the new soil and the problem continues.

The thought of repotting everything is just overwhelming, so I don't know what will happen - and I have hundreds of babies coming up. I need a management system that works!

Anyway, a few plants have shown up their blooms over the last couple of months - some for the first time - so I'll just play catch up and post them all here (at least the ones I got reasonable photos of).



Mammillaria magnimamma


Mammillaria karwinskiana


Mammillaria perbella


Mammillaria ruestii


Mammillaria schiedeana


Mammillaria plumosa


Mammillaria decipiens ssp albescens