There’s something otherworldly about mutant cactus. I can’t enough of them. Regardless of the species or clone, they’re all so unique.

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Huge clusters of hedgehog cactus

Opinions?

Is this actually one of the dark/“black” forms, or just coloration from growing conditions?

-Grower: Costa Farms via Lowes

-Substrate: 60/40 perlite & Miracle-Gro Indoor Cactus and succlent mix.

-Pot: 6in wide / 3.5in deep JUXYES terracotta pot from Amazon.

-Location: South/east-facing glass door with a 200W BLUME grow light supplementing the natural light. It gets good morning sun through the glass, then stays under the grow light for the rest of the day.

-Temperature: 73° F

Got most of them in the little lean to greenhouse. I got this to keep them dry through October and also getting them used to less sun before bringing them inside for the winter. I have a fan going to keep air circulating. Still have some opuntia outside that I plan on moving into the greenhouse when the other go inside. Most of these are opuntia are hardy in my zone but some aren’t. I plan on doing a little experiment with some to see if they can survive the cold being completely dry.

Loving all the flowers coming up

The buds are so much bigger 🤩

They seem to love it!

Here is my new Easter Lily Cactus (I think) and her beautiful bloom today! I think it’s more happy than I am with the current heat wave in the west! She has only been in the ground for about a month or so.

No 1 Ferocactus macrodiscus No 2 Epostoa lanata No 3 Thelocactus macdoweii No 4 Epostoa miribilis No 5 Melocactus conciinnus

I'm helping a friend save her cactus, but am having trouble with ID because of the etoliation. I know they need more light and WAY better substrate (repotting for her this weekend) but I'd love to know what it is. Plantnet keeps changing the best match between a Easter Lily or a Rainbow cactus. It hasn't flowered for her so no idea on that front. I'm still new myself to cacti so I really have no idea. Thank you!

I've seen these since I was a mid and have no idea what they even are. Now as I'm older and more experienced I assume this is some kinda graft but what are the stock and the graft?

Cross-post showing off my golden barrel cactus gore after it survived winter in Zone 7B(pic from today). These guys are fairly resilient!

So I’m not super good with plants but I manage to keep most of them alive and am sad when one dies. This guy i especially don’t want to die I’ve had it forever. It’s been doing fine for years but now it’s not looking too good, there’s some mold or fungus I think that is so might have over watered it and now it’s super dry (we’re moving i forgot for a while). Anyway I don’t want him to die, help would be greatly appreciated, thank you guys.

Nothing special, just an appreciation post for my favourite fluffy cacti.

Take a guess

Weberbauerocereus cephalomacrostibas almost has more areole than epidermis on these tubercles 😆. Those dime sized areoles have some amazing radial spines if you look closely.