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LOPHOPHORA - a cacti growing blog

http://lophophora.blogspot.com/

This blog is intended as a forum for sharing my cacti growing ordeals. The focus is primarily on small Mexican species, e.g. Lophophora (peyote), Obregonia (artichoke cactus), Acharagma, Ariocarpus (living rock) and Strombocactus.

• Added on: Feb 16th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: lophophora
• Listed in: Gardening Photography
• Tags: gardening cacti peyote cactus ariocarpus lophophora

Recent Posts

• How soon after your Lophophora flowers can you expect a fruit?

  Posted on Friday October 3rd, 2008 at 13:22 in flowers, fruits, lophophora williamsii

  I was asked this question in a comment a while ago. I could not give an answer that was more precise than flowers pollinated early in the growing season would set fruit later the same year so I decided to investigate the question further. Freshly pol...

• Fruiting Epithelantha micromeris, take two

  Posted on Tuesday September 30th, 2008 at 14:57 in epithelantha, experiments in cold hardiness, fruits

  A few weeks ago I posted on my fruit bearing Epithelantha micromeris (SB1327; near Belen, New Mexico) plants. The color of the fresh fruit is a bright pinkish red that changes to a deep, warm, saturated blood red color as the fruit dries. Epithelanth...

• Copenhagen Botanical Garden revisited

  Posted on Sunday September 28th, 2008 at 16:02 in ariocarpus, astrophytum, botanical gardens, flowers, mammillaria, strombocactus

  The first weekend of September I visited Copenhagen Botanical Garden again. As described earlier the garden has a cactus house open to the general public as well as a propagation house that you can't enter. Flowering and otherwise interesting plants ...

• Coldhouse grown Lophophora williamsii - the next generation

  Posted on Sunday August 10th, 2008 at 17:47 in experiments in cold hardiness, flowers, fruits, lophophora williamsii, pollination

  Four years ago I started my first batch of coldhouse grown Lophophora williamsii (SB 854; Starr Co, Texas) from seed. I've lost a few plants to frost during the years but the survivors have coped surprisingly well, enduring the Danish winters in an u...

• Fruiting Epithelantha micromeris

  Posted on Sunday August 10th, 2008 at 15:14 in epithelantha, experiments in cold hardiness, fruits

  Contrary to my Epithelantha micromeris v. greggii plants that have flowered intensively this summer, I have not seen any flowers on my regular Epithelantha micromeris (SB1327; near Belen, New Mexico), but judging from the fruits they must have snuck ...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 10.00 out of a possible 10 based on 1 comment.

Yrsa

Very detailed blog and commentary on the peyote cactus.

Posted: Tuesday February 19th, 2008 at 04:44 | Report This Comment

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