[Edit: Some of these Gymno's appear in a different post above, but all are different pictures.]
When we were talking about Gymnocalyciums on one of the other threads, I figured I'd try and get a picture of all the ones I have (I know all their names, but just not right now for all of them - as for a number I will to need to go down a deep dark path of many many photos ago when I added names to the info of pictures I took) and then I also remembered there was a thread that was started specifically for posting Gymnocalycium pictures so I figured, I'd find it and try and re-invigorate it.
Here my collection of Gymnocalyciums, some are among some of the earliest plants in my collection, while others are brand spanking new (having arrived last week), in order of them getting photographed:
One my blooms all summer with about one flower every 1-2 weeks (I think this is G. (sub)denudatum cv. 'San Juba'), then a big multiheaded G. monvillei, and a sunburn after my move victim (G. baldianum), which has been hiding in the depths of my shade structure. Notice that this one is still solitary, my two other G. baldianums are decidedly not solitary:
Two recent acquisitions with labels (the second one is labeled: G. stenopleurum ssp. occultum) and a couple that shall remain nameless for now:
G. anisitsii 'multiprolifera' and G. pflanzii ssp xxxx the bad sun burn victim, you can see how moving it to almost 100% shade has essentially meant it has stopped growing spines, I am going to try to bring this out into more sun over the winter, and another that shall remain nameless for now, but does the same a bloom or two thing every one or two weeks throughout the summer, more on the way:
G. saglionis, which lost almost all its roots and since then took on a somewhat unideal shape, but is slowly recovering from that (also one of my early cactus acquisitions after I moved to AZ). It actually bloomed this year after a 5 or 6 year hiatus. One of my two decidedly not solitary G. baldianums, also very floriferous, but not when it gets too hot. It did really well in the afternoon full sun. The third one in this row is a very old specimen (spegazinnii) that I picked up about 5 years ago when the local arboretum acquired a collection of a collector in CA who wanted to put his collection in a good home. They funded some of the transportation costs by selling off multiples of the same plant in the collection. It still grows, but very slowly:
One of the G. friedrichii/mihalovichii complex this does well in the sun, but not in too much sun as can be seen lower on its body. And another one. This one has remained much smaller (unfortunately the photo does not provide a good sense of scale, but the pot the second one is in is about 40% of the diameter of the hanging basket the first is in) though I got these first two about the same time. I had a few more but gave those away to people who helped with my plant move. And a pot with two recent acquisitions, the label on the plant on the right will be visible in the next picture:
As promised the second plant with the label better visible, and another recent acquisition as is the next one:
Another consistent summer bloomer, and my second multiheaded G. baldianum with flowers from earlier this year and a portrait of my five Gymno hanging basket, with another G. monvillei and G. cardensianum, showing of the diversity in size and spinage. These started out at about the same size when I got them some just grow a little bigger:
And to finish off a little overview of previously shown plants again to show off diversity in shapes and sizes, some of these will grow quite a bit, but very few will get to the size of G. monvillei or G. saglionis shown in one of the earlier pictures:
[Edit: One should not try and write a longish post after dealing with a three day migraine and associated insomnia, clearly my typing and ability to observe spelling and grammar issues suffered... Hopefully I have cleaned up the worst stuff in there given that I am still trying to catch up on sleep.]
