28 May 2008
Fraileas in bud
Posted by Stuart under: Cacti .
Now that they’re growing, I’m continuing with my experiment in keeping Fraileas in pseudo-bog conditions such as those they experience in habitat.
The results so far are quite dramatic.
I thought they’d fattened up well when I first started watering them, but now the best ones are like little balloons, and have nice fluffy buds.
I’m hoping that the increase in water will encourage them to flower rather than set seed cleistogamously this time. If it does, it’ll be the first time I’ve ever seen an open Frailea flower “in the flesh”, as it were.
On the left is Frailea mammifera ssp. angelesiae, on the right Frailea phaeodisca.
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