As every morning I got my coffee and camera ready and I went to look out on the balcony to see what new (not that there is much happening every day, but gotta do something on this lockdown). And of course some cacti keep having flowers, some grow their buds nicely. Some are small and I check on them too if they are healthy and have no bugs.
And then I looked at this one. Every so often I lift them to have a closer look.
Looks good, all green, new spines are popping... Awesome! I always wanted on of those Mammillarias (google images here so you know how pretty they are)
Something made me look to the base.. something dark was there. I though it was some dead leaf so I tried to remove it....
The poor thing did not handle the recent rains well. Looked good in the outside, inside it completely rotted off. Roots rotted off. If I noticed it earlier I could have saved it.
I cleaned the top part and will leave it to dry. I don't think there is a chance of saving it, but I will wait and see. Not all is always
Grown from seed.
2 years old.
Here are some other cacti that did manage to bloom:
 Chamaecereus hybrid |  Sulcorebutia Canigueralii |  Mammillaria camptotricha |  Mammillaria Glassii |
 Gymnocalycium baldianum |  Mediolobivia mudanensis |  Lobivia Arachnacantha |  Rebutia hybrid |
 Mammillaria Bombycina |  Mammillaria Gracilis Snowcap |  Mammillaria haageana |  Mammillaria backebergiana |
 Chamaecereus silvestrii |  Mammillaria prolifera |  Rebutia Fabrisii var. Aureiflora |  Lobivia Wrightiana |
 Aylostera Flavistyla FR756 |  Parodia concinna |  Mammillaria Copper King |  Gymnocalycium Brushii |
 Mammillaria backebergiana |  Gymnocalycium damsii |  Echinopsis subdenudata |  Rhipsalis pilocarpa |
 Mammillaria Prolifera |  Lobivia arachnacantha v. vallegrandensis |  Mediolobivia atrovirens |  Mammillaria magnimamma |
 Sulcorebutia langerii |
Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm lens
All photos and text are my own.
I want to cry 😭
Yeaaa I wanted too :(
I'm sorry. It was the first time I saw a cactus rot in this way. that's interesting. Congratulations on photo shoots. after that will have to deal with them more :).
It was the first I saw it rot this badly!
Thanks a lot :)
Oh, that is sad. I imagine it took quite a bit of effort to start it from a seed too. I'm germinating (I hope) a small batch of milkweed from seeds I collected last summer. They can be kind of temperamental. I'll be disappointed if none make it, but that would be nothing compared to nurturing them for two years.
It is not easy. They are very picky and very sensitive. Especially when they are very small (during the first year) they can easily die due to overwatering, underwatering, too cold, too hot... And I killed tons of them like that!
And cacti need at least 2-4 years to reach the blooming size. The most common at lest. So that was a bit of a bummer :(
I have some 4 year old ones that will bloom for the first time this year and they are still smaller than a tangerine :D
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Thank you very much :)
Aw too bad for your loss. But you do have quite a wide collection of cacti. Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! Yea I do... but not this one :p
I think its more upsetting that it was already 2 years old and still managed to kill it.