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intelligentlife
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ID request from cacti I buy'd local store. Mammillaria sp?
#18848003 - 09/16/13 07:55 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hello cactus enthusiasts.
As well as you might know, I am not very good to ID specific certain species of cacti. Main groups of cactus I can manage to identify and I think when I was at store these are mammillaria plants.
They are little bit etiolated cause nursery is not cactus nursery and these has been at very poor light, however.. There is picture from both pots I buy'd assuming they are mammillaria plants.

Can you help me fellow cacti growers so I can label the plants I have obtained? 
They are now in the zone where I use pesticides and other to kill possible pests from these. To bad they have been watered recently so I have to wait till systemic pesticide use.
Please feel free to give me answer what mammillaria there is at right ad on the left.
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Re: ID request from cacti I buy'd local store. Mammillaria sp? [Re: intelligentlife]
#18848182 - 09/16/13 09:07 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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The one on the left looks like it might be m. gracilis and the right looks like it could be an m. geminispina. Wait for confirmation from someone more familiar with the mamms though.
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Re: ID request from cacti I buy'd local store. Mammillaria sp? [Re: SuperD]
#18848231 - 09/16/13 09:28 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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On second thought, I'm not sure gracilis gets that large but I'm almost positive on the ID of the second one.
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intelligentlife
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Re: ID request from cacti I buy'd local store. Mammillaria sp? [Re: SuperD]
#18848566 - 09/16/13 11:10 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I found that white second one actually myself later.. Was remember I has been seen this mammillaria when browsing one cactus site.
Still that green possible mammillaria where is 3 in the same pot I would want to someone who know mammillaria ID it for me.
For my luck this m. geminispina needs relatively short winter and are very good and perfect for windowsill cactus and found it's easily flowering, I think that size cactus will bloom.
Would still need some kind of ID from these 3 cactus in same pot.
They had, as I expected mealybugs on them so I keep them now away from my collection since at winter time preventing mealybugs trough systemic way with watering is hard.
Hope pyrethrin treatments works until soil dries up and I can water these with dimethoat to kill mealybugs.
Dammit, always mealybugs! ..no matter where I obtain plants they have possible mealybugs in them. Like these ones.
To help ID, these have no tap root what some of mammillaria species have. Color is dark green and spines are whitish.. Etiolation has been happened and there has been flashlight on camera when I took photo but it doesn't effect so much to skin nor spine color of plants.
Edited by intelligentlife (09/16/13 11:14 AM)
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