That's good to know.

yes... we'll get yours out to you soon.... anyone else... drop me an address...

Yes, thanks!
I do grow a few of these Schick hybrids, lots of blooms on small plants.
http://www.huntington.org/bota...

Gordon, thanks for the video link. Two blooms opening at once. How cool is that?

@GordonHawk, are you still around? I just wanted to say the ones you sent me are doing fine. They bloomed last year. This yr they did not bloom but I have dozens of babies.

I saw a grey/blue one and purchased so I can do a combo pot of blue/grey and green.

Deebie said:Gordon, could it be Echinopsis oxygona
Sea-Urchin Cactus (Echinopsis oxygona)

Yes.

Cinta said:@GordonHawk, are you still around? I just wanted to say the ones you sent me are doing fine. They bloomed last year. This yr they did not bloom but I have dozens of babies.

I saw a grey/blue one and purchased so I can do a combo pot of blue/grey and green.

Your's is Euphorbia polygona. It won't be happy planted with the Echinopsis. Either, by themselves, will fill up a pot. I will post some photos in a minute.

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Echinopsis oxygona and a flower (it bloomed yesterday) in a 13 inch pot




And Euphorbia polygona in an 8 or 9 inch pot

It will take them awhile to fill the pot and you could remove some of the babies in your pot. They both look really full. I do not do single pots of plants I have to do combos.

My collection and love of plants make it to hard to drag all those single pot plants in and out twice a year. Also I like doing combos it is more appealing to my eye to have a garden look in a pot.

When your pot gets to full,,,,,,,,pull out removers and offer up the babies to forum members. Pot will not be full anymore.

You really have to be careful with that Euphorbia (and Euphorbias in general) if those are your growing preferences... just to emphasize the potential danger of the white sap they exude under pressure when their skin is broken.

That E. polygona makes offsets mostly around the base, right above soil level, and they are firmly anchored to the mother plant by a pretty thick umbilical cord. Only after they are fairly large (half the diameter of the mother plant or more) do they start to lose this connection and depend on their own roots. So you basically have to go in there with a blade or scissors to remove them.

And that's not terribly difficult when you can unpot the plant and go at it from below (and I do it to most of my polygonas on a fairly regular basis) but it's not going to be simple from above in a well populated community pot. The body of the offset is in the way of the umbilical cord you need to sever. Twisting and yanking is likely to send Euphorbia juice flying in every direction.

Not to discourage anybody's personal approach, this is just fair warning based on my own experience. Those Euphorbias are not so easy to separate, and they have the potential to fill a pretty big pot on their own. Wear gloves, use sharp instruments, and it's probably best to wear eye protection as well.

The sap is much less dangerous when it is not fresh. So if and when the time comes, give the plant 5 or 10 minutes to stop oozing juice before you proceed. Any cuttings you'd like to start should be handled with the same precaution until days have passed and the juice has dried.

@Baja_Costero Thank you. I hear you loud and clear. I heard the bad reaction people have had. I was saying the crowding in my growing condition will not be an issue for 3 to 4 yrs in a large pot. It has taken since 2014 when Gordon sent them for them to start to increase.

I arrange my pots like I would in a garden in the ground. You have to thin and give away. I do not plan to put them in a small pot and leave them there for life. They are coming out. I have the tools to take them out. Not a problem with surgical scissors, and scalpel. It will be clean and quick.