Look at this guy!
All armed like if there was some danger coming. And it is just me :D
I received it as a very young seedling. I kept it at home for the first year and only later put it outside on the balcony, but still protecting it from too much hot sun.
Starting from a small peanut size ball with tiny and soft spines I did not know it will have those long, black spines! I love how they look and that they are all pointing up. Such a cool plant.
See all the fluff inside? I think he is cooking a flower for me :) The very first flower!
I think he is about 3 years old now, so it is about time. But it is still a super small cactus. Maybe 2 cm in diameter. I guess I wait and see. There might be a blooming post this year for this guy.
Is that a flower bud there?
My other blooming cacti:
 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 |  Sulcorebutia frankiana |  Chamaelobivia no ID |  Rebutia Albiflora |
 Mediolobivia atrovirens var. ritteri |  Gymnocalycium damsii var. tucavocense |  Notocactus Ottonis |
Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm lens
All photos and text are my own.
The second image looks like a flower...at first look nonone would say it a cacti.....there is a very similar flower too with long white petals..with yellow lining at the centre....I don't remember its name..
Those would have to be very tiny flower. The whole cactus is about 2 cm across.
I can understand....but I was actually talking of a different one....that grows here...I am.missing on itzname, but surely will share if found.
You need to stake more BEER (24 staked BEER allows you to call BEER one time per day)
We used to chill and drink beers in one of my best friend's jacuzzi. His parents had cactus all along the perimeter of the backyard fence. There must have been at least a hundred different kinds. His mom still lives here in town. I know they're all still there. So cool.... 😁👏💯
Wooww that must look so awesome :D
Wow! It's such a cool plant :)
Keep it up! :)
Thanks! I am so waiting for the flowers.
a dangerous model :) successful shot. pretty sharp. congratulations.
Just acts dangerous. He is adorable :)
Super!
Very beautiful needles - "horror stories" :-)))
I hope this is a bud, I want to see a photo of its flowering!
I hope so too. I keep checking and I think it will flower :)
We wait!
This is such a wicked-cool plant! Those spines are amazing! 💜
Thanks! It is cool :D I love those spines!
Yikes!
:D
He is cute!