Gymnocalycium baldianum

@Soph1e this has been growing for about a year now, is it a pup? How would I take it off? 🤔 thank you! #cactus #chincactus

It is a pup. I'd unpot the whole plant and gently wiggle it back and forth to remove the pup. Don't be too forceful and try and get some root with it.

Thank you @Soph1e! Will keep you updated

Look forward to seeing how you get on @kyleleonard

@Soph1e I’ve been reading up - do you think I should let it callous? Or is that just for cuttings. Thanks again

It depends how much root you manage to get. I pot anything with a good root system up straight away. You can let it callus over, just don't give it a drink for a few days and it'll be fine either planted or resting on top of soil.

The most buds we’ve had at any one time since we bought it about 4 years ago.. #chincactus #cactus #pink

There very pretty I love the whole look, the flowers and the buds look really cool. Nice and short too😊💕

Beautiful Blooms

Wow that’s gorgeous 👍

Wonderful.

#chincactus #pink #cactus

That's beautiful 💕

Great color! ❤

Gorgeous

#pink #chincactus #cactus

Looking beautiful, how did the cacti that you grew from seed get on? @kyleleonard

Very pretty ❤️

Gorgeous flower Kyle ❤️

Beautiful flower, perfection!

Lots of buds 🌞 #chincactus #cactus #buds

#chin #chincactus #pink #cacti

Beautiful 💚 🌵

Lovely ❤💚

Sorry for the spam - here it is without the light coming in from the window #Cacti #cactus #chincactus #pink

Beautiful 😊

#cacti #cactus #flower #pink #chincactus

Beautiful!!!

#cacti #cactus #flower #chincactus

To retain the high humidity during flowering, I've cut off the side of the drinks bottle to slide then buds through #cloche #cacti #cacus #flower #pink #chincactus

Do you measure the humidity in your home? @kyleleonard

Nope! I just mean inside the drinks bottle. The cold windowsill was killing the cacti, but this saved it from the mushy state it was just a few months ago @slj

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I've found that I have to keep humidity between 60% and 70% but anything over that effects the humans a bit. I seem to have found perfection in regulating it to now with the number of plants I have in each room it tends to sit at 65% the few plants that need humidity in the range of 80% have to live in the bathroom to attain the humidity they need. I think the kids get sick of me using the reason for baths being the plants need them to 😂 I always find it interesting that people who grow plants

Indoors don't tend to think about humidity when the average house sits at around 30% not much good for humans let alone plants

Cacti really don't like high humidity I've found. I think it was more likely moist soil rotting the roots that caused the mushy?

I had a cacti on my sister's windowsill which had a blind behind it so it was getting extremely hot and almost zero humidity and it loved it and flowered ha

I also keep one of my cacti outside and it seems to survive okay. I'll bring it in next month though I imagine when night time temps drop below 5ish

What a clever trick! I always thought cacti hated being in humid conditions.

@Soph1e - a lot of botanical gardens have really hot, humid conditions for their succulent/Cacti. The one in Munich was horrendous to go into

Come on!! #cacti #cactus #chincactus

Nearly there😊

So close to opening #cactus #cacti #chincactus

I miss my cacti collection, had it when I was a child with my next door neighbour , I even went to cacti club. Can't wait to see this open 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Nearly 🤞🏻#cactus #cacti #chincactus

@kyleleonard , did you do anything to get it to flower? I love cactus but mine never flowered , thanks!

@totallygarden - hello! Well, moved house last September and this year it's been pointing in a different direction on a cold windowsill - it was yellow and mushy in May, so I had to repot it - first I trimmed the roots, took it out of the pot and used cacti/succulent compost and topped it with horticulture grit. This all helped improve the general look of the plant, but using an old drinks bottle cut in half has really helped.. I kept it on for weeks at a time, watering when there was no visible

@totallygarden - humidity in the drinks bottle. Now I have three buds which could be the best we've ever had! And it's all grown a few inches in height and width. I really can't recommend using a cloche of some description. Has yours ever flowered?

@totallygarden - I don't use any special feed on any of my cacti as I once used a drip one on my bonsai and it still died.. so I just use old fashioned water.

Thank you so much!! @kyleleonard , I will give a cloche a go, I think that may be the best way and play with a different position! Nope, mine never flowered . But hope they will soon do!

Hopefully @totallygarden! Just put it on and leave it for a few weeks, I wanted to take it off but had to just leave it.. maybe the heat helped the roots grow better in the new soil

Nearly 🌸 #cacti #cactus

👏 looks like it will be a lovely color!

@kyleleonard quick question, how do get rid of mealy bug on cactus? Tried a bug spray but they keep coming back. Many thanks.

Now and a picture I posted on here 38 weeks ago.. huge amount of growth this year #cactus #Cacti #growth

So this is the result of a lot of tlc. New soil, cloche on it for half the day to keep it nice and humid. I've actually noticed it has gotten taller since I began my exercise of trying to rescue it from the yellow, squiggy plant it was only a few months ago. Hoping the bud produces a flower and doesn't just fall off! #cactus #cacti

Looks really healthy, I see 2 more flower buds 🌞🌵🌞

Brill! Well done 👍🏼

Thanks guys 😀 @sieveheadsarah @rachelbrooks

Great job Kyle! 🌵

So a few months ago I posted about a squiggy, soft, yellow #chincactus which I thought was on its way out.. I changed the soil, added horticulture grit and even made a homemade cloche out of an old drinks bottle and now it's thriving! It's got its green colour back and really starting to fill out again 🤞🏻

Excellent

Wonderful #cactus-advice . Did you use the cloche to provide moisture in lieu of watering?

Well done good news

@lovestogarden - it faces a different direction to where we first lived when we bought it, always felt it's now in a cold position, but now with the cloche it gets so much warmer in the day and the heat is still there during the night instead of just constant cold

Great job of getting it back on track 👍🏼😀

Oh, thank you for the info. So glad it worked and it is happy now.

@totallygarden here's my cloche

#advice needed - my chin cactus seems to be yellow at the base of the plant - any clues why? It's on a windowsill (was kept on windowsill since we bought it) and I water it every few months... thanks!

Hello Kyle, from cactus plants that I have had in the past, almost no water through the winter months. They can take a surprising amount during the summer if enough drainage is provided. Also, it is normal for the base and older parts to get woody and brown coloured with age.

Thanks @opuntia! I can't remember how it looked last year.. might be the same as now

I have the same prob with one of mine. Watering weekly now, with a cactus feed. Blown away by the rate of growth/intake of water, now that there's more light/heat.

What you're describing is called corking and it's a normal part of cactus growth.

Thanks @alovealoe! It looks like it's shrinking too.. but feels firm when I touch it, not squiggy or anything. Should I just leave it be and hope it's ok?

Looks very dehydrated!

Should I water it @Alcurtis93?

I would. @alovealoe knows much more than i about cacti though. I water mine quite frequently as in well draining mixes and in a fairly hot room. Every 2-3 wks or so. Obviously not at all in winter as they're dormant

Watered and I'll keep an eye on it - soil was dry so hopefully it'll have a positive effect! Thanks @Alcurtis93!

I think it looks dehydrated too.

Thanks! @alovealoe can't remember when it was last watered so hopefully it'll show improvements

Morning! Weather seems to have dropped a few celsius again after a couple of promising days... #cactus #cacti

Hi Kyle lovely day here in South Wales today after a dreary day yesterday 👍

I was wondering if you could tell me what kind of cactus I have

Whenever winter comes I pray this doesn't die.. looks to be going well! #cactus #cacti 🌵

#christmas #festive #cacti #cactus #tinsel

#cacti flowered twice this year!

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This has now flowered three times this year since June! I've been watering it sparingly and when I do it's got a tiny bit of tomato feed in which someone on here/or a gardening forum I frequent recommended to me a few months ago to help it flower #cacti #cactus #bud #pink

Very pretty

I likey....

#cacti-tip

First time we've had two flowers at one time 😎

Beautiful! 😊

Gorgeous @kyleleonard

What a treat! @kyleleonard

Wow

Taken one hour after my previous photo #cacti

Just beautiful!

Beautiful @kyleleonard

Sorry about my girlfriend following you on IG 🙈 just keep declining her or just leave her request unanswered @stephent

Oh is that who it is... @kyleleonard

Or block her 😏 @stephent

Why @kyleleonard

She's being annoying. She doesn't know GT exists so she's curious why someone would find my posts interesting! @stephent

Oh blimey! @kyleleonard

This doesn't exist to her as she'd kill me for buying plants when we're trying to buy a house 😵 @stephent

Ok... I get that @kyleleonard

Well it will look great on the window sill in your new home won't it!

Nearly 🙏🏻 hoping they flower and not fall off like some do 🌵 #cacti #cactus

Stunning....nearly there! 🤗

Hope they will. Cant wait to see that!

@lilium - it flowered a few weeks ago, scroll through my photos for this plant 😏

I's so very disappointing when they fall off. Good luck.

I opened my ISA account today to try and buy a house 🏡 so hopefully, one day soon I'll have a garden of my own 🍾 this guy will be coming with us wherever we do go also 🌵 #cacti #cactus

Good luck @kyleleonard on saving. What time scale do you have?

Probably a few years. My girlfriend and I have one each so hopefully won't take forever! Cheers @simon50!

Good on you!! 🏡

Looks so healthy! @kyleleonard nice

Good luck with the saving, healthy looking cacti 💚

Thanks all 😬

There's nothing so special as the first garden that's your very own!

Oh how exciting! I remember my Dude and I saving for ours in our late 20s when we decided we were gonna be lifers 💍 Felt like forever but we saved for a deposit! Bought the house in 2004 off my Dad....Garden still nowhere near finished 😂 Enjoy making your dreams come true 😊👍🌱

Thank you @TheGardenWife 😊

No buds last week - think it enjoyed the hot weather #cacti #cactus 🌵

@kyleleonard I didn't know they had emoji for some plants #cactus.

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I think we've had all the flowers for 2016 now #cacti #cactus

#shame

Looks good without flowers. That's one thing about cacti they are interesting all year round. 👌🏻

Yes agree. 👍

@kyleleonard so worth the wait

Stunning 😀

Ohhh!! It's coming.

#cacti #cactus

Lovely colour n I don't think I have seen one like this before.

@lilium

Oh my...I am so impressed! 👏👏🌵🌵🌸

😍beautiful

Absolutely lovely

Most precious to look at and worth the effort. That is we all love our plants.

So close...

It's going to be a beaut ❤️

@kyleleonard... It's nearly ready...

That's a large flower gor a cactus😍😃

@kyleleonard Thought you said you were a novice cacti grower. Nothing novice about this beauty👌🏻

Very good. It's gorgeous as suspected. Will it flower for a few days?

@angipangi - still a novice! By chance this flowered I think! 🌸

@bluecondo - I think it'll be a few days, another bid to follow

Good morning! I think today will be the day it opens

Good morning...love the in flower plant

Crossing all fingers for you

@kyleleonard... Fingers crossed, it looks ripe!

Rise and shine we are waiting for this new creation!!

Nearly...

Love this!

@kyleleonard mmmm...looks like black currant blancmange!! 😂😂

Wow! Really weird. Beautiful too in its own way...,@kyleleonard

It's coming out soon!!! We have to be patient!!!

The pink of the flower now slightly visible #cacti #cactus

Exciting...

@stephent - it last flowered in June 2014 so been a long time coming! 🌵

@kyleleonard.. That's patience.. But the flowers are usually worth the wait?

Ohhh wow! Can hardly wait to see it

It's the girlfriend's birthday today - so hoping it flowers later on but not holding my breath!

Brilliant!....fingers crossed

Hi @kyleleonard this is a gymnocalycium cactus commonly known as chin cactus. Don't know which type though. It's flowers are really beautiful. Happy Birthday Girlfriend ! Hope you enjoy your day 🎂🍰🍾

@wilko - thanks! I'll google the type later

Two flowers! This is a very lucky birthday!🎂🎂🍷

Almost bursting!

Flowering soon! What colour?!

@bluecondo - pink!

Nearly there

Love it!

Where do you get all of these amazing cacti??? :O :)))

New and old bud. Hoping it flowers in the next few days 🌵 #cactus

Nice prickles😃😂

Buds!

Possibly a Notocactus

Hello, @wilko! I've had this for 3 years now - first year it flowered with pink blooms. Any idea what it's called? Thank you!

@kyleleonard , I'm really not sure, think it maybe a hematocactus or a type of rebutia in I'm meeting up with some cacti friends in the next couple of weeks. I will let you know when I get a definite answer. Has this cactus not flowered since? Do you feed your cacti at all? I feed my cacti fortnightly with a weak mixture of tomato feed. This guarantees flowering and provides the cacti with all the nutrients they need. I only water from the beginning of May to Beginning of October.

@wilko - I've never fed them! And it didn't flower last year, probably why then! I'll look into buying some tomato feed this week. I buy cacti because I live a second storey apartment, but I tend my parents' garden. I have 3 big ones and 6 small ones, but nothing too unusual yet.

Lovely 🌵