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Things you never new about me: Pt. 1

Conchaga

Conchaga

Let's fuck some shit up
In my spare time, I like to grow exotic plants. My real love is for succulent cacti.

One of my favories is named Gymnocalycium Stenopleurum. It's a small succulent that grows in a bulbous shape and can be identified by it's smaller spines and leathery skin. The color varies from a dirty brown to a rich green. Mine is one of the latter. However, this is one of the few cacti out there that flowers. What's even more distinct about it is that it's bloom is rather large. Normally being half the diameter of the succulent itself. The succulent's diameter ranging anywhere from three to four inches. My Gymnocalycium is only three inches wide. The bloom was about two inches wide, fully open. From a seedling it takes the plant nearly two years to reach a state large enough to support a bloom. Mine bloomed for the first time this year.

Anyway, here are some pics of my little Gymnocalycium.

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The pink flower is the bloom I'm talking about. This was taken about a day or so after the bloom started to open.

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I know. It's out-of-focus. However, we'll use this to show the diameter of the bloom.

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Full bloom closeup using a flash.

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Closeup sans flash (dark)

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Closeup sans flash (light) This is my favorite.
 
Conchaga said:
In my spare time, I like to grow exotic plants. My real love is for succulent cacti.

One of my favories is named Gymnocalycium Stenopleurum. It's a small succulent that grows in a bulbous shape and can be identified by it's smaller spines and leathery skin. The color varies from a dirty brown to a rich green. Mine is one of the latter. However, this is one of the few cacti out there that flowers. What's even more distinct about it is that it's bloom is rather large. Normally being half the diameter of the succulent itself. The succulent's diameter ranging anywhere from three to four inches. My Gymnocalycium is only three inches wide. The bloom was about two inches wide, fully open. From a seedling it takes the plant nearly two years to reach a state large enough to support a bloom. Mine bloomed for the first time this year.
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I had no idea botany could sound so...pr0ny.

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cacti flowers are the best!

This is my fav flower...its huge & stinks like a corpse!

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I have an O'Keefe original!! While she was alive and very old, I used to go visit her in Taos.
She was a friend of my father-in-law, which was how we met. Crazy lady. I helped them set up this great show for her at the Museum of Santa Fe in the late seventies. There was one painting that was so big they had to knock out a wall and put it in with a crane. They still have a permanent exhibit of her work there. Last year they did a "flowers" exhibition with the exchanges she had with Andy Warhol.

What a talent!
 
I recognize & respect her stuff but it was never really my cup of tea.

Dada & Surrealism's really my thing. Max Ernst is my favorite --have a bunch of his stuff hosted.

"Visionary" stuff, too, like Boullée's architechtural drawings or Laffoley's OCD cosmic organizations (for lack of a better description).

Some of the Romantics, too...I wish Arnold Böcklin's works were more well-known.

The only contemporary who's floated my boat lately is Glenn Ligon. It's a typography thing mostly, but there was also a big piece I saw of his at the Guggenheim that blew my mind: It was nothing but a 8'-square canvas slathered with an inch-thick layer of what I thought was just impasto with brown-black, slighty iridescent pigment and a crunchy texture --then I read the description and found it was dead houseflies suspended in resin.
 
Sadly, all of the succulents you see in my OP are now dead. My former roommate brought in something that had fruit flies which infested and devoured my poor prickly plants. I'll take pics of my two newest ones I'm slowly nursing so that I can combine them like the ones upthread. IMO, these types of plants are just below the patience level of bonsai trees. Takes years to get them just right.
 
Cool. I need some plants. I have a money tree bonsai in my office, but I need some at home. Cactus might be the ticket...
 
Succulents are awesome. If all else fails you can learn to grow your own peyote. Even leave them in your office. Nobody really knows what they look like. Grew some a few years ago. Should do that again soon.
 
herbology has always attracted my full attention. next time you are down in the
south west, try and stumbling over some of these here peyote cacti. now there is a
hairless cacti with a prickly sensation.
 
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