Owcho and Friends

[zigs]

On close inspection we found she'd grown something just below gravel level....

She wasn't just pregnant but very pregnant....

She's had 5 babies

 

[Tjohn]

AWESOME !!!!!

 

[zigs]

We're really made up for her

She'm trying her best to flower too

 

[Becky]

Aw how lovely!

 

[MaryMary]

Owcho has got little Owies!!!

"Owcho and the Owies" - that would be a good band name!!

 

[Vachtra]

Reminds me of my agave plant. It was a prolific runner. I'd be doing some gardening up to five feet away from it and find it had put a runner out there, only found because it poked me in the finger. Even as tender as they were they could give you a good prick in the finger. Of course gifting them out to friends who wanted a large spiky plant was a good way to keep them under control. They would just come dig them up for me.

edit: it ended up being about 4 feet tall.

 

[MaryMary]

Of course gifting them out to friends who wanted a large spiky plant was a good way to keep them under control.

Oooh, just think, @zigs!! If you had one of those, you could try your hand at making tequila!!

 

[zigs]

Oooh, just think, @zigs!! If you had one of those, you could try your hand at making tequila!!

Only ever drank one bottle of Tequila

Never again

 

[MaryMary]

Um, well, you're not supposed to drink the whole bottle at once, you know?!?

 

[Vachtra]

Oooh, just think, @zigs!! If you had one of those, you could try your hand at making tequila!!

It wasn't a blue agave (the ones for tequila) but I did have a small one of those in a container. It would have been a while still before that one did much. It was a baby when I got it. Of course the other one was too but I got it 16 years earlier.

 

[zigs]

Did a bit of tidying up today...

Cold frame now just has the show plants, moved the propagating stuff onto the bench.

 

[zigs]

First flower of the year on the Mammillaria fragilis today

 

[PaulB3]

Hiya Zigs

Looks like 'Owcho' is a good specimen of the incredibly variable Parodia werdermanniana ; a naturally clump forming species.
You were very cruel to remove the 'babies' in such a forceful manner !!!!!
Only joking !

 

[zigs]

Wotcha Paul

Aah, I had her down as a Notocactus tabularis but I just had a look at the werdermanniana and she certainly looks the part.

She was glad to get shot of them

 

[PaulB3]

I think maybe a mix-up on my part ; Notocactus is now included in Parodia .
Looks like you're correct with Parodia (Notocactus) tabularis .