Yay! Congrats!

PICS!!!!..???

I can get a picture or two up today. Many of my plants have already been growing well this Spring, especially my Dragon Fruit plant!

The new photos:

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Clockwise from top left corner: Ferocactus wislizenii, Echinocactus grusonii, Gymnocalycium friedrichii, Euphorbia flanaganii, Melocactus matanzanus, Parodia ottonis sp. venclusianus?, Ferocactus stainesii var. pringlei

Center: Hylocereus undatus sporting new growth (2nd offshoot)

Your collection is coming along nicely, Kaegen! Looking forward to your bloom pix! =)

Your collection is beautiful :) I'm especially fond of your gymnocalycium. The flowers sound very exciting.

Thank you! The flowers should be blooming any day now. The Gymnocalycium has already put out at least 6 flower buds, but I like to remove them to conserve the plant's energy. They're all just now starting to take off onto a growth spurt, and it'll be nice to cover up some of the etiolated material from previous years!

This guy is really taking his time, I guess.

Here's the latest photo. I'm not totally sure it is a P. ottonis, now that I look at the length of the peduncle; I'll have to double-check.

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Latest picture. There is no way this could be a Notocactus/Parodia species, judging by the length of the peduncle. I just might have a Lobivia mamillosa after all (I just read that it clusters rarely)!

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Nice, big bloomer coming, whatever it is!! =) Yes, that other is a slowpoke!

It's the same plant I thought it was originally: a Lobivia mamillosa. It's got quite a beautiful flower.

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Wooweee, what a beauty! Nice shots! Thanks for sharing with us! =)

It is a beauty all right!

Funny I think (in my limited brain) that white flowers are b-o-r-i-n-g! There isn't anything boring about that bloom.

the picts of Echinopsis caliochlora's flower and body are in the ball park. Just googling, Not a for sure ID , but worth checking out.

You're right! The stigma is much different in E. mamillosa. The sepals are narrower and greener also. It's funny how so many of the flowers of this genus look so much alike.