I dont have the name of the red one either stephania but the rascal will rip your leg off if you get to close. It likes the hot full sun. I nic-named mine chili powder

Hi Stephania.
Your posts today are great...good morale builders as we await Spring.That special Hechtia,the rosy-red one is called H.'Nova',on the RareExotics.com site of Guy Wrinkle's. Its the 6th and 7th pic down on the bromeliad page. I think thats an un-oficial name tho,maybe something just thought up to promote a sale. But $45 bucks!
At least I think its the same plant,looks the same.
They grow on cliffs near the Pacific coast of Oaxaca,Mex.
That H.argentea in your photo must be very old,as mine looks nothing like that one.That one must be a grandfather.
If you have more photos,I'm ready for them.
Bob

Mexican Chili, HDD ;)

Actually, I guess my plants came from Guy Wrinkle, too, as my friend
know Guy very well and had plant trip with him in Mexico many times.

This is my baby Hechtia argentea from Charlot.

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And a closed up of Guy's Hechtia 'Nova' or HDD's 'Chili Powder'

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Stephania,
My H.argentea and yours are twins ! same size,same looks. They have a long way to go before they reach 'grandfather's' size. ;)
I would enjoy a plant hunting trip to Mexico...so much to see,and do,and the scenery,...wow!
If Guy goes there for plants,I think he sends each one back home by air,first class seating,and adds that into what he charges!! ;^)
But I guess thats why he named his place,'Rare Exotics'
bob

More stunning photos--I love all your posts, Stephania.

I have been eyeing that Hechtia on Guy's site, but yes it is pricey. All the plants I got from him so far were very expensive and really tiny--so I can hope they will survive, and if they do, it will take years until they are a respectable size!

I wonder how he gets them back--first class? I thought it was against the rules to bring them across the border.

Actually Bob, I got another different looking which labeled
'Hechtia argentea' from Tropiflora last year.
The plant has sparsely spines with short rigid leaves and profuse pups.

Here Tropiflora's plant.
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And this is an unknown Dyckia ( or Hechtia? as Dyckia should not be found in Mexico)
from Guy Wrinkle, a striking silvery plant.
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stephania do you have any of these Hechtia glabra, Hechtia glomerata, Hechtia rosea, Hechtia
'Red Jalapa'?
my favorite that I own is Hechtia texensis
True about the Guy plants pricey, small and fragile.

HDD, I found one of Guy's FAQs interesting if not amusing since my experience has been opposite of what is said here:

I found a supplier of a species at a lower price than what you are listing. Why is this?

Although we do sell some small seedlings, many of the plants we offer are much larger than those offered elsewhere by others. We specialize in large mature plants for collectors and rare plant enthusiasts. Not only are these plants much harder to get, the costs of acquiring them are very high. This is especially true for big and/or heavy plants. Everything we import is shipped in by air and the cost can be very high for this alone. In short, we do not usually sell what is sold by others but rather something much nicer.

I picked up a h. glomerata in San Diego last year--quite showy plants.

Stephania,
That second photo of your other H.argentea does'nt look much like your first pic,and mine looks like your first pic too.(twins!) You got the second different looking one one at Tropiflora,and I got mine at Bird Rock. I'm wondering where Chrlot's came from? Do you think Tropiflora's is not ID'd correctly,or maybe just different growing conditions? Those widely spaced spines and rigid leaves are quite a difference from Charlot's and mine,which are both more like the original pic you posted.What do you think?
bob

I think, amongst all cultivated bromeliads, Heachtia is the least known genus.
There are at least 10-20 kind of them, but quite hard to ID correctly !
as most of them look alike.

So, HDD, I'm not sure which species I have, except H. rocea, H.glauca,
H. manier-lapostollei, H.glomerata which have distinguishable characteristic,
but could say that there are about 15-20 different kind : 12 specimen plants
including 8 seedlings with different No. of localities data that I've kept in my collection.

I understand, Philofan, as I sometimes do collect plant :
caudiciforms, succulents in their habitat by myself like Guy,
so if I was a business man I would sell that high :)

Yep...Bob, I thing 2nd Tropiflora's H. argentea might be another kind,
may be miss-tag, as Charlot told me that he also got his H. argentea
from Tropiflora years ago too!

Yes, I have some collected plants of mine as well. High price is not unreasonable to ask for rare plants I agree, but if I should ever sell them, I would make sure they are viable and somewhat "finished" in size (e.g. selling a grass pup for the comparible price of a 2-year old plant is bad business). Maybe the next plant I get from Guy will be similar in size to what I can get from Tropiflora or Michael's. Good luck with those hechtias.

I agree philo..I have ummm..paid some very high prices for plants but they were mature, healthy specimens. The price isnt the point if the quality goes with it

Hi philofan,
I think we've had similar discussions once before re: Guy's plants.I can only go by what I've received in the three or four orders I've placed. Each time,I received nice full grown plants in the Dyckia and Hechtia genera.
That may have been good luck in ordering at just the right time. Here's a couple of pics from two orders this past summer. I sincerely hope you have a more positive experiance if you ever decide to try him again.I'll give him this,he has some unusual and hard to find plants,and yes,he is deffinetly pricey.I was kidding when I said 'he flies them in first class seating,etc.'...as it turns out,thats what he said he does,in your last post above. (truth is stranger than fiction sometimes ;) )
Bob
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These are real beauties, Bob. It's amazing the variation they have. The first white ones remind me of taffy.

I'll likely try again, but make sure I find out the size first.

Maybe I'll have time to stop by his place during my drive south in a couple weeks.