Blooming cactus - Mediolobivia mudanensis

Few years ago when I started to get really into growing cacti I put this one my wishlist. Among all the yellow and dark pinks this one looked so delicate and unusual. Peachy pink flowers on a small round cactus stole my heart!

And I got it eventually. A small cutting arrived to me about 2,5 years ago. And I am watching it like hawk.

Mediolobivia pygmaea mudanensis

This little one can be found natively in Bolivia and Argentina. It is a small cactus and grows a bit slow too. At least for me. But knowing that I tend to overwater them, I prefer to water less and have them growing slower, than trying to pump them and find then all rotten one day. I hope it will soon start growing some offshoots, so that I can split it and have it in two separate pots. Just in case ;).

I checked some photos from the blooms from last year and I think the flowers had a bit paler colour. This year it has more orange. I like the way it looks this year. The flowers also seem a bit bigger and have better shape. I guess the age did that and maybe the extra vitamins I gave them at the beginning of the season.

To compare: photo above I took today, below was taken last year when it bloomed. The pot is the same so you see it did grow a bit, but is still pretty small.

Lastly a group photo with her roomies. Funny how last year there were different cacti in bloom together with this one. This year they only have buds forming and will bloom a lot later.

Today we have: sulcorebutia frankiana with dark flowers, Sulcorebutia langerii with yellow, Mammillaria matudae with tiny pink flowers and of course our today's start in the front.

My other blooming cacti:

Chamaecereus hybrid	Sulcorebutia Canigueralii	Mammillaria camptotricha	Mammillaria Glassii
Gymnocalycium baldianum	Mediolobivia mudanensis	Lobivia Arachnacantha	Rebutia hybrid
Mammillaria Bombycina	Mammillaria Gracilis Snowcap	Mammillaria haageana	Mammillaria backebergiana
Chamaecereus silvestrii	Mammillaria prolifera	Rebutia Fabrisii var. Aureiflora	Lobivia Wrightiana
Aylostera Flavistyla FR756	Parodia concinna	Mammillaria Copper King	Gymnocalycium Brushii
Mammillaria backebergiana	Gymnocalycium damsii	Echinopsis subdenudata	Rhipsalis pilocarpa
Mammillaria Prolifera	Lobivia arachnacantha v. vallegrandensis	Mediolobivia atrovirens	Mammillaria magnimamma
Sulcorebutia langerii