A tiny first timer - Epithelantha micromeris

The time has come.

After... I don't even know how many years (5? It could be 5...) after sowing I get to see the tiny, pink flowers. And I mean - TINY! I though mammillarias have small flowers. This one beats them! They the smallest of all the cacti I own.
I did not even expect to see them as the cactus itself is also tiny, but yay! We have a progress :)

Epithelantha micromeris

It had 3 of the little flowers in total, but it doesn't change much. They were still barely visible from a distance (and I can see all the cacti while I drink my morning coffee though the balcony door). I just notice some more action at the top of this one, while the other two (I have 3 in total) didn't show any.

Look at this little thing! The petals are so delicate and translucent protected by also tiny spines. The whole flower is about 3mm across and last only a couple of days. I hoping there will be some seed pods, though I did not try to pollinate it. Maybe the wind did the job.

I am also hoping to see the berries, cause they are way more showy than the flowers. I could have waited with this post until then, but then again I have no idea how long it is gonna take some cacti grow the pods only the next year after blooming) and if there is gonna be any. I will just make some update when that happens. And I will make an exception - I will pick the seeds and sow them, though I said I will not sow anymore :p Because I like this one.





Look how small the whole cactus is. The other two are about the same size.
I am pretty sure it could be bigger for a 5 year old if I took better care of them. I am just glad it is alive.




When I was sowing them and the year after I had a whole filed of them. And then year after year they were dying.

This photo is from 2019:





It is one of those cacti where the flowers don't even matter that much (to me at least after seeing them), though are a lovely addition.
Just look at the amazing spines:

A quick shootout to @monster-one as he didn't want to miss this one :p

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Lastly there are some ore buds coming up so I will get to enjoy some flowers this year. There is more, much smaller ones on other plants as well, they are just not as photogenic, so I'll wait for the flowers.

Gymnocalycium Bruchii with one bud only. And as I am writing this it already bloomed and the flower died and I missed shooting it. Pretty pink thing. Pity it was just one. But last year there was none :p





Notocactus mueller-melchersii - the weed not a cactus!
I sowed some seed of this one (not the one that will bloom, but the same type) together with the Epithelantha above an few other types and they all died throughout the years (one of the reasons I will skip sowing... I just kill them) and they grow no matter how harsh I treat them. I do not want to exaggerate, but I probably have over 30 of them now all in a nice size. It will be cool to see them all bloom in the same time. They have gigantic yellow flowers!

@mipiano - one-eyes Elmo is back :D

My other blooming cacti:

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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 Bruchii
Mammillaria backebergiana	Gymnocalycium damsii	Echinopsis subdenudata	Rhipsalis pilocarpa
Mammillaria Prolifera	Lobivia arachnacantha v. vallegrandensis	Mediolobivia atrovirens	Mammillaria magnimamma
Sulcorebutia langerii	Sulcorebutia frankiana	Chamaelobivia no ID	Rebutia Albiflora
Mediolobivia atrovirens var. ritteri	Gymnocalycium damsii var. tucavocense	Notocactus Ottonis	Gymnocalycium Friedrichii
Turbinicarpus Viereckii	Rebutia neocumingii	Notocactus Rubrigemmatus	Lobivia no ID
Sulcorebutia albissima	Lobivia arachnacantha II	Notocactus mueller-melchersii	Mammillaria Prolifera
Aylostera heliosa var. condorensis	Frailea pumila	Lobivia arachnacantha	Lobivia no ID

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_{Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm lens
All photos and text are my own.}