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March 2021: Virtual Brag Table Results
Submit to next month’s brag table for boasting rights, judge feedback, and club bucks!
Just send in your name, your plant’s scientific name, a photo, your category (cacti or succulent, up to 2 plants per category) and your rank (novice= <10 wins, intermediate= 10+ wins, advanced= pro grower) by April 20th, 2021.
To enter, email your entries with the subject line “Brag Table” to the editor at: eyf.editor@gmail.com
Special Thanks:
For showing your beautiful specimens!
Mark Friar as digital plant arbiter / commenter!
30 Specimens: 14 cactus & 16 succulents
14Members
Cactus Advanced
1st Place:
Copiapoa krainziana
Pam Badger
"Perfectly grown, kudos"
2nd Place:
Tephrocactus articulatus
Pam Badger
"Very nicely grown and staged"
Cactus Intermediate
1st Place:
Mammillaria marksiana
Norb Roden
"Staging and flowering "
2nd Place:
Mammillaria elongata
Norb Roden
"Nicely Grown "
3rd Place:
unknown
Rich Ryan
"This plant reminds me of Mammilaria pottsii ~ which Juergen grew to great effect, and it wouldn't surprise me if this were one of his older specimens. It should be in flower now, diminutive little dark red flowers"
Cereus peruvianus monstrose
Rich Ryan
Cactus Novice
1st Place:
Echinofossulocactus longispinus
Gale Perez
"Expertly staged, in flower, very well grown"
1st Place:
Gymnocalycium baldianum crested
Eileen Mandell
"Expertly staged, and very well grown"
2nd Place:
Astrophytum myriostigma
Gale Perez
"Very nicely staged"
2nd Place:
Matucana madisoniorum var horridispina
Jennifer Greene
"Nice clean plant, no broken spines or blemishes on the plant's body, easier to say than to do - kudos!"
3rd Place:
Copiapoa tenuissima
Jennifer Greene
""Well grown plant, a bit overpotted as it sits, but C.tenuissima is a very fast growing plant, should fill that pot in no time!
3rd Place:
Opuntia variegata
Eileen Mandell
"Great staging!"
Mammillaria geminispina
Ruth Contino
Notocactus haselbergii
Ted Nelson
Succulent Advanced
1st Place:
Euphorbia stellispina
Michael Nelson
"The minor scarring and rough look of this plant in cultivation mirrors the "war-dog" look these plants exhibit in habitat. This specimen looks about perfect to me"
2nd Place:
Euphorbia tortilis
Pam Badger
"Challenging to keep these this clean, the grower is clearly attentive and skilled!"
3rd Place:
Euphorbia cooperii
Pam Badger
"Somewhat confused by the name here, typical Eu. cooperii tends to be bluer and with a pronounced margin on the edge of the stems / clades. At first I thought this was the inermis form of Eu. grandicornis? In any event, it is expertly well-grown and attractive, kudos!"
Succulent Intermediate
1st Place:
Gasteria sp
Norb Roden
"Amazingly clean plant"
2nd Place:
Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvy'
Tom Biggart
"Topsy Turvy can be grown harder to a better looking specimen (less water, more sun)"
Succulent Novice
1st Place:
Dorstenia barnimiana
Der-shing Helmer
"Challenging plant in this sort of staging, provided the grower can offer it proper culture like this, it could be an outstanding specimen in short order!"
1st Place:
Echeveria 'Cubic Frost' crested
Eileen Mandell
"Well executed!!"
2nd Place:
Euphorbia anoplia
Anna Brunetto James
"Actually like the choice of pot, but the handle will be uselessas the clump grows, and grow this will! Good feeding and watering during the hotter months will yield a monster of a specimen!"
2nd Place:
Gasteria carinata
Gale Perez
"In my experience with this taxon, it is tricky to keep these looking so clean, the grower here has obviously got good plant sense and isn't pushing it too hard or too soft but rather just right!"
3rd Place:
Astroloba foliolosa
Patti Nelson
"I love Astrolobas, my only objection to this plant is the staging ~ which as the plant fills the pot a little better it will only increase it's overall attractiveness"
3rd Place:
Rhipsalis hatiora salicornioides
Eileen Mandell
"Nice big specimen, probably flowers like mad, this is the proper ration of plant to pot we like to see, and while it's a little messy, it's OK, it's a Rhipsalis!"
Crassula swaziensis
Ted Nelson
Echeveria “Fred Ives” crested
Jennifer Greene
Greenovia dodrantalis
Anna Brunetto James
Haworthia angustifolia var baylissii
Jennifer Greene
Senecio tropaeolifolius
Pat Bryan
If you find any error, please contact membership@sdcss.net to correct.
Thank you all for the beautiful specimens!
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