Mammillaria surculosa

In flower today, 15-4-08. This is the offset you sent me last year Chris. How far off from flowering is yours.

First flowers probably a couple of weeks. Glad to see it is in good hands! I suspect your greenhouses must be in better light than mine is, as I am rather overshadowed by a line of old Scots Pine.
There may well be one of those trees' seedlings on the Isle of Bute somewhere, as the guy who bought my old greenhouse lived there and there was a 2 ft sapling growing in a gully on my roof, which I had cleane dout, and he took that as well as the greenhouse - at no extra charge of course!
In the last couple of days there are so many more plants in bud. Todays first flowering of this plant this year is M. discolor ssp esperanzaensis, and also some buds on a smaller version under the number FO-104. It also looks as though one of my petrophilas is budding up nicely, which is very early for me - for a change!!

Very nice Mark and with a nice smell of lemon too. They can grow very fast and make lots of offsets in a short time.