Blooming cactus - Unusuall Mammillaria Prolifera

If I was a good girl I would keep a nice track on the cacti I sowed. When I sowed them, where are the seeds from and all that cool geeky stuffs.
But apparently I am not. And I always think I will remember. Its only one like this anyway, I cannot confuse it with anything else.

And then next year I look at some of them and I have no idea what they are.

This one here is actually one of a kind and I know I grew it from seed and from a bunch of other cacti this was the only one like this. But is it 3 or 5 years old? That I cant remember... and I did not bother to put the tag on it at the right time.

Mammillaria Prolifera

It is a type of Mammillaria Prolifera and I have a few of them. But I have never seen them in this colour. To be so green with such yellow spines. It is absolutely lovely! And since I repotted it this spring to much bigger pot it grows like crazy (maybe it is 3 years old then...).

The flowers are quite typical: small with very delicate colour. They do impress when they bloom in large amounts and the red berries pop from between them. I might get both of that next year. The fruits from this years flowers will only start to show next spring.

As I mentioned, I grew this one from seed and it is not very hard. Especially that they bloom very willingly and multiple times a year. Each fruit gives quite a bit of seeds too, so in no time you can have a nice green field.

But look how many little offshots it grows! Every year. And this is so much easier and also faster way to propagate. I will snap one or two of those just to have a backup and without the hassle of sowing them. They will root in no time and might bloom next year.

Just to show that it is different, a group shot with the more common (for me anyway) ones.

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 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