Five-Spine Rating - 4^?

Yes - small container size plant. This variety will occupy a small flower pot comfortably and remain a manageable sized house plant.

This variety will do their best as houseplants with lots of sun and they become stressed with inadequate light which could result in poor health or even death.

Yes - does well with cool winter time temperatures. This variety will tolerate temperatures down below 50 °F. if the roots are kept dry, and will do very well in a home with energy saving thermostat setting.

Yes - easy care root system. This variety stores water in the parts of the plant which are above the soil leaving the root system small enough to fit into a proportionally sized flower pot.

Yes - flowers easily as a house plant. This variety is likely to flower as a house plant, but results will depend on a variety of growing conditions.

Good locations

Potential living space locations include; East, West or South windows and three to four season rooms with plenty of light. This species will tolerate very cool days and cold nights, but will need the temperatures to remain above -10 °F. If this variety is to be set outdoors during the growing season it needs to be in a location with plenty of sun and will tolerate lots of rain. It is important to expose this plant to very cold fall and spring weather in order to prompt it to bloom the following growing season. This can be accomplished by keeping it in an unheated room over the winter, or keeping it outdoors as long as possible in the fall and returning it to outdoor weather as soon as possible in the spring. This is a plant which may be grown outdoors in zones 5 through 9 with some protection from ice. Keep in mind that in the locations where they were growing short grasses provided some winter protection from ice.

Size

These are 6 - 7 inch diameter stems and if spines are to be included in the measurement they even larger. They can grow over a foot across and about eight inches high and they will need at least a 10 inch wide flower pot.

Ancestry

Southwestern United States and Mexico

Plant Origin

From the clearing of ranch land in New Mexico, where they grow in a limestone based soil. The property owner said that the plants which weren't taken would be destroyed.

Photo

This photo shows an Echinocactus texensis in a terra cotta pot from Germany along with a Zoisite & Lepidolite necklace, sandstone, a Flower fly and the soil is topped off with dolomite. Items in this photo are for demonstration purposes only, and the monopoly dogs are shown as a size scale reference. Purchase price includes an Echinocactus texensis and soil designed for great plant care.

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