oh well, there is always a first :), photo did not show up in post so here it is!

and the followers...

a few more

ok, one last batch...

Fabulous! I love that Copiapoa. Is the first Dioscorea grown without a support for the vine?

That was awesome, Alain. I echo Helen's appreciation. So many wonderful plants. I couldn't pick a favorite. Some of them look like the must be decades old. I hate that I waited until my early 50's to start this hobby.

Like sld, I also noticed that Dioscorea. Very interesting.

Copiapoa. I germinated this a lot in spring.

Indeed, no support for the first Dioscorea vine!

I didn’t get to go this wknd, it was on the calender, but just couldn’t make it:(. I have to be in a mood to drive to San Jose, you’re lucky you live close. SF is the easiest and closest for me.

Were the for sale plants any good? Always tons of Rebutia for sale. At least they’re not blooming so much now so you wont just buy because of the flowers;). Were there more Ariocarpus for sale this time? The spring show they had that tiny Ariocarpus in a gallon pot;). How about mesembs for sale?

That Euphorbia obesa must make the rounds because that’s the one I saw at one of the Sac shows that made me want an obesa. I love how the scarring has made little hearts all around the Euphorbia;).

I really like the Echinocereus pulchellus var. weinbergii and Fockea.

" Always tons of Rebutia for sale "

I wish that was the case here with the dutch imports.....

Beautiful! Wish I was there. That Copiapoa and the Tephrocactus are gorgeous, and the mesembs in your last post. And... and... Thanks for sharing!

Kara, I do have the impression there were a lot more new/rare finds this time around (definitely compared to the spring show). Typical me, I hesitate and it's too late. Anyway I am already way past my budget for the year, seems that happens by early spring nowadays :(

As examples, first time I saw a Myrtillocactus cv fukurokuryuzinboku, and a Eulychnia castanea spiralis. Quite a few Cereus forbesii spiralis, Lophocereus schotti monstrose and Trichocereus bridgesii monstrose. Many Ariocarpus retusus, furfuraceus and fissuratus, many nice Euphorbia as well. Besides the small bridgesii monstrose, all of these in the $50-100+ range. Mesembs not so much besides the usual.

If I measure by how frustrated I am coming out of the sale, I'd say it was a pretty good one this time around!!!

One more show to go to next week in San Juan Bautista :)

awesome. I want to go to a cacti and succulent show pretty bad!! looks like a drool fest

The Boophane,the Operculicarya,Pachypodium gaeyi and the one known as big lips will grow outdoors here in the bay area/San Jose..the part closest to the bay. The others mostly no with a few in a gray area..but under shelter is good,greenhouses best.

Can anyone tell me what the 3rd one is. The oblong balls with some smaller empty tubes up top (spent seed heads?)...........Maryl

Tephrocactus geometricus

Thank you Alain. Will look it up..................Maryl