Pipe cactus flowers

[Four eyed stangs]

Bloomed last night in our backyard.
My son shot these.
He also shot a time lapse series that will take a little longer to arrange.

 

[Lownslowlsc]

Beautiful pics.

 

[ONEBADMK8]

Thats crazy, never saw a cactus like that cooool pics man.

 

[Bildabo]

Super cool, thanks for posting.

Your son takes some great pictures!

 

[Four eyed stangs]

 

[Four eyed stangs]

5 blooms last night and 8 tonight.
I'll try to get a better pic of the 8 in the morning.
It looks like we are in for an 11 to 13 bloom night in a couple days!

 

[Ben's LS]

I am in the process of growing some cacti actually. They are about the size of a pin head right now.

 

[Four eyed stangs]

Growing cacti and raising a tortoise both require patience and both will probably outlive us!
We are doing both.... and loving it!

 

[isaiah3g]

That's really cool man.

I will be getting a bonsai tree hopefully later this year.

 

[Ben's LS]

That's really cool man.

I will be getting a bonsai tree hopefully later this year.

I've always wanted to get one of those. Some asian guy always sells them out of his van outside of walmart by my house.

 

[Four eyed stangs]

This was early this morning.

My son is here tonight, so he can get better pics of tonight's blooms.
It looks like 8 more tonight.

After the flowers drop off, the pollinated ones leave behind a fruit.
I'll post follow up pics of those once they develop.

 

[Four eyed stangs]

bee happy - YouTube

 

[Four eyed stangs]

My son caught a 1" giant bumble bee stealing pollen!

 

[Four eyed stangs]

9 blooms this morning.

 

[Four eyed stangs]

8 blooms tonight.
We found this guy securing a front row seat.

 

[Four eyed stangs]

https://plus.google.com/100926411216428418691/posts/NU5ju4M4tff

New camera. 24.1 megapixels.We're ready this year!

 

[Tammie]

Actually, never liked cacti.. but these are really impressive!

 

[sleepytones]

That's beautiful!

 

[llcruise]

They are lovely!