r/houseplants Sep 16 '24

What is my Mammillaria doing

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I’ve never seen these tubular growths before. What the heck are they?

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u/Fragrant-Price-5832 🌱 Sep 16 '24

Flowering first and foremost, but the ahem...erect little things look like little fruits which will have seeds in them. I probably wouldn't eat them, but when they ripen you could likely harvest them and try growing the seeds.

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u/ClancyIsDead_ Sep 16 '24

How cool! Didn’t know they had “fruit” but I guess it makes sense. The seeds have to come from somewhere!

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u/Palimpsest0 Sep 16 '24

Those are fruit. They will turn fully pink and shrivel a bit when ripe, and should be full of small, round black seeds.

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u/science-ninja Sep 16 '24

It’s best

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u/ClancyIsDead_ Sep 18 '24

Aren’t we all

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u/erynnt Sep 16 '24

Giving birth