Small one with an attitude - Turbinicarpus Viereckii

Look at this guy!
All armed like if there was some danger coming. And it is just me :D

I received it as a very young seedling. I kept it at home for the first year and only later put it outside on the balcony, but still protecting it from too much hot sun.
Starting from a small peanut size ball with tiny and soft spines I did not know it will have those long, black spines! I love how they look and that they are all pointing up. Such a cool plant.

See all the fluff inside? I think he is cooking a flower for me :) The very first flower!
I think he is about 3 years old now, so it is about time. But it is still a super small cactus. Maybe 2 cm in diameter. I guess I wait and see. There might be a blooming post this year for this guy.

Is that a flower bud there?

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 Brushii
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