I fear that's what it is. Tubers too deep for me, 8 to 14 inches. Roundup. How do you roundup that stuff right in the middle of my plants? Even roundup won't get it all now if I could isolate it. I don't think it's wild garlic, and I suspect many google images are not id'ed correctly. It's a losing battle pulling it even though it does pull fairly easily IF you can isolate it and get a good grip on it, but it will be right back. What nasty stuff, must have come in on something like I'm thinking the lilies weren't clean or the soil, seed starter I ws'ed with or even in some seeds, lots of ways to get nasty things. Guys who do my lawn, etc., could bring stuff in on their equipment. That's the problem, try to make things better with topsoil, bags of stuff, get stuff you never had before along with the battle of what you did have before. I think I'm finally rid of that particularly nasty clover and some plant I never saw before, didn't get a photo for an id, encroaching on the garden, used roundup painted on for some of it, 24d or weed 'n feed took care of a lot that got in the lawn. You don't want 24d or weed 'n feed to get onto your garden plants. So I recommend a high quality spreader or hand spread it around beds but not in them. Or put up shields. Or don't use it at all like some. I would never have gotten rid of that clover and it was a round dark green ovoid smooth edged stuff that looked like it had runners, never had anything like it before. Thanks, at least it's good to know what I'm dealing with. If I apply a pre-emergent, I'll have to give up the lilies, too, probably. At least the isolated patches that haven't been around too long, I can dig down and see if I can get deep enough. So far it's just in the back yard and behind the garage. Rhizomes. Big. Chills down my spine lol.

I grow Schick hybrids, most are not as tall as that one, and darker green, though the spines and ribs seem the same, and the Schick hybrids do have all of the species in them that is mentioned above, including Rebutia. Well not quiet all of them. And they can be figured out by the flower, if you have the flower chart in color to do so. Keep your labels make duplicate copies of them, and put one in the bottom of the pot. Not all of them look alike, some hardly have any spines, and others have long ones, Bob Schick used to tell them apart by looking at them. Sorry for such a long post, Echinopsis are grown just like any other cactus and need the same care, for flowering give them a low 0-20-10 fertilizer approx. The middle number must be higher, the first number very low. No water in the Winter, they must have the chill and dormant periods to flower. They are extremely hardy, will flower 6 mo. at least of the year from the end of April to the end of Sept. depending on you climate, light where you grow them, feeding. May open 4 nights depending on light. Norma

As expected, you all were right and I was very, very wrong. The two Asao each have six - count 'em, SIX! - stems coming up, all with buds at the tips. Each are a good 3" or so tall already! Dr. Ruppel and Viticella Vinosa each only have one stem, but I'm hoping more come up. Inspiration is the big surprise. It has 3 stems coming up, and one of them has a bud already! Thanks for everyone's patient replies at my stupidity and eagerness. Part of me kind of wishes one of my Asao or Palette HAD croaked... I have 3 Palette and 2 Asao, and if one of them croaked I'd have a reason to buy something else!

I think the second one is a sort of Haworthia after googling both Haworthia attenuata and just other ones trying to find a match. I'm really curious about the first one. I have it inside at the moment, but I'm considering moving it outside if I can figure out what it is and figure out how it tolerates heat/sun. I'm in Houston where weather is pretty rough right now so I'd be hesitant to put it outside if it was not a fan of the heat.