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Gary, you inspired me to make a new cacti bed! I used to have a bunch of stuff that I brought back from the Arizona desert. My grandparents built a house in the Sonoran desert on old military land and they had every kind of cactus you could imagine right outside their front door. At one point I brought back a saguaro, jumpin' cholla, barrel, prickly pear, etc.
 
captain7359 said:
Here's my slice of the desert.

Started it last year, but have had the two potted oned for a few years.

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With the rate we've been finding stuff to add, soon it'll be expanding to the right :spin2:
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Nice! I am motivated by all the pics to get my own slice of the desert :)
 
looks great!

looks great!

I recognize some of those plants, Walter :)

I wish that I still had family in Arizona, Dan. Maybe someday I'll just have to move out there myself. I'll have to settle for my cactus garden in the meantime.
 
Gary Majchrzak said:
I recognize some of those plants, Walter :)

I wish that I still had family in Arizona, Dan. Maybe someday I'll just have to move out there myself. I'll have to settle for my cactus garden in the meantime.
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Yup, the frags have been doing well. Just getting tougher to move each year :fun5:
 
heatwave 2010

heatwave 2010

have you noticed the corn fields around here lately?

'Knee high by July' goes the saying. After the rains Friday the corn shot up to 5 or 6 feet tall. It's been a good year to grow cactus, too: here's a pic of a week old baby cactus that germinated from seeds produced by a nearby mature plant. Notice that the first leaves on a cactus look like little wings (seen at the bottom of this one). Penny for size reference.

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omg, Gary...that is spectacular! love the penny for scale in that pic. How did the garden fair with the heavy downpour we had yesterday?
 
RIP Big blue...


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Think the porch must have gotten too cold for it and it is melting away. I cut away most of the soft stuff, but most of it is soft and the spines are falling out of most of it. I finally had a nice centerpiece to build the garden around and now I loose it. I'll be looking for another piece if anyone has any or another larger type.
 
sorry to hear of the meltdown.

Only a small percentage of cacti can withstand freezing temps and 'Big Blue' isn't one of them. If there's any solid part of the plant left you can regrow a new plant from it but you'll need to cut away all the liquified parts.
I have replacements if need be :)
 
captain7359 said:
Very nice Gary. You available tomorrow?
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yeah- I'll PM you my cell #.

Andy- it's really easy to root a cutting. For cuttings of columnar cacti you need to allow the column to dry (heal) up before placing it in soil. For "Mickey Mouse Ear" Opuntia types simply place an "ear" flat on soil and roots will form on the side of the pad laying on the soil.
 
my Echinopsis pachanoi when I got it, it wasnt packaged well and suffered from spines poking lots of holes and caused rot.... so it got chopped and thats where the little parts came from
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are you still living in Florida?

are you still living in Florida?

due to good growing conditions you should be able to grow that thing to a HUGE size rather quickly down there, Andy!
 
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