Thank you for the replies. I was thinking that it was crowding itself and should be thinned or at minimum, the dead parts of the leaves trimmed but I will let her go and see what happens.

This Aloe was growing in a ~2' shallow ~6" pot for about 4 years. I decided where I wanted to put it last year but as you can see, it was damaged by the freeze but it had about 15 flowers on it this spring. Ideas on what should I do with it? I would like to clean it up a bit. It is on a small m...

7george - great photo! Thank you for sharing!

nachtkrabb - In regard to behavior, nothing special other than it bloomed at night. The photos I have show that it flowered end of July/first of August. I am in the central valley of California. "Typical weather" at this time of year is 90+ daytime temps and most of the summer we receive t...

Great advice. Thank you. I have reached out to try and obtain a few plants. I have several areas where I would like to grow this particular cactus.

Wow! That is an amazing specimen! Grand idea on using bamboo. I have a couple of small bamboo groves and when I obtain one of these cacti, I am will utilize bamboo as structure. Thank you again for your efforts.

Thank you anttisepp & nachtkrabb. If you look through the images in the link below, some appear to be a dead match. And that the cactus is not self-supporting (it had never occurred to my simple mind that this cactus was not self-supporting), the photos allow one to visualize how this cactus thr...

Thank you for the reply nachtkrabb . As I recall, it always needed support. The arms were somewhat random as you can see in the photo(s). One unique thing I recall after looking at the photos is that the spines were small and there were perhaps (a guess) 4-6 spines per cluster.

Thank you Spence & Steve! I appreciate the ID and the reminder to fertilize. I will check out the link you provided. Thanks again!

Wild story... Probably not... ;-) Circa 2005, a friend was filling up with fuel and found this cactus discarded in a pot with no identification. When he gave it to me, he said what are the odds that he would find something like this and know who to give it to? After a couple of years, it produced an...

I have about 8 of these cacti in different places and this one seems to have an issue. It's not as vibrant as the others. Ideas? I have provided a third photo of one that looks like all of the others I have. The bottom photo with the flowers is from May 7, 2022. I have had a few flowers in 2023 and ...