Hurray!

Thanks - I am very attracted to hylocereus and dragonfruit. This was enjoyable.

No spam here! I can't seem to get rid of or block the old mailing lists I've signed up for in the past but nothing unexpected. These days it seems spammers try random combinations to make their mailings, and nearly everyone I've known has received at least a couple of international bank scam emails,...

I've tried cinnamon on my cuttings and it seems that it occupies any wet spot where mold could get in. Seems to work for me.

Enjoyable!! music and cacti! that's my kind of mix

Beautiful specimen!

good deal, and good deal and Hooray for peters!

I wonder what causes them to change color then?

::Grins humongously::

Thanks Daiv, i'll take that idea to heart, I've got about five other S. truncata's going and I'll see what turns out. Tony, =D> =D> =D> Gorgeous tree! you are pretty skilled! I think I need to do more ground growing and for longer periods. I'm grooming a few in ground plants for an exciting future.....

I also will grow plants in a tilted manner in order to encourage root and foliage growth in the desired direction. This one's not a succulent, barberry, Berberis thunbergii I believe: http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/2884_Photo_on_20100730_at_1409_1.jpg http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix...

It was a process. I was originally grooming it to be a 'cascade' style, but as you can see that's not where it is at. I've selectively pruned and now recently repotted it at more of a horizontal angle. Wiring is too easily injurious for me to use much on something like this. (so I've found out! :rol...

OK, so this is something I have been working on for some time now as bonsai was a love I fostered before cacti. forgive me for I have only the built-in camera on my computer. I have been working on this cactus for about five years now as a bonsai and growing it for say ten before that and it was ali...

I've plucked fat fresh ripe looking fruits and squeezed them on to soil and had like fifty or so seedlings pop up soon after, so you probably need not wait till they're dry. (IMO)

yeah, I've been thinking and it occurs to me that maybe the water can be pure because the soil should bear the nutrients, right?

If you have to choose between reverse osmosis filtered water and softened well water which would seem more appealing?

Hooray for Hob!

and I have to say this is an awesome site. <3