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- Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:10 pm
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: El Paso - Roswell cactus places
- Replies: 12
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Re: El Paso - Roswell cactus places
dasyacanthus, great! I got a few seeds out of an open fruit so I'll post back in 3-5 years and show you the flowers!
- Sun Aug 05, 2012 11:21 pm
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: El Paso - Roswell cactus places
- Replies: 12
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Re: El Paso - Roswell cactus places
Thanks for all the tips everyone. We had a great time! I was so amazed to see cacti in the wild like this. They are not just native to home improvement stores! The first was just East of Ruidoso, NM on highway 70 up on a hill. I don't know which Echinocereus it is. It had a lot of small, dried up fl...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:01 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cacti in pans?
- Replies: 14
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Re: Cacti in pans?
Nice potless Rebutia! Thanks for all the replies. No, I was just reading, in 500 Cacti: Species and Varieties in Cultivation by Ken Preston-Mafham, I think, and there was several mention of growing in pans and I was afraid I was missing some cool growing method. Azalea pots are great and bonsai pots...
- Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:36 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cacti in pans?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1511
Cacti in pans?
I've seen mention in several books that shallow rooting cacti can be grown in pans, but have found no specifics. Anyone do this or have any practical tips? I thought clay saucers might make a nice pot for something shallow rooting but I'm afraid I'd just break them trying to put drainage holes in th...
- Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:41 pm
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: El Paso - Roswell cactus places
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3278
Re: El Paso - Roswell cactus places
Thanks everyone, I really appreciate the info! I'm glad to hear the nursery is still there. I'll definitely post some pictures when I get back! --rob
- Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:50 pm
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: El Paso - Roswell cactus places
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3278
Re: El Paso - Roswell cactus places
Thanks Peter, that's just the kind of practical advice I was looking for, slopes and rocks! Glad to hear reichenbachii is fairly visible. many thanks! --rob
- Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:14 pm
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: El Paso - Roswell cactus places
- Replies: 12
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El Paso - Roswell cactus places
Hi all, I'm taking my kids to Roswell, overtly for the alien festival at the end of this month, but really it's just to visit nurseries and cacti in the wild spots in the El Paso - Alamogordo - Roswell - Carlsbad loop. Can anyone suggest any nurseries I should stop at, or places to visit? I'm a bit ...
- Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:31 pm
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: driving from Miami to San Antonio, what to see? nurseries?
- Replies: 4
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Re: driving from Miami to San Antonio, what to see? nurseri
Hi Harriet, I didn't mean to imply Florida was dreadful, just the monotonous interstate drive. Selby is very nice, I actually interned there one summer back in the 80's. That was in my orchid days, now I'm a cactus snob and I'm itching to get to the west. Almost half the trip to San Antonio will be ...
- Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:18 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: dormant Echinocereus pentalophus seedlings
- Replies: 4
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Re: dormant Echinocereus pentalophus seedlings
Yeah my mature one grows like a weed but has a distinct dormant period. I thought maybe the seedlings might do that too. Well, 2 out of 12 are growing so maybe the others a weak, hate the soil, or are just thinking about growing...
- Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:16 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: dormant Echinocereus pentalophus seedlings
- Replies: 4
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Re: dormant Echinocereus pentalophus seedlings
I have some on a window sill on a ENE facing window getting broken sunlight and some under florescent lights. Maybe I'm just impatient, but the rigidissimus and misc Rebutias seem to be much farther along.
- Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:12 pm
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: driving from Miami to San Antonio, what to see? nurseries?
- Replies: 4
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driving from Miami to San Antonio, what to see? nurseries?
I'm thinking of taking a drive from Miami, FL to San Antonio, TX in a few weeks and I wondered if anyone had any suggestions for good cactus viewing spots or nurseries to stop at along the way. My guess is the cacti don't really get started until San Antonio, but maybe there are some neat Opuntias a...
- Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:33 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: dormant Echinocereus pentalophus seedlings
- Replies: 4
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dormant Echinocereus pentalophus seedlings
Quick question. I've had luck with all kinds of cactus seeds, but I noticed my Echinocereus pentalophus seeds seemed to have germinated fine but then sort of sit there while everything else (save the Aztekuim hintonii) outgrows them. This happens in natural and artificial light. Out of about a dozen...
- Sat Dec 31, 2011 4:30 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: never- or rarely- flowering cacti
- Replies: 10
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I was pretty surprised and very happy to see Copiapoa haseltonia bloom this year. Of course the flower is typical of Copiapoa, but its the event that got me jazzed. Cool! It's really great to see something when it decides to flower for the first time. I have two Copiapoa that are pushing 3mm in hei...
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:10 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: never- or rarely- flowering cacti
- Replies: 10
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Won't most monstrose/cristate/fascinated form sometimes start to grow noramlly? I think most fascinated things are a result of the meristem getting messed up somehow, maybe somatic mutation, although certainly some species are more prone to mostrosity. I have a Mammalaria elongata cristate form that...
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 8:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: never- or rarely- flowering cacti
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1308
never- or rarely- flowering cacti
I was reading about Pereskiopsis spathulata, and in one book I read the flowers are unknown (elsewhere I read that they are probably synonymous with P. diguetii, which does flower). I got to wondering if there are any cacti for which flowers are not known? Maybe they only propagate vegitatively, may...