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- Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:06 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cactus behaving strangely
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1372
- Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:54 am
- Forum: Free For All
- Topic: what is your favorite non cacti or succulent plant?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 12896
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:52 pm
- Forum: Free For All
- Topic: Cat up a tree? ER Cactus?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 912
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:22 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cactus behaving strangely
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1372
Cactus behaving strangely
Here are a couple of odd Ferocactus cylindraceus I've come across. I'd love to know what strange cactus growth habits other folks have observed. http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/430_cactus_1_2.jpg http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/430_cactus_2_2.jpg http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userp...
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:47 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Do you talk to your plants?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3719
Rice plants apparently have genes linked to sound reception. Unfortunately you can't read all of this article unless you're a subscriber, but the snippet gives the gist of it...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg1 ... waves.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg1 ... waves.html
- Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:50 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: average dates of first and last frost
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4420
Below freezing temps here in Vegas? It could happen, I'd say, late November - early January, but actual FROST is very rare, since the air is so dry. We rarely even get condensation when it's warm. The teen-aged kids of a friend of mine had never seen dew, and didn't understand one morning how the ca...
- Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:44 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Big Box Cactus
- Replies: 50
- Views: 6537
- Sat Nov 05, 2011 8:06 pm
- Forum: New Member Welcome
- Topic: From Maine to Nevada
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1799
- Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:43 pm
- Forum: New Member Welcome
- Topic: From Maine to Nevada
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1799
Ohhh, the low rainfall definitely doesn't help! I was thinking more of garden plants, which get irrigated. Even then, it's tough to grow things here. My back yard is a no-cactus zone, and the list of things I have tried to grow out there, and failed, is far larger than the list of things that have s...
- Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:32 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Big Box Cactus
- Replies: 50
- Views: 6537
This is the biggest place to buy cactus around here:
http://www.cactusjoeslasvegas.com/
I purposefully avoid it, for fear I would buy... everything...
http://www.cactusjoeslasvegas.com/
I purposefully avoid it, for fear I would buy... everything...
- Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:29 am
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: Mammilaria and Opuntia
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3351
I'd love to share some of the Opuntia, but I checked with the Nevada Dept. of agriculture today, and if I want to send any cacti pieces through the mail, I have to have an agent come out and inspect my cacti for pests first, and presumably check to see that I don't have anything illegal. Then, I get...
- Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:25 am
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: Mammilaria and Opuntia
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3351
- Wed Nov 02, 2011 2:06 am
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: Mammilaria and Opuntia
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3351
- Wed Nov 02, 2011 2:01 am
- Forum: New Member Welcome
- Topic: Hello from Massachusetts.....whew....long state name......
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3122
- Wed Nov 02, 2011 1:59 am
- Forum: New Member Welcome
- Topic: From Maine to Nevada
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1799
Glad you like Bob! (The name is from Sideshow Bob on the Simpsons, because of his spiky hair.) The Mojave is one of the toughest places in the country to grow things, because it gets BOTH hot summers, AND cold winters. Most plants can handle one extreme or the other, but not both. We get plenty of d...