i'm kinda impressed with myself...i got 18 right and i haven't had tv in 8 years.

It's all learning and getting better :) this is true...i just hope that i'm smart enough to learn from my mistakes. :roll: daiv: the greenhouses were kits. we got them cheap on ebay and decided they would be a cost effective solution till we got the habor freight greenhouses built. i wish i could t...

i missed 8 as well...i could barely see the number even after they told me what it was

well i should have started this earlier...but i'm pretty lazy :oops: this spring was kinda tough for me. i had alot of losses...but they were my fault. i left the plants out in a coldframe too long. most of my collection saw temps in the low 20s and upper teens last fall. oh well...not being one to ...

i'm working on getting all my photos together so i can start a member topic,but i just had to share this one. back in jan. or feb. i got a plant labeled toumeya x echinocereus. it started to flower about a week ago and the flowers took some time to fully open(if thats what you want to call it) :lol:...

i'm with hob on the location...but i was thinking it was a small frog or half buried lizard.

i don't know why...but for some reason i always think that this is a notocactus scopa monstrose,but i could be wrong.
they seem to be popular at east coast garden centers.
i had a grafted one that looked similar.
the stock died during the winter one year,now i have 7 or 8 pots full of little ones.

mesa garden has polyacantha seeds and plants.
http://www.mesagarden.com/

i'm curious why no dolomite.
i've been using dolomite screenings(well washed)as part of my ario soil for a couple of years now and i haven't seen anything wrong with them.
is there something i should know and don't?

it looks alot like a goldenrod spider.
we have them around our backyard all summer.
sometimes they have red or dark pink stripes along the side of thier abdomen.
their harmless,but they can be really hard to see when they are on goldenrod.

well i finally got everything playing nice together(i hate new operating systems) ](*,) so heres some pics : aztekium hintonii: i can't imagine this pic will change much for awhile http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/828_ahintonii_1.jpg ario bravoanus http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/828_...

great looking plants.
i hope i can grow mine as nice.

hanazono: i only had 4 out of 12 of the ario come up. i might have gotten more but i had damping off problems and had to let them dry sooner than i would have liked. i tried to graft 2 of them but neither one took so i'm left with 2 that aren't doing much fast. ian: i reread my posts and i wasn't as...

i'm not sure about the boiling water either. i thought i'd read it somewhere...but i can't remember where it was :dontknow: i've used that method for other hard shell seeds before,usually morning glory and such. i figured i had enough seed...so why not. think i got the camera figured out,so hopfully...

well last weekend on the 7th i sowed 5 pots of e.horizonthalonius,each with 12 seeds. 1 pot was sown with no treatment at all. 1 was treated with G.A for 30 mins. 1 was treated with sulfuric acid for 8 mins. 1 was scratched with sand paper. the last was soaked in boiling water for about an hour. all...