Thanks for the advice, George! I hadn't thought about the heat stress caused by warming pots. That might go a long way to explain why some of my non-cacti plants didn't make it... The only cactus I had on my balcony was the Opuntia and it's planted in a larger clay pot. The things that died weren't ...

Hi everyone, I've got a south-southeast facing balcony that's screaming for some cacti to make it their home, but I could use some advice on how to grow them outdoors in containers. I'm in hardy zone 8b, and my balcony is extremely sunny and hot during the summer (nearly all my balcony plants that a...

thanks for the advice! I'll get to work cleaning off more soil with a toothbrush.

Hello everyone, I've just brought home an impulse buy of three little cacti. The mammillaria plumosa looks a bit worse for wear and I'd like some advice. The cacti have probably been deprived of light for some time (considering how they were packaged...), though the other two look just fine. The soi...

I've bought a schlumbergera about six weeks ago. It has been dropping stems ever since I bought it. I don't think I'm doing something wrong in its care: it has been repotted when bought (in a cactus soil mixed with orchid bark mix), it's in a bright spot without direct sunlight and no draft or sudde...

hi everyone! My window sill has been the home of cacti and succelents since forever as my grandma started my collection by giving me my very first cactus (a mammillaria blossfeldiana, I think) when I was a kid. I love the diversity of shapes and sizes and I always got a chronic lack of space. I'm ha...