That would be a nightmare!

If anyone is wondering how I made the tags, they are just aluminum from a soda can that I cut into strips and numbered with an embossing label maker I found in a box.

Mesa Garden sells seed of most of the other species.

Saxicola wrote:I've wondered if the Feds will ever decide to do a raid on Big Bend National Park seeing as how they are being grown in the park!

How about a sensitive plant reintroduction project?

TexasMonster wrote:I normally don't take cacti from the wild, but if they're in threat of becoming trash I will, or move them elsewhere.

Glad to hear it. It seems like you understood why I made my post so I wont bore you with an explanation.

Unless I am misunderstanding the origin of some of your cacti... In the future please do not collect plants from the wild.

You also may want to look into less organic based soils for your cacti, especially the natives.

I decided to make up some numbered tags for my 7 grafted Geohintonia seedlings so that I can keep track of them in the future. It was easy to remember which grafts are which when I was starting out but now it is getting a little out of hand. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7300/8745903513_d37fe3f364.j...

coldcactusmontreal wrote:Well I thought that it was the moist soil that stimulated root growth?

All moisture generally stimulates in unrooted cacti is rotting. A lack of sunlight and adequate dehydration to need water is usually the trigger for rooting in my experience. Good luck with saving your cactus.

This thread makes me wish I had taken photos of my poor Astrophytum asterias that cooked during that last heatwave. It was getting a bit more sun than I thought and when I went out and saw the whole plant turn yellow in one afternoon I knew something was off... Turned out the entire cactus's core ha...

This Turbinicarpus alonsoi of mine has flowered a few times already this year, really enjoying our latest heatwave.

Healthy looking plants, Subverted =D> For the top picture did you graft it from seedling and whats the rootstock 8) Hendry The top picture is a pup grafted onto a Myrtillocactus geometrizans stock. The pup is one that I sliced off of a grafted seedling that turned out to be a variegate, that was th...

Mammillaria theresae

Been busy with lots of stuff this year, some good some not...but lots of cool things going on with the plants. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8551/8713509850_dd50457541.jpg Eriosyce esmeraldana variegate ( the mother graft ) http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8279/8712386433_cd2fa98d81.jpg Frailea asteroi...

Better to get one of those LED UV flashlights for finding scorpions, they sell 'em at the gas stations around here! $10 or so, then snoop around at night...the purple light is enough to see by. Be very careful of rattlesnakes when using UV light as your only light source. Their patterning does not ...

Very nice results! My seedlings are growing quite a bit slower than yours, it seems.

I really could not understand why it should be such a BIG DEAL. He have some Lophos. So what. I have one too. What does that make me? A dealer???? It really shouldnt be a big deal...but I can understand his seeking to be careful. Did you see my post earlier in the thread? Unfortunately when laws an...