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Eutow_Intermedium
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I had Red Spider mite on a Gymnocalycium Denudatum over the Allotment in the Greenhouse. luckily Gymnocalycium's, and some are quite simple a generally lacking in spination. So staring at my cactus very hard , I actually found the best way to get rid of random Red Spider was to actually lick them off the body of the plant.

I also done this with the G. Baldianum at Nash's Garden in the conservatory . I haven't died yet and if anything I am getting a bit of extra protein in the diet :lol: . The G. Baldianum had the worse case of the Red Spiders. Seems to have taken off since the hot weather started.

Mealy bugs can be a bit of a pain. Although you can pick them off with a needle or dab them with meths, they tend to come back again from nowhere. And nobody seems to know of a systemic Insecticide still that will kill all Mealy bug stone dead, so the plant will thrive again.

back in the day Doff Sytemic used to be in, it had Malathion in. But eventually they got rid of that because of the Malathion.

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I haven't really had to treat any of my cacti plants since, and nor do I like treating them with Insecticide.

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Here's a few plant's that are budding or about to flower soon, unfortunately i don't have enough memory on my phone to take pics of the other ones that are about to bud or flower.
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Can't wait for this one
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Panda plant
Panda plant
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Don't kno which one of these is a bud or which is gonna bloom first
Don't kno which one of these is a bud or which is gonna bloom first
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This one's about to bloom again and again
This one's about to bloom again and again
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This one's about to bloom again too!
This one's about to bloom again too!
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All that eXcitement of waiting for that huge bud to open, only t. Be ddisappointed when the guy down stairs decided he was gonna come look at my plant's and squeeze the flower bud to see what it felt like *smh* :( i don't understand why people are so stupid and rude... now I'll never see what the flower was suppose to be in all its glory :'(

And here's a pic of the semps flower
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Aloes are throwing up there flower spikes!
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This one's getting ready!
This one's getting ready!
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Jacobson aloe budding out, can't wait to see this one open i luv the look of this aloe
Jacobson aloe budding out, can't wait to see this one open i luv the look of this aloe
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Very nice collection!! Have you run out of windowsills yet? :-)
All of mine ( 200 or so)are in a Greenhouse because I don't have that many windowsills! Lol

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Yes, that aloe does look very beautiful. I like the unique look of it. I'm sorry that that man had to squash that flower bud. I wish that people had more respect for one another.
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Yea i kno, sadly its not the first bud that someone had taken off my plant or ruined :(
And yes i am running low on space I've actually had to start putting stuff on the flooror inside the display case green house till i make room lol!
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Nice collection! First page third picture from the last just behind the old man cactus there is a branching cereus type cactus do you know what kind it is?
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That one I've been trying to id for a long time, he kinda looks like a peni$ on one side lol
I'll take a close up for u in a bit and add it to this post

Let me kno if this is the right one, cause there's two old man cacti, in the picture. An old man of the Andes in the small pot next to a fairy castle cacti on its left and in back of the big old man/lady cacti (i call them snowpole cacti, but heard pple call them old lady cacti??) Isthis columnar peni$ cacti
He's actually one of my favorites, but dont tell they others lol!
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You talking about this one, cause theirs two old man cacti in the pic lol
You talking about this one, cause theirs two old man cacti in the pic lol
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Closer up
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Other side...any one kno what it is?
Other side...any one kno what it is?
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its gonna be to right of the one pictured above.
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Green one with 3 visible columns? That's called a fairy castle cacti, don't kno it's actual name, i forgot it and even if i remembered it i couldn't spell it right lol! If u look up fairy castle cacti maybe you'll get something on Google... i kno it's called a fairy...something i believe it was castle or some kinda thing like that lol
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Aha! I found the name i think

Fairy Castle is Acanthocereus tetragonus monstrose,
Thanks to greenknight for id
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Yup thats what it is! I've been trying to Id that one in my collection for a while. Thanks!
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Yea they are pretty common usually with the stupid fake flowers u gatta pull off lol
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