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Discuss hardy cacti grown outside all year.
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Lovely Ray!
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Nice flowers!
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Looking good Ray :thumbright:
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Hey Bill,
I notice on Ray's humifusa that the stigmas are white/yellow and not green like we were discussing? Any thoughts on that?

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Bill, I have renamed the cutting you sent me last year. I now call it O. Snackensenii

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Andy_CT wrote:Bill, I have renamed the cutting you sent me last year. I now call it O. Snackensenii

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The new name seems to fit :wink: :lol:
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daiv wrote:Hey Bill,
I notice on Ray's humifusa that the stigmas are white/yellow and not green like we were discussing? Any thoughts on that?

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Hadn't looked that closely but I can see the yellow contrast.
Hard to say Daiv, it might have a distant relative but I believe Ray's opuntia is humifusa and a nice one.
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Andy_CT wrote:Bill, I have renamed the cutting you sent me last year. I now call it O. Snackensenii
O. Snackensenii who's Snackenonya?
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I know I'm insanely late to the party but I can finally post a Humifusa flower

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With the weather you have been getting this spring and summer, I'm more than happy you were able to show up at all. :D
Looks like a score to me with a perfect blossom!!!! :cheers: :thumbleft:
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John P Weiser wrote:With the weather you have been getting this spring and summer, I'm more than happy you were able to show up at all. :D
Its the one party I refuse to miss every year :cool:
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And my Yucca elata finally thought it was tall enough to open up. Needed a ladder to get a good pic(which I didn't do), the whole thing is at least 15'tall.
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Too cool!!! I wish my yucca would bloom, it never has...I pulled it out of a dumpster about 10 years ago, it wasn't dead yet and the people were trashing it. :evil: I've nursed it back to health. Then this spring we cut some "branches" off and made more plants, and stuck the main plant in the ground. I thought it would bloom for sure after all of that. :roll:
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I thought my Y. elata flower stock was tall at seven feet. But yours beats mine by more than twice the height!! :shock:
Unreal man. 8)
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I'm with Moonbeam. I have a yucca, and cuttings from it, that date back to the '70s. I'm beginning to think it is just not the "blooming kind"... :roll:
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