Discuss hardy cacti grown outside all year.
Harriet
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by Harriet » Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:40 pm
Lovely Ray!
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by Andy_CT » Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:56 pm
Nice flowers!
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by ihc6480 » Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:13 pm
Looking good Ray
Bill
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by daiv » Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:05 pm
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?
Daiv
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by Andy_CT » Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:01 pm
Bill, I have renamed the cutting you sent me last year. I now call it O. Snackensenii
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by ihc6480 » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:35 am
Andy_CT wrote: Bill, I have renamed the cutting you sent me last year. I now call it O. Snackensenii
The new name seems to fit
Bill
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by ihc6480 » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:45 am
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?
Daiv
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.
Bill
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Harriet
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by Harriet » Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:35 am
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?
Andy_CT
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by Andy_CT » Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:28 pm
I know I'm insanely late to the party but I can finally post a Humifusa flower
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by John P Weiser » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:07 am
With the weather you have been getting this spring and summer, I'm more than happy you were able to show up at all.
Looks like a score to me with a perfect blossom!!!!
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by Andy_CT » Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:57 am
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.
Its the one party I refuse to miss every year
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by birdguy34 » Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:31 am
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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by Moonbeam » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:36 am
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.
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.
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by John P Weiser » Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:56 am
I thought my Y. elata flower stock was tall at seven feet. But yours beats mine by more than twice the height!!
Unreal man.
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by Harriet » Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:16 pm
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"...