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gardenboy
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Howzit from South Africa

Post by gardenboy »

Hello everybody!

late twenties, writing my masters thesis, just started getting a cactus and succulent garden going.

so far only have one myrtillocactus geometrizans that i grew from a cutting, but been keeping my eyes peeled around town and found a few potential donors

hope to learn a lot while i'm here.
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Welcome here. You can bet that you will learn a lot here. If you choose to do so.
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Post by Jo »

I wonder how that come about..a guy straight from the Heart Of The Succulent World grows a cacti? :D
You can have almost all the mesembs of the world, all those cool geophytic gems..
Oh wait a sec..one always wants to grow those not indigenous.
Exotic plants, like cacti, fit the bill for you perfectly, I guess.

Warm welcome gardenboy! :wink:
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hello
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Welcome! You CAN learn a lot here (as I found out :))
A cactus and succulent collector who especially likes Ariocarpus. …Though I have a bit of everything! Want some pictures? See my flickr! I also do art and such.
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:hello2: Hello Gardenboy and Image to CactiGuide hope you enjoy it here.. :D
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welcome!
With apologies to the late Professor C. D. Darlington the following misquotation springs to
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
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Hi! :D
All Cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are Cacti
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Post by gardenboy »

i do have a few succulents as well and they're mainly indigenous. a friendly neighbour actually gave me most of them. when i have a moment i'll try and id them all, but i do know that i have a few Carpobrotus edulis going.
anyways, thanks for all the welcomes!
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Post by hegar »

Welcome to the cactus forum. With that Myrtillocactus geometrizans you picked a fast growing and quite hardy giant type. I am sure, that you are going to increase your collection rapidly as most of us have. :)

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Hello Gardenboy!
Forget the dog...Beware of the plants!!!

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