And so I come to this forum in hope of finding identifications for my cacti. In order to do so in a fashion that keeps things discrete (one cactus per request, instead of all eight on ONE request, making it difficult to navigate), I have decided to make my requests for assistance in identification in eight separate "posts".
But first, a little bit of info about my collection. I live in Pikeville Tennessee, about 70 miles north of Chattanooga. My plants pretty much stay inside all year long, not having access to a greenhouse. Without the shelter of a greenhouse, it rains too much here in Tennessee to raise succulents.
All of the following pictures of my setup were taken at night. Some with the flash. They were taken with a Fuji-Film S4500 camera producing pix that were 4288x3216 that range in size from approximately 2MB to 5MB, They were edited using Photo Studio reducing their size to 1024x768 and then saved as JPEG's @ 80% reducing their size to 170 to 250KB. NOBODY wants to look at 5MB JPEG's. They take too much time (and bandwidth) to load.
The images that I'm using to request identification, taken by the same camera, used a slightly different format 4288x2416 yielding sizes from 1.1MB to 4.3MB. Again, edited, bringing their size down to 1024x577 ranging in size from 110kb to 200KB.
My windows face to the N.E. therefore, morning sun slants in from left to right and afternoon sun streams in from right to left. I get a total of about 4.5 hours per day of direct sunlight through two panes of glass. Every couple of days, I pull two containers off of the left end of a shelf, slide everything on that shelf down to the left and then replace what i pulled off on the far right. When sliding containers down the shelf, I reverse them from the front of the shelf to the back of the shelf. This way, the cacti share, hopefully equally, in what direct sun comes through the windows.
My lights stay on anywhere from about 12 hrs per day in the winter to 16 hrs per day in the summer. And this does not happen all at once. As winter comes about, I start lowering the number of hours that the lights stay on. When the spring comes about, I start increasing the number of hours per day the lights stay on. My living room and dining room are BRIGHT. I TRULY don't need to worry about S.A.D.
In my living room window, I have two 2-tube 40W fluorescent "grow" fixtures, both of which hang 14-16 inches above my collection. Dependent from the living room ceiling is a 65W CFL (produces as much light as a 300W incancescent) about 4-6 feet above the collection.
- Living Room Setup
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- Living Room Upper
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- LR Lower
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In my dining room, I have 4 45W 4500K CFL's ... 1 at each end of each level ... 12 to 16 inches above the plants ... and in what would be the dining room light, depending from the ceiling, another 45W 4500K CFL. A tad higher, but easily variable.
- Dining Room
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- Dining Room Upper
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- DR Lower
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Now that you've seen my setup (and I TRULY hope I have not bored anyone here, especially those who might respond), lets get to the images of the cacti I desire assistance with in identification. One per post, for the next eight posts. Please ... keep in mind that THIS post was provided only as information regarding my setup for what THAT might be worth to responders.
Please feel free to respond by posting here, by sending private messages or by sending messages directly to my email:
p.wayne.byerly@gmail.com
Many, many thanks to each and every one of you who attempt to assist. I will endeavor to do the same as long as I remain a member of this forum. Again, your willingness to help, your politeness and your attention to detail reflect well on your individual characters and I give Kudos to you all. Thanks ...
