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Melt In The Sun
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Hi all,
I'm down here in Tucson with a growing collection of succulents; agave mainly, but a few scattered other things as well.

I recognize a few names already from my travels to other horticulture sites, so I look forward to learning a lot and contributing a little here as well.

I also serve as a moderator at troublefreepool.com, so if you happen to have pool-related questions or problems, feel free to stop on by that site or shoot me a PM.
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Hi, glad to have you. Post some pics of your plants when you get a chance.

As for "troublefreepool.com" - all my troubles went away when we sold our house with the pool. :lol:
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Hi and welcome. :)
All my Pools have fish in them, are no trouble and were almost free. :P
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welcome!
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Welcome. I will keep that in mind. I don't have a pool but my ex-inlaws do.

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I live in Arizona too. (a wee bit north of Tuscon but still I am in the same state as you)
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Hey welcome to the forums :hello2:
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Welcome. :wave:

How are the palms looking after that cold spell back it Feb? And have you been east like say Benson or Willcox. I'm hoping to find if the palms and saguaros etc... made it through the cold spells in cochise county?
Any info is good, Thanks :D
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DesertZone, dunno about Cochise county, but up here in Yavapai county for the most part all of the saguaros and palms made it through, it was a lot of non-native plants that were damaged. It was 16F here where I live. (I do have a rotting saguaro but it might have been triggered from something other then the cold. Its got fungal necrosis.)
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8) :hello2: Hello and WELCOME to CactiGuide hope you enjoy it here... :D
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Post by Melt In The Sun »

Thanks for the welcome!

Most of the palms here in Tucson are alive, but will be ugly for a while. Some of the queens are probably toast, but it's too soon to tell for sure. I haven't noticed any dying saguaros, but I haven't really been looking either.

There are a lot of dead plants around town...we were careful and didn't lose anything we cared about.
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I saw a lot of hammered looking columnars in Tucson a couple weeks ago when I was there, landscape plants like Stenocereus marginatus and so on. I think I also saw some really bad looking Opuntia ficus-indica? These were yard plants in the neighborhood around Stone and Speedway, down to 4th Ave.

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Post by Peterthecactusguy »

PeterB, wouldn't surprise me at all because even at DBG in Phoneix they had some bad looking Columulars and O. ficus-indica. Some up by me fell over, or lost massive amounts of pads.
(like I said it was mostly non-native plants up here that died!)

BTW I forgot about P. greggi which is locally from the Tuscon area. I hope those made it ok.
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Welcome to the cactus and succulent forums.
I can tell you, that except for some damage of the tips, the Peniocereus greggii plants did do fine here in El Paso. We did have 72 hours of below freezing temperatures and one night the low was down to 2 degrees F and the next night to 3 degrees F.

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hegar wrote:Welcome to the cactus and succulent forums.
I can tell you, that except for some damage of the tips, the Peniocereus greggii plants did do fine here in El Paso. We did have 72 hours of below freezing temperatures and one night the low was down to 2 degrees F and the next night to 3 degrees F.

Harald
Good to know, thank you. :D
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