what kind of opuntia is this? http://i840.photobucket.com/albums/zz327/Peterthecactusguy/DSCN1733.jpg I think it might be the Indian Ficus type but I am not sure. Not the area on the hill around it is where the pipeline was laid and where most of my saguaros came from :) thanks. I know I am being a ...

while I am a newbie and cant id that, I have seen ones like that before at a nursery I think.

To solve the photo problem I would suggest going to walmart and buying a card reader, thats what I did, when I lost the cable for my camera.

Hi All. Another stupid newbie question, I am on a run today with dumb questions, but here it goes. The in-laws got this cactus moved from somewhere, I am not sure if it was theirs before it was planted or if the people who moved all the other stuff(like the mesquite tree in the background) but I am ...

Ok, I am still a little bit confused as to which was is the best way to root a cutting. (or in this case more like a falling since this was on the ground under the already identified crested boxing glove cholla, I dont remember the whole latin name for it but...:) http://i840.photobucket.com/albums/...

I was thinking the same thing, to me a lot of the Opuntias look the same.

I cant id them worth a crap... but I like em...minus the stupid little slivers they give you hehehe yes I know they have a name for those, however I call em insidious.

Cool. I know in other places it isnt as easy to grow cacti, although there are a few in the opuntia family that are pretty cold hardy as well as some forms of cholla, I think someone was growing a C. fulgida in the cold northeast...
cant remember who it was... but

hello Diamondman,
welcome to the forum.
A long time ago in a place far from my new home in the desert, I used to live in Oh. My mom is from Cleveland, Oh. My dad was from Cali, they met in college and well the rest is history.

how many plants do you have?

hey Andy which of those is the one that grows in the PA area? I know they grow there cause in my old neighborhood we have a lake and a weird type of rock called serpentine which of course is an ore for chrome and asbestos(what a nice mix) one kills all the plants(chrome) and the other kills all the ...

actually they almost couldnt bring it, not so much due to its size being too big for their truck, trust me it was a huge truck, its just that to go underneath a bridge it almost hit the bridge. They had to lower it to a crazy angle on top of the cab and it still just barely cleared the bridge. I thi...

thanks all. I have been offically welcomed very well. I enjoy it here, cause who knew I love the cacti...:) Hopefully one of these days I wont be so much of a newbie, however I still am one, so I might ask retarded questions, but I am pretty sure we all have been newbies at something...so... I will ...

Diamondman, thanks. Its interesting to note that many of the ones in my yard are also moved there from somewhere else. I took in the poor little(some really huge actually) saguaros that would have been destroyed. I just am glad that the in-laws let me have em..(even if their daughter divorced me eve...

I used to have an AV like the 4th one in the row of them with the purplish/pinkish/reddish bloom. It was pretty but my cat sure loved to eat its leaves.

thanks Dustin, I have some in my front yard and also in my back yard as well. I got like 26 of them now.

I feel lucky to live where they grow...

Daiv, that is also an easy guess cause there are so many of those cacti around here that its crazy. Between them and Saguaros.... and a bunch of others....
I'm just lucky to live where I do.

me either. There are a few around the town in BCC but I have never seen them anywhere else. Since most of them are about the same age(they are around 30 or so years old at least) I wonder if they are all from the same cuttings. I have heard some people say that its a "boxing glove cholla" ...