Welcome back Bill

Take your PC to bed and chill out for a few days!

Hurrah!!

Thanks everyone you lot are brilliant as usual!

As far as I remember, Gunnar waters all his cacti from the bottom, he has them all in trays and he just fills the tray with water then drains it off after a bit. I water mine from the top generally, giving them a really good soak. I have a couple of columnars that I water from the bottom (so I dont ...

Ohh its like a cactus basement!

I like it

Thanks everyone!

Hmm it is a bit hairy, here is a closer pic:

Hehe can you believe that I actually copy and pasted "Opuntia poosycatiae" into google and didnt realise until google told me that it had found 0 results! I think O. pycnantha has glochids coming out of the areoles, although your version doesn't seem to. Hmmm.... Mine has little hooks too....

I purchased this new plant today, I know its an Opuntia but not quite sure what one. My cat Cleo had a good look of it too but she doesn't know what it is either. As well as the spines, there is little hooks also. I can post a better pic if nessessary of course :) Any help is greatly appreciated! (I...

Holy shiznit!

Nice collection Bill, didn't realise you had that many!

Is there a AA for cactus-a-holics????

Picture a circle of chairs.

*stands up*
Err hello my name is Wayne and I have'nt bought a cactus for two weeks now.

*applause*
Congratulations Wayne.

Looks great Windy, it does look like it would stink though

Ohhh a nice guide Legolas!

This should be really handy for people new to cacti and/or the forum

As a lot of you know from looking at my photo gallery I love butterflies.
It was sad when I was spraying my gooseberry bushes that had lots of catterpillars on them

Ahh that looks fantastic

Looking forward to seeing the pics of it full of cacti tomorrow!

I thought about Cat Litter, but I concluded that the chemicals they add for scent control would make it a bad choice.

And of course you dont want cats making a mess of your cacti!

I've used a piece of that plastic netting that small oranges come in from the supermarket.

Hehe its amazing what you use when half way through a job of some sort (in this case repotting a plant).