Last November I took a bunch of shots documenting my collection and am only just getting around to resetting my password and getting them on the forums here. (What can I say, I'm slow?) This is a work in progress. Work's been hampered by losing my hard drive in my old mac a month ago. I'd backed up ...

Gah.


Hey, you might get lucky and have it fasciate due to the growth tip injury....

When you see how it turns out, send us pictures!

I was repotting and fussing with the pricklies today and squished two critters I believe to be red spider mites (almost invisible, tomato-red, move pretty quick but not quick enough!). None of the plants show obvious signs of infestation but I'd rather nip this in the bud, so to speak, because it'll...

For reference, here are the CactiGuide pix of G. stenopleurum and G. mihanovichii . (I hope these links work; if not, they're on this site and not hard to find.) Of course, I id'd my plants out of a book ( Cacti: The Illustrated Dictionary ; c1991 by Rod & Ken Preston-Mafham) before finding this...

Thanks for all the info. One thing I have just thought of is that I probably need to refresh the soil - it's in a 4.5 or 5 inch clay pot, which is plenty big enough, but I haven't repotted it in a couple of years. I will probably do that this summer so it has time to grow before I move them in for t...

I've got what I believe is an immature Melocactus azureus that I've had for about five years now. (Sorry, no pictures until I get a digital camera.) It's about the size of a tennis ball and looks basically healthy, but shows no sign of developing the cephalium that would let me confirm its ID. I've ...