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by TheORKINMan
Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?
Replies: 9
Views: 414

Re: Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?

Rarity is often a matter of opinion and can vary county to country depending what's freely available in that country. Also some species are more desirable to collectors than others, therefore a not very attractive species may in fact be quite rare but there is not a widespread market for it. Take f...
by TheORKINMan
Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?
Replies: 9
Views: 414

Re: Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?

Not sure what you have. But sounds like you have been watching Ebay. And I believe if you don't want to just give them away,that is the way to go. Depending on how much time and effort you want to spend. I have watched some of Tee Dee cacti go for over a thousand dollars. I myself will probably jus...
by TheORKINMan
Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?
Replies: 9
Views: 414

Re: Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?

FWIW when I say "Rare" I'm just using the CactiGuide rarity scale listed for species and the ones that appear on the CITES 1 list. I'm not trying to turn this into a side business or make a bunch of money. Just was kinda doing due diligence on if it was worth it to sell vs gift. I apprecia...
by TheORKINMan
Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:02 am
Forum: General
Topic: Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?
Replies: 9
Views: 414

Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?

To be clear I am NOT looking to sell in this post. Just trying to figure out what to do with my extras in the future assuming I can keep them going and start to run out of space haha. I posted recently about getting my Echinopsis coronata seedilings up to a decent size. I also have some (still small...
by TheORKINMan
Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:57 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
Replies: 10
Views: 468

Re: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!

Absolutely. October temps here are still very warm. I don’t start winding things down to winter over plants until early December. I also grow tropical fruit trees, peppers, etc… and they all keep growing in October and November here
by TheORKINMan
Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
Replies: 10
Views: 468

Re: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!

Mid to low 20s for a few nights a year most years. Lots of low 30s-40s nights in Jan and Feb. not super cold by most places standards. The problem is most of those temps in the 20s or low 30s are immediately after heavy rain as we only get that when cold weather troughs dip down from the north and i...
by TheORKINMan
Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
Replies: 10
Views: 468

Re: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!

It’s north Florida so in Jan and Feb I have to protect most things from the deadly cold + wet combo but other than that yes they seem to grow well here! Thanks so much for the additional info. I kinda grew it because there seemed to be so little info out there about it and it had a cool scientific n...
by TheORKINMan
Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:42 pm
Forum: Cacti Identification
Topic: Grew this from an old seed packet labelled Opuntia strigil, does that ID look correct to you all?
Replies: 6
Views: 467

Re: Grew this from an old seed packet labelled Opuntia strigil, does that ID look correct to you all?

Ahh I see! Thank you. It looks pretty close. I guess I’ll really find out when it gets big enough to flower and fruit.
by TheORKINMan
Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:56 am
Forum: General
Topic: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
Replies: 10
Views: 468

Re: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!

Sure! My mix is generally 2 parts sand, 2 parts potting soil, 1 part perlite or small stones. It seems to work really well for most species.
by TheORKINMan
Mon Jan 29, 2024 6:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
Replies: 10
Views: 468

My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!

Got a pack of 20 seeds from Mesa Garden. Germ rate was so-so and I killed a few too but now I have five 1" diameter of these lil guys! They are all fat, green and looking good! Not sure how desirable these would be to collectors but I think I'm only going to keep a couple and share the wealth a...
by TheORKINMan
Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Good tasting Cacti
Replies: 5
Views: 714

Re: Good tasting Cacti

Dragonfruit: H. undatus - Common red dragon fruit found in grocery stores, any others? Other main species of Dragonfruits: Hylocereus polyrhizus Hylocereus guatemalensis Selenicereus megalanthus, synonym Hylocereus megalanthus Then, there are many other hybrids. Have a look at this website: https:/...
by TheORKINMan
Sun Jun 26, 2022 6:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Good tasting Cacti
Replies: 5
Views: 714

Good tasting Cacti

I've been working on my growing from seed/buying plants collection of cacti with the hope of having some home grown fruit/nopales etc... in the future. Here's the list of what I've been able to accumulate so far: Prickly Pears: O. ficus-indica, O. Engelmanii, O. strigil, O. dulcis. Are there other s...
by TheORKINMan
Sat Jun 18, 2022 10:28 am
Forum: Grown From Seed
Topic: When to repot from a 2" pot
Replies: 4
Views: 953

Re: When to repot from a 2" pot

Thanks! Definitely 2” terracotta round pots and in soil that was too perlite heavy from when I was still figuring all this out so I might go ahead and go up a size on the biggest one with a more balanced soil mix