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- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:28 pm
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: Anza-Borrego this spring
- Replies: 4
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Re: Anza-Borrego this spring
Nice pictures . Hard to say if that's the Mojave or Sonoran desert ? I think most is considered a part of Sonoran desert, even with elevation and moving to the East flora changes significantly. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53669881833_3cee1f5ac5_h.jpg Cylindropuntia ganderii. https://live.st...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: Grown From Seed
- Topic: Sowing Seed in Pure Mineral Mix
- Replies: 10
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Re: Sowing Seed in Pure Mineral Mix
If in the water before and after the germination is added some fertiliser seedlings can grow during at least 6 months or the whole first season in inorganic mix. These below are 2 - 3 months old in a mix of perlite, vermiculite and sand. A modification of "jar method" under daylights with ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:44 pm
- Forum: Grown From Seed
- Topic: Seedlings stopped growing.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16009
Re: Seedlings stopped growing.
Temperature average around 72°F/ 22°C. This seems to me to be quite low. Not sure about the succulents, but cacti seedlings prefer at least 25 - 30°C or even 30 - 40 daily maximums for many species. Of course proper humidity is preferred in that case. Fungi are less aggressive at high temps so the ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Days of my cacti lives - in pictures
- Replies: 271
- Views: 139516
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:33 am
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2137
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Old tubercles always die but the care matters. That greenhouse is quite shaded, at about 50% or more. Also Leuchtenbergia in culture are in two different varieties that have different body colors and maybe tubercles' longevity. Fleshy roots store juices in a dry period so aboveground parts can dry o...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:23 am
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Days of my cacti lives - in pictures
- Replies: 271
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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:05 am
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2137
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53663834510_e5845f867c_b.jpg Some more views of that place. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53635600076_7b692eceef_b.jpg A Tephrocactus I liked. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53663588148_9e4b5df9a0_b.jpg A huge old G. saglionis. https://live.staticflick...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:04 am
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: First visit to Joshua Tree Nat. Park
- Replies: 12
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Re: First visit to Joshua Tree Nat. Park
Hey, sorry for the delay in reply. Mammillaria tetrancistra and dioica. JT is smack dab in tetrancistra's range, which extends north up through Death Valley almost into the White Mountains. JT is a little north for dioica--which is more often seen a little to the south in Anza Borrega or on the coa...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:32 am
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2137
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Somebody knows about Neoporteria cachytaensis?
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Post winter watering
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2802
Re: Post winter watering
It depends on your climate and also on species you grow. I prefer graduate increase of watering in the spring, because weather here is cool with sudden changes. Some of my home plants have being watered the whole winter with bigger intervals and some get water just starting in May.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:46 am
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Days of my cacti lives - in pictures
- Replies: 271
- Views: 139516
Re: Days of my cacti lives - in pictures
The spring is here finally, https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53635720933_5fdc794e23_b.jpg Matucana aureiflora. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53635958495_8b13765652_b.jpg First buds and flowers for these Notocactus submammulosus, my seedlings. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53635718848_...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Welcome Craig Fry!
- Replies: 1386
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Re: Welcome Craig Fry!
Eriosyce bulbocalyx. I love it!I forgot what this one is called
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:29 am
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2137
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
I guess so if it is not another Nopalea...The 8 photo must be opuntia cochenillifera, is it?
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Why can’t most cacti be Blue?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2680
Re: Why can’t most cacti be Blue?
If the demand on blue skin goes up the merchants will start spraying them that way, just whatch...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2137
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Yes, they were all greenish hummingburds and not all visitors spotted them.