Quick trip to look for some invasives. Found Opuntia tomentosa and Harrisia tortuosa. Opuntia tomentosa and Opuntia stricta are both very abundant here, but fortunately the Harrisia are still an hour or so away. Their growth form reminds me of Stenocereus eruca. I stood in a patch of dead thorns and...

ElieEstephane wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:27 pm

Licespray wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 1:26 am Don’t s’pose you got any pics of the big columnar behind and to the left? I’m curious what it is.

It's pachycereus pringlei

Thanks, I thought it looked a bit spine free

Don’t s’pose you got any pics of the big columnar behind and to the left? I’m curious what it is.

Cylindropuntia imbricata?

If so, I spent a day poisoning and chopping these down, as well as applying a new species of cochineal insect to them (experimental control to see if it works better than the current species we use here).

Short and sweet: in the cacti world what species (can be plural) are regarded as the hardest to grow/keep alive?

I don’t mean slow growing, I mean one where a drop of water at the wrong time will kill it type fussy

I’d be money on a euphorbia, but I have no idea on species for them

Number 6 is Ferocactus hamatacanthus

Edit to fix typo number

Yep it’s all coming together. Throw in a couple of barrels and you should be set. There’s a ferocactus latispinus, ferocactus electracanthus (is that hystrix?) in, with a Glaucescens and wislizeni waiting for their spot. Did another 16” today, put in an Astrophytum capricorne and Trichocereus pasac...

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I’ll post better pics of each plant. They’ve been neglected for a long time and I’m only just making things right. The P. Marginatus was clearly not getting enough water or light as it’s both sunken and etiolated. I’ve got it staked up and the deco granite sets really hard so that should help hold i...

Not much effort, mind you. So doing a cactus garden, it’s going to be about 60’ long and 4’ wide on average. I started over 12 months ago and well...I’m terrible with procrastination. At first I was going to use sleepers to do the borders, then rock, so I got a couple ton of sandstone..then changed ...

They’re sort of in a corner between a large pine and the house. The most danger they’ll be in is being covered by leaves so I’ll blow them off every so often. Goals to do as little care as possible and see what lives.

Good to get it confirmed. This is a happy plant, plenty of flowers and very large

I was given 50ish seed pods of E. Grusonii so I’m germinating some properly and then I crushed and scattered some in an unused part of my yard. That was a few weeks back. It rained pretty decently last week (first good rain in 12 months. Actually it was more rain than the last 12 months combined). R...

Is this a polaskia?

As said in be title the flowers aren’t large, have a greenish tinge to them.

Thanks guys and gals