Hi all: I copped out for an easy track. Instead of my website, I started this FB site as a forum for novel concepts on cactus and succulent biology. There are currently 35 members from aroond the world. Feel free to join and discuss new scientific papers and experimental approaches. send request to ...

Thanks I will check it out on FB I have a collection of ~ 50 Tillandsia and have fun displaying.

I have been collecting cladodes from various non-restricted sites along the coast and I have given up attemping to ID sometimes I feel I have a O. dillenii or O. stricta and a O austrina They do well in my NE Florida garden and sometomes natives can do better. Hey one collected from in back of a gar...

The sorceress has bestowed her magical delights for you and us to see with your posting thanks BobbyZ

Here is an idea, instead of a round robin, a mystery swap. All that are interested sign up and we can have someone outside the country asign who sends to who. Everyone will fill up a small priority mail box with plants and cuttings and send to their assigned recipient. This way all will recieve a pa...

I nbuse coconut coir/perlite 50:40amended with bonemeal ~ 1-2% and a dash of epsom salt to balance Ca & Mg, I also amend with bloodmeal to give some N and trace minerals. The Webercereus is readily obtanable from Don's cutting. I may be wrong but my Epiphyllum anguliger is less wide than my Webe...

After scaring for two weeks, I would treat with a fungicide (sulfurr, thiram, benomyl etc) and rooting hormone (Indolegutyric acid). Minimalwater for the first month and than sparingly. Bobby Z

BAP is a cytokinin not anb auxin I purchased from MNFERTS for ~ 10.00 per 5 grams. In my last experiment I applied in asaturated emulsion in canola oil. I couldn't find pure lanolin anywhere. My experiments on several speies are in progress and dtails are on Cactus and Succulent biology group on Fac...

This genomic based nomenclature can be useful in many arenas, howvere DNA sorting of taxonmic linkages is already sending cactus ID into caos. One of the more interesting is a paper by Shlumpberger and Renner on the phylogeny of Echinopsis in Amer. J. Botany 99:1335-1349 2012. Download for free http...

I have been trying to do so using BAP Aminobenzylpurine, an artificial cytokinin to induce mereistematic growth. It seem to work on Echinocereus/trichocereus.

My D. araneispinus does well in 50% diatomaceus earth and 50% cactus potting soil. I am too lazy for continuous feeding. It has a nice cephaleum and has grown 25% since October in a dish garden with Gymnos. I water ~ every 3 to 4 weeks on my NE Florida screened lanai. It does well even with a slight...

Roberto Thanks for posting your Island pictures Bobby Z

Many moons ago I got my BS in soil science (1975). It was a great school, for a city boy I was able to ride a tractoir participate in a vegtable growing project, and yes I started my first cactus collection. Enjoy your studies and your work at the conservatory Bobby Z

I had both planted outside in a sandy North East Florida sandy soil. We had a six hour below freezing down to 24 F for two hours. E, Texensis bit the dust while E. horizanthalonious survived, One observation

The microwave method is easy, however organic soils can accumulate some phenolics from the breakdown of humus, especially if done too long. These compounds may cause more havoc than pathogens to some species. But it is by far the easiest method for household growers.