Photos from my greenhouse

[ElieEstephane]

It's quite an impressive collection. Do you have any far away shots that show the whole collection?
Thanks

Here is a photo when i was taking down the plastic and couple of random photos:

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Nice...I knew there was something with 'youthful energy' involved...or a glutton for cactus love. Flip the age numbers and you have me...a youthful minded, energetic, old man @ 62. Just reached the summit of Deseret Peak @ 11,033' ASL last August. Bonneville Salt Flats behind me on the horizon.

Woow! I love high altitude hiking and used to do a lot of trails. Here, when the conditions are right, hiking at 2000m and plus you'd be above the cloud. It's an amazing sight to see. I will have to look up my old photos. Unfortunately, i gave up long distance hiking and energy intensive work since i started my powerlifting journey.



And here are some new photos. I'm toying around with stagings.

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I might as well plant a forest. Mostly north American columanrs:

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Some of my earliest badianum hybrids:

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A couple of my favorite colors:

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Random photos:

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[Steve-0]

Very nice!

[hegar]

Great cactus collection, Elie! You seem to have about all shapes and sizes covered and more than one of each genus and species.
How many plants do you already have in your private cactus garden center?
I do like those Gymnocalycium baldianum hybrids. Did you cross-pollinate them or is someone selling these in your country?

Harald

[TimN]

Wonderful!

[ElieEstephane]

Great cactus collection, Elie! You seem to have about all shapes and sizes covered and more than one of each genus and species.
How many plants do you already have in your private cactus garden center?
I do like those Gymnocalycium baldianum hybrids. Did you cross-pollinate them or is someone selling these in your country?

Harald

Thank you Harald! I've never counted plants but i gotta say several hundreds. Most of my plants are duplicates of plants i like.
The gymnocalyciums are from my first batch of seedlings from 2016. They are my own crosses. Last year i focused on crossing several shades of reds and pinks but unfortunately lost around 80% of them to slugs and i'm left with a 100 or so seedlings.
Here's an unrepotted batch of open pollinated hyrbids. These usually always turn out in the most part whites and yellows. I have noticed that whites are way more tolerant of overwatering and pests

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Wonderful!

Thank you Tim!