Holy Smokes!
- John P Weiser
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- John P Weiser
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- Joined: Sun Oct 07, 2007 5:08 pm
- Location: Sparks, NV
Thanks Bill!
John, I like to use a gas powered leaf vac to clean leaves up around my cactus garden.
It works great and is quick. It will pick up everything but the 3/4 crushed gravel I use as top dressing.
Just be carefull you dont gouge up your prized Isolatocereus dumortieri!!! But thats another story
One day while sucking up leaves around my big and beautiful Opuntia rufida, That I no longer have , I started gettin all itchy. Well I was pickin up glochids from the gravel underneath the plant and they were shooting out of the machine anywhere there was the slightest little air leak. I think they may have even been coming out from between the cloth fibers of the bag.
I was covered in them, head to toe, I changed my clothes, threw them away, ripped the plant out that day, dumped it in the trash and swore off opuntias forever!
Opuntia rufidas anyway.
I think Compressed air would work well for cleaning leaves out of spines, But Im not going to try it with anything with glochids.
I do have an air tank that will hold a decent amount of air. I will try it myself when I get the chance.
John, I like to use a gas powered leaf vac to clean leaves up around my cactus garden.
It works great and is quick. It will pick up everything but the 3/4 crushed gravel I use as top dressing.
Just be carefull you dont gouge up your prized Isolatocereus dumortieri!!! But thats another story
One day while sucking up leaves around my big and beautiful Opuntia rufida, That I no longer have , I started gettin all itchy. Well I was pickin up glochids from the gravel underneath the plant and they were shooting out of the machine anywhere there was the slightest little air leak. I think they may have even been coming out from between the cloth fibers of the bag.
I was covered in them, head to toe, I changed my clothes, threw them away, ripped the plant out that day, dumped it in the trash and swore off opuntias forever!
Opuntia rufidas anyway.
I think Compressed air would work well for cleaning leaves out of spines, But Im not going to try it with anything with glochids.
I do have an air tank that will hold a decent amount of air. I will try it myself when I get the chance.
Forget the dog...Beware of the plants!!!
Tony
Tony
- John P Weiser
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Reminded me of being young. My older brother (by 2 years) was ALWAYS beating and picking on me. He was kind of a jerk back then. (Now that we are 50....he's fine!). Anyway, one day I got REAL tired of being abused, so I went out to my patch of Opuntia humifusa, took a couple of nice big, old pads, and went and, basically, mixed them all around in his underwear drawer, then took them out and put them back in the garden.
He was NOT a happy camper for quite a while and, in addition, had NO idea that he had been deliberately "glochided". He NEVER found out why his crotch itched and stung for weeks and I got a BIG laugh out of watching him trying to adjust his pants every minute for a few weeks.
So, the lesson, don't be a bully. The victims WILL get back at you eventually
He was NOT a happy camper for quite a while and, in addition, had NO idea that he had been deliberately "glochided". He NEVER found out why his crotch itched and stung for weeks and I got a BIG laugh out of watching him trying to adjust his pants every minute for a few weeks.
So, the lesson, don't be a bully. The victims WILL get back at you eventually
Too funny!mikayak wrote: So, the lesson, don't be a bully. The victims WILL get back at you eventually
Anyway, temps here in MN have been pretty stable. Just hitting the low 70's when the sun is shining and in the low 40s at night. Had a day of 50 and 38 at night, but pretty stable overall. Rain levels are below average so far this year.
The only reall bugger has been the wind. You know how those partly cloudy days can whip up some real wind. Anyway, I was adding eaves to the greenhouse and had to detach part of the roof plastic. Well one big blast of wind and then I had to replace the whole roof piece.
All Cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are Cacti
- John P Weiser
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