New member from Australia

Boily · Post by **Boily** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:13 pm

Hi all,

I'm new to the hobby, and have been collecting a bunch of plants over the last 6 months or so. Really enjoying the flowers! Don't know why but cacti plants have become my favorite. I can see myself enjoying growing them for a lifetime. Have a hothouse set up, and around 130 different species already. Plus succulents, pachypodiums and ponytail palms. Also becoming a euphorbia fan, as well as anything that develops a caudex! Have a bunch of stuff I'd like to ID.

Great website! Very impressed!

Thanks
Ben

Boily · Post by **Boily** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:18 pm

Just noticed I was member no 2000, must be a wealth of knowledge amongst all the members!

hegar · Post by **hegar** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:58 pm

Congratulations! You are forum member 2,000. Maybe Daiv will give you a very special welcome, but I am afraid, no prize.

Kidding aside, I myself am happy to have you aboard and also of course for the fact, that our forum membership is growing by leaps and bounds.
With your huge selection of genera and species you will soon be in good shape to send digital images of your plants and perhaps even give some growing advice.
Welcome to the cactus and succulent forums!

Harald

John C · Post by **John C** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:34 am

Welcome to the forums, Ben! From John in Dallas/Fort worth, Texas!

Congrats on being the 2000th member!

There are a lot of other people from australia on this forum too.

Boily · Post by **Boily** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:11 am

Thanks for the warm welcome John and Harald. Good to hear there are many Australian people on the forum!
I took a quick stock of my plants today, and did some research on the site. Was able to discover some names, and find the correct names. A lot were labelled with old names such as notocactus = parodia. I will have to retag many plants!

Compiled the following list, total plants not different species. Had more than I thought, small pots don't take up much area. A lot I have only identified genera.

My list:

Adasonia 1
Adenium 1
Agave 6
Anthocalycium 1
Astrophytum 4
Brachycihiton 5
Beaucarnea 21
Calibanus 1
Cereus 43
Cleistocactus 2
Coleocephalocereus 1
Copiapoa 1
Echinocactus 5
Echinocereus 4
Echinopsis 31
Epiphyllum 4
Eriosyce 1
Euphorbia 10
Ferocactus 19
Frailea 1
Gymnocalycium 23
Haworthia 20
Huernia 7
Jatropha 2
Leuchtenbergia 2
Mammillaria 43
Matucana 3
Melocactus 5
Myrtillocactus 3
Opuntia 4
Oreocereus 2
Pachypodium 6
Parodia 13
Pilosocereus 2
Plumeria 4
Pygmaeocereus 2
Rebutia 2
Sclerocactus 1
Stapelia 3
Stenocactus 3
Tephrocactus 1
Thelocactus 3
Unknown 15
Various succulents 75 plus

Wow over 400 plants! Definately a lot of variety and interest in this bunch!

John C · Post by **John C** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:29 am

Nice collection!!!

Many more than me! Can't wait to see pics!!!

CelticRose · Post by **CelticRose** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 3:04 am

That's a lot of plants!

Welcome to the forum!

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 4:20 am

Hello Boily.

you collected all that in 6 months! Your gona fit right in here.

kevin63129 · Post by **kevin63129** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:41 am

congrats on being member 2000 and welcome to the forum.Sounds like you are addicted to cacti too.

Boily · Post by **Boily** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:56 am

Thanks guys! Guess I'm a typical enthusiastic newby, gathering a lot of species quickly. Most of the cacti I have are 2 year old seed grown, so not very big as yet. Some of the plants are old though, bargain stuff, and ebay bargains. All interesting though!

hob · Post by **hob** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:58 pm

Boily wrote: I took a quick stock of my plants today, and did some research on the site. Was able to discover some names, and find the correct names. A lot were labelled with old names such as notocactus = parodia. I will have to retag many plants!

hi welcome don't be in too much of a hurry to retag, one thing you will learn is that cacti names come and go .....i have a feeling that dna surveys will change things yet again, there are very few noto's that i would be willing to tag as parodia

and most eriocactus i would not tag as noto's

in short most genus names and changes therein are open to speculation

and i get the strange feeling that dna testing may not change things that much for many people

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:18 am

Welcome to the forums, Ben!
Thats a nice fast start. I have a little experience in that dept

Boily · Post by **Boily** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:07 am

Thanks for the info on tagging. I would like to get them named correctly. The fast collecting continues, added another 5 to the collection today!

Post by **daiv** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:52 pm

hegar wrote:Congratulations! You are forum member 2,000. Maybe Daiv will give you a very special welcome, but I am afraid, no prize.

Yeah, my special welcome was missing the post entirely!

I was out of town for the weekend and totally missed this when I was catching up. Sorry about that, glad to have you!

New member from Australia

New member from Australia

Member 2000