Guess I should say hi

spark · Post by **spark** » Sat May 23, 2009 3:14 am

Been around the forums for a week or two now, so I figured I should finally get around to saying hello.

I'm not much into cacti, succulents are my thing. I've had an aloe vera for roughly half my life. It was a pup from my mother's which was in turn a pup from her grandmother's, so it's sort of the family aloe. Still have it, though my cats more or less did it in recently and I had to salvage some pups, the mother plant didn't make it.

Anyhow, my real succulent love is lithops, and I want to have oodles and oodles of them someday. Right now I have one little pot of them, and I have a few more that a friend is sending me. And some assorted random things I've picked up recently, a small collection by most standards, though my windowsill is starting to get fairly full.

I also grow carnivorous plants, as my icon might suggest, as well as irises, herbs, and regular old garden veggies too. Oh, and I have bananas. Can't forget about the bananas, though they're still tiny, nowhere near fruiting yet. I kind of like plants in general. I live in a tiny apartment, so everything I grow has to be in pots. I'm really looking forward to the day when I can get a real house and start gardening properly! For now the pots will have to do.

kevin63129 · Post by **kevin63129** » Sat May 23, 2009 9:27 am

welcome to the forum.Glad to see someone new. Kevin

Post by **daiv** » Sat May 23, 2009 12:07 pm

Glad to hear a bit more about you!

There are definitely others here that have similar interests -beyond cacti that is.

Tim Vaughn and Tracy (cuda) are big into CP's.

Ian is the "Lithops King, he can grow anything."

I'll have to try and fan your cactus flames a bit! One can never have too many of those, you know!

Daiv

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Sat May 23, 2009 6:09 pm

Hi, welcome!

Saguaro123 · Post by **Saguaro123** » Sun May 24, 2009 2:40 pm

Hi, Welcome to the forums.

spark · Post by **spark** » Sun May 24, 2009 6:44 pm

I had too many childhood run-ins with prickly pears, cacti make me paranoid about touching them! (Although at least I was brighter than my brother, who deliberately kicked one around once. And then had to have his entire foot glue-peel-treated and couldn't wear that pair of shoes again.) And I'm weird, I like to touch my plants. Most succulents are really nicely tactile.

I suppose I may end up with a few cacti one way or another, but succulents is really where it's at for me.

Dalesmicro · Post by **Dalesmicro** » Tue May 26, 2009 3:22 am

Hi Spark and welcome!! As a new member who loves all kinds of unusual plants I am sure we share some interests.

Dale

*Barracuda_52* · Post by ***Barracuda_52*** » Tue May 26, 2009 5:54 am

Hello Spark, and welcome aboard!! One can never have to many CP's... Hehehehehe

As for cacti and succulents GOTA LOVE UM!!!!! Just as with CPs cacti & succulents becomes a real addiction QUCKLY!!

Hope you enjoy it here...

spark · Post by **spark** » Tue May 26, 2009 6:54 am

Well, I'm having fun so far! It's nice to have a place where people don't eye you funny for getting all excited over plants.

Harriet · Post by **Harriet** » Tue May 26, 2009 12:01 pm

Nice to meet you! Isn't it nice to have a place just to be a plant geek?

hegar · Post by **hegar** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:21 am

Hello spark,
I really got my job cut out for me with all these new forum members that have joined since I left for a month-long vacation. So, welcome to the cactus and succulent forums. You know there are some cacti that are devoid of spines or have very few of them. I do have some Ariocarpus plants. Those are small and take a very long time to grow even an inch or two in diameter. They do look so unsimilar to cacti that they even fool my wife who hates cacti with a passion.

Harald

Guess I should say hi

Guess I should say hi

Hi and welcome!!