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This opuntia rufida minima gets a lot of pads taken off constantly. My goal is to get the bottom cladodes to caudicify and sort of get an opuntia tree bonsai. I feel if it's constantly being pruned that make force it to create a "caudex" storage of water. I've seen opuntia rufida develop a caudex, there is a large one at my school arboretum so I know it's possible.
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This g. cardenasium is awesome. Grows so fast and I enjoy the spines bright yellow spines, especially when they're wet and shining.
Finally seeing some fibrous roots poking out of the bottom. Don't want to repot it because I like the red clayey top dressing that I don't have anymore of. I also want to see it turn the square pot completely round, but I don't want the lack of root space to stunt growth. Should I unpot, prune the roots and repot in a large pot or leave it to turn the pot round?
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Any echinopsis growers here have an idea as to which hybrid this could be? Lost ID grafted seedlings, possible ID's are...
macrogonus "adelaide" x peru sharxx blue
fields pachanoi x "yeti"
psyco0 x sharxx blue
super pedro x sharxx blue
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And lastly some ariocarpus retusus scapharostroides pictures. plant top dressed with limey fine-coarse sand with clay collected from the soil developed over the Vaughn Gulch Formation at Mazourka Canyon.
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