cactus

The number of stupid things people say... wow. "Put a piece of sausage in it!" "Will it bite?" "Can I stick my finger in it?" "What do you feed it?" "It grosses me out when you touch it." "It's cute! I want to snuggle it!" "Is that a cactus? "Is that a Venus Flytrap?" "I thought that was a...

My Echeveria shaviana began to make two flayer stalks in winter. They didn’t grow much, and now that it's warm, the stalks are pushing up and the flower clusters are flowering. The humming birds like these. This is an unknown cactus species. It is very tolerant of very cold and hot...

Some seeds are on their way here in the mail so I am trying to get the pots ready. What should I use? 1. Peat and sand? 2. Cactus mix? 3. Garden soil (a mixture of clay, loam, sand and likely manure)? Thanks loads!!

I like using Firefox for my browser and put all my most visited sites on the browser bar across the top and some (Ebay, cactus forum, google, etc) all have a little logo or icon and the text name of the link (which I can delete and I do so I have just the icons). But Terraforums and my own...

Here is your chance to own the most impressive, best tasting, best looking, and most astounding fruiting plant out there. Hylocerus undatus "Purple Haze"! AKA Dragon Fruit "Purple Haze"! Pnat is a type of climbing sub-tropical cactus, which can take temps into the 30s for a few nights, but...

Up for auction is 1 (one) mature zebra cactus (Haworthia fasciata) division. This is an attractive and very easy to grow plant that rapidly divides and flowers. Very easy to propagate by division or flower stalk cuttings. Pictures coming soon. For now, here is a representative photo of what...

Hi! This is an offer for 15 packets of ornamental seeds. Including flowers and other inedibles. Highest bidder will pick 15 DIFFERENT seed varieties. These are the seeds being offered: ASTER- CREGO MIXED COLORS CHOCOLATE JOE PYE WEED BABY'S BREATH- CREEPING ROSE ZINNIA ELEGANS- PURPLE PRINCE...

Nope, not Peyote.. damn! So I finally found out some things to do with the Optunia leaves they sell at the grocery stores. So I made a few pans of beef and cactus burritos for work this weekend! :D First you gotta scrape the spines, just use a big wide knife and cut off all outter edges, then...

Here's a photo tour of a strange succulent genus called Adromischus that I've been collecting. A botanist named Tolken (!) put them in with Crassula but I think the Adros are way cooler! Adromischus cristatus - you can't see it in the photo but there are aerial roots all up the stalk...

Hey folks I got a couple of Aztekium ritteri grafted plants today. I got them cos I like this plant but I don't really like the look of grafts. After looking them over it doesn't seem like they will be easily "degraftable" so I can get them on their own roots. I could cut the stock stem real...

There is a strange, ancient cacti called Pereskiopsis (not Pereskia though they look quite similar) which is a fast growing single stem tropical type plant with 4" lancolate leaves. Grafting onto this is said to be the fastest way to go from seedling to flowering adult in even the slowest...

I've just potted up my first cacti specimens (ouch!) - all Gymnocalyciums but I think I'll only keep the purple/black striped G. mihanovichii for the long term it meets my criterion of alien looking & colorful. I order most plants off ebay and just about every cactus from every seller is sent...

I'm starting a little cacti shelf and I was wondering what would be the best all around cactus soil mix I could make up that should work fine for just about every thing? I sprouted Trichocereus seed in about 60-70% peat & 30-40% perlite but I hear that small pumice "is better" for growing...

I got bored today, so I built another shelf to put plants on. I also took a bunch of pictures of my plants (none of the new shelf yet). N. truncata. The label says Pasian, so I guess it's Pasian The truncata's pitcher. I held the ruler about an inch too high, so it's really about 7 inches...

Since I know a lot of people are going to be starting to divide their Sarracenia soon I want to post the plants I have available for trade. Since I don't have heat packs and I'm trading mostly tropicals I will have to arrange the trades and wait until there's decent weather between me and the...

Hey everyone, I want to replace my annoying christmas cactus that broke into pieces and my dying amaryllis with some indoor plants, that like shade, any suggestions?

Yes... It is a small list. But i'm still proud of it!:-D NEPENTHES: N. Ventricosa (1) N. alata x (alata x ventricosa) (1) N. Singuinea (1) N. singalana (1) DROSERA: D. capensis red (1) D. capensis narrow leaf (2) D. Intermedia cuba (1) D. multifida extrema (1) CEPHALOTUS: Ceph. typical (1)...

Probably my first plant I ever got next to the cactus. It gets MUCH bigger in spring I actually got it at home depot now thats funny And yes it is growing bananas this time of yeah lol

Just thought I'd share my Christmas Cactus with you guys. Is it really a form of Cacti? I really hope I don't mess it up and make the buds fall off!

Hey everyone, Ive had my CC for almost a year now and this month it produced buds, they are still the same size 1 mm in across, its been almost a month I've tried misting it, more light, water tray with pebbles, warmer spot, but nothing has changed still 1mm, the only thing I haven't tried is...