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A few cactus updates from today.
cactus are weeds too!
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Not a cactus but cool plant:
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Posted : 28/04/2012 7:56 pm
looks like you are just about a week ahead of us.
We had a few days in the 80's and one day in the 90's and that helped speed things along. Always nice too see the cactus start to grow. 😉
Shoshone Idaho weather
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 29/04/2012 7:31 pm
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Hi Aaron,
yes, it's always nice to see the cactus breaking dormancy.
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Posted : 29/04/2012 9:57 pm
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First cactus to bloom in my garden this season. This cactus was a 'weed' cactus since I did not plant it
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Posted : 02/06/2012 3:16 am
Nice, Tim!
Imagine cactus naturalizing at your latitude...hopefully a sign of even warmer winters to come. 😀
Barb
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Posted : 02/06/2012 3:55 pm
Tim- O basilaris x humifusa? I don't see any spines, if I had I would say humifusa...
FYI- Have blooms coming on filamentosa, glauca, and recurv 'big tenn' x filata #1... Going to put rostrata on each if I am able (filamentosa in tough since the damn moths get into it...)
Posted : 03/06/2012 8:22 am
Thats awesome Tim
Hopefully it's warming up there.
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Posted : 03/06/2012 10:47 am
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The cactus is near an old O. aurea from California......it looks similar.....I can't say it's a hybrid.....I'll need to look at old photos to see if the bloom is the same. The mother aurea was given away a few years ago.
Great news that your filamentosa, glauca, and recurv 'big tenn' x filata #1 are going to put up blooms...........keep us posted on your rostrata hybrid attempts.
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Posted : 04/06/2012 3:59 am
Ya, with luck they'll take... Fingers crossed.
I just finished weeding the cactus bed (getting to be more of a chore since I keep expanding the damn thing) and noticed that there are a lot of cactus 'weeds'. Originally I thought that these were limited to O. humifusa, but I also noticed weeds by the macrorhiza, phaeacantha, basilaris, aurea, and some hybrids. I also noticed that there is lichen growing all over my O. polyacantha 'Orange Glory' and on an E. rechenbachii. I am not impressed!
Posted : 04/06/2012 10:50 am
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Hi Paul
What type of cactus hybrids did you create? Hybrids are cool.
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Posted : 04/06/2012 11:24 pm
