Sclerocactus bites the dust, after -14f
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Checked your unknown destination! Oh, boy! A huge progress has been achieved there! I love your place!! Very nice and wild!

Aaron, maybe it'll come back?
What's the lowest temp it's seen before this winter?

And now Igor is getting the cold...yup, always somebody getting hit with it. 😥

Barb

Poor little guy, hate to see that Aaron. Found one of mine looking like roadkill Monday, was kinda hoping it would stand up in spring. But I know that I am in denial and that it is just a mush pile too.

Checked your unknown destination! Oh, boy! A huge progress has been achieved there! I love your place!! Very nice and wild!

Thank you. 😀

Aaron, maybe it'll come back?
What's the lowest temp it's seen before this winter?

Barb

Ya...I don't think it will come back. The warmer it gets the more of a mush pile it becomes. That's ok, I had it for many years. 😉

It has seen winters as cold as -12f or colder. Could have been weak from ants, disease, or old age. It's twin brother is also looking sad, but the other 2 look fine so far. 😀

Poor little guy, hate to see that Aaron. Found one of mine looking like roadkill Monday, was kinda hoping it would stand up in spring. But I know that I am in denial and that it is just a mush pile too.

For me it always seems like plants are doing good until the weather warms and then mush begins. 😆

Aaron, don't feel too badly. Sclerocactus turn to mush here during their first winter! If that doesn't kill them the next summer will, they can handle so much heat but, like Pediocactus, if you get hot, humid, days and nights (esp. nights above 20C), they'll boil and suffocate themselves to death. Lovely plants, Sclerocactus, but I've sworn off them... for now...

too bad for your loss Aaron! -14F with a load of wind will do it! 😥

😀

Opuntia fragilis? Is there any dirt where they grow. I have trouble keeping alive O.fragilis this Summer. We had extreme wet weather and they just turn to mush.

edit: this is an old picture when things look much better.

Aaron, any update on your echinocactus? I just recieved a 5 headed clump and can't wait to plant it. All I have read it is pretty hardy if kept dry?

Aaron, any update on your echinocactus? I just recieved a 5 headed clump and can't wait to plant it. All I have read it is pretty hardy if kept dry?

Nice! Hardy if kept very dry. Mine is doing just fine, covered in the winter, on a mound and in a good gravel mix. You might need to watch for summer rains as well. I would like to find another one day, but because they are protected and no one grows them from seed, they very hard to get at a good price. 😡

last fall 2014

At a good price is right. Your's are looking great, mine has spines so long you can't see the cacti. When I build my new edition to the rock garden it will be about a 3' tall burme which will display cacti and agave on both sides. Should provide better drainage. Something I stole from PDN.

Share a few pics after you get it planted. I would love to see it.
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