New cactus!

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Fri May 18, 2007 8:32 am

This is a pic of my new 17 inch across cotton-top cactus.

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Fri May 18, 2007 12:06 pm

Nice.

I have to get one of those.

Wes North Van · Post by **Wes North Van** » Sat May 19, 2007 11:48 pm

How hardy is it?
Nice plant!
I wonder if it could handle a wet area?

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun May 20, 2007 7:26 am

Hi Wes,
They are hardy as long as they stay very very dry, this plant comes from Death Valley and other places below 4 inches of rain fall. I killed my other when I thought it needed a good soaking

I hope not to kill this one, sence enchinocactus polycephalus is a protected sp. and can only be gotten from devolopment areas, no nurseries are growing it becuase it takes to long to grow from seed?
You might try thier close cousin the ferocatus wislizenii, it might make it if planted in straight pea gravel? Well maybe not straight pea gravel, one part organic, one part sand, four parts pea gravel something like that.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Apr 07, 2013 8:58 am

New cactus in the garden.
http://unkowndestination.blogspot.com/2 ... -ever.html

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:46 am

nice cactus............native to areas with 4" of precipitation? WOW.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:49 pm

TimMAz6 wrote:nice cactus............native to areas with 4" of precipitation? WOW.

Ya...kind of makes our 9" of precip a flood zone.

I still have that echinocactus polycephalus, over five years now.

Wes North Van · Post by **Wes North Van** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 5:29 pm

I will have a few more cacti in my garden as I have a place now in Palm Springs

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 6:07 pm

Wes, that's wonderful.

Would love to see some photos of the place.
Spend winter there this year?

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 6:07 pm

Wes North Van wrote:I will have a few more cacti in my garden as I have a place now in Palm Springs

Wes, I would have thought of you in Hawaii, but Palm Springs works, it is beautiful! Lots of pics! You can't spring that one on us without lots of pics!

Wes North Van · Post by **Wes North Van** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 10:16 pm

Hawaii was originally our first choice and we were taking vacations there twice a year but it is just getting too expensive meanwhile Palm Springs is still very affordable.
We also were able to buy a house rather than a condo.
We will use the house there a lot more than we would if we were in Hawaii.
I will post pics soon.
I have a lot of Washingtonia species on the property and a couple of Chamaerops humilis but that is it for palms.
I will have to try some other species as I have both of those here in Vancouver.
There are a lot of true date palms and queens there so I will probably try one of those.
How is your places doing?

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:48 am

Wes North Van wrote:How is your places doing?

Doing good! A little biut better every year.

Can't wait to see some pics of you So Cal place.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 7:57 am

Very nice cactus...and some girth too.

I just noticed my Horse crippler is going to bloom this year

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:24 am

hardyjim wrote:I just noticed my Horse crippler is going to bloom this year

I don't think I have anything close to blooming yet.

Can't wait to see some pics.

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:55 am

No blooms here either. Methinks that this year was the worst I've ever had for plants rotting. Gotta remember to fungicide both in the fall and in the early spring. Doh!

PalmsNorth.com

New cactus!

New cactus!

Aaron

New Cacti

Re: New Cacti

Aaron

Re: Aaron