Cacti are growing..........

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Cacti are growing..........

Post by TimMAz6 » Sat Apr 28, 2012 4:56 pm



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Post by DesertZone » Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:31 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. :wink:
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Post by TimMAz6 » Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:57 pm

Hi Aaron,

yes, it's always nice to see the cactus breaking dormancy.
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Post by TimMAz6 » Sat Jun 02, 2012 12:16 am

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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Post by lucky1 » Sat Jun 02, 2012 12:55 pm

Nice, Tim!
Imagine cactus naturalizing at your latitude...hopefully a sign of even warmer winters to come. :D

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Post by Paul Ont » Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:22 am

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...)

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Post by hardyjim » Sun Jun 03, 2012 7:47 am

Thats awesome Tim


Hopefully it's warming up there.
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Post by TimMAz6 » Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:59 am

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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Post by Paul Ont » Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:50 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!

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Post by TimMAz6 » Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:24 pm

Hi Paul

What type of cactus hybrids did you create? Hybrids are cool.
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