Recently I have been planting Echinopsis and Echinocereus young plants in the gaps and 2 noto seedlings to see how they will manage. The soil seemed to stay dry over the winter mainly due to me putting a one inch layer of gravel under the soil when I prepared it. The two Trichocereus Dave sent me ha...

Over the winter the Opuntia froze up and turned to mush after growing dinner plate sized pads during the summer. I also lost Cleistocactus strausii, Trichocereus pachanoi and a couple of gymno seedlings. Oreocereus celsianus came out of the winter looking scarred but alive and the rest seem to have ...

Thought I might update this a bit,around the end of may last year i had my first flowers in the bed with Chamaecereus sylvestrii and Echinocereus coccineus both flowering
As you can see in the foreground are planted the two Trichocereus cuttings sent to me by DaveW (thanks Dave)

Torbjorn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hello, > Nice plant! > Can you please explain the kind of graft! > Looks horizontal to mee, and then a bend on the > graft? > Torbjörn yes a horizontal piece of stem grafted flat, no bend, that is new growth from the end of th...

That's a lot of plants Harry, should keep you busy for a while.

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In 2008 at the National show I bought a grafted plant at one of the sales tables. The plant was tagged as Arrojadoa multiflora subsp.hofackeriana HU 1394. This year it decided to flower, and after some research I found an article here on the forum in the Travelogues section written by Marlon Machado...