Oohhhh that sounds exciting

I love seeing them germinate, makes we want to go and sow some more

But Dave if we are talking soley Turbinicarpus (which I have never seen the habitat myself only read in books) then it states that much of the habitat is unusable for anything else. The main threat that Turbinicarpus face in the publications I have read is illegal collection in many locations especi...

Great to see these. Thanks for sharing.

We just brought some Tephrocactus seeds and I did a little research about germinating them and this was what I found. What are your thoughts?

http://ocps.proboards.com/thread/4423

I added the link to the thread too as I thought it was quite interesting.

Hey it was cold that day. Winters coming you know

At our branch there are a few couples that come together but mainly I have found the hobby is male dominated. Not sure why that would be as I love everything about cactus and feel really lucky that David does too so we can share our excitement, not so happy about sharing the green house but once we ...

They all look really nice. I love baby cactus such a rewarding challenge.

Thought I would post some more pics so we have them all here together. There are more plants in there now so new pics are required already. And guess what! It's now full hehe

Same as everyone else really. I have more spare time over winter and I always like to use a dry mix to repot into. I am aiming to try and repot every 2-3 years but we will see. I always top dress with gravel as if you don't the compost curls at the edges an doesn't look too good. Also stops nasties ...