Sweltering day in the tunnel today, built a new bench, a second one to follow soon. Repotted a hundred or so Stenocacti, turbs and mamms under my sunshade before wilting in the heat. Another 3000 6cm pots on the way.... getting there slowly!

On the topic of feeding- I've recently bought this Dutch hose end feeder from birchmeier https://www.birchmeier.com/en/content/produkte/aquamix-1-25-v/index.php Best purchase I've made in ages, can feed many thousands of plants in minutes. Set to 0.2% and filled with tomorite it delivers just over h...

Thanks for the replies folks, useful suggestions. Re: Shopfront - I've got a website very nearly ready to go live, built by my ingenious better half. I'm hoping I can do everything through my own website, but may also go the ebay route depending on how things go - it does seem to work well, as Cider...

Time for a very long overdue update, life has been rather busy with a new job etc., but the cacti are still growing away apace, and I'm still spending a lot of time repotting! The business idea will happen, and now I've got a little more time, it shouldn't be too long before I have a website up and ...

Thanks for the replies all, very encouraging! Shan't be too long now until I start selling plants, likely autumn or next spring. A few photos from today - was about to start taking picture of all the flowering mother plants when my phone ran out of battery, so only seedlings. Matucana ritteri first ...

I put up a 36x16ft polytunnel in November last year, with the aim of eventually having a small mail order nursery along side my 'real job'. The tunnel was heated over the winter by a 11kw gas heater (not that it was needed much), with the aim of keeping the tunnel above 1.5c. I have a couple of thou...

Thanks all for replies, and my apologies for tardiness in replying myself. I've realised that in fact I can get by with a good few bags of multi purpose/John Innes 2, good quality grit and Sophisticat pink - In reality I'll be re-circulating a lot of the compost anyway since plants will indeed be so...

Thanks all for the very helpful replies, much appreciated. I've made a quick google search for a brickworks in my neck of the woods (Devon/Somerset border) and can't seem to find anything, which is frustrating, since Iain's suggestion of calling by a brickworks sounds very sensible. I'm thinking I m...

I recently erected a 36x16ft heated poly tunnel :eek: with the aim of eventually having a small scale mail order nursery as a second job/hobby, and am in the process of repotting several thousand seedlings which have made it through the winter and are plumping up again. Because I'm just moving from ...

Regarding the Czech suppliers - Cactus hobby BRNO deliver relatively promptly but I've had very bad germination rates with their seed so I tend to avoid them. Pavel pavlicek at cact.cz is very good, good quality seed and very cheap. Kaktusy rysavy is also very good, and I can recommend them.