Gorgeous! These flowers remind me why I love cacti over other plants.

So that’s what species these are! They’ve always been the “classic” cactus for me as everyone who had a cactus had one at least. All when the same pink flowers, heaps of offsets etc. love them. Thanks for the memories

For the most part. Cylindropuntia and austrocylindropuntias are a no go entirely. Opuntia we are allowed one species and that’s Opuntia ficus-indica. I’m thinking this may be a Cylindropuntia species but unsure which. I never saw the mother plant. Planning to grow it for a bit to see what species it...

So a local retirement village had a plant sale to raise some money and I picked up this little fellow. Segments detach very easily..

Suggestions on what it may be?

I’ve no experience of that species, but when i lived in Cornwall (one of the sunny bits of the UK) large diameter sections of Trichocerei were pretty easy to root, as long as they were dry. Now i have moved up to the frozen North, with the concomitant decrease in light intensity, life is not so str...

Anyone any experience?

Also, is it possible to root Saguaro cuttings?

Marvellous! What’s the species?

Love the P. Pringlei! Can’t wait for mine to get that size - they’re only about an inch tall at the moment. How old is your plant?


Come on, Paul!

Haven't you heard of Euphorbia cactus ? And then there is Neobuxbaumia euphorbioides. I’ll try and get a picture of my largest when I get home from work tommorow. It’s Pachycereus marginatus (although this may be a stenocereus now?). It was a large cutting and I had it in a broken bucket with a few...

Interesting topic.

Ralph are those Ariocarpus out of humidity now?