Hello Everybody,
I'm really excited to be here, because I'm really getting into Cacti & Succulents and any help or information that I get would be really, really welcome.
I've been looking through a lot of the posts while I was waiting for my confirmation, and I've realised that I have a lot to learn.
I also don't know much of the terminology, so be patient with me!
Once I learn how to do the picture resize thing, I intend to post some pictures for identification. I have a wee plant nursery and I want to eventually start selling and displaying Cacti & Succulents, so learning what they are and what they need is very important to me.
I can identify only a few, and they are probably the most common ones! But I would love to be more knowledgeable, hopefully with all your help!?
Thanks for reading this.
A big Hello from Scotland, UK.
- PlantCrazy
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- gemhunter178
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Re: A big Hello from Scotland, UK.
Welcome!
If it helps and if you didn't see it already (and if you want an excuse to look at some plants) we do have a big thread of commonly seen cacti and succulents with id's https://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39213
If it helps and if you didn't see it already (and if you want an excuse to look at some plants) we do have a big thread of commonly seen cacti and succulents with id's https://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39213
A cactus and succulent collector who especially likes Ariocarpus. …Though I have a bit of everything! Want some pictures? See my flickr! I also do art and such.
- PlantCrazy
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Re: A big Hello from Scotland, UK.
Thank you gemhunter.gemhunter178 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:19 am Welcome!
If it helps and if you didn't see it already (and if you want an excuse to look at some plants) we do have a big thread of commonly seen cacti and succulents with id's https://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39213
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Re: A big Hello from Scotland, UK.
Welcome
Jerry Smith
Bloomingdale, NJ
45 inches (114 cm) rain equivalent per year, approx. evenly spread per month
2012 USDA Hardiness Zone 6b: -5F to OF (-20C to -18C) min.
Bloomingdale, NJ
45 inches (114 cm) rain equivalent per year, approx. evenly spread per month
2012 USDA Hardiness Zone 6b: -5F to OF (-20C to -18C) min.
- PlantCrazy
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Re: A big Hello from Scotland, UK.
Thank you Jerry.
- PlantCrazy
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Re: A big Hello from Scotland, UK.
Hello again ☺
I thought I'd write this here rather than messing up the forum with posts in the wrong place. I've spent the last few weeks looking at a lot of various topics, sometimes going to the very first posts and working backwards. Most of them were very interesting, but I have a way to go yet! I did that 'Cacti or not' quiz, (feeling totally confident), after reading all about the differences, and failed dismally!
I went to a local car boot sale, and one boot had a large cacti for sale. It was wedged between two steel poles and had lots of dried up 'things' (maybe old flowers?) sticking out from the body, so I took them off and did a soil wash that I've been reading about, re-potted it, and waited 8 days before I watered it.
Today I watered it for the first time this morning, and when I got back 6hrs later, this had happened?!
P.S. I'm also using this as a tester for the picture resize thing! If it works here, it will work in the identification forum!
No! This is not going to work, I don't know how to print a photo here!? I don't know what to do?!
I thought I'd write this here rather than messing up the forum with posts in the wrong place. I've spent the last few weeks looking at a lot of various topics, sometimes going to the very first posts and working backwards. Most of them were very interesting, but I have a way to go yet! I did that 'Cacti or not' quiz, (feeling totally confident), after reading all about the differences, and failed dismally!
I went to a local car boot sale, and one boot had a large cacti for sale. It was wedged between two steel poles and had lots of dried up 'things' (maybe old flowers?) sticking out from the body, so I took them off and did a soil wash that I've been reading about, re-potted it, and waited 8 days before I watered it.
Today I watered it for the first time this morning, and when I got back 6hrs later, this had happened?!
P.S. I'm also using this as a tester for the picture resize thing! If it works here, it will work in the identification forum!
No! This is not going to work, I don't know how to print a photo here!? I don't know what to do?!
- PlantCrazy
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Re: A big Hello from Scotland, UK.
That post has been one of my favourites so far. I copied it all! Unfortunately my copies don't zoom in very well and it goes all blurry, but I'm getting the gist of the matter slowly but surely.gemhunter178 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:19 am Welcome!
If it helps and if you didn't see it already (and if you want an excuse to look at some plants) we do have a big thread of commonly seen cacti and succulents with id's https://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39213
Euphorbias seem to be the ones that are messing around with my head a bit because some of them 'look' like Cacti but they don't have the areoles, (sp?) and even if they do they don't?