sorry for the slow reply on this, been crazy. thanks for the replies. after reading about them, my guess is this is the result of me withholding water trying to get them to go dormant. the temperatures have been pretty high recently so they wont go to sleep, but i didnt want to water them in case th...

i noticed this odd growth starting to grow out of some of the areoles on one of my prickly pear monstrose. there has been a lot of growth on it so far and nothing has looked like this yet. there are only about 5 areoles that it is growing out of. one of the bigger ones is highlighted in the image be...

thank you all very much for the replies! <3 i will make a small greenhouse for them and i will wrap them in newspapers and keep them as insulated as possible. i guess the newspaper would help absorb some moisture too. i will keep a thermometer in the greenhouse and in the coldest windowsill i have a...

its good to hear people are getting good results using lights over winter. this winter is my first as a cacti grower and i have read a lot of conflicting information on lights. my plan at the moment is to bounce them between outside and a cold spot inside, depending on conditions. maybe in the futur...

sounds like they should be outside for winter to me. i am not an expert at all, i am still new to cacti myself. i also do not know what your weather is going to be like etc, so dont take only my word for it. i have trichocereus and lophophora so i know a little about them, but i do not know about ma...

this winter is going to be my first winter as a cacti lover and i feel unprepared, so i am starting to think about a plan now before it comes from nowhere. i was hoping you guys could offer some knowledge to help me through it. my collection: 4x Echinocactus grusonii 1x lophophora williamsii 2x opun...

it did not look like that until after it was knocked off the table. i had pulled it out to check for roots a few days before and it was looking great. it is still hard though, so thats a good sign. today is a week since it was pulled from the soil. i think i am going to give it a few more days thoug...

thanks guys <3

it looks even better today! the black area has dried up more, it is now quite hard and shriveled and the black colouring is pretty much all gone.
it looks like he is going to be okay! im excited about giving him his first drink in 1-2 weeks!

thanks for the help guys <3

thank you for the reply. i just had a look to see what it felt like and it is not soft at all, it is just as firm as the rest of the cactus and it is dry. i was also surprised to see that already a lot of the black colouring has faded. i feel like this poor little guy will be okay! <3 i will keep it...

just say no to cacti! do not do it just because your friends are doing it! if they jump off a cliff, would you?

about 2-3 weeks ago my trichocereus was knocked off the side (not by me!) while it was just starting to throw roots. one of the roots was broken off but there was another long root that looked undamaged and healthy, as did the other beginings of roots that were starting to show. i repotted it in the...

keith wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 1:56 amAnd if caught poaching well its Texas so good luck.

which creates the same effect on humans as we are trying to avoid with cacti...

..i love it!

Ebay seller raising the price by putting "rare" on their listing is pretty much the same as putting a cactus on CITES appendix I. Therefor from a conservational point of view it's the wrong tactic, but it's pretty common that politicians and authorities are not known to be very pragmatic,...

Trouble is Agriculture, home building, road building and Dam Building kill many thousands more than ever cactus thieves do. The main problem is the thieves usually target small populations of highly desirable species, or the latest novelties. How many native plants did the plot your house or factor...

I'm not sure how you equate smuggling for money to "loving cactus a little to much". Loving cactus a little to much would be stealing that many but then keeping them all for yourself. Mother nature is being decimated by selfish homosapiens. What happens today effects what happens 20 t0 30...