One of the staff there also recommended mount lemmon. I heard it's nice to see the trees and enjoy the 9,000 foot elevation cooler temps.
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- Wed Jun 29, 2022 6:27 pm
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Nes and his balcony of lame plants
- Replies: 74
- Views: 57116
Re: Nes and his balcony of lame plants
- Wed Jun 29, 2022 5:24 pm
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Nes and his balcony of lame plants
- Replies: 74
- Views: 57116
Re: Nes and his balcony of lame plants
Update, I GOT THE JOB! I'll be making good money, and I'm really excited to be moving to Tucson. Within a few years I'll be able to put money down on a house and build a greenhouse, or at least some sort of shaded shelter. After years of being poor, keeping small cacti on my parent's balcony to main...
- Wed Jun 29, 2022 1:43 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: cactus quest video at Mesa gardens
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1321
Re: cactus quest video at Mesa gardens
Posted a comment about how even though he's not from a scientific background, I appreciated him learning some new things as he progresses. He deleted it lol. He also barely let the man at mesa gardens speak his mind. As far as his previous videos he's said things that are just plain incorrect, and w...
- Tue Jun 28, 2022 3:46 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Good tasting Cacti
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1103
Re: Good tasting Cacti
A thread I didn't know I needed. Definitely saving this for when I get more space to grow these larger species. The only cacti I've tasted is the standard Ficus-Indica used to make "nopales" Funny that growing up I always hated it when my mom made nopales and only ate the beans she made fo...
- Tue Jun 28, 2022 3:26 am
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Nes and his balcony of lame plants
- Replies: 74
- Views: 57116
Re: Nes and his balcony of lame plants
I really want to get out of California at all costs" :D Good luck with interview , did you fly or drive to Tucson ? Hey Keith, thanks for the good wishes. I drove to Tucson because I had my first in person interview at the companies' Scottsdale office. BTW, I read on a post where you say seeds...
- Tue Jun 28, 2022 1:58 am
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Nes and his balcony of lame plants
- Replies: 74
- Views: 57116
Re: Nes and his balcony of lame plants
No plants today. I'm in Tucson for the night and I have time to hit Desert Survivors Native Plant Nursery at 8:00 AM before my fourth job interview which is at 9:30 AM. Everything is within a mile from my hotel, the website says they have thelocactus macdowellii, if they have some in stock and are r...
- Sun Jun 26, 2022 4:13 pm
- Forum: Grafting
- Topic: Mammillaria cactus grafted onto a flowering pepper plant.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8486
Re: Mammillaria cactus grafted onto a flowering pepper plant.
This makes absolutely no sense. I don't even think pepper plants are in the caryophyllales order.
Very strange chimera you have there.
Very strange chimera you have there.
- Sun Jun 26, 2022 2:27 am
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Nes and his balcony of lame plants
- Replies: 74
- Views: 57116
Re: Nes and his balcony of lame plants
Little life update. I'm headed to Arizona on Monday to interview for an environmental consulting company. I really want this job, I love hydrogeology, the desert, cacti, and Arizona housing costs + taxes. I really want to get out of California at all costs, tax for the average starting salary of a h...
- Fri Jun 24, 2022 10:37 pm
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Aeonium2003's random pics.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 38129
Re: Aeonium2003's random pics.
Aeonium Mardi Gras being illegal to propagate definitely belongs on the "humans of late capitalism" instagram page.
- Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:02 pm
- Forum: Grown From Seed
- Topic: MrXeric's seedlings 2021 (and beyond...)
- Replies: 127
- Views: 149163
Re: MrXeric's seedlings 2021
I have the same doubts, all my seedlings grow outside in an old aquarium tank with a shade cloth above it. I would imagine they get really hot while they're receiving sun. I've been sprinkling my haworthia and conophytum seedlings but I have worries of rot. At the same time I'm worried they'll dry o...
- Wed Jun 22, 2022 7:29 pm
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Nes and his balcony of lame plants
- Replies: 74
- Views: 57116
Re: Nes and his balcony of lame plants
Good to see a fellow fine top dressing user.
As for burning plants, mine burn all the time since they stay outdoors year round. It gives them character in my opinion
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 4:58 pm
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: MrXeric's flowers and things
- Replies: 80
- Views: 108312
Re: MrXeric's flowers and things
Bummer when two plants don't flower at the same time. V. pretty flowers
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 1:58 am
- Forum: Cultivation
- Topic: Can I plant them deeper?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1584
Re: Can I plant them deeper?
I'm with Mr. Xeric, if you bury with some, lets say pure rock top dressing, in time it will cork up and look normal. I've personally buried a few plants, including astrophytum and they haven't minded so far. In my opinion, as long as that buried part isn't wet for too long I think it should be fine.
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:17 pm
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Nes and his balcony of lame plants
- Replies: 74
- Views: 57116
Re: Nes and his balcony of lame plants
So your top dressing is in contact with your plants at the base. No problems? What is your growing mix like? Nope, no problems so far. I believe it works out because of the California climate and overall I only top dress plants that I know grow in clayey environments. It does hold a lot of water, b...
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 4:08 pm
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Mrs.Green windowsills-growing cacti against the odds (links on page 9)
- Replies: 236
- Views: 110676
Re: Mrs.Green windowsills-growing cacti against the odds (links on page 9)
Very interesting climate, your plants see snow till June, and my plants have never seen snow in their lives.