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- Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?
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Re: Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?
Rarity is often a matter of opinion and can vary county to country depending what's freely available in that country. Also some species are more desirable to collectors than others, therefore a not very attractive species may in fact be quite rare but there is not a widespread market for it. Take f...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?
- Replies: 9
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Re: Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?
Not sure what you have. But sounds like you have been watching Ebay. And I believe if you don't want to just give them away,that is the way to go. Depending on how much time and effort you want to spend. I have watched some of Tee Dee cacti go for over a thousand dollars. I myself will probably jus...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?
- Replies: 9
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Re: Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?
FWIW when I say "Rare" I'm just using the CactiGuide rarity scale listed for species and the ones that appear on the CITES 1 list. I'm not trying to turn this into a side business or make a bunch of money. Just was kinda doing due diligence on if it was worth it to sell vs gift. I apprecia...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:02 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?
- Replies: 9
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Is there a market for rare seed grown cacti species?
To be clear I am NOT looking to sell in this post. Just trying to figure out what to do with my extras in the future assuming I can keep them going and start to run out of space haha. I posted recently about getting my Echinopsis coronata seedilings up to a decent size. I also have some (still small...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
- Replies: 10
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Re: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
Absolutely. October temps here are still very warm. I don’t start winding things down to winter over plants until early December. I also grow tropical fruit trees, peppers, etc… and they all keep growing in October and November here
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
- Replies: 10
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Re: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
Mid to low 20s for a few nights a year most years. Lots of low 30s-40s nights in Jan and Feb. not super cold by most places standards. The problem is most of those temps in the 20s or low 30s are immediately after heavy rain as we only get that when cold weather troughs dip down from the north and i...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:45 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2518
Re: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
It’s north Florida so in Jan and Feb I have to protect most things from the deadly cold + wet combo but other than that yes they seem to grow well here! Thanks so much for the additional info. I kinda grew it because there seemed to be so little info out there about it and it had a cool scientific n...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: Grew this from an old seed packet labelled Opuntia strigil, does that ID look correct to you all?
- Replies: 6
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Re: Grew this from an old seed packet labelled Opuntia strigil, does that ID look correct to you all?
Ahh I see! Thank you. It looks pretty close. I guess I’ll really find out when it gets big enough to flower and fruit.
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:56 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
- Replies: 10
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Re: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
Sure! My mix is generally 2 parts sand, 2 parts potting soil, 1 part perlite or small stones. It seems to work really well for most species.
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:31 pm
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: Grew this from an old seed packet labelled Opuntia strigil, does that ID look correct to you all?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2431
Re: Grew this from an old seed packet labelled Opuntia strigil, does that ID look correct to you all?
? I don't think I get this joke heh
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2518
My first success growing a "rare" cactus species from seed: Echinopsis coronata!
Got a pack of 20 seeds from Mesa Garden. Germ rate was so-so and I killed a few too but now I have five 1" diameter of these lil guys! They are all fat, green and looking good! Not sure how desirable these would be to collectors but I think I'm only going to keep a couple and share the wealth a...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 6:33 pm
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: Grew this from an old seed packet labelled Opuntia strigil, does that ID look correct to you all?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2431
- Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:50 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Good tasting Cacti
- Replies: 5
- Views: 968
Re: Good tasting Cacti
Dragonfruit: H. undatus - Common red dragon fruit found in grocery stores, any others? Other main species of Dragonfruits: Hylocereus polyrhizus Hylocereus guatemalensis Selenicereus megalanthus, synonym Hylocereus megalanthus Then, there are many other hybrids. Have a look at this website: https:/...
- Sun Jun 26, 2022 6:45 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Good tasting Cacti
- Replies: 5
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Good tasting Cacti
I've been working on my growing from seed/buying plants collection of cacti with the hope of having some home grown fruit/nopales etc... in the future. Here's the list of what I've been able to accumulate so far: Prickly Pears: O. ficus-indica, O. Engelmanii, O. strigil, O. dulcis. Are there other s...
- Sat Jun 18, 2022 10:28 am
- Forum: Grown From Seed
- Topic: When to repot from a 2" pot
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1384
Re: When to repot from a 2" pot
Thanks! Definitely 2” terracotta round pots and in soil that was too perlite heavy from when I was still figuring all this out so I might go ahead and go up a size on the biggest one with a more balanced soil mix