I think the second picture is a coryphanthta.

Nice pictures. These are the small really hard to find cactus of the high desert right ? Do you cultivate any of them in Phoenix ?

I found Phoenix to be a difficult climate for some cactus, perfect for others.

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Near Ojai. Has lots of succulents and a few cactus. Some big stuff if I remember right.

pretty neat place .

I use 40 and 50% knited shade cloth I bought at Arizona Bag Company. You can see what it looks like in the Portable greenhouse subject where I use it. 40% in back North facing 50% in front South facing not by design but because I buy remnants. either work fine for me in Southern CA. window screen is...

did you build those yourself?

Yep. Next I will build a small shadehouse where they are now. maybe next year.

Keith ( Blair )

Mid Summer here is S. CA USA. Warming to mid 80F then cooling to 55F at night. Humid. Cactus all growing in there own slow way. Its just too cool and humid here to pour on the water. Its gets drier in the fall so maybe one more big watering end of August. Almost no flowers now just kind of soaking u...

This one is also oozing. Roots look OK, but I'm not confident it will live:" It may. keep it dry for awhile. totally sucks when that happens but it does free up bench space. I had a few cactus rot off this year, 2 from a transplant and too much water I guess, others just because thats what they...

I'm wondering if Epithelanthas need less of it than other desert cacti. If that's the case, please let me know, and I can cut the fert down by half." I don't fertilize my Epithelanthas, I think you can But I don't. The epithelanthas I grow do well in up to 1/3 Diatomaceous earth mixed with dese...

Lost my pasword and there was no way this site was letting me in. Numerous tries, lost password, all no good. So I re -registered now I'm Blair used to be keith. So there is nothing visibly wrong with the Micromeris, theory is spider mites caused the roots to stop working ? hmmmm maybe? re-pot it it...