G'day guys, Over my Easter break, I have been running around to various nurseries and picking up new plants for the collection. Basically, I've gone a bit mad over the last few days, and as a consequence I've now got about a dozen new plants. Unfortunately, most came with no identification beyond si...

I remember I had some success growing O.microdasys from pad cuttings some years ago. Basically, all I did was pop the detached pads straight into fresh cactus compost. Didn't water them for a while, and after a couple of weeks they had rooted in happily. I didn't wait for them to callus, I didn't us...

G'day guys, I'm still a bit of a youngun' (23yo male), but I've been fascinated by cacti since I was a kid. I got my first plant (a red grafted Gymnocalycium mihanovichii "Hibotan") at about eight years of age. Since then, I've been surrounded by various species of cactus and succulent. Wh...