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Some modern rat poisons make the rats or mice super thirsty I wonder if that's why the little buggers ate the roots on your cactus ? I mostly have rat problems and use rat traps baited with anything that's hard to remove from the trap lever. "Does rat poison cause dehydration? When pets are exp...

I use 1/3 sand and 1/3 sandy soil from the desert and 1/3 dry stall pumice for mesembs , same for cactus but maybe less sandy soil for cactus . lava rock I have used with mixed results same with turface. Store bought soil also not very good results. Where you get the sandy soil is pretty important a...

Bare root the seedlings and wrap them in soft paper and put in a box and fill all empty space in the box with paper or foam pellets whatever is light.

If the box weights more than 10 Oz and you use stamps it will be returned by the post office .

Planted Mesemb seeds and had a little more germination than I planned on .. Lithops, Conophytums, Argyroderma. Upper middle conophytums upper left and right Lithops , lower left conophytums , middle Argyroderma and Lower right lithops . Some from my plants many sent to me by a friend in AZ . Have mo...

Winter growers nice time of the year in S CA . I just planted some Mesemb seeds 4 little pots one of Lithops brandbergensis, One of Conophytum maughanii and one of conophytum IDK my own seed one of Agyroderma and not sure which species . All germinated now to keep them going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw1j48GjFXo

interesting video someone even mentions Azomite .

Lets see valdezianus many , jauernigii many, pseudopectinatus maybe 10 ? harder to keep alive , lophophoroides 2 from seed, pseudomacrochele many, knuthianus 2 old ones, klinkerianus many, alonsoi two tiny seedlings bigger ones died, many mystery turb from seed from Aiko, saueri ssp. gonzalezii two ...

They look good . When they get bigger I water them less often about the same as Ariocarpus which is not more than 1x a month

Azomite ? " Azomite 44 lbs Micronized Organic Trace Mineral Soil Additive Fertilizer ' never used it but have seen it at garden centers it says its volcanic dust.

I like turbinicarpus very cool

Flagstaff has weather volcanic soil . Probably other places in AZ also ? Owens valley where mono lake is has lots of interesting volcanic geology.

mono lake I bet its volcanic around the lake but the soil in the lake bed itself ?

They seems to be potted in pure organic mix." I don't like that . Almost none of my cactus are in a organic mix.
Norway Maybe a grow light ?

rosulate Viola i just watched a youtube with steve brack in patagonia and these were there along with other alpines