keith wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 5:52 pm That's cool I really liked Tucson when I lived in Phoenix I used to drive down all the time. Visit mnt Lemon its really nice the drive up.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This makes absolutely no sense. I don't even think pepper plants are in the caryophyllales order.
Very strange chimera you have there.

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...

Aeonium Mardi Gras being illegal to propagate definitely belongs on the "humans of late capitalism" instagram page.

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...

MrXeric wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 7:46 am It could probably dry in 1 day if I kept the pots under the sun when it's 110F+, but then my plants will burn!

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

Bummer when two plants don't flower at the same time. V. pretty flowers

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.

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...

Very interesting climate, your plants see snow till June, and my plants have never seen snow in their lives.