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- Melt In The Sun
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New to this forum....
Hi all,
I'm down here in Tucson with a growing collection of succulents; agave mainly, but a few scattered other things as well.
I recognize a few names already from my travels to other horticulture sites, so I look forward to learning a lot and contributing a little here as well.
I also serve as a moderator at troublefreepool.com, so if you happen to have pool-related questions or problems, feel free to stop on by that site or shoot me a PM.
I'm down here in Tucson with a growing collection of succulents; agave mainly, but a few scattered other things as well.
I recognize a few names already from my travels to other horticulture sites, so I look forward to learning a lot and contributing a little here as well.
I also serve as a moderator at troublefreepool.com, so if you happen to have pool-related questions or problems, feel free to stop on by that site or shoot me a PM.
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DesertZone, dunno about Cochise county, but up here in Yavapai county for the most part all of the saguaros and palms made it through, it was a lot of non-native plants that were damaged. It was 16F here where I live. (I do have a rotting saguaro but it might have been triggered from something other then the cold. Its got fungal necrosis.)
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
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Thanks for the welcome!
Most of the palms here in Tucson are alive, but will be ugly for a while. Some of the queens are probably toast, but it's too soon to tell for sure. I haven't noticed any dying saguaros, but I haven't really been looking either.
There are a lot of dead plants around town...we were careful and didn't lose anything we cared about.
Most of the palms here in Tucson are alive, but will be ugly for a while. Some of the queens are probably toast, but it's too soon to tell for sure. I haven't noticed any dying saguaros, but I haven't really been looking either.
There are a lot of dead plants around town...we were careful and didn't lose anything we cared about.
I saw a lot of hammered looking columnars in Tucson a couple weeks ago when I was there, landscape plants like Stenocereus marginatus and so on. I think I also saw some really bad looking Opuntia ficus-indica? These were yard plants in the neighborhood around Stone and Speedway, down to 4th Ave.
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PeterB, wouldn't surprise me at all because even at DBG in Phoneix they had some bad looking Columulars and O. ficus-indica. Some up by me fell over, or lost massive amounts of pads.
(like I said it was mostly non-native plants up here that died!)
BTW I forgot about P. greggi which is locally from the Tuscon area. I hope those made it ok.
I didn't plant mine outside and I am glad I didn't!
(like I said it was mostly non-native plants up here that died!)
BTW I forgot about P. greggi which is locally from the Tuscon area. I hope those made it ok.
I didn't plant mine outside and I am glad I didn't!
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
Welcome to the cactus and succulent forums.
I can tell you, that except for some damage of the tips, the Peniocereus greggii plants did do fine here in El Paso. We did have 72 hours of below freezing temperatures and one night the low was down to 2 degrees F and the next night to 3 degrees F.
Harald
I can tell you, that except for some damage of the tips, the Peniocereus greggii plants did do fine here in El Paso. We did have 72 hours of below freezing temperatures and one night the low was down to 2 degrees F and the next night to 3 degrees F.
Harald
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Good to know, thank you.hegar wrote:Welcome to the cactus and succulent forums.
I can tell you, that except for some damage of the tips, the Peniocereus greggii plants did do fine here in El Paso. We did have 72 hours of below freezing temperatures and one night the low was down to 2 degrees F and the next night to 3 degrees F.
Harald