Minnesota State Fair Cactus, Succulent & Plant Show

PapaBearJay · Post by **PapaBearJay** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 4:06 am

It's coming!

I'm thinking about it. More and more. Now sure, I don't have anything particularly amazing in my collection, but just to have someone come and look at them would be awesome. Ya know?

Anyone else plan on going to the Minnesota State Fair?

Thursday and Friday, August 26 and 27, 2010

http://www.northerngardener.org/docs/MS ... ow2010.pdf

Harriet · Post by **Harriet** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:50 am

If you enter I'd love to hear/see how you do!

PapaBearJay · Post by **PapaBearJay** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:01 pm

I should have made that a bit more clear, the contest is the 26 & 27, the state fair is like 10 days of awesomeness!

Harriet: Me too! Maybe my seedlings will have sprouted by then, so if they do, I might be inclined to put the others in.

hob · Post by **hob** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:39 pm

PapaBearJay wrote:I should have made that a bit more clear, the contest is the 26 & 27, the state fair is like 10 days of awesomeness!

sorry that was me

i edited your post to include dates from the pdf file

PapaBearJay · Post by **PapaBearJay** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:58 pm

No worries hob!

Cactus_523 · Post by **Cactus_523** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 6:46 pm

I wish i could go

if only I was about 7 years older.
(P.S im only 13)

PapaBearJay · Post by **PapaBearJay** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:09 pm

Well, you might not be able to enter the contest, or drink alcohol, but you could still come to see, and experience the fair!

I like that everyone seems to be starting at younger ages time and time again.

Cactus_523 · Post by **Cactus_523** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:53 pm

I got my first cacti in june this year so even if i was old enough to enter the contest i still couldnt

PapaBearJay · Post by **PapaBearJay** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:01 pm

Yes well, now that I think about it, I wouldn't be able to enter many, only two of them....but they don't need to know that!

Cactus_523 · Post by **Cactus_523** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:06 pm

PapaBearJay wrote:Yes well, now that I think about it, I wouldn't be able to enter many, only two of them....but they don't need to know that!

lol. I wish there was a contest somewhere around Bowman,ND I want to see some really cool cacti!

PapaBearJay · Post by **PapaBearJay** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:09 pm

I think we've all decided that no one wants anything from North Dakota!

...

Just kidding, I went to college in Moorhead, and that's about as close as I ever wanted to get.

Cactus_523 · Post by **Cactus_523** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:15 pm

haha, yea the winters here are just awesome it stays soo warm

PapaBearJay · Post by **PapaBearJay** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:19 pm

Just tropical almost isn't it?

Almost like we're on the equator.

THE EQUATOR OF TUNDRA!!!

Cactus_523 · Post by **Cactus_523** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:23 pm

lol,I should post some pictures of winter 20 ft snowbanks in my backyard

Peterthecactusguy · Post by **Peterthecactusguy** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 12:10 am

I was born in the worst blizzard in Ohio's history...is it any wonder that I love weather, and esp love living where it's hot and dry most of the year???????

As for age, I am in the middle, I am 32 and I got my first cactus when I was about 10 or maybe even younger. It died because I didn't know how to take care of it. Oh well. At least now that I am interested in keeping mine alive most of mine are fine. I have lost a few cuttings and some of the transplanted saguaros, but all in all everything is good.