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cactus @sh.itjust.works distantsounds @lemmy.world Potted some tips today
I trimmed the garden (grow tent) a few weeks back and some tips already started rooting. So I figured I’d take advantage of a nice day & get everybody in some soil. It is a well draining mix/substrate capped off with a little top soil.
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cactus @sh.itjust.works distantsounds @lemmy.world Bruce's Dragon Another Pup & some kind of splitting?!
So I’ve been chopping & prepping cacti for propagation and noticed this on the BD. I’m going to give it another week or 2 before cutting it now. Hopefully that will give them a better chance at rooting 🤞 idk if the left stalk is cresting or branching or what! So cool
Here’s a few more pics of the whole cactus..
Edit: previous post https://lemmy.world/post/17021556
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cactus @sh.itjust.works doctortofu @reddthat.com It's been a while since I went to a cactus/succulent event, so of course I couldn't come back home empty handed :)
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/29912340
I'll need to properly ID them later since they only have tags with their Japanese names, but I'm reasonably sure the top row from the left is a Leuchtenbergia, an Obregonia and a Crassula, and the bottom row is some kind of Gymnocalycium, a Haworthia, Blosfeldia liliputiana and another Haworthia.
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cactus @sh.itjust.works doctortofu @reddthat.com Another cactus/succulent event, and I bought too many again :)
They were all so purdy that I couldn't help myself. Surprisingly affordable too, even the bigger ones, which is always nice.
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cactus @sh.itjust.works doctortofu @reddthat.com Update on one of the grafted bois
I posted about my grafted bois before here (I wish there was a way to share instance-agnostic links, maybe some day...), but I have an update - one of them decided recently that having another cactus forcibly implanted on top of it is not nearly enough, and he started sprouting all over the place! What a little overachiever, eh?
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cactus @sh.itjust.works doctortofu @reddthat.com Haven't posted in a while, so here are a couple of random unedited and edited photos of my cacti, since I'm trying to teach myself how to properly use my new phone camera
The first pic is unedited, and here's the version I played with a bit, what do you think, is it too much?
Here's a few more, should be clear by looking at them, but unedited version first, edited one after:
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cactus @sh.itjust.works MyNameIsRichard @lemmy.ml Blooming marvelous
I haven't even had it for two months and it does this.
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cactus @sh.itjust.works kunegis @mander.xyz Epiphyllum is blooming
Bought it 2019, flowering now for the first time.
No idea what variety it is.
Each flower is open only 1 or 2 nights.
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cactus @sh.itjust.works MyNameIsRichard @lemmy.ml I got a collection pack for my birthday
I'm looking for good information on how to care for them and identify them as they weren't labelled. I guess that it's not as simple a giving them very little water?
If anyone knows a good website or book, I'd be grateful.
Edit: Typo
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cactus @sh.itjust.works doctortofu @reddthat.com Some of my Gymnocalycium cacti started blooming
This pic is of a big boy that looks a bit like a lophophora underneath the flower, and here's one of an amazing grafted ball of fun I got last year (rootstock is slightly sun bleached, but quite healthy otherwise):
Looking forward to more and bigger flowers soon!
Edit: one of my gymno triplets also started to bloom some time between 3 hours ago and now! I was hoping all flowers would open up together, but it's still pretty :)
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cactus @sh.itjust.works distantsounds @lemmy.world My Bruce's dragon is starting to pup
The original graft started puping at the end of last August and are now at about 10” & 8” respectively.
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cactus @sh.itjust.works doctortofu @reddthat.com Went to Tokyo Cactus and Succulent Grand Bazaar today and didn't come home empty handed ;)
It was very hot, very crowded and yet still worth it - finally got not just one, but both known species of Aztekium without going bankrupt - I wanted one for a long while, but they tend to be stupid expensive in Japan.
Love the two cute jellybeans too - Conophytum burgeri. Hell, love all of them, that's why I bought too many yet again :)
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cactus @sh.itjust.works biokernel @discuss.tchncs.de Gymnocalycium mihanovichii blooms reliably
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/16645819
2 buds hiding under the flower ☺️