Hey guys
Thought I'd start this off to discuss some of the day to day care of our cacti which doesn't warrant it's own separate thread. The idea being we can learn from each other's experiences and rituals. Pictures are all good too!
I'll start off (although no pics) -
Today being Sunday, I had almost a whole day free. My pots out the back were very overgrown with weeds. I spent the afternoon weeding (I use needle-nose pliers for weeding) most of my pots.
I also acquired 3 rooted stumps from some well established (before being cut down) plants - 1x bridgesoid and 2x taquiblensis. I potted these into suitable pots. Looking forward to seeing these take off - I can almost feel the power in the root balls
I found some flexible 30litre tubs at the Warehouse for $5 each, plus square plastic buckets - 12litre - for $2.20 each. Testing these out, beats paying $25 for a similar size plastic 'pot'
Then fed the entire herd with miracle-grow.
today I checked all the cacti for arthropods and other pests , only thing detectable was about 5 species of good ole fashioned regular spider
so I left them alone , maybe theyre guardians of the cacti's health somehow? , the seem to go hand in hand..
potted up those last few small stragglers
uk sourced pachanoi
uk sourced bridgesii
and the fake bridgesii monstruose peperone (T' santiaguensis) from gaia8910 in italy for £35
thank you kindly Sabry for pointing that out about 5 months ago on one of the pics in my albums
those sorts of help are always welcome , and thanks for not relabelling it either tho too
and i found the same cactus for as little as £3.50 in uk ...
and this cant take anything like the battering the real penis can .. or regular bridgesii either
and I waited patiently for some 11litre pots to pot up the fat scop stump and my former "biggest pachanoi" of last year
I looked at the terschalidus mutant ... maybe a 30x30cm 18litre pot was too big afterall
ill stick it in a 24x24cm 11litre pot when they arrive too
watered my large werdermannianus from Germany, so far its had about 7-8 hundred milliletres of triple strength feed in the last week and looks to be fattening at last
took some pics of the macrogonus from the same guy in Germany ...some folk said possibly bridgesii but I cant see it myself
maybe its the camera not doing the plants justice?
heres cutting 1
and cutting 2
and cutting 2 again with a dark backgroundsince a lot of my pics with this camera have a high um exposure, if thats what its called?
a lot of sun we have in my little microclimate , that's for sure