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I usually only read D&D but I will make a succ-based exception. Some of my favorites (sorry about the banding, my plant lights do it and my phone won't stop them): Aloinopsis schooneesii  Adromischus marianiae f. herrei  Dorstenia foetida  Pachycereus marginatus f. cristata  Obregonia denegrii  Myrtillocactus geometrizans cv. Fukurokuryuzinboku If you like succs come say hi in the cactus dungeon some time.
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pokie posted:This is a very choice collection. Love me some adro. Never even heard of Dorstenia. What do you use for lights? They're just some chainable grow lights from Barrina. I built some cabinet things for the plants to keep myself busy this winter and they were reasonably priced and easy enough to hide. Also have some of the GE bulbs above my windows but those don't cause any banding issues.  pokie posted:Here's my myrtillocactus: What a nice boy! Most of my stuff is pretty small since it all has to be able to be indoors for at least a substantial portion of the year here.
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Aug 4, 2021 02:46
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Herstory Begins Now posted:some cacti are impressively cold tolerant, eg the eastern prickly pear (an opuntia) ranges up into ontario canada There's more succs that can take the cold than people think. They're not that easy to find often but there's a nursery in Colorado that specializes in them.
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Aug 11, 2021 13:09
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Ok Comboomer posted:y'all are real loving cute Some Cylindropuntia went in this spring:  Two different forms of leptocaulis  kleiniae  chonky imbricata var. aborescens Along with a couple of Echinocereus:  fendleri  triglochidiatus var. mojavensis f. inermis I found this Opuntia humifusa at a local nursery in June:  And then earlier this week got a few more in:  Maihueniopsis darwinii cv. Big Orange—the cladode on the left is overplanted because it fell off and it needs to root itself.  Same for this Opuntia fragilis var. denuda.  Aloinopsis luckhoffii
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Aug 12, 2021 23:44
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Ok Comboomer posted:I’m super curious to see how this outdoor succ garden pans out for you in New England Yeah, me too. The soil is all pretty heavily amended (half of them are in a bed that's raised in stone) and the succs are mostly hardy to 4 or 5 so fingers crossed. Most of them are from that place I linked in Colorado that grows them outdoors which I imagine gives them a much better shot than stuff reared in a California/Florida greenhouse. pokie posted:Yes, we're. That's a giant part of the appeal of succ keeping - the cute awkward plants. I put in a decent sized Yucca rostrata cv. Sapphire Skies last year that seems like it's now getting big enough to start getting taller and I can't loving wait. I want a massive faxoniana or an elata but I don't have anywhere to put them 
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Aug 13, 2021 12:30
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pokie posted:Very cool & somewhat ambitious in zone 5, although I guess that's in its range. The pictured Aloidendron dichotomum is taller than me now. It's about 8 feet with the pot. The biggest risk is mostly at the tail end of winter when we get cycles of snow/melt on top of plants that are still dormant. I didn't have any cacti in last year but I did have a bunch of succulents that all wintered over fine, including a handful of Yucca (that rostrata, a large filamentosa, and a baccata), some Hesperaloe, a few ostensibly marginal Orostachys, and a bunch of the crap that can survive drat near anywhere (Sempervivum, Sedum, Phedimus, Delosperma, Hylotelephium). Wallet fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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Aug 14, 2021 00:41
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Some of the aforementioned Yuccas and poo poo: filamentosa cv. Color Guard and friends  rostrata in the back there  baccata  Orostachys malacophylla and my hose and things  Orostachys cv. Crazy Eddie, Hesperaloe parviflora, etc I doubled the depth of all of it about two months ago (it was lawn) so it's still under planted in the front. i say swears online posted:do they die after that like agave? that's cool if they do that multiple times  (Bonus Agave in the corner is utahensis IIRC.) Wallet fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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Aug 14, 2021 14:24
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pokie posted:I see your h bayeri. It is nice. springbokvlakensis also looking real good. I ordered one a while back but what arrived was both not one and poorly rooted. Still hasn't plumped up. pokie posted:I must bring out the small guns for this succ fest. Very accomplished for an adromischus—A++ owl accommodations. These are my two smallest succs from lying rear end motherfuckers who list things as the wrong size but I still like them:   My special stink succ (Edithcolea) is also pretty small right now: 
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pokie posted:I have mixed feelings about Opuntias. They have tiny needles called glochids that have more needles pointing backwards on them, like serrated arrows. Very charming, really. Even the little tiny Opuntioideae like O fragilis are just pretending to not have them until you touch them and then you find them in your underwear for six weeks. My buddy Tephrocactus papyracanthus has special friendly flattened spines that are like little streamers to say hello but then each one is also surrounded by hundreds of glochids thirsting for man flesh 
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