Cactus Anyone?

[Burd]

I haven’t been buying any new plants, but this one at a Lowe’s I went to was so nice, it was all budded up, most of the plants had straw flowers hot glued on the plants, WTH do they ruin a plant like that, this is a Gymno. White flowers I see. I always re pot as soon as I buy one, see what’s going on in the other half of the plant you can’t see LOl clay pots are most forgiving for me

 

[BarbO]

Beautiful! Good to see one with real blooms, not those dang glued on ones. Have you seen some are gluing on plastic flowers now? I feel so sorry for the plants.

 

[j.w]

Very pretty and nice blooms!

 

[bettasngoldfish]

Wow, I didn't realize that a cactus would flower. That is beautiful!

 

[Burd]

I’ll post them as a get some flowers.

 

[Burd]

Wow, I didn't realize that a cactus would flower. That is beautiful!

Yes, they all flower.

 

[Burd]

Here’s a few flowering or getting ready.

 

[addy1]

I had some beautiful cactus in my front yard in Arizona, they only bloomed at night. There are a lot of cactus thieves there, come and dig them up at night. But mine were still there when I sold the place.

Beautiful huge pink flowers.

 

[bettasngoldfish]

I had some beautiful cactus in my front yard in Arizona, they only bloomed at night. There are a lot of cactus thieves there, come and dig them up at night. But mine were still there when I sold the place.

Beautiful huge pink flowers.

Cactus thieves? Who the heck does that? And why? I imagine it could be dangerous ; )

 

[addy1]

Cactus thieves? Who the heck does that? And why? I imagine it could be dangerous ; )

The one in my front yard was worth around $100 for each branch. It had grown huge over the years. They steal anything they can dig up. Resale for a lot of money

People have been killed trying to steal the huge cactus out in the desert, squished flat, some weigh tons

 

[bettasngoldfish]

People have been killed trying to steal the huge cactus out in the desert, squished flat, some weigh tons

If they would just put that much effort into getting a job.....

 

[addy1]

If they would just put that much effort into getting a job.....

Yeah no kidding.

 

[Ronfire]

Sometimes the cactus get even.
They sure can bite when I ride the horses there in the winter.

 

[Lisak1]

I don't grow cactus indoors (or really any houseplants... zero attention span. haha!) but we do have native cactuses here, even in Northern IL that grow in my garden. These really love growing in our rock wall - we started with one tiny paddle about five years ago and they just keep growing! They do bloom occasionally. Every now and again I forget to watch myself when I'm working in this little corner and realize later that I had a "close encounter" of the prickly kind! They leave lots of little glochids in any exposed skin that may brush by. Those are fun to try to pull out!

And if you need a way to keep chipmunks from tunneling in your rock retention wall, try cactus!

 

[Burd]

Cactus thieves? Who the heck does that? And why? I imagine it could be dangerous ; )

Actually Rustlers

I bought a Saguaro are off a Native along the road side in. Ott’s day,evAz, The stores charge a lot. You can’t even collect the dead ones without a permit.