trophycase said:

It makes me sick to think that this had a plastic flower hot-glued to it once upon a time... This opened at about midnight last night.

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It doesn't make me sick thinking about it. You know why? Because it made it to someone who loves it enough to persuade it to put out real ones.

Stunning flowers, by the way.     

turtle_hermit said:

Nice one, trophy. She's a beauty.

I picked up two cacti at the hardware store the other day and there were dried lumps of glue all over the poor thing

What's with the plastic flower thing anyway?

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passifloracaerulea said:

my ex brother in law bought a glue cactus from wal-mart once, and it had him completely fooled until i pulled it off and disected it for him. i'm wondering where these cacti come from, china nurseries? it seems like it would be easier to include a tag with proper care instuctions to actually get the cactus to flower. then again, i actually knew a guy who worked at this nearby cactus nursery. he might have glued flowers, but i doubt it. he had a room full of peyotes/trichocereus there, and some delicious catha edulis shrubs. he said they didn't really make money on the thousands of little cacti, but they were composted by the thousands to use as tax write offs, since a compost pile can hide true numbers. now that i think about it, every single one of their cacti were in flower all the time, hmm...

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