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llamabox
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Local cacti greenhouse (pics)
#5338700 - 02/25/06 06:14 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hey folks I just thought some of you might like to see these. These were taken at the local college. I do reptile rescues in my area, so I am pretty familiar with the Bio staff. At the end of semester I get the chance to look for plants left by students. I now have a broad collection of columnar cacti.





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whatever123
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Re: Local cacti greenhouse (pics) [Re: llamabox]
#5338758 - 02/25/06 06:34 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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That is a pretty awesome deal. you seem to be gathering quite a large columnar cactus collection. any active or rare cacti in this batch, anything special? (types with cool flowers....anything special that stands out from the others)
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Re: Local cacti greenhouse (pics) [Re: llamabox]
#5338845 - 02/25/06 07:00 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Looks like some of those cacti are horribly neglected.
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llamabox
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Re: Local cacti greenhouse (pics) [Re: Konnrade]
#5339091 - 02/25/06 08:17 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Thats probably why I get them for free. I guess that happens when they depend on students for all the care. I am trying to get them to institute a volounteer program. They have them for the museum and animal displays, but not for the greenhouse.
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whatever123
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Re: Local cacti greenhouse (pics) [Re: llamabox]
#5339135 - 02/25/06 08:27 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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I like the barrel cacti, but that is probably because I like those in particular anyways. What I hate about them is how hard they are to move and transplant, especially when they get any wider/taller than 10 inches or so. Heavy with big, strong spines. I just moved one out of a pot in my house today, because it was still small(like, 5 inches tall, at most). If anyone has any good tactics for moving larger barrel cacti, could you PM me?
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faslimy
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Re: Local cacti greenhouse (pics) [Re: Konnrade]
#5339171 - 02/25/06 08:35 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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horribly neglected in what way?
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four_winds
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Re: Local cacti greenhouse (pics) [Re: faslimy]
#5339204 - 02/25/06 08:42 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
faslimy said: horribly neglected in what way?
In the way that cactus love
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whatever123
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Re: Local cacti greenhouse (pics) [Re: four_winds]
#5339246 - 02/25/06 08:55 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Demetri Martin:
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About a month ago I got a cactus. And a week later, it died. And I got really depressed because I was like "Damn, I am less nurturing than a desert".
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Konnrade
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Re: Local cacti greenhouse (pics) [Re: faslimy]
#5339271 - 02/25/06 09:03 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
faslimy said: horribly neglected in what way?
Some of them are clearly stretching for sunlight, one is beginning to topple over, on IS toppled over and has turned yellow. A few of them have some nasty scars that don't look very normal, one of them has some sort of nasty total scarring around the base.
They look like they can keep on being strong, but some of them are pretty gnarly.
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Re: Local cacti greenhouse (pics) [Re: Konnrade]
#5339542 - 02/25/06 10:29 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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"About a month ago I got a cactus. And a week later, it died. And I got really depressed because I was like "Damn, I am less nurturing than a desert"."
Probably MORE nurturing than a desert.
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whatever123
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Re: Local cacti greenhouse (pics) [Re: Koala Koolio]
#5339662 - 02/25/06 10:51 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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....thanks for killing the joke, haha. grrr.
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Re: Local cacti greenhouse (pics) [Re: whatever123]
#5339781 - 02/25/06 11:25 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Haha, not killing the joke. Just don't outdo the desert by too much. She's a bitch when you show off.
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whatever123
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Re: Local cacti greenhouse (pics) [Re: Koala Koolio]
#5339818 - 02/25/06 11:52 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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wow, that is the best phrasing of that advice I have ever heard. Not joking.
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Re: Local cacti greenhouse (pics) [Re: whatever123]
#5340231 - 02/26/06 06:55 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Beautiful, they all need repotting or replanting in the ground, depending where you are.
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