Spiral cactus boi blooms too! 🥺
Yo @SirLiquorice two can play this game. Cerberus flowered today too!! The most incredible flower I've grown strikes again! So proud of my Spiral Cactus boi. 🥺
Original post 7:08
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Original post 7:08
bloomingSuccs">#bloomingSuccs flowers">#Cactusflowers #HappyPlants #RJGroup #RJGsYard #BackyardGreenhouse #CactusClique #CentralTexasGang #SucculentSquad #TexasGregGang
12” pot with drainage
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Hey @RJG .....did you know #pricklypearcactus can grow in 3b?! Allegedly....I heard... varigation @caleb 🤣) should I go for one in my rock wall???
@PlantEsteem just make sure you get one of the more cold hardy species. I didn't know they could make it that cold. But maybe there's one.
@RJG Wow that looks like a serious competition going on between the two of you @RJG and @SirLiquorice curious who is going to emerge victorious 🤗🤞🏻🥺😂🤣
@RJG that’s the problem with my discocactus. Flower only opens one time and at night so you can easily miss it. I missed the previous one. It sprouts out of nowhere and blooms and dies so fast you have to watch it closely. At least it gets several flowers a year but you have to be on alert to even see it bloom
@tmbryant37 yeah if the flower only opens for a short time then it must be able to really show off to attract pollinators quickly in a very short amount of time. I wonder if my cactus that bloomed last night was pollinated by anything. Most will grow fruit or seeds as long as they are pollinated. But they bloom quicker if you grow them from pups or cuttings if the mother plant was already flowering
@RJG how long have you had this one? I was lucky and won mine for only about $35 plus shipping if I recall. It was a few months ago. People kept trying to out bid me every time I bid. So I had to wait until the last minute to bid so they wouldn’t keep bidding and make the price go crazy high. Plus I would’ve been out bid right away otherwise if I didn’t plan out my bid at the last minute
@RJG I should’ve gotten mine cheaper but they kept bidding $5 more every time I went up $1. I had to cheat and wait until the very last min so I wouldn’t get outbid. Had to fight for this cactus to get it. But they usually don’t seem to have a cephallum like this being this small and young. And it arrive looking perfect without any damage or ugly spots and none of the spines seemed to break during shipment since they are really flexible. They don’t seem to actually hurt like most cacti spines.
@RJG so you’re saying you’ll sell that pup for $40 then right now then? Ok I’m sending the money immediately. Lol
@RJG what’s funny is I think I paid $40 plus shipping for this baby Strombocactus disciformis. But that’s because it was grown from seed by Mr. Gary Duke in California (who you should look up on instagram or he is in some of cactus quests YouTube videos if you aren’t familiar with him) he grew this one and it probably took him about 4-5 years for it to get a little smaller than this size. It was $40 because it seems to be harder to find and it took him a long time to get it big enough to be able to sell. Should have awesome flowers when it gets big enough. He has some amazing cacti in his collection. Over 1000 at his home and he sells some of them. We always video chat on instagram if I ever want to buy anything. So I am able to shop for cacti in California while sitting here in Texas
@RJG his book has a chart to show you where you should place your cacti in your yard according to the latitude and longitude and the direction the sun moves in the sky. Trying to recreate the plants natural habitat and provide shade the same way it needs in nature to thrive. So it doesn’t get too much sun or too little. Some people read the chart and realize they planted their cacti in the ground in the wrong spot and now they have to move it.
@RJG main problem I can see is MR. Duke is already very busy with cacti sales and lectures and social media already. And he would be more of a resource for us and wouldn’t necessarily be a user of the app as much. We would probably need to at least advertise to help him with cacti and book sales and try to financially reimburse him for his time, otherwise it may not be worth the time for him.
@RJG yeah I guess your right it should be Dr Duke. He has some airocarpus that are over 100 years old it’s crazy. And you should see his prized copiapoa and the ones in his collection that are not for sale. Just the ones planted in his front and back yard are insane. But he has some in pots that win contests and are priceless
