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Category: Cacti

Posted on August 22, 2023August 22, 2023

What’s happening to my Moon Cactus?

A Moon Cactus is actually Gymnocalycium mihanovichii grafted to dragonfruit stock, Hylocereus undatus! Sometimes the grafted cactus loses its will to live and stops uptaking the energy from the base.

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Posted on February 24, 2023February 24, 2023

2-Week Seedling Progress Report

Here is a 2-week update on all the progress that we’ve seen so far from these seedlings. started back on February 7th 2023 in this video. We started: Faucaria felina, F. cradockensis, F. tigrina, Gymnocalycium ochoterenae v tenuispinum, Mammillaria gaumeri, and Copiapoa maritima.

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Posted on September 9, 2022September 9, 2022

Some of my favorite weird plants and a new plant bench!

Happy Friday, or whatever day you’re watching this! We had another plant bench built for the porch and I had to put some of my favorite plants on it, of course. Oh and you get to meet my super silly dogs, Annie and Najis 😉

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Posted on July 6, 2021July 6, 2021

Unboxing some Opuntias from a fellow cactus lover – Ana from Cactus Caffeine!

Ana from Cactus Caffeine very kindly sent me some paddles from her collection! We’ll open them up, pot them up, and watch how I remove glochids that get stuck in my hands lol!

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Posted on April 14, 2021July 4, 2021

Awesome and Unusual Plant Mail! (Unboxing and Potted Results)

PLANT MAIL TIME WOO! Here’s a fun and fast unboxing video featuring plants from Desert Bloom Nursery in the Texas Rio Grande Valley! ( https://desertbloomnursery.com )
I also show you the end results of how I chose to pot them up.

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Posted on July 14, 2019February 25, 2021

Cactus dish garden for rainy outdoors

Cactus dish garden for rainy outdoors

Watch me work! I’m going to try to make more simple project videos like this 🙂 I pot up several cacti in a super fast draining mix and decorate with some of my favorite rocks for a little extra somethin’ somethin’.

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Posted on May 21, 2019May 21, 2019

LED Grow Lights for Succulents – Unboxing and Demo

LED Grow LIghts

Finally a great white LED fixture! The kind folks at Mars Hydro sent me a really awesome LED grow light to test and I couldn’t be happier with the results, especially with how natural the light color is!

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Posted on May 19, 2019May 19, 2019

Fascinating Echinopsis flowers blooming time-lapse

You may remember this cactus from my video on how to build an in-ground succulent garden. Well it finally bloomed and I can confirm the ID is Echinopsis schickendantzii!!

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Posted on June 11, 2018June 23, 2020

How to Treat a Cactus for Scale

How to treat a cactus for scale

Get to know what Scale bugs look like and how to rid your cactus of these pests. Also see how to check your roots for health. The featured cactus is a Notocactus uebelmannianus, one of my favorite favorites! Lots of macro shots and close ups to get you familiar with this common succulent and cacti pest. Continue… “How to Treat a Cactus for Scale”

Posted on June 2, 2018

How to separate and divide succulent offsets and stem babies… round 2!

Separating succulents video

Dividing and separating various offsets and new growth on several types of succulents, plus an update on the Echeveria subsessilis I topped back in the February video on repairing stretched and damaged succulents.
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