This winter I planted cactus seeds for the first time in an attempt to keep myself busy during the cactus dormancy period. I started out by planting them in plastic egg cartons. These have both a tray and domes over the separate egg compartments, which seemed perfect. I cut tiny holes into the individual compartmentsContinue reading “Growing cacti from seeds”
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Colors
I have to say that for the most part of my cactus collector life, I never really noticed the variations in color. But recently I could not help become completely taken with “the blues”. From what I can tell, most deep blue cacti are of the columnar variety, pilosocereus, cipocereus and of course azureocereus imperatorContinue reading “Colors”
Trip to Singapore and Thailand
Chatuchak market, Bangkok Thailand is a cactus paradise so I was very excited to go there this February.Bangkok has the large Chatuchak Plant Market starting on Tuesdays afternoons and all through Wednesdays (at least when I was there). I went through all of it once and visited some of the booths twice, and had a greatContinue reading “Trip to Singapore and Thailand”