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One year of growth on this wacky TPM. might look pretty weird 5 years from now if it can stay upright.
I hope the arms don't crest and turn into huge columns. Fortunately, the base is really fat for its size.

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New video on youtube, touring my cactus seedling production scene and talking about how i do selections. It starts with trying to grow uniform seedlings to a certain size for selection of desirable traits...
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Unrelated to cactus, but I'm giving a talk on small scale apple breeding on Saturday. I'm the keynote speaker for this conference, and I'm told the most requested speaker. I'm fairly new to cactus, but I've been involved in horticulture of some kind

A video I just made about an ongoing experiment in rooting cactus in charcoal instead of potting soil etc. https://youtu.be/OgSRBl1xJD4

So far I really like it. Very few fails and some stuff that has been resistant to rooting has rooted very fast o

I'm open for local cash sales for the next week or two before I start listing and mailing stuff. I have a lot of seedlings as you can see, partial list of small seedlings below. I also have stuff in the 4 to 8 inch range, some from last years seedlin

King Tubby is spayshul, which was apparent at only 2 inches tall. He stands out in the crowd. Chubby, shallow grooved, notchy, smooth goodness. Whos a chubby wittle cactush!? Yesh you are... Scop x Juul's Giant. First pup, from a 2020 seedling. Next

A few fun crested seedlings from last year in 4 inch pots. This seed lot, Oscar x TPQC, throws very high rates of mutations. Some of them are just totally messed up and unhealthy, but a certain percentage are healthy puppers or crested. This seed lot

I sowed a whopping number of flats this year. I think after some consolidation of some sparsely populated flats, I've got about 44 flats, with average at least 200 each. This flat is probably 350+ of fat malo 4 x Jessica. I probably acheived my goal

Building another press plate for marking off a seeding grid. This one is on 7/8" spacing for standard 1020 flats. One side is smooth for pressing the soil flat, then it is flipped over to make the depressions. I've used this type of staggered gr