Wow, nice! How tall is that? In the photo it doesn't look very tall but in the video it looks massive, especially compared to the other cacti in the area.
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The Cactus Thread
- Thread starter Zigs
- Start date
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Picked up a few rescue plants yesterday
Sheal
Well-known member
- Location
- Ross-shire Scotland
- Hardiness zone
- 8a
Is the one with dreadlocks in the tall pot supposed to be like that Zigs? 
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Is the one with dreadlocks in the tall pot supposed to be like that Zigs?
Yep, he's a Monkey Tail Cactus, Cleistocactus colademononis. They live in higher rainfall areas of Brazil and Paraguay (or was it Bolivia?) on cliff faces, the spines shed the excess rainwater
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Mammillaria bocasana, c.v. Splendens. More wooly than the normal bocasana.
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Cylindropuntia rosea. This is one of our most dangerous cacti. It has sheathed spines that once they stick into you, will never come out 
Sheal
Well-known member
- Location
- Ross-shire Scotland
- Hardiness zone
- 8a
Ouch! Or should that be Owcho?
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Brasiliopuntia brasiliensis, the only member of it's genus. The biggest of all cacti, reaching 66 feet. Lives in the rain forest.
Anniekay
Well-known member
- Location
- Quitman, Ga.
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Another name I've heard for this one is "Mother of thousands ".
I was given some and planted it in my rock garden. BIG mistake !! Three years later and I an
M still finding them popping up !!
Thsnks all for the reply to my "Cousin It" cactus. He doesn't produce any red spikes, doesn't have hooked spines either. All he does is make small pink flowers.
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Yep, they drop plantlets off the leaves ready to take root anywhere. I've got them coming up in the gravel in the cactus shop
Aah, still think he's a Mammillaria, just not a bocasana then
Can you take a pic of him when he does flower, we'll have another look then 
Anniekay
Well-known member
- Location
- Quitman, Ga.
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Look forward to that, still might not get it right as there's about 250 of them but we'll give it a go
Probably the last flower this year on the outside Prickly Pear....
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Couple of flowers this morning, Matucana madisonorium...
That corking on the plant body is from cold damage a few winters ago.
And a few more Echinopsis subdenudata flowers...
That corking on the plant body is from cold damage a few winters ago.
And a few more Echinopsis subdenudata flowers...
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
I keep a cactus diary on my website, bits and pieces that I do throughout the month.
www.ziggyscactus.com
Probably a bit boring to look at but I thought I'd stick it on here anyway
Ziggy's Cactus Shop. Kent, U.K.. - Cactus Diary July 2024
1st July 2024 The Devil's Backbone 😬 We sell these for £3 each. They have long tubular flowers that last for months. They are also born pregnant 🙄
Probably a bit boring to look at but I thought I'd stick it on here anyway
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Re potted a new Leuchtenbergia principis today, easier to call it an Agave cactus
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
A variegated Gymnocalycium
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
These Opuntias have all rooted
Sheal
Well-known member
- Location
- Ross-shire Scotland
- Hardiness zone
- 8a
They look like they're going on a 'root' march.
