SWIM wants me to post this to show what has worked well for him, and he would also like some help with identification of his 2 bigger cactus cuttings. the big 9 spined monster was sold to him as a Bidgesii x Peruvian torch (is it?), the babies however have 7 (big one) and 8 spines. are the number of spines indicative of anything, will thier babies get less and less spines also? The other big one is something of a mystery. i really love its shape, the 7 spines are very wide and flat, and im starting to wonder whether i planted it the wrong way up. cause i dug it up the other day to check if it was actually growing roots or not and discovered a tiny bright white baby sprouting from the tip of the base underneath the soil(spikes pointing upwards currently, maybe have to be down like the other one). Any help with the ID of these would be greatly appreciated.
You will also see that I attached a photo of the soil SWIM is using for his cactus. it is local river sand and tends to retain some moisture within the dust/grit, yet provides awesome drainage.
and photo of my caapi plant, she is so sexy, is 1.5yrs old and loves to climb. When it was raining solid here for a couple of weeks it grew 3 foot.
but half of them new shoots died off when the sun+heat came back (45C here in summer) having gone through one summer here hopefully it will gain some hardness and really start to grow since the weather is starting to cool off the end of summer.
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