emch
Gardening in mostly deep shade in Zone 6. My passion is adding more native plants to my landscape & clearing out the foreign invasives.
Gardening in mostly deep shade in Zone 6. My passion is adding more native plants to my landscape & clearing out the foreign invasives.
Late Summer 2020
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Late Summer 2020
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honestgreensco
succulentrn
beatnikcrab
Psithurism
michael.garbutt
Bibbala
jobakes
annelisemoreau
Most of these #ottoman cacti don't have any spines, let alone #wickedspines so on the wish list it goes #notmyplant
I splurged on a single ball of this in the fall, but it rotted just a couple weeks ago without ever having rooted! 😭😭😭 I may try again in the spring. This has been one of my wishlist plants for years. 😩
@beatnikcrab was this with or without rooting hormone?
Without. Rooting hormone doesn't seem to make the slightest bit of difference with cacti. I just got careless with it. Should have kept it indoors and kept it a lot drier. I had it outside and it got a splash of water whenever I watered anything around it. Tephros are slow to root, and even more so in fall/winter.
Did I ever send you a piece of spruce cone cactus? It's not an ottoman, but it's still super cool. I'll hook you up with a couple pieces in the spring.
@beatnikcrab you did not. IDK what one of those is...
It looks like a spruce cone. 🤣 Lol, jk. It's a different tephrocactus. Looks a lot like this, minus the needles, and it grows in sausagey segments rather than balls. Color varies from pale green like this guy to pale purple or pinky coral depending on its stress level. The botanical name is Tephrocactus articulatus inermis if you feel like looking it up.
Wow @beatnikcrab it DOES look like a spruce cone!
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