What's some easy shit I can grow indoors

dannyboy602

dannyboy602

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Splaap said:
I grow Aloes and Haworthias that I sell to nurseries: A. barbadensis, brevifolia, hahnii, glauca, pseudoparvula,
dorothea, ferox, striata, and a few others. I also sell several species of cacti that are manipulated chemically during
germination to form unusual cristate specimens.
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Grew haworthias in southern AZ at Arid Lands Greenhouses. There are some gorgeous plants. Check out their on line catalog. They aren't ez... Fuckn finicky even, especially their water needs because most are south african natives and Africas growing seasons are opposite of ours. I spent many hours applying sulfur to combat fusarium. I've never seen a crested Haworthia however.
Arid Lands has more species of Aloe than anywhere in the world. I actually stole a few (Well, maybe more than a few) when I worked there. I definitely had my favorites. Not all species of Aloe are good for medical use, some are a skin irritant. A ferox is a beautiful tree like plant when mature. They're blooming now here in AZ because of our warmer than average winter.
Lastly, it's much easier to graft crested varieties onto non crested cacti. I don't think it's economically sustainable for most nurserymen to play with genetics in petri dishes and growing from chemically manipulated seed takes fucking forever.
Anyhow....didn't mean to hijack my man Neo's thread. I'm just a plant nerd.
 
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Splaap

Splaap

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dannyboy602 said:
Grew haworthias in southern AZ at Arid Lands Greenhouses. There are some gorgeous plants. Check out their on line catalog. They aren't ez... Fuckn finicky even, especially their water needs because most are south african natives and Africas growing seasons are opposite of ours. I spent many hours applying sulfur to combat fusarium. I've never seen a crested Haworthia however.
Arid Lands has more species of Aloe than anywhere in the world. I actually stole a few (Well, maybe more than a few) when I worked there. I definitely had my favorites. Not all species of Aloe are good for medical use, some are a skin irritant. A ferox is a beautiful tree like plant when mature. They're blooming now here in AZ because of our warmer than average winter.
Lastly, it's much easier to graft crested varieties onto non crested cacti. I don't think it's economically sustainable for most nurserymen to play with genetics in petri dishes and growing from chemically manipulated seed takes fucking forever.
Anyhow....didn't mean to hijack my man Neo's thread. I'm just a plant nerd.
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I spent about 10 years in Cochise Co. Haworthias captured my attention years ago and I became a fan
and then a collector. I have tried, without much success, to create polyploid haws that can survive
long term. Cacti are generally easier(some not at all), you may lose more than 95% of seed killed in the process,
but seed is not as precious as haworthia seed. O. fulgida is an old time fav for cristate forms but it is not rare and so not too
valuable. Now I have nice crested O. basilaris that will sell. There are a lot of collectors out there and some of them have money
to spend. You need to come up with something unusual. Most of my easier stuff goes to the nursery. Check with
nearby nurseries, the big operations won't want to have anything to do with you but find one that sells what you like to grow.
It isn't so much a hobby as a sickness. My apologies to Neo, just thought you might like to know.
 
neosapien

neosapien

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dannyboy602 said:
Grew haworthias in southern AZ at Arid Lands Greenhouses. There are some gorgeous plants. Check out their on line catalog. They aren't ez... Fuckn finicky even, especially their water needs because most are south african natives and Africas growing seasons are opposite of ours. I spent many hours applying sulfur to combat fusarium. I've never seen a crested Haworthia however.
Arid Lands has more species of Aloe than anywhere in the world. I actually stole a few (Well, maybe more than a few) when I worked there. I definitely had my favorites. Not all species of Aloe are good for medical use, some are a skin irritant. A ferox is a beautiful tree like plant when mature. They're blooming now here in AZ because of our warmer than average winter.
Lastly, it's much easier to graft crested varieties onto non crested cacti. I don't think it's economically sustainable for most nurserymen to play with genetics in petri dishes and growing from chemically manipulated seed takes fucking forever.
Anyhow....didn't mean to hijack my man Neo's thread. I'm just a plant nerd.
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You can hijack my pants any day! I mean plants. I mean plants thread.

Splaap said:
I spent about 10 years in Cochise Co. Haworthias captured my attention years ago and I became a fan
and then a collector. I have tried, without much success, to create polyploid haws that can survive
long term. Cacti are generally easier(some not at all), you may lose more than 95% of seed killed in the process,
but seed is not as precious as haworthia seed. O. fulgida is an old time fav for cristate forms but it is not rare and so not too
valuable. Now I have nice crested O. basilaris that will sell. There are a lot of collectors out there and some of them have money
to spend. You need to come up with something unusual. Most of my easier stuff goes to the nursery. Check with
nearby nurseries, the big operations won't want to have anything to do with you but find one that sells what you like to grow.
It isn't so much a hobby as a sickness. My apologies to Neo, just thought you might like to know.
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That sounds pretty cool. It'd be a lot cooler if you posted a pic so I knew what the f*ck you were talking about. The only thing I got going is a mental image of @dannyboy602 sitting around in his skivvies in the hot desert sun, pruning some kind of alien cristate cacti or something.
 
Splaap

Splaap

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neosapien said:
You can hijack my pants any day! I mean plants. I mean plants thread.



That sounds pretty cool. It'd be a lot cooler if you posted a pic so I knew what the f*ck you were talking about. The only thing I got going is a mental image of @dannyboy602 sitting around in his skivvies in the hot desert sun, pruning some kind of alien cristate cacti or something.
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Knew a guy that had a nursery called Pull Down Plants back in the day. One thing I like about this site
is that it is anonymous. People have been prosecuted for taking crested cacti from private and public
lands with only a photograph as evidence. I would never suggest it. Individuals are readily identified.
I may be paranoid but that doesn't mean I should leave breadcrumbs. It sounds like it wouldn't be at
all suitable for your climate unless you want to devote greenhouse or growroom space. Check out
San Pedro cactus if you want to try indoors. It is much faster growing than peyote and can be easily
started from seed or grown from cuttings.
 
neosapien

neosapien

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Splaap said:
Knew a guy that had a nursery called Pull Down Plants back in the day. One thing I like about this site
is that it is anonymous. People have been prosecuted for taking crested cacti from private and public
lands with only a photograph as evidence. I would never suggest it. Individuals are readily identified.
I may be paranoid but that doesn't mean I should leave breadcrumbs. It sounds like it wouldn't be at
all suitable for your climate unless you want to devote greenhouse or growroom space. Check out
San Pedro cactus if you want to try indoors. It is much faster growing than peyote and can be easily
started from seed or grown from cuttings.
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For the love of God! I just want to see a picture of one of your cacti.

Anonymous? Your IP has already been logged here a gazillion times by the NSA.
 
Splaap

Splaap

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neosapien said:
For the love of God! I just want to see a picture of one of your cacti.

Anonymous? Your IP has already been logged here a gazillion times by the NSA.
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