u/Dekatater

Pick your fighter

A spiny ball is certainly not what pulled up for mammillaria elongata rubra but I don't know enough to correct it. The spines are red on the pups but the shape and form is way off (3rd image is a pup I removed while rescuing the mother plant from a self watering pot comprised entirely of peat moss)

First batch of compost and it's been in this drum for about a year getting added to over time. Probably been about 4 or 5 months since I added anything. I've come to understand that these plastic drum style composters are ill advised but I cobbled this together before even finding this community, 3rd pic is for reference of the setup. Its compromised of mostly random garden scraps, a few kitchen scraps, grass cuttings, I think I mixed in some wood chips at some point, and a large part of it is compromised of my late rabbit Snowball's poop. So it should be extremely fertile but I don't know if it's really ready to use/mix yet. It goes through cycles of flooding and drying because I didn't account for drainage in the design..

Mostly just in denial. It's base is much mushier than the tip and it definitely didn't always look so wrinkled. I unpotted it to see it had white roots that looked okay and it's been in 100% inorganic bonsai potting soil so I don't think it's rotting away? I can't see under the spines to judge the flesh, it just looks green. Any recovery or should I start cutting?

In case anyone needs to know why their bloodgood isn't blood red

Ignore the wire I had no idea what I was doing

He naps there often

3 beautiful painfully slow flowers coming from my moon cactus. Sad I don't have another one to pollinate it with

Growing him out for girth, which he's gained a lot of for a 1 year old seedling. Unfortunately some kind of infection has him in survival mode, so he's being manicured and pampered for recovery

It's been looking like a white powder in the middle of new-growth branches, but today I noticed a black vein streak going down it. After inspection I noticed a lot of my branches' tips have died, but just the nodes. I cut back the only visible infections to healthy tissue and sterilized, discarding the cuttings. I stuck a sample under the microscope to make sure it's not VW and I think I'm clear of that (I hope). Next up is a fungicide spray

Hoping the naturalized pond nutrients will give this tree strength. Plenty of fish and plants to do it. It's a red maple aka swamp maple so I'm not too concerned about waterlogging

Always wanted a tall cactus and found this one for 8 bucks, but the nursery only marked it as "cereus 'pleated' " which is pretty vague. It was kept in a greenhouse so I'm assuming it likes bright/indirect light but more care info would help. I'm in zone 9a and never see tall cacti anywhere so care advice is appreciated

They had bloodgoods too like last year but when I saw a dissectum for that price I had to grab it