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Probably not a perfect fit for this sub but didn’t know where else to share. Gollum jade staged growing out of a taxidermy coyote skull.

Got these two boobies from Walmart at the beginning of the summer and have been growing side by side (you can see how much they’ve grown in this one season). The left one has started to develop variegation! The new growth at the very tip is getting progressively more variegated with more yellow. Interesting to see them grow side by side and one develop the variegation and the other not.

I have several other obesas and this looks just slightly different enough for me to question if it’s an obesa or a meloformis or some hybrid. Something about the ribbing just seems slightly more predominant than my other obesa plants. I got it earlier this spring, you can see new green growth and nice purple sun stress.

$100 seems bonkers for a Boobie cactus, even one of this size (probably around 10-12 inches)

I bought this grafted variegated trichocereus earlier this spring on facebook marketplace that was in rough shape with some bad existing sunburn scars and other issues from the previous owner. I chopped the tip and grafted that onto a sun goddess and few months ago and it has been putting out strong new growth so far. The chopped part has also put out three new variegated pups as well. Was just curious if this was a specific cultivar or a variegated version of the basic San Pedro. I have a large cacti/euphorbia collection but am relatively new to the San Pedro world. Thanks!

Thoughts on this? I’ve been seeing these pop up recently just since the Walmarts in my area restocked on costa cacti, particularly the boobie cacti. Seems like some people are just buying them up and trying to resell on marketplace for a huge markup. I’m tempted to comment on the posts telling people to check their local Walmarts first. It really rubs me the wrong way for some reason, people just trying to make a quick buck and take advantage by buying up the local supply just to resell (don’t even take them out of the gray costa plastic pots). Idk, I don’t like it but maybe there’s some defense for it I’m not thinking of? I’ll keep an open mind, but feels greedy on the surface. I’d love to hear thoughts on this.

I don’t have a problem with hobby sellers buying cacti from big box stores in order to resell if they’re doing nice repotting and staging and adding value to it in that way, but to just buy up to resell as is at 3-4 times the Walmart price? Hmm.

Found these at a Lowe’s in Salt Lake area. Seems like they picked up on the costa farms cacti popularity and now have their own version.