u/Square_Barracuda_69

These babies were dried out a couple weeks ago but I constructed a little wheel of absolute horror and these babies are loving it. Gonna be potting them up very soon (unless i should pot them now, all advice welcome please and thank you!)

Just wanted to share my especially phallic tbm and the growth emerging from it. Got this bad boy for $5 and got 2 plants out of it (rooted a second cutting from the same clump)

Planted March 29th, 2026 and a few are really taking off. Really love the different phenotypes and hoping those 2 dark green, bulbous ones stay that way and Ole string bean stays slender and skinny (its my first time growing cacti so I might be overestimating the forms they're taking). Either way, super excited to one day have these things flower

Was at Walmart and was labeled as a cactus with decorative flower (those shitty plastic flowers) but someone had ripped it off this one. I got it because it was the only non mammailaria that Walmart had (got the only myrtillocactus a couple weeks ago) so i had to grab it, now just need an ID. Got it outside in AZ under 40% shade.

Sowed 4 seeds per 2" pot for a total of 12 seeds sown. The pink pot has the biggest one inside at just about an inch in size. Seeds were sown March 29th and I decided to slowly start acclimating them to the open air since they've gotten so big. Definitely have a few stragglers but I have a minimum of 1 beast per pot. The other 2 are millimeters shorter but the pink one is significantly the biggest. Very proud of my first batch of seedlings and shout out u/prickocereus for the seeds I got at the AZ cactus and succulent show!

This is only half of what my 2 sungold cherry tomatoes have, so many more to come. Im not a huge fan of raw tomatoes so im probably gonna turn this into a sauce of sorts.

Separated my aloe blizzard into individual pots with much better soil. I ended up with 8 total and even found a subterranean one that I'll see if it'll survive outside of the soil. I almost thought it was a giant taproot, until I noticed the floret pattern and the roughness of the leaves.

It was the last aloe blizzard and i wasn't even planning on buying anything but low and behold... I'm new to aloe but I do have a few cacti and succulent (props). I was mainly wondering if I should change the soil out to a better mix than what the store offers. Ive opted to keep this one inside for the time being because I fear it'll get scorched in the AZ sun until I have a proper shaded setup.

Working on building a shaded area for my cacti (and other plants) because this AZ sun is getting HOT. For now, the raised bed and cucumber vines (top right) give them some nice shade during the hottest time of the day

Labeled as a tpm and definetly the nicest one here

I hear they're finicky so we'll see how well they do. They just got transplanted so thats probably why they look droopy or they hate their lives, who knows. Been giving a light dose of nutrients to these and all my other peppers. Planted these March 15th and they sprouted like 4 days later.

What the hell should I do? This prop has the strongest root system between all three so should I let it go or try to fix it. Been propping since December of '25