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Found this neglected big boy at a kid's birthday party and the owner was happy to part with it. There's only about 2 inches of highly organic soil at the base of this pot but the plant itself seems...fine? It's leggy but firm and there's new growth. Resilient. I'm experienced with cactus and but would appreciate any critiques about my careplan.

I'm planning to transplant to a 2 gallon fabric pot (kinda tight quarters but I read these guys like it snug) with the soil I use for my cactus (2/3 gravel/perlite/biochar, 1/3 potting soil/worm casings). Given that there's growth I'm planning to just let it be leggy for now, maybe prune in the spring? I'm going to feed it with my cactus using masterblend 4-18-38 and kelp on alternating weeks and just let it bake in the Florida sun. Are there any special needs that I'm not addressing? Any chance I could see flowers this year?

Althea pucks growing on rooted PC, outdoor grown so some minor blemishes, pups are 4-6" as shown and pumping. $35 each shipped bareroot, $75 for all 3.

What are the adverse effects? I use only rooting powder on cuts I'm propagating, this stuff has been for stumps, injuries and graft surfaces. These plants are not for consumption. For what it's worth I haven't noticed any ill effect on the plants but I guess I don't really have a basis of comparison

I feel like such a moron. It's not like I'm purely organic but I try to keep it as harmless as possible.

I need help rescuing seedlings. First time growing from seed, followed takeout tek. I planted these November 2025, outdoor grown in indirect sun since then (except for a few cold nights inside). Grew well initially but seems to have stalled. There's about 1.5cm of substrate. I bottom water/feed once a week. They aren't fully hardened yet. What do I do next?

Between work and travel it's been a minute since I saw my plants at midday, forgot how beautiful those deep notches are. Show me the favs from your garden.

Althea puck on rooted PC. Outdoor grown. 12" from soil line, 4" pup, lots of areoles. I have several similar grafts and am willing to trade multiples for the right plants.

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ISO Len crosses and John crosses. Also willing to consider a big or mutant myrtillo.

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Need a few days for the roots to dry

Sharxx blue on rooted grandii, outdoor grown, 16" from soil line, 13" scion, shipped bare root. ISO crested trich (except bridgesii), but not the "brainy" look. Would also consider fat pure scop or large Myrtillo (crested preferred). If you have something else interesting let me see it.

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$40 + calculated shipping if just going the cash route.

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Will need a few days for roots to dry.

Outdoor grown, tip is 4 ribbed, blemishes as shown, $20 shipped to lower 48

4 ribs at the tip, outdoor grown, blemishes as seen. Ship to lower 48

I've got a few plants grown from cuttings with some degree of etiolation. This doesn't bother me asthetically, however unless they're almost perfectly vertical they develop a bend in that area. Some have flopped and I've been able to get them more or less vertical again, others have broken with resulting damage to the tip. I'm looking for anyone that has excised the etiolated section, matched thickness between the base and the tip and grafted the plant to itself. Is the resulting bond stronger than the etiolated section, or am I better off leaving it be? I don't want to splint them (unless it's temporary). These aren't plants I'm looking to propagate right now, the number of plants I have is already notable to the lay person and I'm trying hard not to cross into weird.

Florida 10a. Things are starting to pop off!

1 Sweetscent (Pluchea odorata)

2 Starry rosinweed (Silphium asteriscus)

3 Daisy fleabane (Erigeron annuus)

4 Stokes' aster (Stokesia laevis)

5 Rudbeckia

6 Passioflora incarnata

7 Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata)

8 Dense blazing star (Liatris spicata)

9 Spotted beebalm (Monarda punctata)

10 Seaside goldenrod (Solidago sempervirens)

So a few years ago I came into several monstera that I dreamed of turning into big towering beasts. I did not do enough research. I put them in very large pots (20-30 gallons, I would guess) and tied them to some cheap moss poles off Amazon. I put them in a partial shade area on my lanai and... kinda got distracted by other projects. They seem to have grown robustly despite my benign neglect but they just pulled the moss poles down and are sprawling. My problem is they now occupy probably 100+ft2 and have extensive aerial roots into my pavers and other pots. I'd like to make sturdier moss poles and put them into smaller pots in order to get vertical growth and reclaim some of my lanai, but I'm afraid of damaging what appear to be healthy, thriving, beautiful plants. Is this possible? Any guidance would be appreciated.

Woke up at 3am to see this endangered girl bloom. Worth it

Had to set an alarm for 3am to see this. 1st year in the ground and doing great.

Anyone successfully vermicompost here? I'm way too sandy to do it in the ground and I worry that the heat will be an issue with any enclosed system