r/Copiapoa

Going through some old photos of my collection and stumbled on this one

2x limbeckii for sale. Price is shipped from Hawaii. Msg me if you have any questions, US and PayPal only at the moment. Looking for $160 obo

Another specimen that I regret letting go of 😭

The one cinerea I regret selling a couple years ago 🥹

Hello from Hawaii, didn’t know this page existed. Curious on how often ppl fertilize? I’ve never. Just hit them with rain water

Both gigantea….anyone have a columnar one that doesn’t pup? Had it for 6yrs and just that single pup

I’ve been told this or that, anyone have more insight?

These are some of my Copiapoa grafted onto Pereskiopsis. I know grafting can be a bit of a divisive topic in the cactus community, so I'm genuinely curious.

Do you avoid buying grafted plants, or do you see them as a useful tool for faster growth, propagation, and conservation? If you do discriminate against grafts, what's your reasoning?

I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts—whether you're for them, against them, or somewhere in the middle?

This specimen has been hard grown in the northern hemisphere with short seasons. It was imported from a california based grower named Benjo Oliver in the early 90's and came to northern EU and has been here since.

It has one pup with another one incoming.

Sown 3/15/24. Still haven’t uppoted this one but I need to. Grew about an inch in diameter per year indoors under LED. But I think it’s time to go outside and enter the torture chamber for this one. I like blowing them up and then after a few years giving them the burn treatment to stress them out. Hopefully to will provide for some nice plants down the road! Hope everyone’s having a good weekend.

Hi guys, ar a loss here of what this is. Any direction would be great. Marked as a Copiapoa Humilis but I have serious doubts. The root system is atleast “correct” but further than that I have no clue.

I’m brand new to this subreddit for this reason lol I just got my hands on a nice big copiapoa krainziana and when I took it home I noticed the roots were VERY wet and the medium was very peat heavy and organic. I unpotted it and started pulling the old soil out to give it a new inorganic and airy mix for my climate (Austin Texas) which works great for all my other copiapoa.

THE PANIC has come from me realizing that I just soaked the roots in water as to not break a ton of the fine roots off when pulling the super fiber like already saturated medium out. That means now the roots are completely soaked and though free from their old soil, now are exposed certainly slightly damaged (though not as much as they would be if I tried taking the medium apart without excess water and spraying it out with the kitchen faucet)

Should my next course of action be to allow the roots to air dry for a couple days with some fans and a little warmth then pot up and treat like a normal copiapo repot and wait 2 weeks before watering? What are yalls thoughts on this process? Have I just given this beautiful thing a death sentence?