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Part of my collection. Video was taken roughly a week ago and since then the plants have gotten lots and lots of flower buds. Almost all of the mature plants I own are flowering and I'm just extremely proud about having reached this stage as a breeder. There were times when it was a pain and frustration, times when I lost plant after plant. I think in my whole career as a breeder I had at least two moments when I thought I couldn't take it anymore and wanted to stop breeding cacti completely.

Luckily I stuck to it and every setback brought me a bit closer to my goal of becoming a world class Cactus breeder. When my plants didn't flower, I researched and worked on my methods until they did. When they wouldn't grow or had root rot, I adapted and changed the soil they got and looked into the whole field of fertilizers and plant extracts that are out there.

Retooled my Patreon to be more gardening focused! Please don’t feel obligated to donate since I don’t know how to repay folks and money is hard these days (but if you do I’ll be very thankful!)

I’m not able to come up with any fancy rewards, especially since shipping plants is anxiety-inducing for me currently and I haven’t figured out out-of-country shipping yet, but if anyone has any extra cash, it’ll help boost my ability to grow stuff and post the results and hopefully make more resources people can use!

It's that time of year again!

It's been in the 40s (F) at night here and I was getting a bit too paranoid because of the rain this weekend so I decided to start my overwintering early this year. If there's a longish period of warmer weather I may bring them out again but for now this is where they'll stay!

My sweet little Aloe "Donnie" isn't so little anymore! Still can't believe it has shown all this growth in just about 1 year.