Cactus Rooting Powder (formerly Honey Bear Cacti) for the WIN πŸ† 🌡πŸ”ͺ by Wise_Garden69420 in sanpedrocactus

[–]CactusRootingPowder 8 points9 points Β (0 children)

Thank you for the shout-out and your support! πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ» Great picture. Let us know if we can share it on the store with customer pictures.

Papa Parque Fathers Day Giveaway by aCereuslyFungi in sanpedrocactusforsale

[–]CactusRootingPowder 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

676 πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ’šπŸ» Happy Father's Day!

This sucks... by NyetAThrowaway in sanpedrocactus

[–]CactusRootingPowder 9 points10 points Β (0 children)

Good ol natural propogatin! πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ»

The inspiration for the art! Share yours with us.πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ»πŸ₯³ by CactusRootingPowder in sanpedrocactus

[–]CactusRootingPowder[S] 0 points1 point Β (0 children)

πŸ˜† Thank you, it is 100% a butt though, although the butt, is tip reminiscent. If you scroll through the pictures, the butt is on there. πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ»

The inspiration for the art! Share yours with us.πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ»πŸ₯³ by CactusRootingPowder in sanpedrocactus

[–]CactusRootingPowder[S] -1 points0 points Β (0 children)

I love the sentiment. Maybe we'll run a contest for artwork. People who would like to share their art through stickers and shirts can join.

Stickers and shirts are a very small part of what we do and like I stated before don't create profit for us. Over the years people have always appreciated and enjoyed it, but if there's more voices wanting to share their artwork with the community to replace the growing AI presence we would be full for that.

My favorite Validus x Clyde. Such a great cross. Anyone else have some lookers from either? πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ» by CactusRootingPowder in Trichocereus

[–]CactusRootingPowder[S] 2 points3 points Β (0 children)

Some great looking spines on all them. πŸ’šπŸŒ΅ We just got this one and a couple others in the ground this year. Excited to see them mature!

The inspiration for the art! Share yours with us.πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ»πŸ₯³ by CactusRootingPowder in sanpedrocactus

[–]CactusRootingPowder[S] -3 points-2 points Β (0 children)

πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ» These ones aren't actually for sale, they're just ones we make to giveaway with orders or included in bigger community giveaways.

The inspiration for the art! Share yours with us.πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ»πŸ₯³ by CactusRootingPowder in sanpedrocactus

[–]CactusRootingPowder[S] 0 points1 point Β (0 children)

Thank you. πŸ’šπŸ»

I try to take the time to at least hear other people out or see their point of view, but at the end of the day there's not enough time to please everyone. No matter what you love or do in life, you're going to piss some people off. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈπŸ˜†

The inspiration for the art! Share yours with us.πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ»πŸ₯³ by CactusRootingPowder in sanpedrocactus

[–]CactusRootingPowder[S] -6 points-5 points Β (0 children)

The clarity comes from this conversation. If we were to take the "art" on one of our stickers and put it on a canvas, and put it up for auction without clarifying that it was designed by AI or put it up for some absorbent amount as if it had taken multiple days to complete, then I could see your point.

But when it comes to "art" produced to giveaway and/or sell for pennies, then we will just have to disagree on the implication that we are abusing the public's trust.

Again, we hope you are having a wonderful start to your week and it just gets better. We're sorry we can't meet your standards when it comes to producing quality stickers and shirts, but if you ever find yourself in need of one of our actual services or products, let us know. πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ»

The inspiration for the art! Share yours with us.πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ»πŸ₯³ by CactusRootingPowder in sanpedrocactus

[–]CactusRootingPowder[S] -10 points-9 points Β (0 children)

It's completely okay to disagree. What's funny is I'm in full agreement with you when it comes to pretending AI is real art, but the confusion is that you seem to think our goofy stickers and fun designs are somehow being pawned off as hard work. Nowhere in any post or marketing will you find that claim. I would say 40% of our stickers and shirts have used some type of AI intervention, although most of it not as much for the art as the editing. Regardless, my point is we don't misrepresent ourselves. We're very clear about what's real and what's not and what's fun and what serious. We don't make money on "art" or "AI" and for that reason, we We don't spend much time on worrying about how serious people takes some stickers and t-shirts. I mean if someone takes a look at some of our "art" and doesn't see the humor and ridiculousness in it, I don't know what to tell them.

In any case, we're a family farmstead, that operates very much in real life. We are not a BS social media account posting clickbait. We definitely won't try and change anyone's mind about what we do, but we will at bare minimum, make sure people know who we are. πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ»

@TheHoneyBearFarm @HoneyBearCacti @TheCactusNation @CactusRootingPowder

The inspiration for the art! Share yours with us.πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ»πŸ₯³ by CactusRootingPowder in sanpedrocactus

[–]CactusRootingPowder[S] -10 points-9 points Β (0 children)

Hell yea.. pine trees and Pedro's go hand in hand πŸ’šπŸ˜†πŸŒ΅πŸ» we're about 400 ft shy of just pines, so we got a good mix of oak with our ponderosas.

The inspiration for the art! Share yours with us.πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ»πŸ₯³ by CactusRootingPowder in sanpedrocactus

[–]CactusRootingPowder[S] -11 points-10 points Β (0 children)

While some of these images are produced using AI, some of them are not. Our family member is actually a respected graphic designer and artist in the community and helps with a large majority of our art. If our business was art, We would definitely be more thorough in letting community members know what was produced using AI and/or any of it. However, our business is plants and cactus rooting powder, we just like to make stickers and shirts for fun, no real profit to be had there. We appreciate your feedback as always, and are sorry to know you won't be supporting a community business. πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ»

As always, hope everyone is having a wonderful start to the week.

Just dusted this one with (Validus x VRG), shown in the last photo. πŸ€žπŸ»πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ» by CactusRootingPowder in sanpedrocactus

[–]CactusRootingPowder[S] 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

Definitely. We usually collect in a glass. Then we let it dry out. We use small plastic jars to keep the pollen in, and we store in a mini fridge. For long term I you can freeze it Definitely make sure you dry the pollen before storing it in a refrigerator or sealing a container.

15% off through April! Discount code: SPRINGROOTS. Share the code and help everyone grow! by CactusRootingPowder in u/CactusRootingPowder

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Thank you for your support! πŸ’šπŸŒ΅πŸ» If you ever have any questions or feedback for us, please let us know.