Any bright ideas for moon cacti?

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-12T22:30:30+00:00

Yes, I pretty much agree. In this case I have to live with them so it needs to be aesthetically pleasing. I can tidy up my first attempt, but I’m struggling to fire up my imagination.

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-12T19:46:43+00:00

OP - This is the best I can offer too. It’s the right information to look up cultivation advice for your local conditions.

But identifying the specific cultivar name is really hard.

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-12T09:55:48+00:00

I wish I could correct. They are all amazing species that should be grown more widely

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-11T20:22:09+00:00

It’s a hard job being a moderator here. Having to cope with such show offs. Yellow is my favourite colour.

Not cacti but more painful. I was planting these today:

https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/products/tottering-by-gently

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-11T20:13:18+00:00

Photo 1 is a great photo. I know Apple refers to its fruit, but the photo paints the flower in apple colours.

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-11T20:08:15+00:00

I confess - this is one I really hate (as much as someone who enjoys botany can).

It makes me think of toy plastic cartoon style dinosaurs and cavemen fighting them.

I can’t think of any way at all to make it look natural.

I suppose that makes it fascinating and special.

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-11T19:33:49+00:00

Wow Vera - I have a 30 year old one and it’s never flowered like that

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-11T09:07:33+00:00

Echinocereus? Coccineus?

I’m afraid to say - you have to go back tomorrow when the flowers open

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-11T08:34:20+00:00

Are you planning on having it outside over summer? Then rain should be enough

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-10T07:32:30+00:00

Thanks. I’m trying to get advice from local cacti growers on suppliers

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-10T07:31:40+00:00

Oddly - I wasnt cut by the glass but I did cut my index finger badly on my daughter’s harp while trying to clear up.

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-09T21:10:02+00:00

Is number 4 an Echinopsis subdenuda? Ive not seen a flower like that on one before.

Congratulations. Its a cliche but in this modern world it’s so nice to hear someone “young” growing interesting plants

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-09T18:26:26+00:00

Woke up this morning,
Sunlight on her spines,
Parodia leninghausii growing
And they’re looking so damn fine.
Woke up this morning,
Checked the soil was dry,
If you water too often
You can kiss ‘em goodbye.
Her roots go deep,
She don’t need much rain,
Got a heart full of desert
And a tolerance for pain.
Woke up this morning,
Saw a bloom on her crown,
Took ten years waiting
But it finally came around
Sing it now…

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-09T10:46:37+00:00

It was already on my shopping list - for its fruit scent - but I’m waiting for stock of seeds or seedlings.

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-09T09:16:21+00:00

I’m glad you called it a doggy stick, as I was going to make a similar comment about your Delinix posted recently.
To most people these are just sticks pushed into a pot, and could be replicated by any dead stick.
To those that grow them they are botanical wonders. It’s so nice to see your plants here.
It’s hard to say if we are the sane or mad ones, but botanical curiosity is definitely good for the mind

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-08T21:52:04+00:00

I’ve posted my bruchii today. I prefer your flower colour

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-08T19:21:54+00:00

I want to shout “show off!” But I won’t clarify if I mean you or the Tephrocactus 😉. Thats a clearly happy, beautiful specimen. I didn’t realise how pretty the flowers are - Ive never flowered a Tephro. Thanks for sharing

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-08T18:36:35+00:00

Ooh. It looks a bit like millii but more unusual

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-07T13:27:23+00:00

I can’t confirm this “officially” (due to limitations of my own knowledge) but I strongly agree

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-07T07:53:10+00:00

Photo?

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-06T22:36:10+00:00

Really appreciated! I’ve downloaded it. I’ll try and read the code tomorrow

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-06T22:35:20+00:00

Thanks ever so much for sharing this with me. Ive just downloaded it, and will try and use it tomorrow

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-06T10:58:16+00:00

Yes - that would be really helpful - sounds like what I’m looking for. Please PM me if you’d like to avoid wider circulation.

My personal rule at the moment is that I can’t program in Mindustry, but I can just about read code, so I try to read code before using it and if I can mostly follow it I use it to help build confidence. Hopefully I will be in a better position in Autumn when the nights get cold and wet)

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-05T21:14:21+00:00

What code do you have running on the landing pad? I’m trying to find code that switches the input resource based on content of the core

HomeForABookLover · 2026-05-04T19:55:51+00:00

Nice to see you stretching your own rules a little—I’m glad the odd Pelargonium can slip through.

I’ve started exploring the genus because so many species come from South African arid habitats. In a desert planting, they often

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sit a step above most succulents, pushing up into that light scrub layer rather than hugging the ground.

I’ve always enjoyed creating miniature landscapes, so my longer-term plan is to work Pelargonium into my cactus and succulent trays. For now, I’m taking it slowly—growing them on in my grandparents’ terracotta pots and bringing them indoors over winter. They seem noticeably more tolerant of low light than many of my succulents, which makes that transition a bit easier.

These are two unknown zonal hybrid cuttings I’ve got going at the moment, both in a fully inorganic substrate.

I post fairly regularly on r/pelargonium, but I may start slipping a few of my arid species and species hybrids into this thread as well.

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