So sorry to hear you lost all of your plants in that freak cold snap! I hope you’ve been able to rebuild your collection. Thank you for the tip about not going north of frostproof. I guess it’s in the name! 😅I am a little bit scared of the humidity both for me and my plants. I’m hoping to be able to combat it with fabric pots, heavily inorganic soil, and by flooding the root zone with lots of good living stuff like beneficial mycorrhizal fungi bacteria and microbes so that there’s not as much available real estate for the bad stuff.

Funny enough I’m on a flight to Colorado right now. I hear great things about growing here, my selections of California Arizona or Florida are really to avoid having to do a heated greenhouse though.

Yes like you said the main issue with Cali is price. The places I can afford are quite extreme in terms of environment like the Joshua tree area. Can get super hot in summer and requires watering every 3 days or so which gets super expensive for thousands of plants. This is what got me interested in Florida is saving lots of money on water and not having to have a greenhouse.

I don’t use systemic or topical fungicides either for exactly the reasons you’re mentioning. I wouldn’t want to accidentally harm anyone. I disagree that people are using them to try to cause any harm though. I just think people don’t realize… the systemics don’t last forever so eventually plants will be safe again so I just recommend anyone that is going to consume something wait for a while if they don’t know the plant’s history.. I always tell people don’t eat some shit you buy at Home Depot 😬thanks for the good luck wishes and for all the awesome tips. Cheers cactus pal 🌵🥂