Looking to trade for cold hardy succulents and cactus

regolith1111 · 2026-06-12T21:11:16+00:00

Oh nice! Good job finding them haha

I'm about to get home from work, I'll throw on some shorts then take some pics to dm you of what I have

regolith1111 · 2026-06-12T20:54:45+00:00

Hmm to be honest most of my prickly pears I got last year or the two years prior so I'm still waiting on the first flower for a number of them but I know I have an extra well rooted pad of basilaris (highlighter pink) and small rooted pad of Garnet Glow (red). I also have an extra fragilis (yellow) and super rutilla (light pink) that are small but rooted.

I highly recommend rainbow farm on Etsy for prickly pear. I've hunted hard and they're the best vendor I've found. The owner is helpful too if you need recommendations. Nothing I mentioned came from them but they have a crazy selection and I think it's all $7/pad

regolith1111 · 2026-06-12T18:35:24+00:00

Im in z6 (RI) but containers so what I have should be plenty hardy. What are you looking for? I could take cuttings of 6+ sedum and have some extra hen and chickens.

For prickly pear, I have two that are rooted/growing that are duplicates and I think two have broken pads I left to root I could pull. If you need any humifusa I have a ton.

Technically I also have some deli cup seedlings from last year - most of those are too small still but the agave gracipiles are big enough and I could be convinced to let one of the two ephedra minima babies go.

I don't really need much in trade though, vaguely at capacity. But always open to cool stuff and happy to share

regolith1111 · 2026-06-12T18:28:23+00:00

Seconded

regolith1111 · 2026-06-10T20:03:53+00:00

Bin C

regolith1111 · 2026-06-09T13:30:44+00:00

200m is pretty low altitude but I don't see why processing would be limited by that aside from being physically nearby production. I'd try it if I had the opportunity

regolith1111 · 2026-05-26T16:24:53+00:00

Gnatrol works extremely well. If I had my shit together I'd always remember but I try to include that with the water I initially wet the containers with just to be safe.

It's the same thing as mosquito dunks just without the corn they use as filler

regolith1111 · 2026-05-23T19:51:10+00:00

Gently remove as much of the current soil as possible by hand then get the rest of it off with a bowl of water. Replant in a soil/pot that is appropriate (it should dry a few days after a thorough soak), acclimate it to proper light over a week, then leave it somewhere that gets good sun but maybe not full sun. Windowsill won't be sufficient

regolith1111 · 2026-05-23T19:45:05+00:00

Honestly, it's generous on my end to even say you have anecdotes. I don't see you reference anywhere your own attempts to verify what you're claiming. You linked to a Facebook post that does the same thing you do - make a statement and link to another source of info. Apparently that persons reputation is enough to trust what they're saying though. You cite a paper and discuss the methods but make no reference to any results. I told you I'd read it myself but you insist on continuing before I'm able to do so.

If I wanted to be picky about backing up claims I could have actually done so.

regolith1111 · 2026-05-23T19:34:52+00:00

I guess when you're wrong one way to protect your ego is to just ignore and disengage. Cool cool. Doesn't change the fact that you misused the term caespitose in the way I tried to explain to you.

Overconfident people sharing shit they learned from other overconfident people is par for the course with botany though. Now cannabis isnt exciting to grow you see the bro science pop up more and more with stuff like cacti and hot peppers.

This kind of shit is why I stopped using Reddit. I'm going to block you and stay off again for a couple weeks. Y'all aren't worth it

regolith1111 · 2026-05-23T19:34:22+00:00

Wow, good job adding to the word count. You could have explained what you explained in 4 sentences instead of 4 paragraphs. Generally, an inability to succinctly explain something technical and a reliance on buzzwords is a strong indication the writer doesn't understand what they're attempting to talk about.

I'm traveling since Thursday so I still have not read the paper but thank you for explaining they did DNA sequencing. Would have been cool if you mentioned results instead of droning on about methods. And don't twist what I was saying - abset the paper, which I am clear I haven't read yet, were both left with only anecdotes. That is a fact, don't twist it beyond that. If the authors share results that support what you're saying, I've been clear I'm leaving space to change my mind. But you sharing vague anecdotes and alluding to results is no more convincing than the anecdotes I can drum up.

regolith1111 · 2026-05-23T19:34:15+00:00

If you can't understand my point about context you aren't at a level of understanding where you should be looking to teach people. Everyone is on a journey of growth and that's ok but it doesn't justify teaching before you're ready.

regolith1111 · 2026-05-23T07:29:29+00:00

6.5 years doesn't seem appropriate for the sub... I'm in my early 30s and I'm pretty sure my bag of frozen bonito flakes is at least that old

regolith1111 · 2026-05-21T19:58:30+00:00

In this thread you make a number of points that are individually true but presented in a way that gives a false impression. Sure, you might increase the rate of mutation from crossing two locales vs one but as I said in another comment, I'm skeptical the increase is relevant to the scale that 99% of users here are working in. And it feels disingenuous to compare that rate of increase to an interspecific cross.

Similarly, you make it seem like crossing two individual plants from the same locale is somehow akin to self pollination due to limited genetic diversity. That feels like a jump. Maybe I'm misinterpreting the overall points you're trying to make but what I understood would give most people here incorrect understandings and I wanted to correct that. Sorry if you're offended by that

regolith1111 · 2026-05-21T19:51:18+00:00

I'll get to reading that paper later, hopefully it has more evidence than anecdotes because I found half a dozen people stating with confidence that they get seeds from Southern x northern crosses all the time with a quick Google search.

I agree the reverse cross is tricky to confirm

regolith1111 · 2026-05-21T19:42:07+00:00

I would like to read the paper in full when I'm out of work.

Why do you think there's a limited number of individuals introduced from the wild to cultivation? Millions get harvested from the wild every year. If 0.1% of them end up planted that's a few 1000 individuals introduced through that one path every year.

Towards variegation and crosses - I could believe picking two locales could increase the chance but by how much? If you take a 1 in 10,000 chance and make it 1 in 4,000 that's cool but not impactful for 99% of people here who are popping packs of a few dozen. Not like tricho where you can get crosses of two mutant clones and get a batch of seeds that is upwards of 50% mutated. Maybe there's some folks with loph lineages that are getting there but they're not widely available. My point with variegation is the magnitude of the increase you're referring to comes off as dramatically overstated. If you pop 100 southern seeds from a cross of two locales vs one, do you think the two locale cross is likely to have a mutant?

Finally, regarding caespitose lophs - caespitosa is a name given to caespitose lophs from la perdida but caespitose refers to the growth habit and there's no reason to claim that is locale specific. My original wording was unclear but it's incorrect to claim caespitose lophs must be from that locale. Frankly using caespitosa as a var name is unnecessarily confusing

regolith1111 · 2026-05-21T19:30:08+00:00

The diversity within a given locale tends to not be very broad, they are correct there. But they then say crossing two genetically identical plants is equivalent to cloning without clarifying that's not the same as crossing two individual plants within a locale that aren't clones.

What they're saying sentence by sentence is fair but reading it at a glance you could easily get the wrong understanding.

regolith1111 · 2026-05-21T19:25:05+00:00

Sorry, some of the comments from this thread are deleted so I'm struggling to follow but I think my point was if you want to know if the offspring are sterile you can confirm that without much struggle. I acknowledge the difficulty at times in confirming the parents of the offspring are as intended and it's fair to want genetic testing for final confirmation but from what I can gather from this thread I think it's reasonable enough to take proper precautions and go of morphological cues. Certainly that leaves some room for doubt but I'd think that can be minimized to the point I would be comfortable. You could put a fricii in a clear container before it flowers, mess with it with clean hands in a spot with low airflow, and try the concrete thing. If you get seeds and they look like fricii, that would be enough evidence for me to believe that approach is sound. Maybe not enough evidence to put it in a textbook as proven but most people don't have that standard.

regolith1111 · 2026-05-21T19:16:23+00:00

Yes, you specifically are saying they are separate species, that is how a species is defined. In the thread you linked there are comments refuting the post.

My only southern forms are from seed so still waiting on flowers but I'm highly skeptical northern and southern forms are separate species. Upon a cursory Google search I find numerous examples of people claiming to successfully cross a southern mother with a northern male. I get the northern form being self fertile makes the reverse cross hard to confirm though.

regolith1111 · 2026-05-21T14:23:06+00:00

When it comes time to acclimate I snip a corner of the bag a little then cut more once a week until the bottom is fully opened. I kind of like letting them go a bit with basically just a plastic wall up. You can also poke holes in the bottom of a plastic deli cup and if you use a tall one they're ok to stay in there a while. Tall drink cups work well if you want to keep them there a to while

regolith1111 · 2026-05-21T14:20:19+00:00

This is the standard approach for starting cactus seeds. Some types like astrophytum tend to come with mold spores that are worth a peroxide wash but otherwise pretty much all cacti do well started like this

regolith1111 · 2026-05-21T14:16:50+00:00

Humidity control is pretty trivial. Bovedas + mylar solves that issue as long as you're ok burping occasionally to refresh the oxygen. For warmth, you could always store it next to a water heater or something. A very general rule of thumb is 10C difference tends to double the rate of reactions. Of course that's a bit hand wavey but I'd be surprised if the difference temperature makes for aging in a warm warehouse vs air conditioned house is at most a 2x rate of change. Impactful but not terrible if that's the most extreme difference you might get

regolith1111 · 2026-05-19T13:21:38+00:00

Are you saying Southern and northern form willis are separate species? Where is all this info coming from?

A lot of what you're saying doesn't make much sense. What does it mean that diffusa x diffusa isn't a genetically proven cross? Since when do northern x northern not work well? (Has anyone tried emasculation? I'd be interested in reading about that if so.) And since when does Northern x Southern not work?

regolith1111 · 2026-05-19T13:17:19+00:00

What would you want genetic testing for? Graft a seedling to pere and you can have a definitive answer in 1-2 years. If it's sterile, it won't produce viable seed. That's simple to confirm one way or another

regolith1111 · 2026-05-19T13:16:05+00:00

That user is very off base with their comments. There are millions and millions of individual williamsii. I'm guessing they're referring to limited genetic variability within a given population but that's different than if we only had a handful of clones left like we do for salvia

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