Cereus-validus....... wrote:
What do you mean by "cactus cuttings"?

It all depents on what the plants actually are.

This is not the best time to be rooting cuttings anyway.

It tends to get cooler after the vernal equinox every year.



Yes I know that :-) It's not the right time of year to be starting
them, but it's when I found them, and they were too cheap to pass up.
If they die, I can try to find some again in the spring.

When I opened the box, I was very careful handling the cactus pads to
avoid the prickles, but I wasn't so careful with the wadded up newsprint
they were packed in... that was full of little stickers. I got them all
over me. It took me 2 days to get them all out.

These are Eastern Prickly Pears (Opuntia compressa), Tree Cholla
(Opuntia imbricata), and some kind of *very* large pad prickly pear that
looks like the ones I saw at Mesa Verde this summer.

Somehow I was expecting another month of warm weather for the cacti to
root, then I was gonna dig them up and bring them in the house. The
chollas are the ones I'm most interested in. The O. compressas are the
ones most likely to grow up here. If I can get the cacti thru the
winter and grow them out next year, I will try covering half of them
with styrofoam cones to see if they'll overwinter outside. The other
half I'll bring in, of course.

-Bob