On 05/10/2013 07:41 PM, Todd wrote:
I've been looking for a nice "old man cactus" for months now. My
previous one gave up the ghost and died. I guess it was really older
than it looked.


Is this it?
http://www.cactusstore.com/item_536/...-celsianus.htm

Have you been eating its fruits and pads? Over harvesting?

I have noticed that my hollyhocks will only grow in the
same spot for about four years, then their seeds will
just sprout and die.

Hi Natural,

I have an "Uneducated Theory": I think if you
grow certain plants over and over in the same spot,
they eat up (deplete) some specific nutrient(s) from
the soil and eventually starve to death and won't
reseed.

So far, I have tried adding compost to the dead
hollyhock spots, without success.

-T