Thats so wonderful to hear thank you so much Leon and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXXX
Hi Lyn, although some of these Echinocactus have spines (they do bite) they are really beautiful! Looking forward to see more of these tours! Have a lovely afternoon Lyn and Hans! Lots of love!
hahaha Sylvia :-D yes these Echinocereus cacti are definitely little 'biters' haha :-D thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for an incredible afternoon XXXXX
So happy you loved the collection Mary Jane and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX
I had one once with the most ENORMOUS trumpet flower, Lynne. They are amazing and I foolishly threw it out when it got too diseased. Hey stay safe you two, you're helping so many to keep cheerful there! Thank you X
Fantastic video Lyn, I love these barrel cactus, been after the white spined variety for a long time, I’ll find one at some point I’m sure. No collection is complete without at least one of these in it 😊 Thank you for sharing as always Lyn, from Edith & myself to you and Hans, have a wonderful evening and weekend and stay safe guys ❤️😊🌵🌸🌼🌺🏜
These Barrell cacti are amazing Daz and so happy that you love these too, and I bet you will find a white spined one in the future too :-D thanks a million to you and Edith for all your wonderful friendship and support and yes we will all get through this trying time, and at least we all have our plants to keep us busy during all of this craziness, thanks so much for your wonderful comments and for watching Daz and Hans and I are sending you and Edith an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to England and Singapore for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX
So happy you loved the video Caroline :-D and the beautiful Golden Barrel you gave us is doing really well and soon we will be able to put it into the polytunnel with the others in the family haha :-D its absolutely BEAUTIFUL and the biggest of them all, thank you so much again for this beauty
I love the gooden Barrel Cactus , mine is about 15 years old . Lyn i love the albino cactus . Have a great weekend from downunder and plenty of plant power. 🌵🌵🌵⚘😗👍👊
I bet your 15 year old Golden Barrell is a beauty Peter :-D the albino ones are amazing and unusual :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Downunder for a safe and sunny weekend ahead XXXXX
So happy you love the collection dear Kathy and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and wonderful Monday XXXX
Very nice indeed, these ultra slow growers get slower as they age;- in fact I would say probably even slower the fire barrel Ferocactus pilosus, which themselves average only 2 cm or 3cm of growth a year. Very very tolerant of ultra dry conditions:- these plants are true desert dwellers. Prefectly happy with strong direct sun for over 10 hours a day, months at a time without rain, I don't know how they survive!!. I have seen a couple of these on Gran Canaria (Spain) over 1 metre across. I can't even begin to estimate their age!. Remarkable.
Yes I think they definitely seem to get slower as they age too :-D and definitely the true Desert Dwellers, and WOW at the ones you have seen in Gran Canaria at one metre across, its incredible how large these beauties can grow :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX
So happy you love the collection Fernanda :-D and thanks so much for all of your amazing support and for all your wonderful comments and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Portugal for a fantastic new week XXXX
So happy you love the collection Charlaine :-D I love to use Neem oil as a foliage and soil drench and it works really well at keeping pests away as much as possible :-D here is a link to a video I made on How I use Neem to keep the pests off the plants : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6xcqJ8uHJWs.html thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and wonderful Monday XXXX
Hi there :-D yes we heat our greenhouse with an electric heater that is set at a thermostat at 5 Celsius /41 Fahrenheit and it will come on if the temperature drops below that, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a safe and sunny Sunday XXXX
WOW I have not got one of these, thanks so much for letting me know, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX
Thats a fantastic idea for a video and yes I will plan on making that in the coming days, :-D thanks so much for the suggestion, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX
Great video as always. I'm learning so much from you. I have been to Leeds market again yesterday and bought 2 euphorbias. They are my favourite right now. When it gets a bit warmer here they will go on my patio and it will look like mini wild west 🤣🤣.sending you and Hans lots of love and happiness and plant and cactus 🌵 power from a chilli york to the emerald island ❤
haha well done on buying two new Euphorbias Bernadette :-D and its so wonderful you are getting a wonderful collection of cacti and succulents, thanks so much Bernadette for your wonderful friendship and amazing comments and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and CRYSTAL and PLANT POWER to beautiful York for a wonderful afternoon and evening XXXX
Dear Lyn, thank you for interesting videos, I have spent many minutes watching your channel! And now I have a question about spines, what are factors influencing on the spine growing process on echinocactus? A have ingens indoor (East window location) and new spines are twice less than at previous owner conditions. What is your experience in getting spines on cacti? Thank you for your reply!
Hi Valerie :-D so happy you enjoy my videos, Spines are influenced by light levels, and the higher the sun level the tighter and more pronounced the spines are, if your Echinocactus is getting mostly morning sun it may be not receiving as much direct sunlight as the previous owner kept it, ideally a south facing window is best for Echinocactus as they like a very high sun position, they will survive well in an east window but may tend to grow thinner at the growing point and spines won't be as strong, what you could do is install a LED Plant grow light and have this light on for 2-3 hours in the afternoons to give your Echinocactus an extra boost of sunlight, this will help to promote strong spines and growth, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
Can you tell me what cactus that is in the left corner of the picture, clumping, at minute 4:49? It looks like a balloon cactus (Parodia magnifica), but somehow different. It's gorgeous!
Hi Michele :-D thank you so much, yes its a Parodia magnifica cactus, its a very old plant about 30 years old now and it has clumped a lot of pups over the years, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
Thank you so much Juan for helping me with the ID, and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
I have several of the grusonii, two really large ones I've had over 20 years. A handful of yearling seedlings that Deb gave me in a seed kit I started last year. Also an ingens and a really nice Echinocactus glaucecens about 8 in across coming into bud right now, this one is always a star performer and gets a crown of yellow flowers in the spring. I love the inermis, very different nice collection guys!!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks to across the Emerald isle have a great weekend!! And remember everyone, Peace , Love , Plants✌💖🌵
Your grusonnii are AMAZING Clyde and so wonderful that you have seedlings that Deb gave you from a seed kit, so cute, and WOWSERS thats fantastic news your E. glaucescens is coming into bud now, thats so exciting, these cacti reallya re so amazing :-D thanks so much for Clyde for your fantastic friendship and support and for all of your wonderful comments and for watching and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Deb much love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Morris Park in the Ozarks for a safe and sunny Saturday today XXXXX
Thanks so much for the ID :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-D sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic weekend XXXX
Lovely! Like your white spined barrel, I too have unsightly rust fungus on mine. I tried to cut some of the orange patches out which were just at the surface ‘skin’ and areoles, and it’s looking a bit of a mess! Anything I can do to help ? Anti fungal sprays? I think it came with the fungus from the garden centre, then despite being in a hot dry room all summer it still developed creamy beige coloured patches, then last winter in the cold porch worse orange patches developed. 😢 think I’ll keep it in the warm dry living room all year round in future.
So sorry to hear you have the rust fungus on yours too Georgina :-D yes an anti fungal spray would help to prevent the fungus and if you can get a systemic fungicide spray that would be best as the systemics work all through the plants system to treat and prevent, you can also use Neem oil too as its a fantastic natural fungicide, but a systemic fungicide will work well, I use 'Rose Clear Ultra Systemic fungicide' for any of my cacti and succulents that have already got signs of rust and it seems to work well at stopping it spreading, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
@@DrGeorginaCook Hi Georgina :-D I spray the systemic fungicide, the systemic works its way through the skin of the plants and carries on working through the plants system, sending lots of love and happy plant powered Friday to you XXXX 🥰❤🌵
Hi there :-D yes San Pedro is a great grafting stock for many cacti, but Echinocactus can grow large quite fast when grafted and may end up being a bit too top heavy in a couple of years :-D thanks so much for watching and your wonderful comments, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Sunday XXXX
O.M.Gosh Lyn @ 5.50 I had to rewind the video back 3 times just to see if I heard right ... when you said you’re bad at pronouncing names of Cactus’s, strangely I was talking to one of my friends last night over the phone about your channel (my friend loves cactuses also and has some very old ones) anyhow I was saying to her to join your channel bc Lyn has so so many and she knows what she’s talking about, very cluie lady and she can pronounce the proper name for each one of her cactuses and that she won’t be disappointed what so ever ... I hope she joins your channel she will definitely learn a LOT, I know I have. Thank you Lyn. 🌵
Desert Plants of Avalon ... anyone that mentions Cactuses I ALWAYS say “oh wow have you seen that channel on RU-vid called Desert Plants of Avalon, it’s the BEST channel to watch and learn ANYTHING regarding cactuses and succulents, the Chick that owns that channel is Cactus crazy (lol) she owns cactuses that are like 80 years old (that was given to her and she’s done a friggen awesome job at keeping them alive) ... and I seriously do that all the time Lyn ... You know Lyn my dad taught me a great lesson in life and that was, the best advertisement is not the newspaper, it’s word of mouth, and he was so so right and sooooo wise .... I hope you and Hans have an awesome day Lyn, sending you loads of love, tons of happiness and heaps of peace all the way from North Queensland Australia 🇦🇺 love Cher 😘
thanks so much Imran for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX
So happy you loved the video Ana :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and CAFFEINE and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Las Vegas for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX
Thank you Lyn for sharing your echinocactus collection. I don’t have too many cactus, only the monstrose cereus and small opuntia. Your collections are amazing and so mature. Thank you for your cactus wisdom. 💚🌵🌵💚💚❤️❤️👍
haha yes re potting these barrell cacti is not the easiest as they love to 'bite' us haha :-D thanks so much Stephen for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX
Such a lovely collection! I love these genus collection tours you are making❤️ They highlight the common characteristics of the particular genus and you give us a quick visual update of the specimens at the same time. Would love to see an echinopsis tour like this😁
So happy you loved the collection Ryan :-D yes I will definitely make a tour of my Echinopsis collection in the very near future too :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX
So happy you love the collection Ken and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Japan for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX
So happy you love the collection Justin and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX
thanks so much Tien for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX
