"Slather Me in Mud & Cross-Pollinate me" or "Sink Into The Ground w/ Astrophytum asterias" 

You have the most affirming and educational rants I've ever heard. Affirming because I realize I'm not the only lunatic who thinks it's worth getting pissed off about the crap the human race gets up to.

I watch for the rants and stay for the botany

It never ceases to amaze me , ur ability to convey just how much u care about these cool and weird ass plants. I got my friend a euphorbia platyclada and its one the weirdest and coolest plants that looks so dead but isnt. When i saw it i asked it in my best tony voice " how do u do dat huh, what r u doin?"

Thank you for your videos! As a South Texas native, your videos help me feel closer to where I am from. Some of these plants I had never even heard of!

Yesssss The rants... I like the rants. SAY IT FOR ME!!! Is how I feel about them. You've got the platform. Hand their asses to them in a flaming brown paper bag. "They" being who ever deserves it in the moment. It's not the ONLY reason I watch. I'm a plant & rock geek. And probably bcuz I AM a plant & rock geek I totally agree with your rants. The human tumor. Makes me ashamed of being a part of that group. So yeah, Go for it.

I always appreciate your south Texas videos. I learn something new every time. Hello from south Texas!

Love astrophytums and how they grow…and Castela vaguely reminds me of beautiful flowering quince. Also greatly appreciate the insertion of pictures of the flowers of the plants you are showing that are not blooming nice.

"Holy shit look at them buns!"

I would have never guessed it grows like this in the wild. What an amazing adaptation.

Now this is quality content

Would be epic to document the same small area monthly!

I live in the verdant mid-Atlantic and always thought the desert was lifeless. CPBBD rips that misconception to shreds! Shred Away, My Dude!

I don’t understand how you don’t have billions of subscribers Could listen to you describing and loving this Earth, teaching people to respect and understand their habitats. Your NZ content was mind blowing . Thanks for sharing prof 🕊️

Thank you Tony, for showing us this interesting habitat and these indeed strange cacti. Cacti are strange enough but...there you go.

It makes me happy as a former south Texan I loved going into the scrub brush. The old maps called it the Mustang desert.

I'm at 21 minutes... Sir, my dude... I appreciate you... I enjoyed watching you rant/ramble... I have so much respect and am so inspired by how passionate you are about these species... about preserving the local flora, and the importance of planting and embracing what is native to the area you live in. I used to really feel bad about foxes being killed in Australia since the animals native there have no evolved defenses against them... But I understand better now... It's sad that lives are lost simply because we humans brought them there. But at the same time, I understand that when humans migrate, they bring with them their source of food or trade... Thank you for being such a passionate and knowledgeable person in your field.

I like all the cactus videos and all, but you should do a series on Eastern/Midwest plants. A lot of us live in those areas, and most people have Kentucky bluegrass lawns. Maybe a series going around checking out converted lawns, especially going into spring.

I never thought I'd see a video on plants from my home region! Thanks for shining a spotlight on these wonderful little guys. Fun fact: the Rio Grande Valley also hosts a HUGE variety of birds, native & otherwise, since it's a migratory corridor.

Thanks for keeping me alive during the past 3 years or so, it really helped.

Enjoying your videos more than ever. Thanks so much. I LOVE deserts so much. Wish I was there right now. Cheers

Love the tour and the commentary. I was born in the Chihuahua desert, but as far as as a harsh environment, South Texas takes it up a notch. Humans are not at the top of the food chain here at night and it is amazing to know plants can adapt to even this hellscape, which it becomes during the summer.

As a resident of the SE, I apologize for the spreading of Crepe Myrtles. Such a crappy plant but at least they don't colonize & become invasive. People, learn to love what's supposed to grow where you are! Always good content my man ☺️

I got to spend some time with my mother recently, and we went to granite reservoir in SE Wyoming. My mother pulled the car over, “WOW. Look at that view” she says as she takes a picture of the Rocky Mountains in the background over the reservoir. She than looks over at me, and see’s me kneeling down with the camera pointed down. “What are you doing?” She genuinely asks. “Taking a picture of this shriveled opuntia polycantha, next to this Pinus flexilis cone. I just love the way it looks with the lighting!” I responded. She than walked back to the car and got in without saying anything 😂. I love your vids Tony, I was honestly starting to long for same cactus and artemisia clips after all those Tasmania videos though 😂

Good one Joey!

Seriously thank you for just jumping into the videos

❤🤣😂 props to billie, great videos

I loved this video! Thank you so much for covering this super awesome cacti. I keep quite a few cv of these and they are one of my absolute favorites. I am close to finishing my Horticulture degree and am focusing on cacti because of Astrophytums. You should 100% make an CPBBD Astrophytum shirt that says "So many ways to spell banger." or "This is what heaven's gonna be like for me, Astros everywhere!" Much love and thanks for the amazing videos. You unknowingly pushed me into this field a few years ago when I stumbled upon your videos. Thank you for what you do.

I agree let those termites take the mansions help replace green lawns with succulent drout resistant lawns

finally !! desert ! love your channel , greetings from Chile.

Would you be interested in exploring some native cacti of southeast Kansas? My sister knows a spot where she finds a bunch of Missouri Pincushion cacti.

Wow, fantastic video and cactus habitat tour, thanks so much for sharing!!😍🌵🌵👍😎

Love this video. One of my favorite plants and genus as well!

Well, I appreciate your passion for all plants and especially the ones you feature in your videos.

It's hard to imagine that there was a time when rich people DID buy huge tracts of land simply for conservation purposes.

beautiful

I just love it,what an excellent video and great observations on the human condition as well!

Amazing content as usual. Please continue giving life advice.

I love my little Astros, I grow some from seed up here in north Canada. Takes a very very long time to reach maturity but it's worth it!

Thank you for helping me maintain, brother.

Your excitement around 20 minutes makes me so happy.

The rants and the wise-cracks are what makes it great!

That bug on the cactus was an assassin bug, they have a nasty bite.

Adoro a este hombre pero más sus descripciones👍

so awesome!

The government wiped out the buffalo, but hogs are an issue?

I feel like you should leading a big group of people behind you on a guided tour.

Good work

This guy is doing exactly what you suggest by buying land in Texas and trying to create a 'desert forest' (I think that's the term he uses). Anyway, it's a new channel and he's really dedicated to this idea. www.youtube.com/@dustupstexas

always looking forward to seeing your videos !! appreciate all the plant knowledge you share with us

honestly i for one like your crazy rants

Ya I like a good rant in the mix cause it always makes me chuckle. But the passion and detailed field knowledge is the impressive draw. I appreciate the crude humor, and vicarious treks into hot as balls country.

That rust pathogen is spread by the cactus bugs, and it is brutal. I battle it constantly in my own cactus collection here in Texas. Even if they don't spread the infection, they cause small dead spots via feeding, which is annoying af

Castela erecta was very nice species, not sure why it caught my interest so much. ☺

I wish you could have made it out the the Carolinas to film the wisteria blooms they are as beautiful as they are invasive.

I learn something new with every video!

🙌🙌🌟🌟 Thanks for the video!!

that chonk of agate next to that tiny thelocactus colony at the end was, SAtisfying.

Thanks man brightened my day)

You guessed right. We also like your rants. You're being honest 🤷‍♀️

You are awesome!! A champion! Thank you 🙏🇦🇺

You should come to the atlantic forest in Brazil

i get the urge to go to the local nature preserve and photograph tiny wild flowers each time i see your videos... outstanding!!! i think, "look at all i'm missing."

i hop on and off the channel cause my breakfast youtube hours change around, but your videos are always so good and always improving on perfection. thanks!

Love it..

Much respect🙌 thank you for sharing! Asterias heaven!!!!

12:09 is just ✨ chef's kiss ✨

Your so lucky to get to see all your stuff in the wild. And you really know your shit keep up the great work you do 👏👏👏👏👏👍🇬🇧

A new shirt for CPBBD: Shoot the Feral Pigs

"I always wonder what it's gonna be like when I get to hell, but I never wonder what it's gonna be like when I get to heaven. See that, that's what heaven's gonna be like for me! Astrophytum everywhere!" Seriously I am cry. See this is how we get motivated to make the world a better place. By finding something we love so much we wanna see it again after we die and then finding a way to make more of it now.

Idk if I would be such an avid fan of this channel if not for the rants.

awesome feild trip... getting field book and list ur vids

Idk man, opuntias are still pretty cool, especially when you see them growing wild in NY or PA!

Near Harlingen, TX there's the Harlingen Thicket park with many side trails. Plenty of cactus and scrub there. Check it out Joey, would be a nice place for you to go botanizing.

Wow I'd love the learn the history of that area! The rock tools/chippings and over all land scape seem like they could tell some cool stories. I hope there are lots of reserves so these lands aren't being destroyed.

I just visited the Guadalupe Mts in west Texas. The botany is really interesting due to the diversity and unique species. I am sure you have been there. I used to visit a ranch for decades in Webb County, south Texas. The botany there is amazing!

Will love to se escobaria bokeii,and echinocereus davisii,love your work.

Yo Joey, show us how to press cacti for herbarium. Aquatic plants would be interesting to see as well.

I grow lophophora and take great measures to insure all of my plants are grown from seed or clone from cultivation

Hey get your ass to the chaparral sometime ! Kidding buddy but giant coreopsis & lemonade berry were fun to discover on hikes

Astrophytum asterias truly are beautiful bastards. 🤘🏻💥🖤

I have an idea for dealing with invasive species on islands that's a bit of a non-starter in those circumstances, but which might work nicely for something bigger like pigs. The first principle is sterilize, don't kill. Sterilize them and leave them occupying their niche. (If you kill a pig, one of the nine piglets a sow can mass-produce with every litter is just going to fill the tiny little hole you temporarily made in that ecosystem, and while it grows up, the other pigs who you didn't kill are going to have a slight survival advantage from reduced competition.) It would probably be a good idea to do things like track them, if there's money available for tracking, too. That way when one of your sterilized pigs dies, you can quickly move in and replace it from your supply of ready-replacement sterilized pigs. Also by tracking them, you might be able to use them to help you find other pigs to sterilize. Put a pig cam on each pig, and you're going to start being the envy of the CCP government in China. (Pig cams might also bring you information from the more general environment. If they come across the new feral dingos someone has just introduced, you'll hear about if first from your Terminator Pigs.) (The idea is further extendable, just in case starting by "keeping the holes filled" isn't enough to wipe out the fertile population. It might help to keep your sterile pigs in the "mating cycle", for instance - especially if pigs are aggressive enough, competing for mates - so your sterile boar keeps away all the fertile boars that are trying to get at his sow or sows. It would work great with Impala, for instance, where one ram turns 50 dows into a harem and 49 other rams into celibates. With that in mind, maybe you'd want to put the pigs you catch and sterilize on steroids, even. And feed them. If you feed them to some extent, in such a way that the only way to get a share of it is to get sterilized and join the conspiracy against the pigs, you'll make sure they aren't feeling faint with hunger next time they have a fight to fight, and you might even spare a native plant or two.) Final step would be to put a pig-proof fence around any area totally dominated by your sterile pigs, and move them into the territory of their neighbours. That way, at some point you could just leave your last pigs to live to a ripe old age on some less vulnerable bit of habitat, and close the book on the feral pig story one day. Nice thing about this is that you might be able to bring the vegans on board. Have a rival project, where your pigs help the pig hunters find prey (tracking etc.) and you could have the best (or worst, I suppose - depending on how you value the others involved) of both worlds.

High like long stalked bulbous secretory glands.

Ouch!

I heard in a lecture about lophophora that south texas was covered in post-ice age rivers as northern glaciers melted. Perhaps that's where the tumbled gravel comes from.

Not just used car sales, let us not forget that old car is worth money.

new camera? the quality looks great in this video

Gotta love astrophytun asterius

Cacti are like people, get enough sun and your immune system will be considerably stronger 💪

I read that plants which bury themselves have accordion shaped roots and the roots stretch and retract to pull the plant into the soil.

My man's hands are made of iron, just grabbin' thorns an' shit.

Hey its my namesake cactus!

❤

come to Louisiana please! and Thank you

Tony's gonna find a dead body out there one of these days 💀

I just talked to a guy who works for a guy that bought and cleared 10,000 acres of a 22,000 acre ranch.

Yes vegans do talk about ecology and the importance of preserving native ecology hi I watch all your videos

Wow, you are spot on with "shitty overpriced eatery in Portland."

i love glandular trichomes that are separated from the plant and pressed into rosin.. lol

24:07 South Eastern Washington state deserts are currently being taken advantage of this way. The only unique desert that exists in washington state also

I want to pour water on my phone as if it would reach those crustya plants 😅 please, take a mister next time 😂