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mongrel
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Apr 21, 2018 - 09:18am PT
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Elcap, your plant looks like Glandulicactus uncinatus. Used to be in Sclerocactus (one common name for these is fishhook cactus), but other than that, can't help you on common name.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Apr 21, 2018 - 12:07pm PT
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Apr 21, 2018 - 12:15pm PT
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Rcklzrd
Trad climber
Prescott, AZ
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Apr 21, 2018 - 05:32pm PT
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Rcklzrd
Trad climber
Prescott, AZ
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Apr 21, 2018 - 06:14pm PT
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Apr 21, 2018 - 08:54pm PT
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Cholla is like a species from “Alien.” They are "the devil incarnate." Evil.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 22, 2018 - 07:27am PT
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Not sure who this Dr. F fella was, but sure glad he was banned, he posted such trashy cactus, loser...
I heard he got banned for contacting the Admin to try and get a hateful troll, "The Chief" Petty Officer" banned, truly criminal behavior!!
well any hoo
I grow cactus and succulents too,
I don't take as many photos as I used to, it's full time horticulture now
seed to sales, if anyone asked, I would call my specialty horticulture, growing plants
Sclerocactus unicinatus v. wrighti ^
Elcap's plant above is Sclerocactus unicinatus v. unicinatus, shorter spines
Cactus are a family of succulents that only grow in the Americas, South Africa has the greatest speciation of succulents, they are super fun to grow
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Apr 22, 2018 - 07:50am PT
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I don’t get down to Southern California often but when I do the Huntington Cactus Garden is well worth the effort.....you will not be disappointed if you love cactus.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 22, 2018 - 07:53am PT
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The Huntington Gardens has the best public Cactus and Succulent Gardens in the World.
Make sure you go through the Greenhouse area, it usually doesn't open until after 2pm.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Apr 22, 2018 - 09:21am PT
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Apr 22, 2018 - 01:48pm PT
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The most recent poachers have been stealing from coastal northern California. The species on the Channel Islands are similar, but as far as we know so far, there are not wholesale poaching incidents on the islands. By the way there was a Supertopoan interviewed for both the written and video links above (wink, nod). I wish people would stop knocking them off the cliffs and taking Dudleya from the wild.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 22, 2018 - 05:29pm PT
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The species in the article is Dudleya fairnosa
You can take cuttings of the plant w/o ripping out the roots.
they are easy to reroot
Dudleya plants are not that old per se, they die back and new ones grow in their place, from seeds or broken off pieces
It's never cool collecting large quantities of native plants for resale
The Asian's are very hungry for succulents these days, collection of native species should be monitored and infractions should be punished.
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Ney Grant
Trad climber
Pollock Pines
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Apr 22, 2018 - 05:59pm PT
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 22, 2018 - 07:34pm PT
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so obviously there are cartels in the process of mass cloning these plant domestically to undercut the rippers who are digging them up on the American west coast? no
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Apr 22, 2018 - 07:35pm PT
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Apr 22, 2018 - 09:25pm PT
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Some of the ones from this bust were probably at least 50 years old. In some species, it is possible that some old plants are 100 to 150 years or more. I worked on a historical garden (at the Naval Postgraduate School) with some that may have been the originals planted in the 1880s or at least the 1920s and they were not as large as the largest in the wild. In cultivation with good soil and fertilizer, the plants can grow far more quickly than some of the wild plants probably do.
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Apr 22, 2018 - 09:29pm PT
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Dudleyas are very easy from seed. Planted in the fall and not covered with soil, one can get almost all of them to germinate. You don't need many or your pot will get very crowded.
I don't encourage the collecting of plants in the wild, but seed collecting has far less impact on a population.
There is one species I visited in 1984 and then again in about 1997 and about half of the plants in the species were gone. Lucky thing that the survivors grew under agaves or among cacti.
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Apr 22, 2018 - 09:32pm PT
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I have found them knocked off the cliffs by storms, tourists, or climbers and have put them back. They were still there a year later.
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