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Cacti experts, help!

peachfuzz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:15:35 -0800

I have some questions about cacti. First, can you help me identify the awesome cactus my boss' husband gave me? It looks exactly like this one (though that's someone else's photo). Second, can you recommend how to take and transplant a cutting from it? I've read some guides and know to let it callous over before potting it, but I'm not sure how or where to cut - it's larger than this one, with lots of branches and paddles and bulbous bits. Should I just try to get most of a node? And when I pot it, should I bury it or just put an inch or so into the soil? Is half sand and half soil the right mix to use? I've read a lot of different opinions. Ditto on whether to water it after repotting or not. Basically, all cacti tips are welcome.

Thanks!

What kind of cactus is this?

zembla3 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:50:42 -0800

What kind of cactus is this, and how do I care for it?

Cactusfilter: How do I bring 200+ cactuses back to full health and keep them alive for the winter?

ageispolis — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:05:25 -0800

I've inherited a greenhouse and it is full of cactuses and succulents. I would very much like to keep them alive and healthy but I do not know where to begin! How can I become a cactus caretaker? I am in Victoria, BC, a temperate climate entering a rainy winter in the next couple of months. The previous owner died of a heart attack in June, and the cactuses have seen no care since then. Many of them are wilted, look unhealthy, and the greenhouse is dirty and falling apart. There's some fans and a lamp inside.

I would guess there's about 200 cactuses in the greenhouse.

Some of them are labelled echinocereus, opunita rufida, echniocereus sheerii, euphorbia mammillaris, grassula falcata, lobivia tiegriliana, ... and I could go in but there are 200 of them. Some are quite beautiful, some hideous. Do I leave them in the greenhouse or bring them inside for the winter? If I leave them inside, do I seal the greenhouse? When I inherited it the door was wide open and the ceiling panels are lifted to allow airflow. Such questions prove my inadequacy at dealing with this sort of thing, but I would hate for the cactuses to slowly dry/die out when I feel I have come across such a marvelous collection.

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Brian Puccio — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:56:14 -0800

Linux/Unix Admin Filter: What is your preferred method for monitoring bandwidth use per virtual host in Apache? I could just log everything and run AWStats/Webalizer/whatever, but that seems overkill when all I really want is a MRTG or RRD Tool graph for each virtual host to indicate bandwidth used the last day, week, month and year. Do you use the impossible to find mod_watch or something else?

What succulent is this?

andeles — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:37:20 -0800

What sort of cactus or succulent did I buy? I bought what I thought was a small cactus from a farmer's market. The person I bought it from didn't know what it was, but I figured that I could look it up online or in a book. Well, after looking through almost all of cactiguide.com and a few books at the bookstore, I am offically stumped.

Pictures: 1 and 2

The plant is about four inches high, and the petal-leaf-thingies are very firm to the pinch, and are covered in tiny hard white scales. When I first got it, the "leaves" were tighter together, like an arcane artichoke, but now they have opened up a little bit.

I have a sort of anti-green thumb, but this plant is so cute, I really want to know how to care for it so it actually stays alive!

How to enable SNMP on a 3com to work with Cacti ?

hboogz — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:48:16 -0800

SNMP on a 3com 4500/5500 and Cacti setup help ?? I have a 3com 4500 and recently installed Cacti 0.87b on a windows xpsp2 box. I never configured SNMP on a 3com before, anyone have prior experience ? I was getting data on a graph previously, but for some reason i'm not getting any data on the Caci graph.

Take a look at this screen shot

And this from the 3com SNMP statistics.

I have NET-SNMP installed, but not sure what would be the right syntax for snmpwalk to determine if everything is setup alright.

What are these alien plants?

puffin — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:29:17 -0800

Help me identify my small collection of succulents. Over this past year I have now accumulated six different succulent plants. I have no idea what species they are, or how to care for them apart from not watering more than twice a month. Searching online has mostly yielded confusion since I know absolutely nothing about plants in general, let alone cacti/succulents.

Mystery cactus

dead_ — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:08:27 -0800

Help identify this cactus! I was given a clipping of this cactus by my mother and it has been growing wonderfully for almost a year... yet I still don't even know what kind of cactus it is! Can anyone help me here? Thanks!

Transplanting Cactus

kc0dxh — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:25:31 -0800

Can I transplant cacti from a 1" clay pot to a 4" successfully? Is this too big of a size jump?