Any Cactus Growing Zoners?

ill give you some cuttings over the winter hoover. cant share any current photos, they all live at my moms. have maybe 30ish different trichocereus varieties that have been planted in my moms backyard for about 10 years

i have a giant san pedro and a big paddle one that doesn't get the prickly pear flowers. both super easy to propigate.

succulents do well here

I've got a SP going, but that's it. I want to grow Dragonfruit and epiphyllum, but it gets too cold here to grow them without a greenhouse.

Jealous. I totally geek out on youtube videos about growing dragon fruit even though I can't grow it here. 

Nice! 

I bought a peyote grafted on to a San Pedro at the San Jose flea market

80-90 year old grizzled gent from the desert. Arizona i think. I saw it in the back by his old beat up trunk super cool Cindy

lotta guys ate a lot of Pedro.   very common around Los Altos and these parts

well here's the san pedro flower

and sure i'll trade ya some

Very cool!  Sweet little cactus garden TH.

I am living in the land of Cactus! Desert Hot Springs....

No roots to start with? Cactus are so great and so weird.

I've tried to post pic on this thread several times now, unsuccesfully because of size or format, etc, so I'll just post.

I have a bunch of San Pedros in my house, pretty decent sized ones. I cut off a branch and eat it every once in a while, but mostly they're guardians around the edges of my property. Last year for my first time in 12 years of growing them, one finally flowered, 5 or 6 big, beautiful white flowers.

I also have one Peyote, who is pretty sad but hanging in there. I used to have two decent sized peyote colonies as well, and then when I moved I tried putting them in the ground and they pretty much completely died, very sad. The one I have now is the main button and a few side buttons that is all that is left.

I used to also have several other types with a beautiful range of sizes and flowers. I might make some planters with some again, though in the past years I've mostly focused on succulents, but they get filled with bugs all too easy.

There's a hefty cereus a few blocks from my house that I've been meaning to go ask for a cutting of, and trichocerues peruvianus grows all over the place, though I'm not sure if it's a psychoactive variant or not - I haven't done the test.

Timmy, if you get a chance ever to get a cutting of a Trichocereus Bridgesii, I remember those being like the holy grail of San Pedro, heavy duty potent medicine.

Fun stuff! :)

And yeah, when you transplant cacti you should wait for the wound to heal, if it's a cutting. Let it form a hard scab and only then put it in soil. They can go years without roots but will eventually grow them. I put a San Pedro cutting on a windowsill for 4 months once when I was between houses and it started shooting pups out of the side, like 3 or 4. 

They're amazing plants, almost invincible. A 200 year old Pedro may fall over because of age and weight, but pups will shoot out of the fallen branches with the exact same DNA and continue the cycle. Ver crazy plants...So cool.

That's awesome, Timmy, cacti really are the bomb. I think you and I are in kind of the same situation in terms of cactus weather, no? That's cool that you have some bridgesiis! 

This thread has actually inspired me to start looking for more cacti and filling my garden with more of them. Like I said, I used to have a bunch and then gave them away or just in the move, or whatever. But they're so easy to grow, so beautiul and interesting, and their flowers are pretty much unparalleled in beauty.

And then you eat one, and it takes you all the way to the great pyramid in the sky and back and you just see this beautiful plant, vibing, sharing, healing...pretty amazing stuff.

There's a variety of ways to prepare the San Pedro, if you're into doing that. The most recommendable that I've read but never taken the time to try is peeling the skin and drying it down to a powder for ease of consumption and no nausea. But, I don't know, the nausea, "we're in the spirit world, asshole" part of is is also not so bad in a sense.

And if you're into shamanism with San Pedro, there's a great book by an anthropologist called Bonne Glass Coffin called The Gift of Life. It's really amazing and a good insight into the power of the plant. The Tiwantinsuyo Culture of the Andean highlands has depictions of it from like 1,500 years ago. 

Anyways, thanks for the cool thread, Timmy!

My local native trichocereus is called Trichocereus Chiloensis. Classic columnar cactus with long thorns, big white flowers and these weird red parasitic flowers that take root in them. Makes for a pretty image:

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jtzM7fmvXg8/Vx1M9XObgrI/AAAAAAAAXns/BvpCdRvXK...

There's some really cool like, columnar button like cacti of the family copiapoaensis, too. They're up in the North and have just the most amazing flowers! And there's a ton of other species in between. People have opuntias (prickly pears) frequently in their gardens here, too.

Weird. Apparently the picture I linked before is for a different cactus which looks pretty much exactly the same, yields pretty much exactly the same fruit, and is affected by the same parasite. Huh. Lots of cacti 'round here. This is the legit chiloensis, but again, it's pretty much the same:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Trichocereus_chiloen...

I put together an album on my flickr site of all the cactus & succulents I have photographed over the years......it is here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dan_ward_photography/albums/72157716531483141

Dan, that's awesome. Very beautiful album. I may consider creating one like that moving forward as well. :)

Joshua Tree Park is an awesome place!  After living in Northern Mendoville for 30 years, I now live in Northwest Desert Hot Springs just 35 miles from the North entrance to Joshua Tree.
I have a lifetime pass & visit at least once a month. It never gets old. Every time we visit, we hike somewhere new. 

Jan & I are gonna visit Saguaro National Park in a week or so. I will post pics of that visit. Should be plenty of Cactus there.
Organ Pipe is also a great place for Cactus Lover's to visit. Been there a few times.

We just got home from Tucson after visiting both the East & the West Saguaro National Parks.

I have never seen so much cactus in my life!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dan_ward_photography/albums/72157716800707263

Cardon Gigante (I didn't grow it)

Went & visited one of the four cactus nurseries in Desert Hot Springs today........oh my!