Does anyone have Rattail Cactus or Living Stone Cactus for postage or trade?
Rattail Cactus
Sequee, can't you find any there. We have a nursery here that carries them. Would be happy to pick some for you. I don't have any (to many other cactus hehehe) but if you want them, just pay me for the plants and shipping. Let me know Binky :))))
I'll be checking around. I just spotted them in the PDB and was hoping someone was doing a "clean up" and had some for trade! I know I saw the Living Stone somewhere, but I've never seen the Rattail. I'll be on the lookout, though!
I have seeds of few other cactus, if you are interested.
I have a young rat. I looked under is tails just now but they all seem to be attached-no babies. Sorry.
Forgot the rat! Lol!
Sequee. . .I'm at work, but I have 1 more pot of rat tail that I haven't traded yet. . .can email you a pic when I get home to see if you'd like it. . .LMK Janet
Janet, can I just yank a tail, cure and start it?
I just spearate them at the joint. When I repotted mine for the umpteenth time this spring, I just cut a bunch of them in 6-8 inch pieces and then left them laying out to calous and then stuck them in cactus mix. They root very easily. I had about 8 pots of them and I threw away a 5 gallon bucket full of them. . .
http://davesgarden.com/journal/edit/showimage.php?eid=58907
This was taken in July and it's put out a ton of new growth since that was taken. . .but, I think your's is a larger cultivar from the looks of your pic. Janet
I have one that looks more like yours that was labeled mousetail.
You didn't throw 5 gal of cactus into the compost lol?
Sorry to say I did, I would have still been trying to get them all in pots. The plant in that picture is about 1/3 of the mother. . .but it was rootbound and needed to be trimmed out. It really took off after that. . . . I could make a ton of rootings again right now, but it's fall and I'll wait until spring. . . ;-) Janet
Janet - That's EXACTLY what I'm looking for - in fact, THAT's the photo I was looking at when I decided I HAD to have it! Too funny! Guess I shoulda just gone to the source with my tin cup out! That never even occured to me!
I just checked your trade list - you've got mail!
So, When I went looking for rattail cactus on the database, this is what I found.
http://davesgarden.com/pdb/go/76825/index.html
Now I wonder what ours are?
Check out rat-tail cactus! These are those - MUCH better lol!
There are so man "almost" the same name around this place. Seems like whatever you put in there is a daylily or ten by the name! Lol!
I found mine. Golden rat tail, hildewinteria auriespina. (I hate to admit this but I looked at the pot and low and behold I had tagged it.)
If I ever get all the plants sorted out, it will be a miracle.
That's funny! It's always fun to stroll through the data base, though, isn't it? And you are SO right - it's absolutely maddening all those Daylilies! Who knew???
I'm glad you found your tag frogsrus, as I also have one of those 'Golden rat tails' someone gifted to me from one of our favorite cactus shops in Morro Bay, but alot of their stuff isn't marked. Now I know what it is. . .been trying to find out for over a year. . I think the problem is the names that get tagged on these are just common names. . .there's a whole bunch of cacti people call rattail. . .when I was looking for mine about 20 years ago, a San Diego nursery sold me one they called rattail and it turns out to be Echinocereus pentalophus, commonly known as Lady Finger Cactus, according to Xenomorph when I begged for ID awhile back. . .go figure...
http://davesgarden.com/journal/edit/showimage.php?eid=56769
Looking at PDB and I think mine is this one; looks just like the second picture, just a younger specimen
http://davesgarden.com/pdb/go/63457/index.html
Sequee. . Sorry I didn't get this posted last night when I got home. Here's the one I have left of my starts and there's a few in another pot I can throw in. . .less for me to have to baby through the winter. Didn't read my email yet, so will get back to you when I do.
jcangemi, I think those are two different names for the same cactus-just to make identification even more fun, you understand. How is a poor schmuck gardener supposed to figure it out if the experts cannot agree?
Would any one happen to have an extra start of the Golden Rattail cacti to share? I would love to have one in my cacti collection. If anyone does have one, please contact me and I will see if I have any plants to offer in exchange that might interest you. Thank you! :)