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Growing Trichocereus, in plain English

Trichocereus are tall column cacti. Everything here is written for someone who has never grown one.

The first week

A plant just showed up in the mail

  1. My cutting arrived. What do I do today?

    Today · 1 min

  2. Cutting, rooted or grafted: what turns up in the box

    This week · 6 min read

  3. Rooting a cutting, step by step

    The six weeks after · 6 min read

The SS02 mother plant seen from the front: old, thick, scarred stems with young green pups growing from them, in a garden bed.

October giveaway

Win my SS02 mother plant

Free to enter. Ends October 31; the winner is drawn by November 10.

No purchase necessary. Open to people 18 or older in the lower 48 United States, except Rhode Island and Washington, DC. To be drawn you must be on the shop's free offers email list. Ends October 31, 11:59 pm Pacific. Void where prohibited. Official rules

Sources

Learned from the sanpedrocact.us community wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0) and from @sanpedromastery6262 on YouTube.

Every photograph in the yard pages and the shop is of a plant grown here, except where a listing says it was grown by somebody else — it says so on the listing, above the price.

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