And good morning from Organ Pipe Cactus. National Monument - with a more normal-looking organ pipe cactus.

I was attending my absolute favorite conference. As someone who loves alone time, conferences usually deplete me, but this one recharges me completely.

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Another set of plants starting to do very, very well: Stenocereus thurberi, my seedling Organ Pipe Cacti. Two of them are approaching 4 inches tall, and a third finally decided to escape the top soil layer. At about 3 years old, they’re definitely slow-growing (not quite as slow as my saguaros that have also just decided to start showing good life), but most of that growth has also been within the past 6 months or so. The texture of the stems and spines are mesmerizing to me, and I can’t wait to see them when many year down the line they’re 10-25 foot columnar clusters.
If there’s interest, I have a handful of seeds left and might consider trying to sprout more (though I probably need to find space for the other cactus seeds first…and sell off all the extra Agave).

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