Growing unique plants in Pomona, California. Collectable columnar cactus, colorful flowering Echinopsis, and other rare oddities

Cuttings

Our cactus come in cut to order sizes that would root well on their own. We do our best to make specimen sized cuts, so you can start with a nice large piece of our favorite plants. These are direct from the garden and mailed to you.

Seed Grown

As you know, we like to grow most of our plants from seed. Thousands of little cactus babies germinated in our grow room (it’s a garage, don’t be fooled), then brought out to our garden outdoors to brave the full SoCal sun. #sownnotflown is our mantra.

Seed Packs

We spend late nights in the garden hand pollinating the different cactus we have here. When we are successful with our cross pollination, we produce fruit that ripens to the point of producing viable seed that can be sown on your own. Please see our seed variety packs to get yourself a wonderful mixture.

Apparel

We like to wear all the different shirts on a regular basis from our favorite growers. I hope you can find one here that you like. We have some amazing artists featured to create these pieces, and some of them are from our very own kids, Benjamin and Saige =) Our in house illustrators.

About us

The xeriscape of our 1921 craftsman’s front yard inspired my interest in growing plants. As many of you have seen, the bright colors of our home are a perfect backdrop for growing columnar cactus, barrels, aloe trees, and natives.

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Prickly Tees

Can’t keep your plants alive? That’s ok, you can still be cool by wearing one of our awesome t-shirts.

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Shipping is typically the beginning of the week with USPS Priority Mail unless otherwise noted. Please order a 96 hour heatpack as you see fit with cold temperatures. I prefer to use and reuse packaging material, so don’t be surprised if you see my newspaper or my children’s homework. Even my boxes and tape are compostable, so do what you can Tags are in the bags /packaging so don’t miss them! Open carefully from the top, don’t dump the contents Oh yea don’t get pricked! Refunds and returns are entirely at our discretion and must be initiated within 7 days of receiving the order by contacting us. Refunds and returns will generally only be accepted for one of the following reasons: a product arrives dead or severely damaged, you receive an incorrect product, or your order is lost during shipping. These plants have spines and can be harmful if not handled correctly out of the box. We will not be held liable for any ouchies. Please be careful, we got pricks!

Plant Info

Plant information

Echinopsis/Tricho cactus are well known for their big beautiful flowers at maturity. These plants will usually get to that place at 4-8 feet and specific growing conditions. Highly collectible for their looks, shape, and color, they make wonderful potted plants and landscaping plants.

Notes and Description

These ornamental plants are grown outdoors in full Southern California sun, no shadecloth, no greenhouse.. They are healthy but some have some blemishes and marks maybe evidence of old pests even. We do our best to keep them healthy. I’ve recently knocked it down with an insecticide and fungicide. Plants sent unpotted or bare root when dry.

Cutting

I use hormodin3 rooting hormone and I like to dry for a week or two on their side exposed to air.  When calloused I root them in pure coco coir or potting media.  I stand them up and keep them dry.  Warmth at the base with a heat mat in winter helps or warm direct sun in the morning for 2-3 hours.   I then taper in more sun around lunch and then all day if you can without burning it.  Small sips of water as the medium dries to tease the roots out.  This can be 2 weeks to 2 months.  When roots arrive then I pot them in soil. And let them get some water. Or you can do all of this in the same pot of soil if you like.

Seed sowing

T5 full spectrum bulbs or a good LED vipar spiderfarm hlg is good. You can dive into ppfd and lux etc

Have heat mats that have a thermocouple set to 75* in the soil. You don’t want the soil to get too hot so it must be regulated.

Use clean new soil. Pasteurize in the microwave if you so choose. Start your seed with a soak of hydrogen peroxide as that helps slightly soften the kernel. Some people like to go a bit stronger with fungicides to start with too.

I Feed often . Kelp or a good liquid nutrient. They are fairly hungry plants even at this size. Mycorrhizae when you can. Beneficial microbes are great too.

Humidity domes for 2-3 months is what I use to get them to germinate and grow to the size where they can acclimate to no domes. Some people use takeaway containers as they can hold the moisture in indefinitely without having to refeed or water. Most important is find what works for you!