Wow! You have an amazing collection. Would love to trade and have my first 'hen & chick". I would love to have any one in your collection, but in particular any of the following: Tracy Sue-med. Raspberry Ice-large Korrestia--med Atroviolaceum "Heimlich" I am in Zone6 and have the following as houseplants for trade if you would like any: Foliage plants: Chlorophytum comosum (Variegated spider plant) Epipremnum aureum 'Marble Queen' (Marble queen pothos) Gynura sarmentosa (Purple Passion vine) Monstera adansonii (Swiss cheese) Red Coleus Flowering plants: Jasminum polyanthum (Chinese jasmine) Geranium- red,light pink,deep pink Cactus & Succulents: Rhipsalis cribrata (Pencil cactus) Aloe vera (Aloe vera) Crassula ovata (Jade plant-common) Schlumbergera buckleyi (Christmas cactus-red) Schlumbergera buckleyi (Christmas cactus-fuchsia) Sedum spurium

hi falldaisies =) i am guessing this is directed at me, and you want me to change the blurb beside your name? its hard to fit too much info in there, if you would summarize some general wants ...or what you want you want the blurb to say- i can edit it. it is best if its short and sweet, just a general idea of what you want. right now yours says - falldaisies zone 6 (flowering bulbs, artichokes & blueberries dwarf fruit trees indoors/citrus) if theres something else you want me to write there, let me know, but lets keep it short. then have you figured out how to edit your "seeds wanted" list? thats the place for all the specifics. just list everything that you want there, then when someone goes to your page they can read all that. its good to have a nice long want list, so dont be shy about listing everything, often times people will look over it and might even surprise you with extras from your want list. GW is not very intuitive with its layout, but at the bottom of every page theres a large grey area with many links. click on "member pages" and then edit your exchange list...from that page you can edit all your info and fill out your have and want lists.

ALICIA7B HI! After ALL these comments, and posts, that went WAY off the track, to what YOU posted, asked for, ...did you EVER find any of the OLD/ANTIQUE/ORIGINAL Christmas Cactus from anyone? I was sent THIS post, to look at.... I have just put up my own post, looking for cuttings of the plant myself. My original one, that was over 150yo!! The last of it JUST died, and it is weeks before X-mas now. Nice gift:( I was the one in the family to be entrusted to keep it alive, I am the gardener in the family. But after 3.5 decades in south Fla. after living in Conn. all its life, and mine, it died. I got some cuttings of the ORIGINAL cactus after mine started to rot and die slowly over a period of years, from some very nice people, like 5 years ago. But THOSE plants just gave out on me, after a super HOT summer, and Hurricane Irma coming through my city, it just got to stressed, I assume, and it finally died. Did YOU ever get any cuttings/stems from someone with a huge specimen...and maybe might be willing to part with a few more? IF you even see this reply to your post....I am hoping you do....maybe you can tell me who to ask. Thank you. ******* I see a picture of a HUGE pot of the X-Mas cactus, you got it from someone. You got A LOT of cuttings from someone!!! Wow! THAT is the one I am desperate to get. I can see a few other pics. But they are not the same thing. This is an old post, so the pictures are not showing up. I dont see how a cactus that is over 150yo,...mine was,...can be a 'hybrid'. It is the one that all the others came from! I cant read ALL these posts, but i read a few, and someone said it was a hybrid. All i know is that THIS is the one i would like to find. I hope YOU or someone sees this, and can help me out. THIS was my 150+ yo specimen. Maybe YOU can help me out? That one you have is huge, and now 6 years later, it must be much bigger...??? Care to share????

Hi, Anna - I just came across your posting and wanted to share my experience with growing Aloe in Zone 6 (NYC). For years, I just could not understand what I was doing wrong with my Aloes. Year after year, new plant after new plant, they all died. Until this last one, that is. I brought home several cacti & succulents from my parents' home in the caribbean - Sort of a piece of home! These were special to me. Here's what I've learned: 1. Never use regular potting soil for any succulents. The soil stays too wet and rots the roots. Double jeapardy during the winter when it's excessively cold in the Northeast - The soil just stays wet. Use a good, quick-draining succulent mix - You've already received excellent advice to that point on this post. 2. For those of us with climates that fall into the single digits, there is a science to keeping our plants intact over the winter. We have radiators & heaters that come on too high in a blast of steam, dryness, windows that leak if not properly insulated, causing humidity problems (and potential problems with spider mites if unchecked), and a host of issues maintaining neutral internal temperatures during the season. 3. Only place your plants on window sills that are properly insulated, with no drafts. Never let your plants touch the glass of your windows. Also, never leave your plants on a sill that is adjacent to a radiator. The heat will kill them. Aha! There is an exception - My cactus love it - Echinopsis, Cereus, Euphorbia - These all do just fine on the window sill that has a radiator right under it - Go figure! They must think they're in the desert. 4. Now for the beloved Aloe. That original sapling I brought home kept dropping its lower leaves, never seemed to grow, and lost all its green color and turned white every time I placed it near a window. Believe it or not, this went on for two years. It was a constant battle, but I HAD to save THAT Aloe - It was from mom's house! Well, ultimately, I understood that this one didn't like its leaves touching soil. I learned to pot it with stones at the bottom for drainage, just its roots in 1/2 pot of cactus mix just to the neck of the base of the plant, then filled in the pot with stones to prop up and stabilize the Aloe plant. That was magic - The leaves stopped dropping off! Water requirements: About 1/4 cup of water once a week during the summer and 1/8 cup once-twice a month all other times - I'm not joking. The leaves will tell you if you need to up the water level. Oh, and NEVER let the Aloe sit in a saucer of water. Now, I took on the daunting task of acclimating that Aloe to indirect sunlight. I brought the Aloe closer and closer to a window until it, again, began to turn Albino. Then I'd move it away. I know full well that Aloes need some indirect sunlight, so I continued this process over a full two year period until, one day, it just said, "Uncle" - Just like that, the plant stopped turning white. Last winter, I left that Aloe on a corner of my livingroom window sill (morning sun only) and didn't touch it. I watered it very sparingly, in droplets, every two weeks during the entire winter and didn't even look at it too much. What happened? It grew and when I looked in there in the spring, there were three large plants and tons of pups. I now have 2 pots of Aloes and have shared 4 with my sibling...a little piece of mom's house! I have traded these same Aloe Chinensis right here on this forum. The moral? Patience & lots of loving care...Also, who the hell really understands plants? They do whatever they want to do. They've been here since the beginning of time and will be here long after we're all gone...still doing whatever they want to do! Isn't that why we love them? They can do some incredible things that allow us to validate our own nurturing skills! God bless!