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Central Oklahoma Cactus & Succulent Society

15 years ago

Show and Sell will be next weekend May 2-3 at the Will Rodgers Garden Center. 8:30am to 5:00pm on Saturday and 9:00am to 4:00pm on Sunday.

I'll have a couple exhibition tables displaying some of the weeds I like to grow. Come on by and say hi.

randy

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annbb
15 years ago
Hi Randy,
I'm planning to go, how will I know you?
Ann
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rjj1
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15 years ago
Hi Ann,

I will probably be the only person that will have no cactus on my exhibition tables. I don't do very many pokies. :-) I grow adeniums, but will have a few other succulents to show.

randy
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rjj1
Original Author
15 years ago
Looks like I may be doing a few demos during the show. One will be preparation and placement of a jade plant in a bonsai pot. Probably do selection, prep, and placement of an adenium in a bonsai pot. May do a grafting demo on adenium also.

A couple adeniums I'll have at the show.

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And my big jade. Photos were from January when it was in full bloom.

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randy
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laura_lea60
15 years ago
Hi Randy,

I never in my life knew a jade plant would bloom. It's so beautiful. I will try my best to come by the show. Maybe I will remember to bring that salsa that I owe you for sending me the echinopsis babies (pokies) in May of 2007. For the record, they have not bloomed but are coming along. Might be couple of inches in diameter now. I baby them and tell them what they will look like when they grow up!

Have a great day!
Laura
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rjj1
Original Author
15 years ago
Laura,

You are treating the Echinopsis all wrong. If every time you walked by them, you picked them up and said, "I'm thinking about composting you today" and then set them back down, you would have seen blooms by now. :-)

They should bloom for you soon. You do move them outdoors for the growing season don't you?

I put a bunch of them in one pot years ago. It sure looked nice when they bloomed.

randy
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laura_lea60
15 years ago
Randy,

Okay then. I'll go home and threaten them! Yes, I put them out in the old okie heat last year and didn't seem to bother them a bit. For sure, everything in, goes out for the summer at my house. I have couple of figs getting to big for their britches and they love to be thrown out. Seems they grow like weeds on my patio with the wind whipping and the sun scorching.....

I surely don't want the pokies to hear me now but I can't wait for them to show me what they're made of!

Laura
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