Silly I was having the cactus sale. Thats where I get my Christmas $$$$

See you there, Keith.

Hi Dawna, I really seem to have a problem emailing thru gw so will answer you here. I am so glad that the plants I have sent you have prospered and done well. Yes, the E. platyclada is one of my favorites and so easy to take care of. My most recent passion are sarracenia but have a hard time finding anyone to trade me for these. Carnivorous plants in a bog in Oklahoma has to be love because keeping the plants wet during our dry spells is rough and my bog is big. At our sale I mostly sold winter hardy palms, kiwi and poncirus. I suppose it is just to early to think about cactus. We will probably start selling again on ebay in the next couple of weeks. I am parnoid about sending plants out into cold areas of the country. Anyway, if you find something of ebay of mine or my trade page that interests you, I would prefer to trade that sell.Good hearing from you, Paul

Aztcqn, that's beautiful! Thank you for sharing that picture! I appreciate the first-hand care tips. I checked it today and it's in a very coarse, very dry grit-mix, so I'm probably not going to repot it for a while. It will definitely get and stay nice and dry here. When you water yours, do you fully wet it allowing water to drain out the bottom? water it from below? Spritz it? So looking forward to life with this cactus. Maryl, there are great posts on here about the gritty mix. Just do a search on Al's Gritty Mix. He's famous. :-) In case he reads this post, "Thanks, Al, for making my plants a lot happier!" I got my Repti-bark at Petsmart. I got the granite chips at Tractor Supply. I got the medium perlite at my local independent nursery. I got the clay bits from the auto-parts store, a product used to soak up oil in driveways. No, I bring everything in about mid-October. I have a small greenhouse, so some go in there; some go in a spare room on plant racks with artificial lights to supplement window light; and some go out in the barn with an LED plant-specturm light over them. I think I watered the C&S about twice all winter. Everything survived just fine.