Oh wow! That looks like fun, nice group you purchased!

Yes indeed ! Were there any jades :) ?

Thanks for the update. Looks like an amazing turnout for the show, which is great for all the vendors, club members, and for c&s culture as a whole (more interest, more variety offered). I really like your boxes of goodies! What great choices. It will be fun to watch them grow over the summer. I recently attended my very first c&s show, and babied my purchases with repotting and growing inside under lights until our monsoon weather abated. They just moved outdoors for the summer, where I'm hoping they attain their optimum growth. Please post updates of your plants. I love watching other people's plants mature and grow. . . that way I don't have to buy EVERYTHING I like. ;-)

Thanks, Meltan. I wish I could have been there.

How were the prices like?

0nametaken0 Prices varied. Generally, they had $1-$3 ones in the small 2 inch pots, $3-4 for 3 inch pots, $4-6 for the 4 inch pots. It all depended on the vendor, type, and condition of C&S of course. It was nice because most of the pots already had relatively gritty soil and had nice top dressing. Some of the ones I bought had what I believe to be 1:1:1 soil:perlite:granite so you knew it wasn't growing in some junky peat moss lol. There were so many vendors and so many sizes of each C&S, there was a lot to choose from based on your price ranges. Of course there were more expensive C&S available but I wasn't looking to spend too much there. There were some pseudolithos that I really thought about getting but passed on and they were $11-$12 for one, although that was just at one vendor. Also a few Cephalocereus senilis that was about 2 feet tall that was being sold for $20, passed on that one too.

Thats a good price, considering the soil, variety in one place and these being grown by people and not nurseries (I think). Where ever I go, I just hate it how they have only the cob web and one other generic semp. specie. I wish there were more of these shows/vendors everywhere. Its pretty bland up here in Canada.

ahhh, so jelly!

Melissa!! That's a great a cover on the C&S show, it's such a great treat for us people in the east and north as we drool with envy at all the selection and varieties you can get for those prices.

May I ask what are the 2 echeverias you got there, is it a ryunonii and Lola? I love the white one that is sending out a baby inflorescence.

Bernard

Those are lovely favorites. Echeverias are just so pretty when they are all powdery and white like yours.

Bernard

0nametaken0 Yeah, I agree. I wasn't really too worried about prices at the show considering I would be supporting local growers and the fact they probably grow their C&S in better conditions and soil than commercial bulk suppliers. Not to say they don't have good cultivars, it just feels nice to support the smaller businesses :)