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I managed to finally get these pictures off my old dead computer hard drive. These cactus are all very easy and very fast to grow, most will grow about 1" to 2" per month. Better growing conditions and better soil than AZ, high nitrogen fertilizer, a sprinkle of water every day and shade 11am to dark makes them grow very fast. These are not native to low elevation Phoenix AZ area, they all come from higher elevation place about 2500 ft to 5000 ft where it rains and snows. They are not extremely water sensitive like low elevation dry desert cactus where it only rains a small amount 2 times per year. Cactus are extremely easy to grow from segments and cuttings. All of these cactus I started out with segments and cuttings then had 200 to 2000 cactus each a year later. When I moved I advertised free cactus on Craigslist 2 women that were starting a cactus growing business were looking for cactus they could no find any where else they dug up about 1000 cactus and took them home. I still had lots of cactus. I sold about 400 boxes of cactus on ebay and I still had more cactus. Cactus grows as fast as weeds with the right conditions.

I had all these same cactus growing in my yard in Tennessee but spending 90% of my time in AZ. 3 years later I had a cactus forest 6 ft tall in TN these grow better in TN than AZ. When I moved back to TN I cut all the cactus down they were taking over. I don't want anymore cactus.