Thats so wonderful to hear thank you so much Leon and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXXX

hahaha Sylvia :-D yes these Echinocereus cacti are definitely little 'biters' haha :-D thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for an incredible afternoon XXXXX

haha well done on buying two new Euphorbias Bernadette :-D and its so wonderful you are getting a wonderful collection of cacti and succulents, thanks so much Bernadette for your wonderful friendship and amazing comments and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and CRYSTAL and PLANT POWER to beautiful York for a wonderful afternoon and evening XXXX

So happy you loved the collection Mary Jane and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX

So happy you loved the video Caroline :-D and the beautiful Golden Barrel you gave us is doing really well and soon we will be able to put it into the polytunnel with the others in the family haha :-D its absolutely BEAUTIFUL and the biggest of them all, thank you so much again for this beauty

@@desertplantsofavalon aww thanks so much Lyn you are both so welcome ❤ big hugs and love to you and Hans from Kevin Ted and I 😃😻❤🌵🌵🌵❤❤

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So happy you love the Echinocactus collection J M :-D and I bet your Monstrose cereus and Opuntia are beauties

Awwwww thnak you so much Marion

Your grusonnii are AMAZING Clyde and so wonderful that you have seedlings that Deb gave you from a seed kit, so cute, and WOWSERS thats fantastic news your E. glaucescens is coming into bud now, thats so exciting, these cacti reallya re so amazing :-D thanks so much for Clyde for your fantastic friendship and support and for all of your wonderful comments and for watching and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Deb much love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Morris Park in the Ozarks for a safe and sunny Saturday today XXXXX

These Barrell cacti are amazing Daz and so happy that you love these too, and I bet you will find a white spined one in the future too :-D thanks a million to you and Edith for all your wonderful friendship and support and yes we will all get through this trying time, and at least we all have our plants to keep us busy during all of this craziness, thanks so much for your wonderful comments and for watching Daz and Hans and I are sending you and Edith an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to England and Singapore for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX

Yes I think they definitely seem to get slower as they age too :-D and definitely the true Desert Dwellers, and WOW at the ones you have seen in Gran Canaria at one metre across, its incredible how large these beauties can grow :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX

Echinocacti are amazing :-D so happy you love them too, thanks so much for watching and have a wonderful weekend XXXX

So happy you loved the collection Ryan :-D yes I will definitely make a tour of my Echinopsis collection in the very near future too :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX

I bet your 15 year old Golden Barrell is a beauty Peter :-D the albino ones are amazing and unusual :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Downunder for a safe and sunny weekend ahead XXXXX

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Awwww thats so wonderful of you to mention my channel to your friend

Desert Plants of Avalon ... anyone that mentions Cactuses I ALWAYS say “oh wow have you seen that channel on KZfaq called Desert Plants of Avalon, it’s the BEST channel to watch and learn ANYTHING regarding cactuses and succulents, the Chick that owns that channel is Cactus crazy (lol) she owns cactuses that are like 80 years old (that was given to her and she’s done a friggen awesome job at keeping them alive) ... and I seriously do that all the time Lyn ... You know Lyn my dad taught me a great lesson in life and that was, the best advertisement is not the newspaper, it’s word of mouth, and he was so so right and sooooo wise .... I hope you and Hans have an awesome day Lyn, sending you loads of love, tons of happiness and heaps of peace all the way from North Queensland Australia 🇦🇺 love Cher 😘

@@chezgirlrose7654 Thats so wonderful of you to say that Cher

So happy you love the collection dear Kathy and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and wonderful Monday XXXX

thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX

So happy you love the collection Justin and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX

thanks so much Miche for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful day XXXX

So happy you loved the video Ana :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and CAFFEINE and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Las Vegas for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX

So happy you love the collection Fernanda :-D and thanks so much for all of your amazing support and for all your wonderful comments and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Portugal for a fantastic new week XXXX

So happy you love the collection Ken and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Japan for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX

thanks so much Tien for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX

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thanks so much Imran for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX

So happy you love the collection Charlaine :-D I love to use Neem oil as a foliage and soil drench and it works really well at keeping pests away as much as possible :-D here is a link to a video I made on How I use Neem to keep the pests off the plants : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bN6TpK1p2q6uh6c.html thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and wonderful Monday XXXX

haha yes re potting these barrell cacti is not the easiest as they love to 'bite' us haha :-D thanks so much Stephen for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX

So sorry to hear you have the rust fungus on yours too Georgina :-D yes an anti fungal spray would help to prevent the fungus and if you can get a systemic fungicide spray that would be best as the systemics work all through the plants system to treat and prevent, you can also use Neem oil too as its a fantastic natural fungicide, but a systemic fungicide will work well, I use 'Rose Clear Ultra Systemic fungicide' for any of my cacti and succulents that have already got signs of rust and it seems to work well at stopping it spreading, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX

@@desertplantsofavalon thank you 🙏 do you spray it or water it in?

@@DrGeorginaCook Hi Georgina :-D I spray the systemic fungicide, the systemic works its way through the skin of the plants and carries on working through the plants system, sending lots of love and happy plant powered Friday to you XXXX 🥰❤🌵

Hi Michele :-D thank you so much, yes its a Parodia magnifica cactus, its a very old plant about 30 years old now and it has clumped a lot of pups over the years, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

Hi Valerie :-D so happy you enjoy my videos, Spines are influenced by light levels, and the higher the sun level the tighter and more pronounced the spines are, if your Echinocactus is getting mostly morning sun it may be not receiving as much direct sunlight as the previous owner kept it, ideally a south facing window is best for Echinocactus as they like a very high sun position, they will survive well in an east window but may tend to grow thinner at the growing point and spines won't be as strong, what you could do is install a LED Plant grow light and have this light on for 2-3 hours in the afternoons to give your Echinocactus an extra boost of sunlight, this will help to promote strong spines and growth, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

Thank you so much Juan for helping me with the ID, and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX

Thats wonderful you have a Golden barrel cactus, they are gorgeous cacti to grow, thanks so much for watching and have a wonderful Tuesday XXXX

Thats a fantastic idea for a video and yes I will plan on making that in the coming days, :-D thanks so much for the suggestion, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX

thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX

Thanks so much for the ID :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-D sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic weekend XXXX

Thanks so much for watching and have a wonderful weekend XXXXXX :-D

Hi there :-D yes San Pedro is a great grafting stock for many cacti, but Echinocactus can grow large quite fast when grafted and may end up being a bit too top heavy in a couple of years :-D thanks so much for watching and your wonderful comments, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Sunday XXXX

Hi there :-D yes we heat our greenhouse with an electric heater that is set at a thermostat at 5 Celsius /41 Fahrenheit and it will come on if the temperature drops below that, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a safe and sunny Sunday XXXX

WOW I have not got one of these, thanks so much for letting me know, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you much love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Saturday XXXXX

Golden barrels are not the friendliest to repot as they like to 'bite' us haha