haha Philip :-D I often come out of the polytunnel with a few of these guys stuck on me haha, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

So happy you love the fierce spiny cacti collection Carol :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

thanks so much Jillian for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

thanks so much Horst for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Berlin for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

So happy you loved the long fierce spines on the cacti, and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

haha, yes they are lovely to look at but not to touch haha, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

So happy you love the spiny cacti collection Daniel :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Yorkshire for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX

So happy you love these wicked and fierce spiny cacti too Clyde :-D and ouch with having your shoes filled with the barbed spines of Chollas, my eyes water at the thought of cactus cholla acupuncture of the feet haha, thanks so much Clyde for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, sending you and beautiful Deb and all the pets and plants all lots of love and happiness and PEACE, LOVE, PLANTS and PLANT POWER from Hans and me to Morris Park for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

So happy you loved the spiny beasty cacti tour Daz :-D and ouch with the Mammillaria senelis trying to eat your hand as a kid haha, the hooked mammillaria spines really are awful when they get stuck into the skin, thanks so much Daz for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Edith lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to England and Singapore for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX

I got about 3 of those. Crazy how you have to push your finger further into the cactus to get it to release.

haha Vera :-D so happy you love the spiny beasties :-D thanks so much for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific vacation and a fantastic Tuesday XXXX

hahaha Sylvia :-D these spiny cacti really are huge big 'Biters' and they are definitely ones to admire from afar haha, the Epiphyllum fantasy flower is so beautiful and it was a wonderful surprise to see the bloom for the first time, it really is an incredible stunner, thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and Paul lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX

hahahaha Danny :-D so happy you love the video of all these pricks haha, I love these spiny beasts of awesomeness hahaha, thanks so much for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hansie and I are sending you and beautiful Furbabe Nancypops lots of love and happiness and SPINY BEAST PLANT POWERRRRRRRRR hahahaha to Robin Hood County for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX

@@desertplantsofavalon Omg “all of your pricks” 🤣 I’m stealing that - how I’m introducing my cacti to my guests! 🌵

@@grannyplants1764 hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🌵🌵🌵🥰

So happy you love the spiny cacti Gary :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to the Carolina's from Hans and me for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX

haha with Mrs Ziggs not letting you have a creeping Devil, they really are spiny beasts, thanks so much Ziggy for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Jackie lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX

G'day Peter haha :-D so happy you loved the spiny beast cacti collection, and ouch yes that must have been a 60th birthday you will never forget and not the birthday surprise you was expecting haha, thanks so much Peter for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Ellyn lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Downunder for a terrific Tuesday evening XXXX

@@desertplantsofavalon thanks Lyn ⚘❤💋

@@petercalthorpe7966 XXXX 🥰❤🌵😄🏝🏜

thanks so much Linnette for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Poland for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

Thank you so much Monica for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX

They're a pest here in Australia. I got several from roadside cuttings

@@OffGridInvestor REALLY!!?? This one's my personal PEST. THANKS!

So happy you loved the video Mary and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

haha so happy you loved the spiny cactus collection video Ashley, and so happy you have got a wonderful Golden barrel, and thank you so much for your wonderful email you sent, I will be replying back to you very soon, thanks so much Ashley for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to California from Hans and me for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXX

Awwww thank you so very much James :-D and so happy you loved the spiny cactus collection and the beautiful Epi bloom, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX

@@desertplantsofavalon I'm amazed at how that natural light looks so nice. Do you see any change in growth ?

@@JamesEndoSanJoseCARealEstate1 The change is growth is amazing James, I have noticed a lot of cacti that were a little bit on the yellow size really started to green back up after I got this new polytunnel, it lets so much more extra light and sun onto the plants, and I have noticed more cacti come into bud and bloom this year than ever XXXX 😄🥰🌵❤

haha Heather :-D these spiny cacti really are fierce to have in the collection, so happy you love the Golden Barrel, I will have to repot mine very soon, its going to be fun and games repotting that spiny guy haha, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to New Zealand for a terrific Tuesday evening XXXX

Thanks so much for letting me know the spiny cacti you have in your collection too, and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

So happy you love the Epi Fantasy it really is a stunning bloom, thanks so much Magda for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Hans and me for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

WOW with your two inch long spined Echinopsis Newman, haha with the Brasiliopuntia it really is so awful to get near, I always dread having to move it back indoors for the winter as I always end up covered in spines and glochids, so happy you loved the video and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Japan for a terrific evening XXXX

thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

So happy you loved the spiny cactus collection video Jane :-D and thats fantastic that your Spike is a wonderful spiny little fella haha, thanks so much for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Hans and me to Cheshire for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

@@desertplantsofavalon hi Lyn, love to you and Hans, hope you have had a lovely Tuesday, hopefully we will get the nice weather again soon, it's been very mixed here in Warrington 🌞🌞☔☔xxx❤️❤️❤️

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Oh WOW with the giant Neoraimondia spines Bob :-D and at 16cms thats soooooo long haha, so happy you love the big spiny cacti too, thanks so much Bob for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic new week XXXX

thanks so much Sevda for your wonderful love and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

haha yes Glochids are the absolute worst haha, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

Thats a brilliant idea Terry, so many cacti are true works of Art, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX

Have a look at frailea phaeodisca. It's black spines that lay flat to the cacti but they're in like a fern leaf arrangement. They are tiny, about 2cm across after 3 years. There's frailea asterioides which is a messier looking one with the spines raised. And then there's one in the same family called graphilea. I have decent numbers and tons of seeds of each. Never that cheap but I got a bunch around Christmas and new years when I was the sole bidder on an ebayer here who sells about 25 different cacti a week. I cleaned up while I could.

The hooks on Ferocacti really are lethal haha, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

thanks so much Emmit for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

So happy you enjoy my videos and info, I sometimes reuse the soil again if the soil is still in good quality but I compost any soil that has come from plants that have died or have got diseased, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

thanks so much David for your wonderful support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

So happy you love the spiny cacti Francke :-D yes I have a small fish hook cactus a little Ferocactus, the spines really do hook into the skin haha, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

Thats fantastic you have a Cleistocactus baumanniu ssp chacocanus, I do have a Clesitocactus baumannii, and quite a few other Clesitocacti in my collection, I grow them in a very well draining cactus soil and water them regularly during the spring and summer months once the soil has dried out in the pots, I keep them dry with no watering from late September to late March, I keep them at a minimum of 5c /41F over the winter, they love a bright sunny position too, happy growing and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX

Hi Monica :-D yes I have 3 Eves needles Cacti, I find that my Eves needles seem to like a lot more frequent watering in summer than my other Cacti otherwise they shrivel quite fast and often drop spines, the good news is with more regular watering your Eves needles should recover well, give them plenty of sunshine and a good watering every time the soil has dried out during the spring and summer months, the young spines start off green and fleshy but naturally drop off as they mature as the green spines are modified leaves that appear before the true spines show, once the green leaved spines drop off the true spines will grow, thanks so much Monica for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to NJ for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

EVE'S NEEDLES: THAT'S IT! I'm about to toss my Eve's Needles. I've gotta figure out how to send a pic to see if it's dead or worthy of my continual worries, as I know it at least requires repotting & fresh, magical soil. It's just recovering from nasty gnat fungus, which has been treated with MOSQUITO BITS & still is. I'm bed-bound so must wait for friend to come help repot. This plant keeps sprouting babies from the base like I can't believe & I've not seen that in any other pics. This leaves me thinking it's not dead! But it's hideous & the spines are still off. At the end of your reply, you wrote how the green spines shed & new ones are NEEDLES. But all the pics I've seen of mature big ones are like mine were--green, pointed rubbery looking non-invasive "needles." When healthy, these plants look like harmless pointy FAKE RUBBER. Right? The name is total bs. This poor thing lives in the grossest state in all the US... New Jersey. It's LUCKY to be indoors. I brushed all the dead brown needles off, but it looks like the same are returning. Maybe it's ROOT ROT? OMG. Shut me up. Monica You need the pic!

How do I send a pic of it