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Jeez mate, no idea really. I usually do everything I can to save money. It is fairly time consuming. It took me a day and a half of fiddling around. Probably just a carton of beer or a couple of hundred for your efforts.

@andyroo3022 haha. Y3ah, cheers mate. Ole mate cant figure it out, so asked me to come do it... I know these things are a nightmare, until you have done a couple. But a man's gotta eat, haha. I'll go see if I can snag it on the first try and make it worth while aye. Haha

Hi again Newman. The Copiapoa seem to tolerate the bright light and heat well. I have a red flowering Arachnacantha as well. Beautiful bright scarlet red flowers. I lost a few mammillaria, mostly due to rot from too much water. Overall, I don't lose many plants, I seem to be able to keep them happy.

Oh, really🤔You lost some Mammillarias to rot. That's interesting. I haven't lost any Mammillarias at all, but I lose my Astrophytums Ariocarpus to rot. I have Mammillaria mystax, perbella, magnimama, albilanata, marksiana. They actually enjoy the tropical humid summers, but definitely have a dry winter rest with a little water in winter. I also have a lot of elongatas too. My latest purchase is a cleistocactus colademononis which likes tropical conditions

Newcastle area NSW. Close to the ocean so It wont go down below 5 and 7 degrees C a few days in winter, however not for many days. It does get down to zero C only 30 minutes drive inland in the Hunter Valley. I keep most pretty dry through winter. The Dendrobium was a small cutting I purchased from a lady on Gumtree sales nearby, it does smell nice. We got a lot of rain this winter and not too cold. The greenhouse keeps most my cacti happy and dry when it's cold. I have some bigger Trichocereus and a monstrose variety, some big Cereus Repandus and aloes out in the weather. They don't seem to mind the extremes in weather. It gets very hot in summer. Some bad days with Westerly winds get 40 degrees C. Fortunately not too often.

Thankyou so much. Always nice to have a another plant fancier enjoy our videos.🌻

Thankyou Victor. Very cold and raining a lot this month in Winter. I am mostly stopping watering now. 🌵🌵🌵

Not sure where you mean. The nuts slide into the ends of the beams profile. In the end notch. No holes.t slide them into the cut and and move them into position.

Thanks. I went in the greenhouse today to check my cacti.. It has been very cold this winter and a lot of rain. The sun came out and it warmed up today.

I mix a good quality potting mix(or soil) 2 parts with 1 part Coarse river sand for good drainage. I feel the sand is necessary to prevent rotting when the soil breaks down. The grit allows for healthier root growth. I just tried it and it seems to work. Make sur not to use fine sand. Must be coarse gritty river sand. Make sure any pots have good drain holes and sometimes I put broken terracotta pot or concrete pieces in the pot before I put the soil mix inside.

Ha another cacti grower also. Hi mate. Yes the yellow one is big Sulphur crystals. I also collected some good fossils of ferns, glossopteris leafs and horsetail stems. These plants were from the Permian period. Five minutes from my home there are old closed coal mines, part of the old Burwood Colliery in Newcastle NSW Australia. The coal seams are easily visible as layers in the ocean cliffs. I collected the fossils from the grey shale layers above and below the coal layers. The area has some old history to it, including a big old brick tunnel from the old train line for the coal. The line is now a walking track with some of the last remaining NSW coastal rain forest. The forest and its waterfalls run down to Burwood beach. Dudley beach further South can be driven to and has fossilised tree trunks on the ocean rocks. I recently walked down there and thought how lucky I am to live so close to the sea.

@@andyroo3022 Hi Andy 🙂 Yep, for some reason most of the cacti growers are into geology as well 😁Sounds excellent, we live on Cretaceous Chalk but have a coal mine underneath us (closed also) Not had a chance to visit a spoil heap yet. We're close to the coast too and have found the KT boundary in the coastal cliffs. There's a layer of shocked and blackened flint on top of the chalk 😮

@@ZiggySearchfieldCactus That is cool. Lets just hope we don't have a big impactor strike our planet in the immediate future', or we are all cactus.

Enjoy I hope they grow fast for you. I have not yet done any cactus grafting, just de grafts. I got these Arios already grafted as small seedlings on the bay of E auctions.

It gets very hot in the greenhouse in Summer. I open the door in the day and the roof window. I have to water the cactus a lot. Greenhouse is essential in winter. We get a lot of rain and it stays cold. If the cactus were outside they will die from root rotting. From cold wet soil. This month we have had a lot of very wet weather. I almost stop watering until Spring arrives. The cactus are happy in the greenhouse protected from cold rainy weather. Some big cactus are okay outside in Winter as long as the soil is draining away the water, or you keep then away from the rain. I live close to the ocean, so It usually only goes low as 5 to 7 degrees Celsius in Winter. At my friends farm near Cowra in Western NSW Australia it gets below freezing 0 degrees Celsius. No cactus growing there. Lots of Kangaroos, feral goats, deer and wild pigs. Thankyou Stephanie🌻

Thankyou. 🌵🌵🌵

I got these Ariocarpus already grafted from small seed grown plants. CactusGuys on eBay. I just type in Cactus Auctions and bid. They eBay cactus auctions mostly end on a Sunday night in Australia for the week. I purchased a few other cacti this way and usually get a good price. The Ario's arent cheap. I paid around $50 Aud. I got a lot of my Trichocereus this way too. They have grown big fast from small plants. I grew some Astrophytum, some Golden barrels and some Lophophora from seeds. I believe Ariocarpus are very slow to grow from seed as are Lophophora. Ariocarpus are very slow to grow on there own roots.

Nice time to watch all that growth. Enjoy your plants.

Yes mate. They have weird thick roots. I know they won't last 5 minutes in soil. When in Thailand and Singapore on holidays the Orchids over there are amazing. They love the humidity.

It was a kit I got online. It was a bit fiddly to assemble, the instructions were only drawings and terrible to use. I did a video on my channel to help others who buy the greenhouse. I put pavers down and dyna bolted it down. I had to re do some sections before I worked out the right way around for some of the parts. It is a good little house though. Keeps them out of the rain in winter. It has a roof window I can let some heat out in summer. Man it gets hot in there.

Thankyou. I just posted my Orchid video. It is very pretty have a look.

Thankyou, they are a pretty colour of very pale pink.

Let me know if you need more advice from the video

No, the curved part of the window frame just goes under the edge and forms a kind of hinge. From memory hold the window frame about 45 degrees open and hook the curved bit under the top edge and close it should stay under the edge then. The window frame is confusing. I put a stronger bracket to attach the adjustable arm that holds it open. I have been meaning to put hinges, but surprisingly even in strong wind it stays attached even when open. I can film this bit if you still get stuck, let me know. Look at 4:04 on the video to see close the way the frame on the window is facing and part 15.

Thankyou. My Ariocarpus cactus flowered. I will post it on my channel tomorrow.

@@andyroo3022 wow I wait then 🌵

Hi mate. It is on historic Rego. Doesn't get driven much. The music is from a band called Kent. Called Da Som Nu For Alltid. Watch it on RUclips. I believe it is in memory of a young lady.

@andyroo3022 I think that means it could only be driven in parades and stuff? No wonder you made it look so pretty. My 71 is my very first car, and I'm so glad it is. Thx for the name of the song btw

@@TheOddHolloway In NSW Australia. Historic registration and plates, means you can drive the car 60 days per year in addition to Club events. Only 52 weekends in a year. That allows for enough driving. You have a log book you fill out and sign yourself. You have to be affiliated with a car club to have the Historic Registration. I am lucky to take her out a dozen times a year. I need to go for a cruise. People love it and often wave and blast their horns when it is driving around. If it were a daily driver, I would put full rego on it, but not the sort of car I want to leave on the street or in shopping centre carparks. Enjoy your beetle, easy to work on and low tech at least.

@@andyroo3022 Oh, interesting. I see a lot of people drive their beetles around mostly on weekends, so I wonder if it's similar here in America. Also, thx, I am learning a lot already from my car!

@@TheOddHolloway Just that sort of car too. Good weekend slow cruiser. Enjoy lots of online content on these car restos and engine advice.

Okay. So I should have turned the instructions 180°❤😂

from memory they should drop in. The metal retaining clips lock them in place. Sounds like you will need a short ladder and work from inside, starting at the back. You should be able to lean over the front then to put the last panel on the roof. Cheers.

Thankyou. You also have some nice plants. 🌻🌻🌻