GOLDEN BARREL CACTUS - The Oldest Cactus in my Collection - Echinocactus grusonii
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- The two oldest cacti in my cactus collection no doubt are two Golden Barrel Cactus siblings (Echinocactus grusonii). I received them back in 1973 as tiny 3-year old plants grown from seed by a collector who gave them to me as a present. They were among the first dozen or so cactus and succulent plants that I had in my modest collection as a young person infected by the cactus bug - alongside some other excellent cacti very suitable for beginners including several Mammillarias, Echinopsis, Parodias/Notocacti and Opuntias.
The Golden Barrel Cactus is a beautiful cactus that I can recommend growing in every collection! They are very slow growing cacti, and their flowers only show after many decades of growing from seed! However, even without flowers, they are truly beautiful plants thanks to their unique spines, color and shape! They are ideal and fantastic life-long companions for all cactus fans and will easily become eye-catching centrepieces in every collection - which is also why they are so popular with every botanical garden in the world that grows succulents! And they are also among the most commonly sold cacti in nurseries, plant centers and even many supermarkets around the world.
The chapters in this video include:
00:10 How I got these plants
01:45 Very early members of my cactus collection
02:15 Grown indoors on windowsills for most of their lives
03:10 When will they bloom for the first time?
04:26 Siblings with very different growth histories
05:34 Care tips: excellent cacti to grow for beginners!
07:16 Several beautiful varieties available
08:07 Unique spines & barrel shape
08:30 Definitely a cool cactus worth growing!
09:18 Your experiences with these cacti? Have yours bloomed?
Please enjoy the video and happy growing!!
Joe
P.S. If you liked the video then please click a "thumbs up" and also leave a comment if you like!
And if you haven't yet, and would like to SUBSCRIBE to my channel, that would be REALLY COOL - many thanks for your support, very much appreciated!!
#cactusjoe #cacti #cactusbloom #cactus #succulents #succulent #greenhouse #collection #kakteen #sukkulenten #happygrowing #cactuscare #succulentcare #succulentes #succulentsforbeginners #cactaceae #planttaxonomy #plantcollections #grusonii #barrelcactus #goldenbarrel
FANTASTIC video Joe :-D your Golden Barrels are BEAUTIFUL big golden oldies :-D I have quite a few of them and one that is quite big but nowhere near as big and old as your beauties, this is a really good idea for a video, and I will plan on making a video about my oldest Cacti in my collection too, and will give you and your amazing Channel a very special shout out in the video, your channel is really awesome Joe :-D wonderful info and care tips you have shared about Echinocereus grusonii, thanks so much Joe for sharing your oldest Cacti in your collection, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Ireland for a wonderful new week ahead XXXX
WOW, Lyn, thank you so much for watching and for your AWESOME comments and message! I am very happy indeed that you have enjoyed this video and above all I'm truly humbled and DELIGHTED to hear your wonderful comments about my channel, thank you so much, deeply appreciated!! I am really looking forward to seeing your video and getting to know more about the oldest cacti in your amazing collection - which I have of course been following for so long in so many of your brilliant videos over the years!! Wishing you, Lyn, and Hans a terrific week ahead, warm regards, take care and happy growing!! Stay cool!!😎
@@cactusjoe XXXXX
Lovely video, Joe. I have several of these, including a couple of white spine ones I got recently. Not sure on the age of my oldest plant, but probably has to be the one from my dad’s collection that I saved. If I had all the plants he had today, some of those would definitely be 30 or 40 years old by now. Thank you for sharing with us as always. Have a wonderful evening and new week from Edith & myself. Happy growing 👍🏻🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
Hey, Daz! Many thanks indeeed as always for watching and for your comments and infos. Great to hear that you have a few of these also - have any of them bloomed in your greenhouse for you yet? On a more personal note, I am really, really interested to learn more from you about your dad and his collection - I know you have shared in one of your relatively recent and wonderful videos some infos about e.g. the Echinopsis plants that you have from his previous collection - for that, perhaps we could best connect 'offline' if you like, e.g. email? Once again many thanks, Daz, and wishing you and Edith a wonderful week ahead, very best wishes to you both and happy growing!! 🌵🌵🌵🙂
@@cactusjoe Sure, Joe. You can find my email in my about section. I might make another video about his collection in the future. I do have a few photos of his collection, no videos unfortunately, and nothing from the early days of his collection as that was way before the internet etc lol. I think it’ll be many years before my golden barrels flower for me, but I noticed after repotting last year that they grew a fair amount 🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
@@Cactimania will do, Daz, many thanks! I think that is a great idea, a video about your Dad's collection! I think you are right, repotting every other year or so is something they seem to like and to which they appear to respond quite well wrt growth! Sincerely hope that you will not have to wait anywhere near as long as I have for your grusonii's to start flowering, LOL! Wishing you and Edith a wonderful day, happy growing!!
I love the one with all the pups.
Hahaha, indeed it is my favourite too!
Beautiful Golden Barren Cacti collections. It is certainly such a lovely sight to see your cacti collections. Thanks for your sharings 👍
Thank you so much for your wonderful comments, Sebastian! I am glad that you enjoyed my little Golden Barrel cactus collection and the video, thank you, very encouraging to hear! Thanks again for watching and for commenting! Hope you have a great day, take care and best wishes, happy growing!!
Welcome Joe. Amazing to see your cacti collections especially the golden barren cactus which is my favourite . Nice day and take care!
My oldest Cactus in my collection is Echinopsis Tubiflora, 14 years old. I am proud of it. Thank you for sharing your experience and your Cactus Collection with as! Nice video! I like to buy a echinocactus grusonii soon. Greetings from Flowers Zone, Albania 🇦🇱
@Flowers Zone thank you so much, I'm very glad that you enjoyed the video and also thank you for your wonderful comments - yes indeed, rightfully so, you should be very proud of your 14 year old Echinopsis tubiflora! Our cacti can reach amazing ages if we look after them well! Yes I can definitely recommend getting an E. grusonii - if possible, and you have the space, then perhaps look for a relatively larger one, as you will experience their flowers sooner (...and I hope that you do not have to wait as long as I have been waiting, LOL). Have a great day, best wishes to you in Albania and happy growing!!
💚👍👍🤩
🙏🙏👍😉🌵🌵🌼💚😎
My oldest Plants in my collection are two lophophora. I got these when i was 18. I am now 59. I have one e Echinocactus grusonii a little bit larger than your single one. I bought it when it was about 4 inches across . It's about 18 inches across now. No blooms yet. I have a multi headed one I bought last year, not near as large as your cluster. It's an albispinus ( white barrel) I don't know how old it is. Plus 5 seedlings (gold) I grew from seed that Deb bought for me. They are an inch across, about 3 years old. Gotta love our old ones!!! Great video joe!!! Thanks for sharing!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌷🌳🌻🌴🌺🌿🏵🌲😃👍
Hi Clyde, wow that is sooo interesting to hear about your own oldest cacti!! Those 40+ year old Lophophora must be fantastic plants, you should feature them in one of your videos one day!!Also sounds like you have a wonderful grusonii collection there yourself too! Yeah, i fully agree Clyde, gotta love our old ones, haha!! Thanks so much for watching and commenting, as always, truly appreciated my friend! Sending out very best cactus & succulent greetings to you at Morris Park in the Ozarks from Joe in Bavaria!! 🌵🌷🌵🌻😃👍
@@cactusjoe I would love to feature the lophos but unfortunately laws here prevent me from getting too brave. Although many people here in the states have them, there are still laws against their possession and cultivation. I think it's kinda a double edge sword, the laws I think cover them as a drug & protect them from poaching in the wild here in the states(Texas) where they grow. It's a shame, but I understand the poaching reason the most. Anyone who has these as part of their collection would never destroy them for their alkaloids. 41years is a long time!! And my biggest pleasure from them is to see them flower every year!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌷🌳🌻🌴🌿🏵🌲😃👍
The Golden barrels are you favorite too. Luckily I can plant directly in the ground and they are fast growers for me. Currently seeking variations.
Hi Dennis, thanks so much for watching and commenting, really appreciated! Haha, yes these cacti are so beautiful and majestic, gotta love them!!!😊🌵👍💚 WOW, I find that so COOL, that you can just plant and grow them in the ground!!! Unthinkable for me, haha. Luckily there are quite a few varieties available these days, best wishes for your plant hunting! Have a wonderful day, happy growing!!👍🌵🌵🌱🌺🌼🌸☀️😎
Love your videos- so straight forward and no-nonsense. These cacti are one of my favorites, as they are such easy growing specimens and very affordable!
Hi Lori, thanks so much for watching and for your wonderful compliment, warmly appreciated! I am really very happy that you are enjoying the videos and finding them useful! And I fully agree with you that these cacti are great value for money and just beautiful to have in any collection! Hope you are having a wonderful week, best wishes to you, take care and happy growing!!
Wonderful video.
Many thanks and very much appreciated, Mick! Thanks so much for your feedback and have a great day! Take care and happy growing, cheers, Joe 🌸🌵☀️
Wow! That's fantastic! You've had them since 1973😱💢And they are Looking exceptional👌💞It's not such a bad thing with having one growing many offsets and even in nature happens. I remember as a boy an Echinocactus grusonii my mum grew from seed and it grew to about 4 inches in diameter and just had the hard life in all the weather. Now living in a different country I started collecting again back in 2007 I think, And that brings me to my oldest cacti; a Escobari laredoi. It's about 13 years old and 20cm tall👍And a Notocactus horstii v. purpureus. I also have an old Hamatocactus hamatocanthus😆I get tongue twisted saying that name! Thanks for the great video and I really enjoyed listening🤲🌟
Hi Newman, many thanks for your wonderful comments and infos, really very interesting! I'm delighted to hear you enjoyed the video, much appreciated! It sounds like you have been having a lot of experience and exposure to cacti from quite a long time back too! Fantastic that you decided to grow a collection of cacti back in 2007, and wow, really excellent and well done that you have several wonderful cacti from those early days! That's what happened to me too, and before you know it, you have cacti dating back decades LOL!! Very best wishes, hope you are having a great day, take care and happy growing!!
Btw, I really liked the video you posted today, Newman, well done!! (...it appears I am unable to comment on the video itself, but no worries, wanted to let you know via this route that I watched and enjoyed it all, very interesting indeed!) Growing cacti in Japan's climate must be quite a challenge at times, especially dealing with the humidity and high temps in summer! Your collection looks great! Best wishes, Joe
Hello Joe...I have a golden barrel and some that look similar to the others you showed. That's cool that you've had these plants for so long!! I appreciate the information about them!!
Hi Cheryl, very happy that you are finding the infos about growing these wonderful cacti useful, many thanks for your feedback! They are indeed incredible companions for life, and I hope that yours flower a lot earlier than mine, haha!! Nevertheless they are majestic and wonderful to look at even without their flowers!! Have a great day, cheers, Joe.
haha interesting to see such old plants at such small size. mine are around 33% that size and 10 years old. i have some trich peruvianus that i grow from seed and under hard cultivation. in 8 years, they've grown 3cm in size, while the ones I water more and care better for are crossing 140cm. 3cm vs 140cm, same seeds :D cacti are crazy adaptable
Hahaha, yes indeed, you are so right to say that cacti are crazy adaptable, they really are!! And they are the most amazing opportunists too, if conditions are good they will grow a lot and super fast...but, if things are tough, they will just slow down, literally just sit it out and wait for better times, lol! Yep, I have quite a few examples of cacti too, that are just like the examples you have shared - same species, but different treatment or conditions...and therefore quite stunningly different sizes (and even spination and morphologies)! Thanks for watching and for your interesting comments, much appreciated! Enjoy your weekend ahead and wishing you happy growing of course!!
Great video Joe with plenty of useful information on growing Golden Barrels. 👍🏼 I am surprised that with the age of your Golden Barrels, they have not flowered yet. I see many in my location (bigger in size) that are in flower and I doubt that they are as old as yours. Otherwise, there will be a steep price tag on them. Now it makes me think that probably, it is a combination of age, size and lots of sunlight that will make these flower. Certainly not one factor is enough. Thank you so much for this enlightening video, Joe! 🙂🌵
Many thanks Ana for your lovely feedback and for your really interesting comments and infos, very much appreciated indeed!! I think you are right, it must be a combination of the factors you list, namely age, size and sunlight/cultivation/climate conditions. I think that if my two Golden Barrels had been grown in my current greenhouse conditions for all their life, they may well already have been flowering by now... Thanks again for watching and for your comments, Ana! Have a wonderful Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, hopefully temperatures are easing a little bit for you? Best wishes, take care and happy growing!! 🌵🌵🌵🙂
Nope. Our temperatures is still constant… constantly hot 🥵 lol! At least our winter is mild, milder than yours at least. 😉
@@CactusCaffeine oh, that's too bad, sorry to hear that, Ana. But, indeed, I wouldn't mind swapping the winters with you, Ana, lol!! 😉Take care, have a great day!
Excellent video Joe 😎 I've got a few that I grew from seed 3 years ago that are 2 inches across (not including spines) and some that I bought in to grow on that are 5 inches. I just gave my Son the biggest one as a wedding present. Also got several Echinocactus platyacanthus that I grew from seed obtained from Italy. I've since had some more come up from mixed seed packets 🙄 Be a while before I get any flowers on them I think 😄
Hi there, Ziggy, as always thank you so much for watching and for your great and interesting comments!! Thanks, really lovely that you enjoyed the video! And it sounds like you have a very nice group of Echinocacti already assembled in your collection, which is great, as I do think that they are even more magnificent to look at when grown and displayed in groups! I love the idea of giving a Golden Barrel as a wedding present, that is a wonderful idea and also beautiful gesture and token for longevity and good fortunes! I have one E. platyacanthus too, but still relatively small and I'm not sure whether they bloom any earlier? I hope that you do not have to wait anywhere near as long as I have now been for my grusonii's to flower, LOL!! Have a great week ahead, take care, best wishes and happy growing!!
@@cactusjoe Cheers Joe 🙂 Someone just sent me a facebook video on how to cook one 😮😮
@@ZiggySearchfieldCactus OMG!!😑🙄😭🙈
@@cactusjoe Exactly !!! 😯😯😯😯
This is so cool, Joe! Thank you so much for sharing your oldest cactus with us!
@Cookie's Cacti many thanks for watching and commenting! I'm very happy that you enjoyed the video featuring my oldest cactus - this is the one that I had mentioned to you in one of our earlier chats! Hope you have a wonderful day and weekend ahead, best wishes, take care and happy growing!!
If your barrels decide to flower one day, it's going to be one epic treat to see!
Hey Justin, many thanks for watching and for commenting! LOL, indeed, IF they decide to do so one day, I will make sure to share a video on that!! I can't wait! Once again many thanks for your wonderful comment, have a great day, take care and best wishes, happy growing!!
I think Ana of Cactus Caffeine is right, combo of age and size. I think tho the lack of flowers may be, I've heard other experienced growers say, these guys won't bloom indoors. However now you moved them to a green house, that might work. Keep us posted.
I agree with you and Ana! And also very interesting to hear that comment about growing these guys indoors etc... I will definitely keep you posted! Should they ever decide to bloom, it will be time to pop a champagne bottle, LOL! Thanks again and have a great day!
@@cactusjoe Oh indeed, when a golden blooms, that's an event!!!
Fantastic video. I have one for about 20 years, still no flowers. Last year I bought a second one for 5 euros, the size of a big apple from a farmer's market and it's growing nicely. A few months ago as I was walking I found one on a pavement who had flowers with seeds, most likely from last year. I took some of them and now I have little tiny seedlings. Fingers crossed maybe next year I will have several of them. We will see. Could you do a cactus tour?
Hi Katerina, I'm super happy that you enjoyed my video on the Echinocactus grusonii oldies in my collection!! And it sounds like you have several wonderful specimens of these in your collection too! Amazing, your story about the seeds you managed to get off the plant on a pavement - and fantastic that now the tiny seedlings are already growing!! I will indeed keep my fingers crossed for you, and am sure that you will have a little forest of beautiful Golden Barrel Cacti growing in your collection very soon!!!
Hahaha, yes indeed, others have also asked about this, and I will indeed do a collection tour soon! Thanks again for all your feedback and support, wishing you a wonderful weekend, best wishes and happy growing!!🌵🌱🪴🌵🏵🌸👍😎
Hello Cactus Joe!
Hi there, Robert! Thanks for watching and for commenting!👍😊🌵😊🌵🌺🏵🌺💚😎
@@cactusjoe you are welcome 🙏
Hi Joe, thank you for this channel. Cacti vids are so hard to find. I have not had much luck growing my 2 grapefruit sized Grusonii as they burn very very easily even for brief periods in full Texas sun (3 or 4 hours) 100F + degree heat but I'm afraid less light will cause stretching. My property is quite challenging as there is no happy medium, it's either full sun all day or dappled shade in the morning/full shade the rest of the day or under a tree where all the birds hangout, lol. Welcome to white splats on my cacti, lol 🤣. I moved them to where they get dappled light in the morning and full shade the rest of the day. Welcome to skinny Grusonii. So, do you think my 50% white shade cloth will be enough to stop them from burning further in full sun all day? Or do you think I need 70% or 80%?
@SolarWinds AuroraBorealis hi there, welcome to my channel! Many thanks indeed for watching and for your great comments and feedback!
Also, a great question - wow, looks like you have the proverbial choice between a rock and a hard place there, with where to best grow your grusoniis, LOL. I would indeed try to slowly get them used to the full sun spot, perhaps in two stages - first of all get them used to the much higher TEMPERATURES there (so initially, for a couple of weeks perhaps behind pretty strong shading, say 80% or higher).
And then, as a phase 2 of resettling, getting them slowly used to the full SUN, i.e. much higher UV light. You could then use the 50% shade cloth for that. Btw, I use green shade netting/cloth and find that is more effective than the white one for my plants, but that might just be me.
All that time, try to keep that new growing location as well aerated/breezy as possible, avoid stagnant HOT air - soil/earth/gras, or wooden planks as flooring below the cacti always better/cooler than concrete slabs, bricks etc which heat up considerably more! Hope the move goes well, best of luck!
Hope you are having a wonderful day, best wishes and happy growing - cheers, Joe!!🌵🌵🌵🌸😍
Love this video Joe! These plants are amazing. One-day i wish to have the plants I got over the last few years and watch them grow to an impressive adult size. Great channel by the way and have a great new month! 🌸🌵☀️
Hi Henry, many thanks for watching and for your awesome feedback! I'm really very happy that you are enjoying my videos and channel, thanks for that! Equally, btw I am a frequent visitor and viewer on your own channel which I also find excellent, really super tips and experiences that you share there, thanks so much for that!
Btw, in my experience, it really pays off to take & keep pictures of our plants when we first acquire or receive them - since cacti are mostly such sloooow growers, we often hardly notice the changes over the years, especially wrt their size and spines, until we go back to our older pictures of them, and then WOW, LOL!!😍😍
Hope you are having a wonderful day, best wishes and happy growing!!🌵🌵🌵🌸
@@cactusjoe Haha I didn't know you watched my channel! Glad you enjoy it. I love how the plants are slow growing, I think it just makes is more rewarding lol.
Hola ! Desde Uruguay te cuento que el cactus de más años tiene 27 años y otro 25 sucesibamente
Hola! Wonderful to have you watching from Uruguay, thank you so much for commenting, Sounds like you have some very old cacti too! Have a very nice day, very best cactus greetings back from Germany!!👍😊🌵🌵🌱🌼🌺💚😎
Interesting video
I have an echinocactus grisonii .It is about 22 and it fowers and looks BIGGER than yours
Hello Bachir, many thanks for watching and for commenting on the video, much appreciated! Interesting info about the size and age of your Golden Barrel cactus! Yes indeed, that is what I have been suspecting all along, that these cacti can be much larger, and also already be flowering much earlier, at comparable ages if they are grown in more suitable or ideal climates or locations. May I ask where you are growing your 22-year old E. grusonii? Thanks again for your feedback, Bachir, hope you are having a wonderful day, take care and happy growing!!
@@cactusjoe
Thanks a lot for your nice words,
I have been growing my echinocactus in a,pot
Is the white, fuzzy stuff at the base of the thorns normal? I am new to caring for this plant. I was concerned about the white fuzz. Google says it could be mealy bugs. It just looks like white fuzz. It’s mostly at the top of mine. Kind of like yours. Is this stuff normal?
Hi! Yep, perfectly normal, no need to worry! These very fine tufts of hair at the base of the spines are called areoles and typical for cacti. They are growth points where cacti form spines, flower buds, new stem shoots, etc. So no worries, all ok! Have a great day, happy growing! 👍😉🌵🌵🌼🌺💚😎☀️🏜
@@cactusjoe Thanks so much!!!!