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27 december 2003 saturday
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Yesterday and today, sunny sunny sunny though still a bit on the cool side. But sun is good. Cacti like sun. Here are some pictures of the cactus aforementioned. Please ignore that I neglected to remove the dead leaf stuck to the side of it before snapping the photo(s), and welcome to amateur hour.
Obviously I need to repot it. The poor thing has been in that little pot
for a very long time, possibly even longer than it lived in the thin
plastic "pot" it was purchased in. Although, my mom's book about cacti
and succulents that I just consulted said that one way to encourage them
to bloom is to keep them in pots that are too small, and look what we have
here: buds.
So maybe I won't repot it till it's done blooming, but I will then,
because it's getting dangerously top-heavy. It might be a bit hard to tell the scale in these pictures. I'd guess the top of the cactus is about 4 inches across, though I haven't applied a ruler. cacti can be cute, yes. UPDATE: A tape measure reveals the actual diameter across the top is about 3 1/4 to 3 1/2 inches.
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lynn king unless otherwise noted.
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