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Hey Bud!!! I love you being so Humane~~But get a cpl of rat traps with some peanut butter on the snapper & you will be good to go again & your babies will DEFINITELY Thank You for it!!! Your greenhouse is REALLY looking good!! So good, in fact, I just showed my friend, that just put my new greenhouse up about a month ago, this video so he could see ur shelving n stuff so he can get me some more room!!! He watched it all, said No Prob & is actually working on it as I type! All I had B4 was 1 layer of 6 & 4 foot tables going around. He's making me a bottom row & above the table row now too so I CAN BUY MORE PLANTS!!! YEY!!! 😊 Thanks again for another great vid!! Keep up the great work!!! SINCERELY, ANITA 🌵✌️😊

Very beautiful, so much great plants! 😃🌵💚

The only thing that made my trap to work was to have gummybears because they had realy tug the candy. I live in Sweden so I dont know if u got those.

Oh my!! I didn't know rats eat cacti!!!

Beautiful! great job I really love all of them! I really like the SanPedro? specimen. Impressive how you know their names! 🪴🦠🌵🌿

very cool!

Rars are horrible. My greenhouse has been hit a number of times but I have methods of getting rid of them. This guy will come back again and again unless you kill it. If you wish to see my methods of getting rid of these guys, go to my channel, Morris Park in the Ozarks ( The pest no one Talks about) I have about five ways of getting rid of em. Good hunting & happy growing!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌻🌷🌴💐🌱🍀🌹🌿🌸🌳🪴🌾🏜😃👍

You need to trap to kill otherwise you never get rid of them. I have huge mouse not rats. My husband said you can tell by the shape of the nose. Try putting peanut butter on the trap. I get the kind that I don’t have to use my hand to remove them when they get trapped. Tom cat and Victor makes them. Good luck

Beautiful collection and so wonderfully neat and tidy! It's a real shame about that rodent damage and I hope you can find a solution. Its so frustrating seeing chunks bitten out of beautiful plants you've put time and effort (and money!) into growing ❤ 🌵 🌸

Nice collection.

Lovely cactus and succulents. It looks like new stock as they are in great condition. Unfortunately plants can get quite neglected in big DIY ( big box) shops as the staff may not know how to look after them 😢 Those mixed varieties in one pot look like pretty good value for money 😊

Its super hot and blue sky all week here, today especially scorching. But nothing short of the typical summer. I finished up on nights today, so by the time i woke up this afternoon, i noticed i had a bit of sunburn on my Copiapoa Tenuisima and Parodia Occulta. 😡 They will be fine, but it still bothers me!!! These plants have all been out in the summer socrching sun all spring and summer long.... why did they suddenly get scorched today? The Parodia gets burnt, and it will show.... bums me out. Its still a beautiful plant, it just bums me out that it shows a little sun burn... especially after it being in direct sun all summer long and being fine, otherwise. Poor little bugger just flowered last week, and is showing so many fresh, new spines and arioles. Now this sudden sun trauma may cut these plant's growth season short, and send them into dormancy now, instead of giving me at least one more good month of September growth, before i must coax them into their winter dormancies. I need to get me (or build) a little greenhouse by next season, *cuz im definitely in need of some serious shade cloth!!!* Dont want my little prickly pals to get burnt ever again!!! Shade cloth is clutch... Let the good sun light come thru for their health, but block the bad sun light out for their health! 🍻Heres to keeping our prickly pals as happy as we can!! Water em, feed em, and grow em!!! Lets go!!!! 🌵

You’re the first person I’ve come across on YT that has a Fairy Tale Cactus (x2)! I love mine, it’s honestly one of my favorites 😆 It grows so fast!

I wonder if the rodents are eating the cactus in order to get some moisture? Maybe they need a little bowl of water to divert their attention from the cactus but then again, they might get a little too comfortable!

Call me old school but I was taught to always have the finished grade below the level of the pot as in pot planting 101 that includes the so-called top dressing whatever that is

Did you put something tasty in the live trap and put it by the door?

Sorry about the rats. They can be such a nuisance and menace . I have them in my garden and so I know how annoying they can be. That said, YIU have a fantastic collection and they are well arranged

Merci pour les photos dommage pas en français merci

My lowes could never lol hopefully we get some of the cacti basket and san pedros

Great haul! I've never seen those euphorbia!

Chopsticks are my go to tool in my house. lol

beautiful collection!

"not as organized..." Me: sees perfection. 👀 ;)

Where are you located?

Such a bummer. I've been there, lost some astros and a Perez de la Rosa to a rat last year. Now that I have a greenhouse (I think the exact same one as you), this is what I did- I lined the entire door frame with velcro, then my wife stitched the other side of the velcro to a door-sized cutout of screen (like from a screen door). Since it closes on all sides of the door frame nothing can get in through there and I don't have to worry about closing the door at night, which is good because it can get quite hot here. The velcro also makes it fairly easy to get in and out of. Sure, a determined rodent could probably quite easily chew through the screen, but I think they tend to go for what they can most easily access. Fingers crossed, I haven't had any issues with things getting into the greenhouse since doing this (it's actually helped cut down on a lot of insects being in there as well). Good luck, hopefully you can get this little guy somewhere far away from your collection!

I have some 2 month old seedling baggies in a north facing window and they are looking really tall and skinny. Now i’m thinking I should move them to south facing. I just thought they weren’t supposed to get direct sunlight yet?

Beautiful Nursery , I run nursery too in Los Angeles

I hope you catch him. Your collection is so beautiful. I’d be so sad too. Good luck and post an update when you do!

the green house doesnot have a door? rats are very active during the night.also make sure there are no spaces between the pots with cactus that have spikes that are protecting the other softer cactus. the rat might be able to go throw them. i have also seen you donot have any traps set. so i donot know how you are intending to catch the rodent.

AWESOME Greenhouse update tour Dave, your collection is looking AMAZING, but so sorry to hear you have a Rodent eating some of your plants, rats and mice can be such a nuisance, I had a problem with mice eating pieces from my cacti last year, I wish you could send me some of the sunshine and heat over to Ireland and I could send you some of the clouds and rain over from Ireland haha, you have a really beautiful collection, and so nice and tidy and arranged too, and WOW with all your incredible seedlings, thanks so much for sharing the fantastic update with us Dave and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Sunday XXXX <3

Thanks you for giving the prices along with the names.

This video motivated me in so many ways lol

amazing

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❤❤❤ Love all those cacti. Thanks for sharing!

I'm in vegas. Which lowes did you go to? The centennial location had NUH-Thing! i literally watched like galf the video went to lowes came back, of course, with plants bjt mo cactus mjxed pots you showed with the obesas.

Why can’t we get those gorgeous Cacti in Maryland Lowes!!!!I enjoyed watching the possibilities 😊

That is pretty awesome and especially for Lowes. I liked that Oreocereus. seemed to be the only one they had. The mixed pots looked like a great value. thanks for sharing.

I live in Vegas and the Lowe's by me are crap where is this one, if you don't mind me asking

Lowe's is stacked. Those pots with multiple cacti look fantastic. I can only dream of seeing stuff like that. Here in sad Toronto we'd be lucky to see 1 cactus for sale!

I think that's a mouse, maybe?

it looks like euphorbia infausta on the left side

Bird took a bite off from my Lophophora too this summer. Yes, they steal my cactus fruits, too. But one bird found its match on my hooked Mammillaria. It got caught and couldn’t get off. Both did not make it. 😟 So that’s how I know birds has been visiting my cacti.

May I ask how do you manage fungal infections? In my experience seeds are the main vector of introducing the spores of harmful microorganisms. You didn't sterilize the seeds, nor treated the substrate with any kind of fungicide or even hydrogen peroxide (at least I haven't seen it in your video).

Looking really good mate, Cant wate to see progression ! Best regards

Bad luck 😔 Very frustrating and like other commenters have suggested, I think it could be a rodent. A few in my collection have had small chunks bitten out by slugs and snails despite the spines!

Wow caught your video uploaded 1 minute ago! Haven't even gotten through it yet but I love seeing the familiar Mesa Garden seed packs! I see you have a couple Echinocereus - have you ever seen there are a couple inermis varieties of E. triglochidiatus? They are very cute to grow and kind of buried unless you get into the weeds of looking through all the Echinocereus.

Rats 🐀

This happened to me today. But from the bites it must be a mouse. Here the mouse ate some cacti and some rare crassulas.

Best of luck! That sucks 😢