Cactus Collection Tour 2021 and 1999

[@CactusCaffeine]

What an amazing collection! Praying for your fast recovery. 🙂

[@CactusCowboy57]

Thanks! I completed my seven months of chemotherapy and have been back in Wyoming since early February, free of cancer and slowly recovering.

[@CactusCaffeine]

@@CactusCowboy57 that’s great news! Wishing you more good health. 🙂

[@AMOtribe]

To God's be the glory, you are healed! Your cactus collection is Amazing. I hope one day my cactus babies, will be just like yours. I'll be watching more of you. Take care.😇☀💟🌷

[@cruelsister1]

What an awesome and interesting tour. Thanks for sharing.

[@cactusandherbs]

Wonderful 😊🤗😊 Very beautiful cactus 😍🌵🌵🌵😍 Your cactus collection so amazing 😍😍😍😍😍 Stay connected 🙏🙏🙏

[@andyroo3022]

I enjoyed looking at all your cacti. I hope you are well now.

[@CactusCowboy57]

Update: April 12, 2022. I completed 7 months of treatment for brain cancer in early February 2022. I am now nearly 100 days post ASCT (autologous stem cell transplant) back in Wyoming and slowly recovering. I will have a MRI scan tomorrow but anticipate it will show NED (no evidence of disease).

[@jethroe.davids132]

Nice. Im happy for you Cowboy!💪🏻 Love and respect from south africa

[@knockout189]

Such an amazing collection! Thanks for sharing!!!

[@latentheinz]

May everything goes smooth for you Sir. Stay happy 🌵🌼🪴

[@williamkittrell3342]

Great collection! Enjoyed your presentation. Wishing you well and a speedy and complete recovery.

[@thibs2442]

Haha great video. We are both into cacti and vintage LPs. Keep your head up. You're in my thoughts.

[@juenjinooi3272]

Sir, im so glad that I came across your time capsule. I started my cactus journey 3 months ago. Your video, story and attitude is truly inspiring; as strong as a cactus 💪🏻 wishing you speedy recovery ahead!

[@zcoanmcoan1534]

Such a cool collection

[@Lee-tn1ty]

You look strong! I pray for your speedy recovery :) Thank you for the video! My partner has been battling lymphoma as well.

[@CactusCowboy57]

I finished four rounds of high dose chemotherapy. Got an MRI about a week ago. My oncologist said the MRI looked "excellent" and "the best possible outcome." My next step in treatment will likely be a stem cell transfer, will know more in a couple weeks. My prayers go out to your partner and others battling cancer.

[@Lee-tn1ty]

@@CactusCowboy57 Wow great news! Best of luck with the stem cells, hopefully it works and your body has a healthy reset and recovery! My partner has had her second stem cell transplant and is recovering :'). My prayers to you too Sir, and your friends/family, stay strong!

[@susanwhite1641]

Loved this, thank you for sharing. I hope your recovery is going well 💜

[@ArthurGrey.]

This collection is absolutely incredible! I hope one day my cacti and succulent collection is even a fraction as large and diverse as yours once was. Sending love and positive vibes to you and your family. 💚

[@CactusCowboy57]

Thanks Arthur! It takes time. I started growing cacti from seed over fifty years ago.

[@ZiggySearchfieldCactus]

Really enjoyed watching your collection 🙂 Hope your recovery goes well.

[@dannyone8111]

Beautiful cactus!🌵Do you still have the Mammillaria Perez de la rosa v. andersonii? Hope you have speedy recovery! 🙏🏽

[@CactusCowboy57]

Sadly lost that and many others during a mid-winter heater failure (power outage) in 2002. I completed treatment for cancer three months ago and am slowly recovering.

[@dannyone8111]

@@CactusCowboy57 Glad you are recovering! 🙏🏽 Have a email I can reach you at?

[@CACTASTIC]

Amazing collection. Most of my plants are seed grown as well. Its often the only way to get so many of these wonderful plants. Wishing you the best and hoping that you get well soon.

[@CactusCowboy57]

Growing from seed is my preferred method. With good germination it's possible to have many hundreds of plants.

[@sampetrovich4075]

Praying for you!

[@swayback7375]

Thanks for sharing the 1999 video! I was still a minor and was just starting to become interested in plants other than cannabis. In those days there was near nothing online, books only… most we’re out of date books I gathered up from second hand stores and often they provided bad info on culture, lots of names that were defunct or even just wrong… Acquiring plants if good quality at that time was even harder than finding good info. HOWEVER! Many of the “old standard” plants from the past were heirlooms, not necessarily anything special, but different. There’s lots heirloom houseplants that you can’t buy anymore, you can find the same species, but it will be a different form, not a named form, maybe not even recognized as being different… I remember an older Hindu rope, Hoya carnosa compacta varigata that doesn’t match any of the forms I can find currently online. Point being, individual genes can be very special, especially in a field of plants that now relies on cuttings and tissue culture, with little diversity from seeds or other wild populations.

[@CactusCowboy57]

I've bought many cacti and succullent seeds from Mesa Gardens in Belen, New Mexico over the years. I do like the genetic diversity that comes with seed grown plants. Although unusual, I have had monstrous and cristate forms arising in batches of seedlings.

[@chucktaylor4958]

Good Luck.

[@annacaucci7644]

What A wonderful collection thank you so much for sharing! I just ordered a bunch of seeds from Mesa Gardens and I am so nervous that I am going to screw up growing them. do you have any tips that you can give me & what substrate do you use to grow your seeds in? Merry Christmas 🎄!

[@nguyenpham-mx7zx]

thank you for sharing with us such a nice collection, plz tell me more information about the green house (size and where did you get them from) thank you so much

[@CactusCowboy57]

The 14' x 22' greenhouse was made by Turner Greenhouses, from North Carolina if memory serves correct. It is covered with twin wall polycarbonate, well suited to our extremely cold winters in Wyoming.

[@nguyenpham-mx7zx]

@@CactusCowboy57 thank you so much its help me alot. im try to build my first greenhouse. i hope u feel better soon

[@transilvania5811]

👍👍👍

[@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631]

Where are the PEYOTE BUTTONS??

[@CactusCowboy57]

Take a look at 9:22, you'll see a few.

[@jhonPriego-dp5fd]

How come hardly anyone in west texas opening nurseries its free mainly fam and some use regular dirt

[@Hectorrbazaldua]

What happened to most of the collection from 1999?

[@CactusCowboy57]

There was a power outage in January, 2002 during bitterly cold weather. That resulted in the fan in my gas-fired heater shutting off. With no air circulation that tripped the overheat safety switch in the heater, shutting off the gas supply. The next morning I went into the greenhouse. Temperature in there was about 10 degrees F and many of the plants perished.

[@Hectorrbazaldua]

@@CactusCowboy57 oh that’s horrible! I’m from Austin tx. and I also collect cactus and it’s always so stressful during our winters 😓 Hopefully you can start collecting what you lose :/ but prices for some cactus are going crazy these days 😖

[@CactusCowboy57]

@@Hectorrbazaldua In recent years I'm more focused on winter hardy species. Cost has not been much of a factor as I routinely grow from seed.

[@bachirchouika7705]

May God cure you!

[@garygilliam1890]

I don't have a old man catus you odd to send me one