He quit the music business to open a nursery in the 1970s : Desert Theater Cactus Nursery

It was the early 1970s in northern California where the orange sunshine lit the sky and hearts and minds of a generation. Jay Jackson and his wife Cactus Kate decided to leave the music shop and recording studio behind and go out on what I can only call a cactus quest. But anyway they left the old life behind to embark on a quest to grow and sell cactus. The nursery has since changed hands and is now owned and operated by Brandon Bullard down in Vista California. Open to the public and chock full of epic landscape plants as well as many other cool finds. I hope you enjoy todays nursery tour episode. Brandon also drops a few horticultural how to’s as we tour the second massive 3200 square foot growing facility. A legendary cactus nursery.
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[@Nature-xk1xt]

hello, here in brazil we have many species of cacti in nature, but we don't have many specialized stores, some species around here are very rare and when they appear they are very expensive, so when you show these places and stores specialized in cacti, it's incredible, great work

[@japponica]

Stunning

[@Jammilogy]

Sending respect and love from the Philippines! 🇵🇭🌵

[@eazypeazy33]

If I just want channels like this I find my heart feels lighter … 🤙🏽

[@sunshinevalley0]

I’m definitely going to have to visit

[@feiyang2041]

Happy Chinese New Year! Old fans from China !

[@WhatPlantisthatPaul]

Now I know where the local stores get the good stuff!

[@LESCSSORG]

The dream!

[@CactusCaffeine]

Great video Hunter and hi Brandon! I had the privilege to see their garden- “succulent forest” as I like to describe it and it was amazing. 🌵❤

[@brandonbullard98]

Thanks brother hunter. Looks awesome. Just a reminder desert theater nursery is open by appointment only.

[@thraskii]

Cool nursery My friend knows Thomas. Taking me up to meet him this spring

[@bile897]

I love that place

[@kevdogg9648]

Brandon is cool as fuck, used to sell him a lot of soil and pots

[@Flora_Forge]

the draco vs rap music comment just made me kackle . well done. lol one could only wish they were talking about that. xD

[@chompushkabombushka3595]

Dude Brandon is the man. He’s always been gracious, generous and welcoming on the couple I’ve got to meet him. Would love to meet Jay, desert theatre is incredible

[@glow1815]

If i live in CA i think i will go broke just buying these beautiful plants lol. I love Succulents i usually buy the rare ones. Or strange looking ones. Every time i go to Nursery i just want to buy all the plants. Yes i am addicted to Succulents as well 🥰

[@asha8443]

Awesome place

[@opuntiad8100]

Wow, I’m always so happy for new videos. Living in frigid Minnesota, these videos really help ease the time that passes while I wait to take my collection back outside in the spring. Thanks Hunter, keep the quest going! Also it’s super cool to see cactus nurseries that grow from seed! It seems like that’s pretty uncommon.

[@WesleysPlantWorld]

Hi 👋🏽 a fellow plant KZbinr here and new subscriber. It’s always so amazing seeing so many mature cacti 🌵 Thanks for showing us 😃👍🏽

[@josegeraldo8]

thank you for remembering us brazilians kkk I really like your videos!

[@danielashford2430]

Thanks pleasant video.peace brother…

[@mattstang3439]

You should do a video with "cactus caffeine" 🌵

[@cpm725]

I used to have major cactus fever and now I’m all about growing old world succulents like adenium, pachypodium, and dorstenia. Nevertheless, really cool cacti shown in this video!!

[@mimirose4012]

Enjoyed!!!

[@getintothewildwithjeffruma8777]

The plants growing in the ground are just wow👍

[@helgedonath1524]

this is the absolute dream garden of every succulent lover! it's hard to imagine the work that goes into it. my absolute respect and thanks for the video!

[@diogoflopes1882]

Brazil here 👍🏻 I'm in the metropolitan city of Belém in the Amazon region.

[@yayasilveira]

look at me here from Brazil!!!!!! I admire you and would love to take a trip with you ❣️

[@clearwaterbeachhomesearchm5957]

Awesome tour. Thanks

[@nancyfahey7518]

That ponytail in the beginning was HUGE. I'm gonna need a bigger pot. 😫

[@JulioGarcia-ln5ny]

Un lugar extraordinario Ahí me gustaría visitar

[@jacquescraftyexpressions5990]

The seed horn as you mentioned, resembles a plumeria seed pod.🤔❤️

[@Wizofawes]

Strangler figs have way bigger air roots that that. Balboa park has some nice ones

[@alexandralacerda492]

So awesome, lovely place🤩, hi from Brazil🌵🌵🌵

[@Brother_Nature.]

you're living the dream brother. another awesome video! thanks

[@vickisotomayorleroy6147]

Hello I’m just wondering if you remember me and my Husband Allan Leroy we used to own A sticky Business Cacti and Succulents in Petaluma California back in the 1970s 1980’s?

[@WhatPlantisthatPaul]

Excellent video. Some stunning specimens in their collection. I love driving through Vista to explore the nurseries.

[@NoOneHere2Day]

Do you know the name of the plant by the cactus? 4:27

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

Possibly a euphorbia syphilitica(sp)?

[@andrein7160]

What a beautifull garden!

[@charlesmckemie7274]

Im speechless. Wow! 🔥

[@sergiorosales5314]

Wooaauuu !! Nice place

[@barbaracole4314]

Great gardens, love to see garden videos from Ca. One of the best states to garden in... watching from far northern Ca

[@mcactus6210]

Stunning!

[@newmanmansell760]

I enjoyed watching😌🤲🌵

[@cactusjoe]

Amazing gardens and plant collection! Great video, thanks for sharing, Hunter!

[@alexmayes9971]

When are you coming to Texas??? Stop by DFW beers on me!

[@andrewbocz2596]

Love it! Wish it was longer! There's one of those banyan trees in the Golden Hill Park in San Diego with some crazy air roots.

[@3l3llala13]

Beautiful nursery. I really like the spineless Ferocactus Glaucescens Inermis. I might have to go on the hunt for one once Spring arrives.

[@tradertom4843]

Was waiting for this one 🙌

[@felipegutierrez168]

love your videos, greetings from Chile!

[@aj-li4ly]

Great video!

[@juanramos.jr.7948]

Wonderful video! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@anag5144]

6:40 ✌Hi!

[@greatnorthernexotic]

🌵👀

[@truncated_sleigh]

Dude, that euphorbia is lit bro! Good work again, Hunt! 💥

[@HOODBOSS5000]

Excellent video. Watched all the way through. Going to become a patron supported bro. Hell yeah. 🎉🎉🎉

[@davidbianco6234]

Muy Bueno !!

[@brandytimpleton5618]

Drako..lol..good one

[@vanessacornejosanchez7602]

hermosos!

[@jenskarlsson4744]

getting addicted !!!

[@oakesaustin160]

any mature screw pine would blow those dracaena adventitious roots out of the water

[@spencercurtis86]

I'm not even a cactus guy but been watching your videos. What's the spiral cactus called? I call them froggy death slides and they look dope

[@3l3llala13]

Cereus Forebesii Spiralis, or just 'spiral cactus'.

[@spencercurtis86]

@@3l3llala13 froggy death slide it is 😂

[@guibarbosa11]

🇧🇷

[@bonniebonnie7149]

I visited Kate at Desert Theatre Nursery in Watsonville, Ca in 1992 and she grew San Pedro cactus profusely. It’s has closed and a man in the Central Valley now grows her plants. Is this the same company as yours? Desert Theatre is a great name!

[@brandonbullard98]

It is the same. Jay was married to kate. He started the vista location early 1980s. Kate since past. Vern the man that was selling Kate's collection past away last year. The name he used was cactus Kate's.

[@bonniebonnie7149]

@@brandonbullard98 thank you!

[@BelgianSpeedcuber]

Ooooh yes!!! Yet another new video 🤘🤘💚💚

[@robertfish6646]

Are those not adventitious roots, instead of air roots on the Draceana Draco?

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

Possibly two things being true at once

[@daleandrews3552]

That must be great, in the business of something you have as a hobby as well. I also love your location in CA where you can grow a lot of you merhandise OUTDOORS without fear of them getting too much water or cold weather. I have a collection of succulents and tropical plants where here in our subtropical climate (in Lake Charles, LA, almost coastal), most of what we have to worry about is them getting too much rain. Mine are under an awning on a patio adjacent to a room where I can scoot them in case of an occasional light freeze. So far this year, I've had to bring them inside for a couple of nights, and we're at the end of January '23, so go figure. Best of luck in your business. 🪴🌴

[@manuelmontejano9512]

Chingon!

[@dl7608]

Pandanus screw pines grow waaaay bigger air roots then that Draco.

[@tradertom4843]

Part 2 of this? Escondido location?

[@brandonbullard98]

Coming soon.

[@zcoanmcoan1534]

Love your videos man!

[@Willyama]

What are these buddies called? 11:34

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

Spineless ferocactus inermis

[@chorrizotee6051]

We're can we buy some of your pots ?

[@tradertom4843]

His insta man

[@joshuafinkelstein7252]

They open to the public?

[@tradertom4843]

Appointment only

[@massivehuynis]

fuck dude all the brevifolias is insane

[@brandytimpleton5618]

Hot nail?

[@bonniebonnie7149]

I think it kills the growth tip so it will make many baby plants at the top. It’s a faster way to propagate them than seeds.

[@billyjack3580]

It’s a propagator’s trick. Heat up a nail and burn out the growing point in order to encourage multiple new growing points. Mostly used with species which tend to be solitary or unbranched.

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

I think it's a technique where you jam a hot nail into the growing point to stimulate pupping A similar technique that does less physical damage is called coring where you take a knife and core out the top growing point, I've done it to Madagascar palms, don't do it going into the Winter though on them specifically. Induces dormant growth points to activate

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

Coring does more physical damage I meant