It is a nice video of how to wrap up and store the plants into boxes! I do not imagine moving house with all those plants...it would be a nightmare for me! Sending you Lyn and Hans lots of love and hope you have a wonderful afternoon!
haha moving house is always such a dilemma Sylvia, and we have to move house again in the coming future as we need more space and don't like the neighbourhood that we live in, the last time we moved we found spines in places that we never even knew existed hahaha, thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a fantastic afternoon XXXX
I'm really not looking forward to moving my plant collection but this video has helped so much. Thank you so much guys! Plant power and love from the USA! 💚
So happy you found the vid helpful, moving house with all our cacti and succulents is something we all dread haha :-D it would be a lot easier if we were moving ferns haha :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending tons of love and happy growing from Ireland XXXX
Thank you for such an informative video! It was refreshing to see an example of people taking the time to show love and care to all living beings (both animal and plant) during a stressful venture like moving. I loved the two-week follow-up that showed that everyone made it and is thriving. I saw a few cacti that I was thinking of getting but in the back of my mind I asked myself, "but what if we move?!" After this video I have no more anxiety about this, but I soon shall have more cacti.
Thank you so much for your wonderful message and sending you an abundance of love and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to you for a terrific Thursday XXXXX
Greetings from NY! How absolutely wonderful for you both to take the time to share your experiences. This video is so helpful. I thought I had a daunting task ahead with 81 houseplants and tons of very tall crazy-growing fantail willows, but you 'take the cake!' Well thank you again for the wonderfully detailed video and commentary.
Wonderful job! So hard to imagine doing that. . Def could be a stressful nightmare, but we love our cacti, gotta do it! Thank you for being sweet as ever 💕
lamuerta89 Thank you so much thats so lovely :-) It can be stressful moving all these plants about haha! especially with all of the different sizes, shapes and spines galore haha! but it was certainly fun and games haha! Thanks so much for watching and have a wonderful weekend XXXX :-)
Hi guys! Loved your video! I gave Michael a bigish "apunthia" (I hope I spelled it properly!) For a first Christmas being married gift.I loved/love cactus.We had it till we moved here.We gave this special cacti a good home with my baby sis Sally it.She loves plants like ourselves.We had to find homes for about 120plants!Many big hanging ones.I now have a few pots of the kind I gave him all those yrs ago.As you know, they show no mercy when plantings young ones or repotting.Michael repotted-
This is such a good video, i would not have a clue how to move the Cactus collection when moving house, what an interesting video, Glad to see The Opuntia didn't stick your fella, they must really hurt awful, Thanks again for a really great video. Hope you are both super happy in your new home x
Dear Lyn, What a wonderfully informative video!!It is so apparent how much these cacti babies are loved. I have a couple of tall succulents that will need very special wrapping and support. Your demonstration here will come in very handy for us. Thanks so much Lyn and Sean! :) We are sooo happy that your move went so smoothly. :)) Thanks also for the 2 weeks later photos-so beautiful and Rusty looks so content! :)Much Love and Hugs from us and some extra gentle nuzzles for Rusty fella! :)) xxxxx
This video was wonderful, thank you so much for putting this together ☺️ I'm going to be moving interstate and I have over 100 cacti and agave plants that I'll be taking with me. I'll be travelling for about a week so fingers crossed I don't lose any in the process. Beautiful plants and doggie too💜 Much love from Australia x
Very helpful Lynn. Thanks so much. Anticipating a move soon, hopefully ;) I wouldn't have thought of a lot of the things you suggested. You're very clever! Lots of sunshine to you from Nevada USA
Thanks a million and god luck with your move, we will be moving very soon too again its going to be fun and games moving all the plants haha :-))) XXXX
So happy you enjoyed the video and I hope the move with your big cactus goes really well and thanks so much again for your wonderful comments and for watching XXXX
Thanks so much Tami + Mike for your WONDERFUL comment :-) The AMAZING energy you guy's sent to us through your INCREDIBLE video was so felt and is still being felt :-) The move went really smoothly and the plants are thriving and are now all starting to come into bloom :-) Sending you, Mike and all your ADORABLE fur babies and plant babies all our love and hugs and happiness from the emerald Isle :-) P.S Rusty sends Galady waggy tails :-))) XXXX
thank you so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a FANTASTIC Friday XXXXX
Wow Lynn a new I am new to your Channel and you are moving now and you recommended me see this one where you moved previously all I can say is wow I'm glad I own this little house because I'm too old to go through that. Even though I only own three or four cactus I don't like the ones that are real Pinchy so I can only imagine trying to move them oh my goodness. I'm looking forward to seeing more and more of your videos I will comment as much as possible and whenever you have the time please join me in " Libby's little garden " and believe me it is little!!👉👵👈
So happy you learn so much from the vids, and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic day XXXXX
WOW thats so wonderful Kaitlyn thank you so much for your really kind words and support and for all your amazing comments :-D sending tons of love and happiness and plant power from Ireland for a wonderful Wednesday xXXX
+Ravencry83 Thank you so much for watching :-) so pleased to hear that this video has been helpful for you :-) Sending you much love and happiness from Ireland to Germany, and have a wonderful evening XXXXXX
OMG!!! Never saw ALL of your collection and realised that you had SOO much they are all beautiful and i wish i could have one of them in my own though i always thought what hassle it is to move a mass amount of cacti of that size!! :)
Cacti_lover_1 haha! Yes moving house is a nightmare with all the cacti, but I have moved house so many times now that it is really not so bad as it seems haha! The worst was moving them all from uk to Ireland and bringing them across on the ferry in the van LOL! and I have a lot more now than then, although the greenhouse and house is full, I can always find room for one or a few more haha! Thanks so much for watching Sabian and have a FANTASTIC evening ahead XXXXX :-)
+halimaself Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) Thats wonderful that you have 81 houseplants to move and lots of fantail willows :-) I bet your house move will go really well and your plants will all be perfect :-) so pleased to hear that this video has been a help for you, moving house is always such a daunting task when we have our plant 'babies' to move :-) good luck with the move and sending you an abundance of love from Ireland for a wonderful week ahead XXXXXX
Thanks so much Joanne for such a WONDERFUL comment ♥ haha Sean always tries to make out he is not fond of the cacti but was more worried about them arriving safe and sound than me haha! They are thriving in their new home with the wonderful energy + loving all the good sunshine we have been getting here :-) Rusty is loving it too he loves sleeping in the conservatory with the warmth of the sun on his little body haha! Sending you, Ralph and Oli, tons of LOVE + HAPPINESS from across the pond ♥ XX
Thank you so much for this video- we are moving some rather large cactus in big planters and I was wondering how the heck we were going to do that without killing any of our helpers :D
Marcy Hoke Thank you so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) I'm so pleased that you found this vid helpful, it is always a dilemma when moving house and it comes to moving our prickly friends, especially the big fellas haha :-) Good luck with moving your cacti and sending much love and happiness from Ireland XXXX
Hi there Susan :-) Thanks so much for your LOVELY comment It's so WONDERFUL to hear from you, I bet your little Sis has looked after your plant + she has a physical connection with you there through your plant. I still have my big brothers 4 cacti for the past 20 years + I think happy thoughts of my bruv each time I look at them :-) I agree re potting is such a dilemma haha! all the needles can get everywhere haha! I must do a future video on re potting :-) Sending lots of love + hugs XXXX
It can be such a worry when we move house with our plants, hope your house move goes well and I bet your Euphorbia will arrive safe and sound :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching
THANK YOU for such a wonderful comment Craftypumkin1 hope it helps if you ever have to move house :-) The Opuntia has settled in well and so have we haha and thankfully with no spines attached :-) We love our new home and so do the cacti they are thriving :-) Sending you love and happiness from Ireland :-)
Michael repotted them for me last summer.Mine have so many young ones sprouting;full of bigger and smaller.Many fall off and we must plant.We carefully take a small spoon or butter knife and dig a small hole trying not to get an orange finger, or two, with hundreds of tiny cactus needles or some big needles!!With little metal grabbers we hold it carefully to place in the hole to,"tuck it in"We the counter, towels, sponge we use to clean up is full of needles! Please tell us how you do it! (-; XX
This is a great demo video! The use of cardboard and newspaper is very practical. BTW - You could also use Styrofoam beans and masking tape for the spines that stick through. Bubble wrap can also be useful, but it might snag on some plants. Haha, the key word for most of the Opuntia genus is "glochid" and that plant is loaded with them. Do you know the name of your Prickly Pear? Wow, I can see that this was a major operation for you and it is so nice that you filmed it for us. Yes, I have been thinking about watching this and now I want you to know that this cool video is at the top of TH-cam's list of related videos for my last upload, the big cactus move video. Isn't that neat? Well, I like your house moving and cactus packing methods and Sean & Rusty too. Thanks
***** Thanks a million for your AMAZING comment and for watching this vid :-) haha! We had such fun and games that day moving house with all the cacti, We were still finding spines in places we never knew existed weeks after haha! That's a brilliant idea about the Styrofoam beans and masking tape, hopefully we won't be moving for a while LOL! OMG! The glochids on the Opuntia's are the worst, they get EVERYWHERE haha! unfortunately I don't know the name of my Opuntia and because there is so many that all look similar I can't match it up 100% when I look online, but if you have any idea that would be fab :-) Soooooooo looking forward to watching your cactus move vid, i am going to watch it now and have the popcorn ready LOL! Thanks so much and sending you tons of LOVE and HAPPINESS for a FANTASTIC day ahead :-) XXXXXXX
heartfullofhappiness OK, I have concluded that your Prickly Pear is a variety of Opuntia aciculata and please don't rely on the Wiki images for now, though there is some good info there, to read. The CactiGuide website has eight much better shots of two varieties. Here is the link: cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus=Opuntia&species=aciculata Enjoy and do make sure to tell me if I'm wrong, haha!
***** You are AMAZING, Thank you sooooooo much for finding the name of my Opuntia, Sending you a trillion hugs :-) Yes O. Aciculata definitely looks like my Opuntia, and thanks so much for the link too :-) Sending you tons of LOVE and HAPPINESS for a FAB packed weekend ahead :-) XXXXXX
To FeatheredFan. Hi there. I just found your channel thanks to this comment. Your name caught my attention. I love the few videos I have seen so far. Is that your private outdoor collection or are you a vendor? Either way it's very cool. I wish you would turn on comments. I love talking to people with cool jobs. It's been three years and I'd love to see what you have growing now since you have so many cool in ground adult species. Your property just looks lovely. I hope you'll find this comment and reply.
Thank you so much for this video in about a year I will be moving from Pennsylvania to Florida and I am worried about my plants and cacti I have a proximately 100 do you think they will have enough air on that long trip
Hi Heather :-D yes your plants will be absolutely fine :-D cacti can stay boxed up for a few days/even weeks with no harm :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a terrific Thursday today XXXXX
thanks so much Mahira Ali for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from the Emerald Isle for a wonderful weekend XXXX
I would love to know how you handled the hanging succulents without breaking the longer growth. I have a Christmas cactus, a Burrito sedum, and a Huernia schneideriana that all dangle down below the bottom of their pots, and I'm at a loss at how to pack them properly.
Hi Janet :-D I was lucky with the hanging plants as the removal van had hooks that I hung the hanging baskets up with but I rolled soft cardboard around them with tape, with some of the ones that hang down but not in hanging baskets I placed them in a soft cardboard made into a cone shape and gently lifted the stems up, good luck with moving house :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from the Emerald Isle XXXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon Thanks for the reply! I hope hanging them will be an option for me too. All your cardboard cylinders have given me an idea though. If I can put the pot on an additional support and wrap a cylinder around the whole thing, I might be able to pack them in boxes. Thanks for sharing your experience!
So happy you enjoyed the video :-D and yes LOL! it will be a challenge moving your Octopus Didierea trollii but I bet you will move it with no problems, Good luck with your move and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
Linda Penney Hi Linda :-) Thanks so much for your comment, unfortunately I don't have any fruit trees or rose's only a smallish lemon tree that i was able to just place into a large box, I only have mostly cacti and succulents LOL! so I don't have any experience with moving fruit trees or roses, Thanks so much for watching and have a WONDERFUL weekend ahead XXXXXX
+x1234yz Thanks so much for watching and your question :-) It would really depend on how many and the duration that the move will take, but I guess if you place scrunched up newspaper at the base where the roots will be and place the plant on it and then inside a box making sure to protect them from getting damaged from neighboring plants just like in this film then they should be fine, but there is always a risk to the plant being damaged in transport as its roots are exposed, and also extra care taken when repotting them all again making sure you get the soil mix right, but all in all it should be fine. Wishing you ever success with the move and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and happy growing from Ireland and have a wonderful new week ahead XXXXX
+Desert Plants of Avalon Thank you so much for your valuable input. Appreciated. Considering the fact that shipping may take 4-7 days to reach the destination, do you recommend to uproot the plant and dry it for few days before packing so as to avoid root rot. Also, would you treat the plant and/or roots with some kind of fungicide to avoid the rot? Thanks again for responding to my query. Lots of love and happiness to you too from India. --- Ulhas
+x1234yz Hi Ulhas :-) Yes I would definitely recommend removing them from their pots beforehand to let the roots be dry before packing them up, this will greatly reduce any chance of the roots rotting :-) I wouldn't treat the plants with fungicide as long as they are kept dry, they should be absolutely fine :-) Hope everything goes really well with the move and sending loads of love to you from Ireland to India XXXXXXXX
This is such a wonderful video. Thanks for sharing with us! I am curious about how you would propose to move one of these fellas… www.thecactusking.com/plants/all-plants/consolea-rubescens Mine is about 4 feet tall and has many arms that are probably a couple feet in width. Since he's more flat than round, I was curious what you might suggest. I moved him a few years ago when he was much smaller and he actually fit on the floorboard of my car for transport across the United States. But now he's a bit trickier. And as I'm sure you understand, he MUST come with me :-)
It is a nice video of how to wrap up and store the plants into boxes! I do not imagine moving house with all those plants...it would be a nightmare for me! Sending you Lyn and Hans lots of love and hope you have a wonderful afternoon!
haha moving house is always such a dilemma Sylvia, and we have to move house again in the coming future as we need more space and don't like the neighbourhood that we live in, the last time we moved we found spines in places that we never even knew existed hahaha, thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a fantastic afternoon XXXX
I'm really not looking forward to moving my plant collection but this video has helped so much. Thank you so much guys! Plant power and love from the USA! 💚
So happy you found the vid helpful, moving house with all our cacti and succulents is something we all dread haha :-D it would be a lot easier if we were moving ferns haha :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending tons of love and happy growing from Ireland XXXX
Thank you for such an informative video! It was refreshing to see an example of people taking the time to show love and care to all living beings (both animal and plant) during a stressful venture like moving. I loved the two-week follow-up that showed that everyone made it and is thriving. I saw a few cacti that I was thinking of getting but in the back of my mind I asked myself, "but what if we move?!" After this video I have no more anxiety about this, but I soon shall have more cacti.
Thank you so much for your wonderful message and sending you an abundance of love and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to you for a terrific Thursday XXXXX
One must always soon have more cacti haha x
Greetings from NY! How absolutely wonderful for you both to take the time to share your experiences. This video is so helpful. I thought I had a daunting task ahead with 81 houseplants and tons of very tall crazy-growing fantail willows, but you 'take the cake!' Well thank you again for the wonderfully detailed video and commentary.
Wonderful job! So hard to imagine doing that. . Def could be a stressful nightmare, but we love our cacti, gotta do it! Thank you for being sweet as ever 💕
lamuerta89 Thank you so much thats so lovely :-) It can be stressful moving all these plants about haha! especially with all of the different sizes, shapes and spines galore haha! but it was certainly fun and games haha! Thanks so much for watching and have a wonderful weekend XXXX :-)
Hi guys! Loved your video! I
gave Michael a bigish "apunthia" (I hope I spelled it properly!) For a first Christmas being married gift.I loved/love cactus.We had it till we moved here.We gave this special cacti a good home with my baby sis Sally it.She loves plants like ourselves.We had to find homes for about 120plants!Many big hanging ones.I now have a few pots of the kind I gave him all those yrs ago.As you know, they show no mercy when plantings young ones or repotting.Michael repotted-
I have to say this is useful I moved and spent weeks repotting plants thanks!!
Thanks a million for watching and so happy you found the vid helpful :-) XXXX
This is such a good video, i would not have a clue how to move the Cactus collection when moving house, what an interesting video, Glad to see The Opuntia didn't stick your fella, they must really hurt awful, Thanks again for a really great video. Hope you are both super happy in your new home x
Same here going to move . Have more than 200 cactus now . Hopefully will do it without any harm to my beautiful cactus 🌵
Good Luck with your house move :-D its always more difficult when we move Cacti but I bet your move will go very well
Dear Lyn, What a wonderfully informative video!!It is so apparent how much these cacti babies are loved. I have a couple of tall succulents that will need very special wrapping and support. Your demonstration here will come in very handy for us. Thanks so much Lyn and Sean! :) We are sooo happy that your move went so smoothly. :)) Thanks also for the 2 weeks later photos-so beautiful and Rusty looks so content! :)Much Love and Hugs from us and some extra gentle nuzzles for Rusty fella! :)) xxxxx
This video was wonderful, thank you so much for putting this together ☺️
I'm going to be moving interstate and I have over 100 cacti and agave plants that I'll be taking with me. I'll be travelling for about a week so fingers crossed I don't lose any in the process.
Beautiful plants and doggie too💜
Much love from Australia x
So happy you enjoyed the video Donna
Very helpful Lynn. Thanks so much. Anticipating a move soon, hopefully ;) I wouldn't have thought of a lot of the things you suggested. You're very clever! Lots of sunshine to you from Nevada USA
Thanks a million and god luck with your move, we will be moving very soon too again its going to be fun and games moving all the plants haha :-))) XXXX
Thank you!
So happy you enjoyed the video and I hope the move with your big cactus goes really well and thanks so much again for your wonderful comments and for watching XXXX
Thanks so much Tami + Mike for your WONDERFUL comment :-) The AMAZING energy you guy's sent to us through your INCREDIBLE video was so felt and is still being felt :-) The move went really smoothly and the plants are thriving and are now all starting to come into bloom :-) Sending you, Mike and all your ADORABLE fur babies and plant babies all our love and hugs and happiness from the emerald Isle :-) P.S Rusty sends Galady waggy tails :-))) XXXX
Love your plants . Hoping to have many as you. So motivating
thank you so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a FANTASTIC Friday XXXXX
Wow Lynn a new I am new to your Channel and you are moving now and you recommended me see this one where you moved previously all I can say is wow I'm glad I own this little house because I'm too old to go through that. Even though I only own three or four cactus I don't like the ones that are real Pinchy so I can only imagine trying to move them oh my goodness. I'm looking forward to seeing more and more of your videos I will comment as much as possible and whenever you have the time please join me in " Libby's little garden " and believe me it is little!!👉👵👈
I always learn so much from you. Thanks for the vid.
So happy you learn so much from the vids, and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic day XXXXX
Lyn, you look absolutely gorgeous!! Such a presence in this amazing video. I truly mean that. Beautiful inside and out. Love from the states 💋🌵
WOW thats so wonderful Kaitlyn thank you so much for your really kind words and support and for all your amazing comments :-D sending tons of love and happiness and plant power from Ireland for a wonderful Wednesday xXXX
Soooo fantastically useful, thanks as always gorgeous girl 🤗
Thank u so much. Had no clue how to wrap them until now thanks 2 ur v-d-o
So happy the video helped, and good luck with moving, thanks so much for watching and have a wonderful weekend XXXX
Great video! Love the cacti and the accent!
Che belle le tue piante ,anche il cane sembra un cactus ,che simpatico .Mi piacciono i tuoi video li guardo ogni giorno ,tu sei brava continua così 😘👍
XXXXXXX :-)
Avery, very helpful video! Just great! Greetings from Germany! ;-)
+Ravencry83 Thank you so much for watching :-) so pleased to hear that this video has been helpful for you :-) Sending you much love and happiness from Ireland to Germany, and have a wonderful evening XXXXXX
OMG!!! Never saw ALL of your collection and realised that you had SOO much they are all beautiful and i wish i could have one of them in my own though i always thought what hassle it is to move a mass amount of cacti of that size!! :)
Cacti_lover_1 haha! Yes moving house is a nightmare with all the cacti, but I have moved house so many times now that it is really not so bad as it seems haha! The worst was moving them all from uk to Ireland and bringing them across on the ferry in the van LOL! and I have a lot more now than then, although the greenhouse and house is full, I can always find room for one or a few more haha! Thanks so much for watching Sabian and have a FANTASTIC evening ahead XXXXX :-)
I AF a a lot of cactus and we are moving from California to washinton
Vidal Torres Good luck with the house move and moving all your plants :-) Thanks for watching and sending much love from Ireland XXXXX
How did you get so much plants
+halimaself Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) Thats wonderful that you have 81 houseplants to move and lots of fantail willows :-) I bet your house move will go really well and your plants will all be perfect :-) so pleased to hear that this video has been a help for you, moving house is always such a daunting task when we have our plant 'babies' to move :-) good luck with the move and sending you an abundance of love from Ireland for a wonderful week ahead XXXXXX
Thanks so much Joanne for such a WONDERFUL comment ♥ haha Sean always tries to make out he is not fond of the cacti but was more worried about them arriving safe and sound than me haha! They are thriving in their new home with the wonderful energy + loving all the good sunshine we have been getting here :-) Rusty is loving it too he loves sleeping in the conservatory with the warmth of the sun on his little body haha! Sending you, Ralph and Oli, tons of LOVE + HAPPINESS from across the pond ♥ XX
Thank you so much for this video- we are moving some rather large cactus in big planters and I was wondering how the heck we were going to do that without killing any of our helpers :D
Marcy Hoke Thank you so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) I'm so pleased that you found this vid helpful, it is always a dilemma when moving house and it comes to moving our prickly friends, especially the big fellas haha :-) Good luck with moving your cacti and sending much love and happiness from Ireland XXXX
Hi there Susan :-) Thanks so much for your LOVELY comment It's so WONDERFUL to hear from you, I bet your little Sis has looked after your plant + she has a physical connection with you there through your plant. I still have my big brothers 4 cacti for the past 20 years + I think happy thoughts of my bruv each time I look at them :-) I agree re potting is such a dilemma haha! all the needles can get everywhere haha! I must do a future video on re potting :-) Sending lots of love + hugs XXXX
is it crazy that I am moving and one of my biggest worries is how I am going to move my euphobria LOL
It can be such a worry when we move house with our plants, hope your house move goes well and I bet your Euphorbia will arrive safe and sound :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching
THANK YOU for such a wonderful comment Craftypumkin1 hope it helps if you ever have to move house :-) The Opuntia has settled in well and so have we haha and thankfully with no spines attached :-) We love our new home and so do the cacti they are thriving :-) Sending you love and happiness from Ireland :-)
Hi there MrOTBxTrains :-) Thanks so much for your LOVELY comment :-) Glad you liked the video and the accent :-)))
Michael repotted them for me last summer.Mine have so many young ones sprouting;full of bigger and smaller.Many fall off and we must plant.We carefully take a small spoon or butter knife and dig a small hole trying not to get an orange finger, or two, with hundreds of tiny cactus needles or some big needles!!With little metal grabbers we hold it carefully to place in the hole to,"tuck it in"We the counter, towels, sponge we use to clean up is full of needles! Please tell us how you do it! (-; XX
This is a great demo video! The use of cardboard and newspaper is very practical. BTW - You could also use Styrofoam beans and masking tape for the spines that stick through. Bubble wrap can also be useful, but it might snag on some plants. Haha, the key word for most of the Opuntia genus is "glochid" and that plant is loaded with them. Do you know the name of your Prickly Pear? Wow, I can see that this was a major operation for you and it is so nice that you filmed it for us. Yes, I have been thinking about watching this and now I want you to know that this cool video is at the top of TH-cam's list of related videos for my last upload, the big cactus move video. Isn't that neat? Well, I like your house moving and cactus packing methods and Sean & Rusty too. Thanks
***** Thanks a million for your AMAZING comment and for watching this vid :-) haha! We had such fun and games that day moving house with all the cacti, We were still finding spines in places we never knew existed weeks after haha! That's a brilliant idea about the Styrofoam beans and masking tape, hopefully we won't be moving for a while LOL! OMG! The glochids on the Opuntia's are the worst, they get EVERYWHERE haha! unfortunately I don't know the name of my Opuntia and because there is so many that all look similar I can't match it up 100% when I look online, but if you have any idea that would be fab :-) Soooooooo looking forward to watching your cactus move vid, i am going to watch it now and have the popcorn ready LOL! Thanks so much and sending you tons of LOVE and HAPPINESS for a FANTASTIC day ahead :-) XXXXXXX
heartfullofhappiness OK, I have concluded that your Prickly Pear is a variety of Opuntia aciculata and please don't rely on the Wiki images for now, though there is some good info there, to read. The CactiGuide website has eight much better shots of two varieties. Here is the link:
cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus=Opuntia&species=aciculata
Enjoy and do make sure to tell me if I'm wrong, haha!
***** You are AMAZING, Thank you sooooooo much for finding the name of my Opuntia, Sending you a trillion hugs :-) Yes O. Aciculata definitely looks like my Opuntia, and thanks so much for the link too :-) Sending you tons of LOVE and HAPPINESS for a FAB packed weekend ahead :-) XXXXXX
To FeatheredFan. Hi there. I just found your channel thanks to this comment. Your name caught my attention. I love the few videos I have seen so far. Is that your private outdoor collection or are you a vendor? Either way it's very cool. I wish you would turn on comments. I love talking to people with cool jobs. It's been three years and I'd love to see what you have growing now since you have so many cool in ground adult species. Your property just looks lovely. I hope you'll find this comment and reply.
Thank you so much for this video in about a year I will be moving from Pennsylvania to Florida and I am worried about my plants and cacti I have a proximately 100 do you think they will have enough air on that long trip
Hi Heather :-D yes your plants will be absolutely fine :-D cacti can stay boxed up for a few days/even weeks with no harm :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a terrific Thursday today XXXXX
Perfect
thanks so much Mahira Ali for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from the Emerald Isle for a wonderful weekend XXXX
I wanted to see the unpacking. Did the cactus get you then?
I would love to know how you handled the hanging succulents without breaking the longer growth. I have a Christmas cactus, a Burrito sedum, and a Huernia schneideriana that all dangle down below the bottom of their pots, and I'm at a loss at how to pack them properly.
Hi Janet :-D I was lucky with the hanging plants as the removal van had hooks that I hung the hanging baskets up with but I rolled soft cardboard around them with tape, with some of the ones that hang down but not in hanging baskets I placed them in a soft cardboard made into a cone shape and gently lifted the stems up, good luck with moving house :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from the Emerald Isle XXXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon Thanks for the reply! I hope hanging them will be an option for me too. All your cardboard cylinders have given me an idea though. If I can put the pot on an additional support and wrap a cylinder around the whole thing, I might be able to pack them in boxes. Thanks for sharing your experience!
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Wonderful video, thank you!
Wondering how I'm going to move my 2 metre tall and 2 metre wide octopus...
Didierea trollii
So happy you enjoyed the video :-D and yes LOL! it will be a challenge moving your Octopus Didierea trollii but I bet you will move it with no problems, Good luck with your move and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
Olá vc envia para o Brasil ?? E quanto o frete ??
i am about to move how do you do your fruit trees and rose's
Linda Penney Hi Linda :-) Thanks so much for your comment, unfortunately I don't have any fruit trees or rose's only a smallish lemon tree that i was able to just place into a large box, I only have mostly cacti and succulents LOL! so I don't have any experience with moving fruit trees or roses, Thanks so much for watching and have a WONDERFUL weekend ahead XXXXXX
Is there any process to be followed if I want to move them bare rooted (I mean without pot/soil) ???
+x1234yz Thanks so much for watching and your question :-) It would really depend on how many and the duration that the move will take, but I guess if you place scrunched up newspaper at the base where the roots will be and place the plant on it and then inside a box making sure to protect them from getting damaged from neighboring plants just like in this film then they should be fine, but there is always a risk to the plant being damaged in transport as its roots are exposed, and also extra care taken when repotting them all again making sure you get the soil mix right, but all in all it should be fine. Wishing you ever success with the move and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and happy growing from Ireland and have a wonderful new week ahead XXXXX
+Desert Plants of Avalon Thank you so much for your valuable input. Appreciated. Considering the fact that shipping may take 4-7 days to reach the destination, do you recommend to uproot the plant and dry it for few days before packing so as to avoid root rot. Also, would you treat the plant and/or roots with some kind of fungicide to avoid the rot? Thanks again for responding to my query. Lots of love and happiness to you too from India. --- Ulhas
+x1234yz Hi Ulhas :-) Yes I would definitely recommend removing them from their pots beforehand to let the roots be dry before packing them up, this will greatly reduce any chance of the roots rotting :-) I wouldn't treat the plants with fungicide as long as they are kept dry, they should be absolutely fine :-) Hope everything goes really well with the move and sending loads of love to you from Ireland to India XXXXXXXX
+Desert Plants of Avalon Thank you so much for your recommendation. This really helps.
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This is such a wonderful video. Thanks for sharing with us! I am curious about how you would propose to move one of these fellas… www.thecactusking.com/plants/all-plants/consolea-rubescens
Mine is about 4 feet tall and has many arms that are probably a couple feet in width. Since he's more flat than round, I was curious what you might suggest. I moved him a few years ago when he was much smaller and he actually fit on the floorboard of my car for transport across the United States. But now he's a bit trickier. And as I'm sure you understand, he MUST come with me :-)