T-rex Plants Blog
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Caring for Copiapoas: A General Beginner’s Guide
I'll preface this right away with the caveat that I have only been growing my 'poas for the last 3 or 4 years. Compared to the venerated growers who have had some of their plants for decades, I am still a novice copiapoa grower myself. Having said that - I've only...
Summer 2023 – General Update and Garden Progress
Apologies to anyone who typically visits my blog each week, eager to see a new post about a new plant, or an update to existing specimens. The last couple months have had a lot of chaos happening for me personally, and I needed to take a step back from writing so I...
How to Grow Echinocereus reichenbachii
I originally picked these up intending purely to resell all of them, but was so enchanted by the flowers when they bloomed before I could list them that I ended up keeping two. They're attractive even without the blooms, and a small enough size that they're easy to...
3 Big Tips for Indoor Plant Growing Success
Growing plants indoors is a whole set of challenges that are distinctly different from growing them outdoors. I'll preface this post with a note that due to my climate, I don't grow any succulents indoors at all, and would never consider any cacti indoors. All of my...
Star Aloe Hybrids Update – New Photos, New Hybrids
I keep telling myself I have enough aloe hybrids, that I don't need more, and where am I even going to put them, anyway? But then I see a new one at a local show or club meeting, and of course, it just has to come home with me. These are so easy to care for,...
Anthurium warocqueanum – Growing the Queen Anthurium
These beautiful, velvety-leaved plants are breathtaking when full sized. The photos online have captured the desire and imagination of nearly any houseplant enthusiast who's seen them, and I'm no exception. I'd always thought they would be too hard to care for, or too...
Gymnocalycium amerhauseri – an Uncommon but Ideal Container Cactus
I have a bad habit of scrolling through Etsy or Instagram, looking for Gymnocalycium species I don't have yet. These were from a seller that had quite a few Gymnocalcyium, all seed grown, and I decided to snag them even though I'd never heard of the species before. A...
Growing Anthurium pendens From Seed
This anthurium is a species I didn't really set out to acquire, but instead, was gifted a berry from a friend of mine to try growing for myself. Since I was already successfully growing Anthurium magnificum from seed, why not give these a go? To my delight, the same...
Gymnocalycium anisitsii – the Cactus With Many Names
This cute little cactus is one of the first Gymnocalycium species I ever took home - excluding the ubiquitous Moon Cactus, of course. It was my first foray into less common cactus species, and I was enamored with the deep red-pink color of the body. Little did I...
Variegated Monstera deliciosas – Thai Constellation and Albo
These two monsteras are two of the jewels of my tropical plant collection. Easy, forgiving plants that thrive even with our temperature extremes, haphazard fertilization schedule, and even more haphazard watering regimes. I posted about my Thai constellation several...