Jan 18
Well, it’s winter in Tucson. You can tell by all the styrofoam cups on the cactus tips.
What, you don’t have cups on your cactus?
The sytrofoam cups protect the delicate growing ends of the cactus, so that they don’t freeze during some of our colder Tucson winter nights.
January 19th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Around the holidays you see santa hats on the ends. Not sure which is better. I heard you don’t want to use any type of plastic, because it holds in moisture.
Nice picture.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Hi Pat - I hadn’t heard that about the plastic cups, although I guess I’ve only seen styrofoam.
I pass this cactus on my way home - I love that the owner very carefully put cups on every tip!
January 20th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I grew up in AZ but never saw the cups on the cactus. Must be a tucson thing!
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