RE: New Mammillaria

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New Mammillaria

in hive-183841 •  last year 

That is a beauty! Cacti are like lithops haha: you can never have just one

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Nope! For a long time I refused to buy cacti because I killed too many except one that was utterly bullet-proof. Also a hook-spined Mammillaria clumper that is hell to repot and weed. I've had it for about 15 years now

Tongs or leather welding gloves?

Not a fan of tongs, except for weeding. They get stuck to the gloves too. I just resign myself to pulling out a few spines as I try to extricate the gloves from the cactus

There really isn't a good solution unless you can find something tough and smooth (and inflexible)

Nope. Even taking this home was messy, the spines got entangled with the shade netting I bought. Somehow I managed to extricate it one spine at a time and only one got pulled off