This golden-spined beauty will steal the show in your desert landscape or cactus collection! Although flowers of golden barrel are amazing, the loveliness of the golden barrel persists year-round, rooted in an amazing harmony of color, form and spine arrangement. Plants flower when they're around 12 years old or 12 inches in diameter. Flowers have golden, pointed-tip petals and form in a ring around the crown of the plant. Native to Central Mexico, golden barrels can be grown outdoors in USDA plant hardiness zones 9 through 11. Older plants can tolerate full sun but also grow well in partial shade. Younger plants should be grown in partial shade to prevent sunburn. You can grow them in containers even in colder climates--just bring them indoors when freezing weather approaches. Golden barrels are generally propagated through seeds because plants usually form only one stem. This makes it difficult to routinely propagate the plant by rooting pups or offsets. Although some people think of growing cactuses from seed as a difficult process, it's actually easy if you follow the care instructions. Just be aware that they require different handling from other, more familiar seeds. Each purchase will include an instruction and care sheet.
S**A
Great germination rate
October 2020 update! The babies are 2.5 years old! I keep giving them away to everyone I know, but still have about 10 or 15 in my home. I buy tea cups at Goodwill and drill a hole in the bottom, and viola! Adorable succulent planter.I planted them all at once, not expecting a great germination rate (as often seen in cacti). About a month in I have 28 coming up, and more are still appearing. I can't say much other than the high germination rate at this point, given how slow cacti grow, but I will update as they grow.I sowed them in a succulent soil, leaving some on top and just barely covering others, and kept them moist by covering them for the first week or so. I still keep them moist, but uncovered at this point. I even transplanted a number of them into a new container, and they survived that.Good quality seeds.Update:Four months into my golden barrel experiment and I can say this: you NEED these seeds. These are the easiest cactus seeds I've ever worked with. I've experimented with them under various conditions, and they will grow just about anywhere. Including sending a couple outside into way too much sun and then bringing them back in.What seems to work best: warm (76 F), high humidity (keeping them under a dome), and artificial light (just a simple LED light), but almost anything has yielded live seedlings. And they're growing up fast! They look open pollinated, so it's been fun seeing the cute phenotypic differences.If you're on the fence about buying these, just do it. These have been really, really fun to raise. And with about 60 young cacti now in my care, it looks like everyone is getting a baby for the holidays this year.Update after 6 months: The babies are growing up nicely. I've got about 60 at last count. The ones under high humidity and a grow light look the best.
R**N
Not Recommended
The seeds came in a standard postal envelope without any indication they were from the advertised "Arizona Cactus Company". The only contents of the envelope were seeds in an unmarked plastic sleeve and without the advertised care sheet and germination instructions. There is absolutely nothing to confirm these are Golden Barrel Cactus seeds and I won't risk planting these in case they aren't cactus seeds and instead some invasive species. I would return, but it's probably not worth the effort.
C**E
Waste of money
Never sprouted
C**L
fake
it has not germinated, its been a month and nothing has sprouted
B**T
Nothing came up
I followed the instructions twice didn’t get anything
M**A
Mal
No ha llegado. Dice que hoy. Pero no traen nombres las semillas . compre muchas y no se cual es una ni como la voy a sembrar ya que hay cactus. Rosas. Orquideas. Me tienen loca sin saber nada. Gracias
A**E
No good
None of the 100 seeds even germinated and I went strictly by the book.
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