Pete Smissen

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So, how have you guys been?

What have you been up to recently?

I wonder if I've told you.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned it recently, but I got back into cacti and succulents.

So, growing cacti and succulents, these desert plants, desert adapted, arid adapted plants, you know, they live in very dry conditions where water is not very accessible.

It doesn't rain very frequently.

And I am absolutely in love with a handful of genera, so groups, types of these cacti in particular, from South America and Central America.

The genera are astrophytum.

Ariocarpus and Copiapoa or Copiapoa, depending on how you want to pronounce it.

And they are from places like Southern America in like Texas area, Mexico.

And then the Copiapoa are from Chile, I believe, or Chile, right?

Up in the Atacama Desert there, where it's got all this fog everywhere.

that comes in, but it never rains.

It's really dry, but it has this ocean fog that the cacti are able to kind of take the moisture out of each day.