Skip find

[zigs]

Been lookin in the shops for some friends for Owcho with no luck. Found these in a skip yesterday

Owcho is already lookin pleased

 

[alp]

@zigs Please make sure you upload the pics when the last one is in flower.. I know they will be lookers. Mine hasn't been doing very well this year, as is everything else!

 

[Larisa]

Friends or competitors?

Better one, but special.

True, Owcho?

 

[Beverly]

Definitely friends @Larisa, so funny

@zigs Owcho is looking very perky indeed

what's a "skip"?

 

[alp]

@Beverly Here is an image of a well used skip, probably where @zigs found his plants..

 

[zigs]

That's the one Alp

Owcho could do with some friends Larisa, he makes seeds every year but none of them have been fertile.

@zigs Owcho is looking very perky indeed

what's a "skip"?

He's not doing bad now, when I got custody of him from the last mrs zigs he was in a tiny pot and had been used as an ashtray

Skip is like a dumpster but made of metal like the one Alp showed

 

[alp]

I always look at skip - wondering how people want to throw away lovely wood. Beautiful planks of wood, newly sawn and yet buried in skip.. and buckets. I'd love a bucket for my plants - strong, industrial and sturdy..

 

[Daren]

Great finds Zigs you got about 5 Mammillaria gracilis a couple of something I cant remember lol and owcho, I think he is a notocactus all though I could be wrong been a while since I read up or grew Cacti.... Gracilis are easy to take cutting just pick one of there heads off and pot it in some sandy soil & keep dry till it roots

 

[zigs]

Ta Darren

I got that impression by the way their heads keep falling off

I'd best not tell Owcho he's a notocactus, he'll sulk

 

[alp]

Ah, by the way, @Daren, why do you make our lives difficult by missing one r??? Hahahaha! And @zigs Have you finished repairing your old buildings then? Is that an aide de memoire?

 

[Beverly]

@zigs Oh thanks, i know skips as Dipsy Dumpsters and frequently they had wheels. We lived in Seattle on a steep, narrow, and cobblestoned street, and a favorite past time for rambunctious youth leaning toward naughty would be to let lose (at about midnight, mind you) a Dipsy Dumpster at the top of the hill with a big push. The DD would bounce off whatever cars were parked on the street on the way to the bottom of the hill and wow, did it make a lot of noise

 

[zigs]

Cor, imagine if metal skips had wheels on

Ah, by the way, @Daren, why do you make our lives difficult by missing one r??? Hahahaha! And @zigs Have you finished repairing your old buildings then? Is that an aide de memoire?

Never finish repairing them, too many of them

 

[Becky]

They look in need of some TLC - good job they found a home with you! Glad to hear Owcho has some friends now

 

[Beverly]

Cor, imagine if metal skips had wheels on

The Dipsy Dumpsters are metal too and the reason some of them have wheels is that some alley ways are too narrow for the trucks that come around to empty them so the DDs have to be rolled out to the street.

 

[zigs]

Blimey

Potted a few of em up