Cacti Assorted Pack (36) - Decorate Your Home/Garden with A Variety of Healthy Live Cactus by Jiimz

Note: I have had my plants for approx a month now.I anticipated them to arrive in rough condition, due to previous reviews and the amount of miles/weather they had to travel to get to me (I am in Alaska). Surprisingly, they arrived pretty alright. Sure, the soil was spilled all over the box, but the plants were intact. It took about an hour to clean up and replant them with better soil, into bigger pots. They were thirsty, and immediately perked up. Two of the more water-based plants got a little bit of frostbite in transport and are taking longer to recover, but two of the others were already blooming flowers within the first two weeks! Overall, I'm happy with the purchase- though it did take quite a bit of dedicated care to bring the plants back to thriving.

I ordered this cactus collection on May 10, 2012 and received it four days later on May 14. It came in a rectangular cardboard box topped with pink peanuts. You have to be careful when picking off the pink peanuts as I jabbed myself occasionally with the tiny spears. There was soil shifting probably due to a bumpy delivery so I used my minitrowel and plastic glove to clean the soil from the plants and to adjust the plant positions. All the cacti are very healthy looking and are contained in 2 inch square plastic containers. Quite a few look like they are bursting out of their containers and may soon need to go to larger containers. The soil was dry (as it should be) in all the containers.The cactus collection looks somewhat similar to the image on the internet, perhaps with a little less color. Four cacti have flower buds. Two had previously bloomed with the old flowers showing. The vast majority are good sized, especially when considering the price. There are many round or barrel cacti, while others have the familiar elongated oval shape (like half a pickle). One looks like a stretched out cotton ball, and is almost soft like a cotton ball on top, but prickly on the older growth. Another one has bumpy offshoots. This is a very fine and large collection.Update: July 09, 2012All cacti are well and alive.Update: September 17, 2012Three cacti have died. The rest are doing fine. If you have an area with a little sun and only want to water occasionally, I highly recommend this easy to care collection.

I ordered 9 of these little guys and am very happy with what I received! Each were a different variety and all looked healthy!!! They are smaller than pictures in description but than again close ups and cameras always make things look bigger. But I am NOT disappointed with size at all, it gives me the chance to help them grow. Packaging was great because I know its difficult to ship cactus. Plus the seller has to control over how the parcel service will handle packages. I loved seeing the HANDLE WITH CARE AND FRAGILE STICKER on it because that let's me know the seller cares and tries. Ofcourse some of dirt was outside of the little planters but that's to be expected with shipments bumps, etc. The styrofoam peanuts are an excellent choice that this seller uses. All around, I am very pleased! I can't wait to order again from this seller!!!

I bought these to give out as favors for my daughter's birthday. I am not a cactus expert, but many look the same. Hopefully some will bloom like the pretty picture. I don't feel like the diversity is what I was expecting. I opened the box and many of the cactuses are covered in dirt. I'm going to try and wash them off so I can see if they are salvageable. Two are definitely broken. I will need to add some soil to each planter and make sure they are firmly planted, right now most are very loosely holding in their container. Order early if you need them, work will need to be done - likely replanting.Here's my big complaint. It's a regular white box with no real indication of "this side up". That would be helpful to keep them in decent shape. Also they were packed with packing peanuts on the top of the cactuses. A barrier of some kind between the cactuses and the packing peanuts would be nice. I won't tell you how many times I used the F word as I got poked removing packing peanuts one by one. I guess I could have used tweezers to protect my hands. It's a shame, they are the right price for bulk purchase, and I think I will be able to clean them up well enough for gifting, but am rethinking the favors due to the fact that if I can't fix the 4 or 5 that look terrible and 2 are broken, I likely won't have enough for everyone.

These were my very first cacti. They came covered in dirt, which I'd read in other people's reviews, so that was not a surprise. I used an old make up brush to brush off the dirt. I highly recommend doing this before watering the cacti. When wet, the dirt won't brush off. I would also recommend having a pot and soil ready to replant these when making purchase. The pots don't seem big enough for the plants. I am very happy with them!

1. These were a lot smaller than I anticipated. The largest cactus was maybe 1.5 inches in height. The remaining 8 were an inch tall or less. Of the 9 I received, 1 was completed cut at the base, 7 had little to no root system, 1 had a fairly decent size root system. Most of them were out of their little pots and dirt was all over the plastic bags they were shipped in. The one with the decent root system was the only one that stayed in it's little pot. If we weren't in a pandemic I would have gone to my local nursery for cactus. I contacted a friend who is not being as careful as I am (I have cancer and am undergoing treatment) to go to a local place to pick up some cacti for me. What a waste of money.

I ordered 4 of these. They are much smaller than I thought from the pictures, but are still nice. The shipping box was tightly secured and packaged well but once opened it appeared one of the succulents were dead or missing however it was not. It was completely buried in the soil. Overall they are nice, just much smaller than I anticipated.

I was very pleased with the quality of these cacti. One bloomed almost immediately. However, I was slightly disappointed at the selection. I received four different varieties of barrel cactus. Something of a different style would have been nice. Overall, a good transaction.