From humble beginnings .

Hi I’m Logan of Dead Crow Farms

I love plants… to the point it’s becoming a problem. I have spent the last two years learning about and growing Trichocereus cacti fully indoors. I want to share my obsession with others who share the same passion for plants. If I am honest I began my collection off a whim of seeing a Viceland report about traditional uses of San Pedro in Peru. If you know you know…

Rather quickly afterwards I began to hunt the web, looking around and trying to absorb as much as I could about these cacti. All I knew was I needed to find this special spikey columnar, I didn’t know what a trichocereus was, I didn’t know the difference between a Trichocereus Pachanoi and Cereus Repandus. You could say I was sort of sprouting in my own way. Including the fact that I am located in the Mid Atlantic, the only cactus I’d ever see are sad and dying examples of random succulents begging for light in the middle of a generic big box store, oh and don’t mention the ones with the goofy glued on flowers. Until I found it, a small online store that only sold one cultivar: the basic P.C. To me, a complete newbie, this was like I struck gold. I couldn’t punch in my credit card number fast enough, I checked constantly waiting for updates in the shipping, and I scrambled to find a simple T5 fluorescent light to hang in my window sill with my new found obsession.

Within a month this fella was extremely overwatered, etiolating heavily, and overall I was discouraged. Admittedly, I got this for its “effects”. I couldn’t help but want to get it back to its glory. Hours and hours in forums, watching every video I could find on YouTube, I slowly fixed my set up where I could. Fixed my soil mixture, Discovered the rabbit hole of lighting, A heat mat for promoting root growth, and what the hell a NPK meant.

Seeing that first P.C. growing better and getting more samples of trichocereus cacti just drove this obession deeper. Grow tents, high tech lighting and cycle set ups, and now I’m working to the greater goal of spreading examples I’ve grown from seeds for others to enjoy and just generally sharing my love for cacti.