They can be pretty pointy, but I already love spiny cycads like Encephalartos arenarius, so these are a breeze in comparison. As it is, you could probably figure, Dyckia goehringii is one of my favorite species and my favorite species to get pollen from for breeding.
Yes they are hard to weed around, but I have had to adapt. I better because I have 10,000 of these things. My tools are extra long forceps, hemostats, and for hard to pull weeds, extra long needle nose pliers. I split up large clusters with the sawsall and long welder's gloves and to clean the old brown leaves, I found a nice sickle shaped saw/knife at the Selby plant sale in Sarasota that gets in under the leaves and keeps me from being all cut up.
For those who like these things, here is a picture I've never shown anywhere. I put goehringii pollen on that Snaggletooth because I wanted to make something that would be red with big white teeth and a bit of scurfing. but larger than the other hybrids based with Arizona. Out of 400 seedlings, this was the closest I could get to what I was wanting to make. Tom
