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Cheers EG! Yeah, who knows? I asked somewhere else and was told pachanoi. But I respect the opinions from here a lot.

Plant number 1 was described to me by the seller as being a "short-spined peruvianus". He's an older chap and claims to have personally imported all his plants from South America to Europe in the 60s. So no idea if it's a cross or not. Maybe he crossed some of his own plants by mistake and thinks it's what he says it is. ;) Anyway, it's a bit of a strange one compared to other trichs I have. Very sensitive to the sun (I burnt it once quite badly by leaving it in a greenhouse where other trichs were fine) and growns in weird spurts. Sometimes thick and sometimes thin and always uneven, you can't really see it in the photos above but it is a little "twisted".

Hello everyone I would be interested to know what you knowledgeable folks can tell me about these fine specimens: Plant number 1: Plant number 2: Plant number 3: Plant(s) number 4: Plant(s) number 5: Plant number 6:

These next two pics are of KK920 seedlings. Seed came from Uhligs in Germany. Spines look massive in comparison to the plant. They look really different to these KK919s in the next tray!

It's still really tiny, so I'm guessing there's a chance it'll still turn out normal. Here you go:

I planted quite a few bridgesii, pachanoi and peruvianus seeds in the last year. I had several bridgesii start out like yours and a couple of the others start growing in a deformed way. Of them all, there is only one bridgesii left which is still growing differently. The rest started growing normally after summer started and the sunlight intensified.

I was amazed when I bought it. I walked into a specialist cactus nursery and found a TBM. I then asked if they had any regular bridgesii and the woman who was helping me said no, because regular bridgesiis are not very interesting plants! I carried on browsing and found a crate of thin looking trichs shoved away under a table. I had never seen a bridgesii in the flesh, apart from the TBM I had just found and the woman wandered over and told me that those are san pedros and asked if I knew san pedros. I was thinking: "What are you on about? San Pedro could refer to several different kinds of trichocereus." But I thought that it must be a bridgesii from the pictures I had seen and asked for one. She then pulled the one I pointed at out of the crate with a set of tongs and up came the plant and ball of roots without the pot and she just stuck it into a new pot the same size. The ball of roots was rock hard. When I re-potted in spring I could not separate the roots and just had to put it in new soil and hope for the best. It seems to be getting on fine though. Rapidly growing pup(s) would be great, so yeah I will leave it be and just try make sure it does not get so heavy that it snaps or stake it before it gets that far. Since the scars are nothing serious I am not concerned about them either. As you say, more character. That plant has sure had some hard times! I hope it carries on improving!

Thanks for the tips EG! I'll keep an eye on the sunburn then. If it's not a must to re-root then I'll leave it as is. I was just worried that it might become too top heavy and need to be re-rooted anyway, but if it can survive and prosper like that then I'll leave it and see how it carries on growing.

During last winter I picked up a bridg: It was seriously root bound being in a pot about the size of a coffee mug. I replanted it in a large pot at the beginning of summer and it's been been growing like mad and is also pushing out a pup at the base but I have notice a couple of problems. First: I have noticed patches of white skin. Is that sunburn? Should I be concerned? Second: It is now growing fatter at the top than at the base and leaning over: I was thinking of cutting it at the point where it goes from thin to fat (about one third from the bottom) and rooting the top part in a new pot. Does anyone have any other ideas or should I leave it alone?

I sowed more bridgesii and loph seeds recently and they are popping out all over the place. The sun has been out and about much more recently and temps are rising so I potted 3 new bridgesii cuttings, repotted another badly root bound bridgesii, potted a spachianus cutting, put together a green house for them on the balcony and got them together with all my other mature cacti out there! My back was kinda sore at the end but it was worth it.

After searching far and wide through the interwebz a few weeks ago I finally decided to buy what are known as tneon lights with a reflector for my smaller cacti. It seems that a lot of sources recommend t5 lights. For some reason t5 fixtures are really expensive here and I had a look at what a few grow shops have on offer. The tneon set was really cheap and allegedly the lights are comparable with t5s. I have one 6500k and one 9000k bulb. Here is the rather makeshift setup next to my desk: This unfortunate fellow was gifted to me with some other cacti. He was full of rot and I cut off the roots and tip and a chunk on his side. I tried to root him before the end of summer but he only put out a couple of tiny ones. When I got these lights a few weeks ago I decided he was candidate number one. Just today I noticed that he is much fatter, looks a healthy colour and he has roots popping out of the bottom of his pot! His larger brothers also seem to be doing fine. I am quite impressed. I'll be interested to see how they are doing by the time spring gets here.

Hmmm, thanks for the tip. I guess i'll leave it for now and remove the pup in spring.

Picked up a few new plants yesterday: 1. Peruvianoid / Macrogonoid 2. A small loph caespitosa and an unidentified Loph grafted on what appears to be another pervianoid with a pup growing on the side. 3. Last, but definitely not least, a pach crest!

The one I have seen looks somewhat similar to this. 5 days to go...

The price is right, but an auction. I'll see how it goes. Thanks!