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  4. Posted

    Brugs and datura are similar but where as datura are short lived plants with erect flowers, brugs can grow into massive trees and have flowers that hang downwards. This is a pic of mine. Looks a bit worse for wear but like I said, she only came back from the brink of death not long ago... IMG_7284.thumb.JPG.735fa52bf004f4e6a282c3bc2e9ec1c8.JPG

    And here's a pic of one in flower that I stole from the interwebs...

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    This culebra plant is quite cool as it's kind of like a monstrose brug. In fact, Richard Schultes didn't even place it the brug genus when he discovered it, he named it Methysticodendron amesianum, but it has since been found to be a brugmansia.

    I'll take a couple more cuttings and send you one when they're ready Skellum. :) 

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  7. Posted

    Hi everyone! :) 

     

    For anyone that is into their brugs I have a spare little rooted culebra cutting. Thought my plant was going to die so tried to propagate it. The mother has sprung back to life now so this little one needs a good home. 

     

    Would be interested in trading for something, maybe, I'm not sure what. But if no offers come up and someone is willing to pay postage? I would fix it up but the accountant has been cracking the whip lately. 

     

    Anyway, let me know.

     

    Cheers! :) 

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    Hi Skellum. 

    To answer your questions, apparently there is a difference in alkaloid profiles with grafted and seed grown plants. I can't say this through experience but the thought process is that a seed grown plant has more time to build up alkaloids compared to a grafted plant of he same size. The time taken to grow them is where the price difference comes in though.

    As for naming hybrids, the convention is to list the mother plant first, i.e. the plant with the fruit on it. So if you had a flower on Jeans that you pollinated with pollen from Cliff the resulting seeds would be labeled T. bridgesii 'Jeans' x T. bridgesii 'Cliff'. This doesn't imply that they are either Jean or Cliff but rather a hybrid of the two with Jeans being the mother. Hope this helps! :) 

     

    Also, Rhinocerous I might be able to help you out come springtime. Get in touch with me then. :) 

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    very nice chilensis's Psyentist, now i wish i had of been more discerning when i was at Fileds and got one of each :)

    the one i have looks to be like the first chilensis pic you posted

     

     

     

     

     

    Yeah, I reckon it looks the most like the first plant too mate.

    And that's about the best reason I've heard to go back for a visit! :) 

     

    Quite liked the look of this fella this morning. T. werdermannianus KK917...

     

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  16. Posted · Edited by Psyentist

    That's beautiful Nrivers!

    How old is he?

    And Spooge, last time I was at Fields I got cuttings of 3 different chilensis. The one in the earlier post was from the big one next to the garden valida. Here are the other two...

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    I was told the second one is 'longispinus', it's located behind the little waist high shade house thing towards the front (road side) of the garden. The first is located somewhere in between the other two.

    Also, that pachanoi is ridiculous! :) 

     

    Thought this guy was looking particularly perky this morning...

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    :) 

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    Woah! That things a beast spooge!

    Looks like he's eaten too much pudding. :) 

    Sorry for off topic, but when I just upload straight photos from my phone they always come out sideways. But if I crop just a tiny bit of the photo, they come out sweet. Hopefully maybe this could help you mate?

    On my daily cactus appreciation walk today this badboy caught my eye.

    Chilensis from fields...

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    Really need something for size reference in there, photo doesn't do it justice. 

     

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  20. Posted

    Also, if anyone is interested, the eBay seller thelivingrock has some super nice variegated plants listed at the moment! A couple of peru's and a few lophs. 

    And on top of them being super nice plants he's also a super nice guy! 

    Get amongst it! :) 

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  21. Posted

    The pics I put up of Jim's Special peru are from cactus country DB. Jim has started putting J numbers on other plants, not sure what number he's up to but I got a cut of J11 when I was there. As far as I know he hasn't numbered this one yet. 

    Here's the story I got from Pd...

    'The mother plant is much bigger than the one pictured (JS pach) and ive had my cutting growing in ground since 08 or 09, it had the label js from the day myself and sab member Marsha, formely known as yowie finally scored a cuttimg. We got half each.
    I had asked Jim every visit to get a cut as he told me that that particular plant was "very strong" according to the one person who had purchased bulk from him (afaik the guy passed away some time ago but a couple of old sabbers knew him) anyways there is only the one big plant and Jim didnt wànna cut into it even though I had (after much persuasion) convinced him that such a plant has to be circulated throughout the community. He wanted it to gain more mass before letting it go. Finally though I managed one decent tip cutting. So the day I got it I knew what the name had to be and that it was the last old plant at jims that was imo worth goin in the J plant collection. 
    Jim has alot of new hybrid trichos he was planting out when I stopped going out there ages ago but the J plants are all old originals apart from super ped and psycho.

    Js is similar to j3 and it has that yellow blotching at times, wether it is from sucking insects or a virus im unsure but it shows in 2 or so other plants I have and some arms don't have it at all so its got me. Doesnt seem to affect growth for the most part.

    So there ya go, I have given out 3 cuttings so far and another is going on eBay tonight or tomorrow with the other j clones. Ive waited years to get this one out there!!!'

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    There's a bit of confusion surrounding this whole Jim's Special business.

    After speaking with both Jim and Pd it seems that Pd named his one of his own accord and while the plant and his name for that plant has been around a lot longer, the plant that Jim calls Jim's Special is the plant in doublebennos/masterB's pic and the eBay listing. The eBay listing is by Jim's son so I think he would have a pretty good idea. Apparently Jim didn't even know that the J plants were from his garden until recently, they are names that Pd attached to them.

    I've got both JS's growing in my garden, one is more pachanoi like (Jim's) and the other more peruvianus like (Pd's). I think the Jim's Special name is deserving of both of them so I just have them labeled Jim's Special pachanoi and Jim's Special peruvianus. Seems like the best solution to me. 

    Pic of Jim's Special pachanoi late January 2017...

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  23. Posted · Edited by Psyentist

    Very nice plants!

    The first one is especially nice! :) 

    To my untrained eye they both look peru.

    I though knuth had older spines that turned grey with swollen bases.

    And the second could be a pach or maybe some sort of pach/peru intermediate, it's just the areoles look a little big to me for it to be a straight pach.

    I'm certainly open to the idea of being wrong. As godless said, I'm definitely no expert.

    Evil genius is the guru on this sort of thing so if he see this I'm sure you'll get an answer. 

    Happy gardening! :) 

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