SirLSD

looking good teonanacatl. the race is on! here is my leading two that are blowing the rest of mine away. a texana and a cardona. few more pics will be up on my blog.

what size caespitose cuttings do you want? can you post into WA with soil and roots?

the last one in the pot looks kinda like a T terschekii?

overkill? no. i use a 250W metal halide and a 250W HPS together. others use 400W - that may be overkill.

thought id share a good pic of a cacti pupping from the root system when all the aeriols have been cut out. it was a loph grafted ontop of a geometrans that had the grafte removed. the base stock had no aeriols left and was left potted at the back of the garden. sometime later (6 months? 12 months? more?) it pupped so i dug it up for a look. red line shows where the cutting stops and the root systems starts. the new pup has come from way below where the cutting starts.

williamsii

woops. here is pics in jpeg

here is a pic of one of my seedlings that looks like it might be a verigated one. im going to leave it for a few more months before attempting to graft as i only graft to trichs and they work better when the seedlings are larger. verigated130407.bmp verigateddd130407.bmp

does anyone know what the cause of this is? could it just be damage to the growth tip/centre?

just kidding.its not really that one.

bad memory ace? already got one lined up for you. here it is:

figured i might as well put this pic in this thread. it is a pic for sabretooth. a 2cm and 3cm pup next to the mother

nothin gets the bad guys running like a 12 guage

these two are my best two by far. all 4 are cardona if my labeling is correct. some other pics in my blog. both had 2 seedling grafted to them. one on each has taken off. the other two have sat dormant. have now cut the pup off the second one to graft. hows everyone elses going? cardona1_050307.bmp cardona2_050307.bmp

i have used up all my grafting stock. even cut off boring grafts to make more stock available. if we have to start again i cant be in it. only have a couple of seeds left too. we had a month or two notice the first time. but we could extend the rules to allow peolpe to start late and finish late? say sow 4th april and graft 4th may and measure 4th may 08. then compare to our results for the 4th feb 08. if we keep track of the dates people start then any 12month period should be ok. pic of two unlabeled grafts. both have taken. both pupping madly

teonanacatl, whats up with that double headed one? is it one plant with a large pup or is it two seperate seedlings grafted onto the same stock? the photo makes it look like two seperate grafts pushing against each other.

here is my leading graft. cardona on pachanio in soil. two seedlings were grafted here. obviously only one of them got a good connection with the vascular ring. more pics slowly goping up in my blog sofar 14 grafts have taken out of about 30 or forty only one of my peres grafts have shown signs of growing.

up to 14 successful grafts now. the 2 big cardona are flying. removed a pup off one to graft but not sure if it will take. 2 other tex are not far behind the 2 cardona. rest are only just starting to take off. finally got 1 peres to start growing.

now have 14 successful grafts. here is updates of the leading two. cardona_160307.bmp cardona2_160307.bmp

2 from 8 is better than ive had. both grafted on 04/02/07 i think.

got both. pm me with offer if ya want

hmm, here is pics of my entry to grafting comp. i hope. only putting some up to save time and space. can post more of any particular one next year if it ends up being a winner. as of today 27/02/07 i have : 4 bursting into life. 13 possibles that arent growing but not dying. 16 failures. not graet stats. most have been grafted onto pachanois. it is really hard to sit them on the vascular ring hence the bad results. the 4 good ones have all been on pachanois. the 5 or so on peres have just sat there. is this normal? never grafted to peres before.

i got a huge pachanoi to graft it on to if you want? will be the quickest way to grow it big quickly so that you might get some back before winter.

too fat to be a scop?

yeah i think everyone should pull out except me. nah it would be no fun if there wasnt a serious comp. bring it on. though i only have 11 pachanoi stocks and 7 peres that are ready for grafting atm. probably 6 more pach and 5 more peres that will be ready in a month. just attempted to graft to 2 peres and 4 pach on sunday. not sure how many of them will take at this stage. pic of most of my grafting stock: