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This plant i have looks very similar to Opuntia monacantha variegata (Josephs Coat)
It is variegated, forms that pink tinge to it except it forms clumps, flowers a lot, and is a lot more tube like instead of out standard Josephs coat.
Here are pictures of itAnd this is what the standard one looks like
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Does anyone know what it is called?
Note: SOrry the images aren't across, i have them in this format:
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And yet the images still aren't across :S- 3
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(Sorry for the intrusion gr33ntea, hope you don't mind. )
haha all good man, damn, those opuntias are quite productive with all that fruit. I was interested in spineless opuntia for grafting. Opuntia root so much quicker then any other cactus (besides pereskiopsis) i know.
But the vascular rings are in such a tricky spot. I'll give it a shot with the aerole though
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A year or so ago I got a Luther Burbanks Opuntia. Basically a botanist (among other things) by the name of Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926) spent two decades selectively breeding Opuntia pads to be spineless, the goal was a spineless opuntia that could be grown in the desert for cattle feed. It was successful but the cactus needed constant watering and couldnt survive in the heat.
I was sold a Luther Burbanks opuntia and although it is spineless it still produces glochids. (All spineless or ‘Burbank’ opuntias bear tiny bristles (glochids) around areoles and on the fruit surface (Brutsch and Zimmerman, 1990).)Below is image of Luther Burbanks opuntia, from this site http://mattslandscape.com/detail/?plant_name=Opuntia%20ficus%20indica%20var%20burbank%20spineless#full_desc
The only proper spineless opuntia i can think of is the thin Opuntia Nopales because it doesnt have as much glochids as burbanks.
My Opuntia below looks like it has some opuntia robusta dna in it as it has an awesome blue tinge and is thick.
below opuntia sold to me as luther burbank spineless- 6
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I tried it doesnt work :S
you did it here ;)
http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=40546&p=488244
I uploaded the images again though, it wasn't from the gallery :S
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According to the seller, the ones he gave to me was a cutting that was planted in shade. So i am guessing that once it is in full sun it will look more like a super pedro. (blue tinge, bigger spines)
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When i post images they are like this
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Well shit. Don't i just feel silly.
Just for fun I decided to do up a couple of pics of mine.
{disclaimer} - The Super Pedro is in a pot, so would be fatter if it were in the ground. And I haven't seen this PC flower yet but it looks very much like PC to me.
Thanks for this image comparison, it helped a lot.
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The cactus on the left is a super pedro, while the thin one on the right is a pedro (trichocereus pachanoi)
The san pedro is thin because it is young, while the super pedro is a bit older and thus thicker.
How do you guys tell the difference between the two just by looking at it? They have similar aeroles and rib counts etc?
Super pedro close up
San pedro close up- 1
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Did this graft, i am surprised it survived. I forgot what the scion was called, it is fuzzy to touch
http://i.imgur.com/vCw8KPW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/U7F9a3i.jpg- 1
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Anyone got lots of spare cactus seeds from one of their trichs or some other type of cactus?
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Sooooooo, would it mean that the hairy clone and the non-hairy clone of pereskiopsis are genetically different enough not to be clones of each other? So they could cross pollinate each other?
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Damn i really want a hairy clone now
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pmd
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Hi, yeah, I think I should have to. Unfortunately, my wife is not really cool with my plans (doesn't really understand why I want a cactus).
I am sure you do a lot of things for her that are not cool with your plans. Tell her you're buying a cactus not a puppy, chances are she won't even notice it.
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If you live in europe. No Problem. I buy it on eBay. When it gets older it got one big spine. But still more pleasant than sparthulata. I have to look for a picture.
Can we see pictures? I am quite fond of pereskiopsis, they change their appearance drastically under different conditions. For me t5 fluro lights it becomes hairy. Full sun it becomes super spiky.
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I tried searching for Woolunda Monster Pedro, didnt find anything, does it grow really fast?
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I am doing some experiments to see which soil is the best for cacti seeds,
I am hoping someone is selling lots of cactus seeds particularly trichocereus seeds
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Keen for a small psycho cutting like 10cm and what sort of flowers does the Peres make, yellow??
Yeah they make yellow flowers,
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The second had longer leaves wooly areoles and no glochies. I buy it under the Name p. kellermannii. A Very interesting species.
For the love of god, if you have a glochidless pereskiopsis please distribute it to everyone else
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Based on what I read, pereskiopsis rarely produce seeds, even if it does, the seeds are sterile.
Never read that someone was successful in producing seeds.
I know that Mitosis and mutant had their pereskiopsis flower before.
My theory is that pereskiopsis is not self sterile and we can't cross pollinate because all our cuttings are from the same plant.
The earliest mention of pereskiopsis sp. i have seen is by a shroomery user by the name Una around 10 years ago (http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/2899325/fpart/1/vc/1)
What i am thinking is that one person (Una) got some cuttings from a plant and distributed it to everyone in America and eventually it went to Europe and Australia. So maybe all our pereskiopsis are genetically identical which means cross pollinating inst possible,
Where does pereskiopsis grow in the wild?
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A different type of Opuntia monacantha variegata? (Josephs Coat)
in Cacti & Succulents
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But not if it is from the Gallery .... i guess in future i will have to attach it somewhere and then post it Code: [ sharedmedia=gallery:images:10363 ] [ sharedmedia=gallery:images:10362 ]