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Strybing pachanoi pupped last october and has grown 2 feet in the year since. Best growth of any of my potted trichs..

found this lil one flowering today

shady side of the patio .. huanucoensis + aff. pachanoi

Hey. So, I got this plant from awesome user T-trich as a "spineless bridgesii." I think it looks closer to a spineless scopulicola, but something looks a bit off for that as well. What do yall think?

hostilis, do you have any new photos of the BB Scop x TE Scop?

Some cacti enjoying the Indian Summer

looks more like a terscheckii than a cuzco meine Kamerad. All of my koehres scops were eaten by gnat larvae and i feel much better about it now.

Pmd. Thanxx mate!

EG, is that tarma you posted a photo of from huancacalorica or florida by any chance?

took 2 more photos while I was out there that look essentially the same to me but I figured I'd upload them anyway.

thanks for the input all. the skin is waxy and rough just like my other bridgesiis (and unlike the skin on most/all of my pach and pervus). I'm also leaning towards a bridgesii/scop hybrid.

here you go interbeing

You've seen completely spineless types around Tarma, EG? That would be news to me. All of the wild collected seed I've grown from around there has been very spiny, and the variation I've seen in photos hasn't included any spineless (or anywhere close to it) plants. Would be great if you could share those photos!

I agree that it looks knuthianus, but there are no spines emerging out of the new growth at all, paradox. And I haven't seen any knuthianus or cuzco with the epidermis swollen over the areoles like this.

Colder temps with higher moisture levels also will have an influence I've found. None of this matters though if you can find the legendary, authentic "True Blue" from high in the mountains of P*ru

The house where this old mother plant is growing is being gutted/renovated, and all of the cacti on the property are being removed. I stopped by today and asked the workers if I could take some cuttings from the brigesii. One of the men enthusiastically went at it with his shovel and I came away with a few pieces several feet long and one with 3 pups. I think this plant looks somewhat distinct from other mature bridgesii I've seen. I'm naming it "gracias" because this is all I could (repeatedly) say as the really kind man helped me grab these cuttings, and because, in general, I'm incredibly thankful for these cacti and the community surrounding them. This one is a fat, nice specimen, and if anyone here in the US is interested in it I'd be happy to trade some generously sized pieces away.

I started a bunch of Koehres "scopulicola" seeds, most of them germinated so they seem, like others have said, to be really fresh. I wouldn't be surprised if they turn out to be spineless/nearly spineless pachanoi, since they were said to be wild collected. Unfortunately I got fungus gnats that munched up all of the roots, almost a total loss

Short spine peruvianus (paradeyes?) X psycho0 young ones. I've noticed at least 6 different phenotypes in this seed.

does anyone have photos of the Australian PC ?

Yeah the little plant was a cutting he added some time after the larger plant had established itself in the pot.. i'm guessing it doesn't have a very healthy root system. I'll probably dig it out and give it its own pot, and if it looks healthy enough at the end of the season offer it for trade. I'd like to think the BBG would welcome the plant back, but it doesn't seem like theyre very invested in maintaining their tricho garden. I guess theyre trying to give the plants a "natural" habitat look by never feeding them / letting them rot away. It doesn't help that people seem to actively pilfer from their plants.

Thanks! Is the picture I uploaded not showing up for you? Here are a couple more: it's too bad that the front huanucoensis no longer exists at the BBG. The guy I got this plant from had several 10 foot tall specimens growing in his yard, so he probably got a cutting from the mother plant a couple decades ago. I tried comparing this plant to both BBG huanucoensis specimens that Trout has posted photos of, but it doesn't match either. I'm just guessing its the one from the front of the garden because of the shorter spines..

Huanucoensis I recently got from someone who said it was from the BBG. I'm guessing its the front bed specimen?

got here to california super fast. thanks again pimento!

Don't really understand the problem.. did you not look at the photos of the cactus before you bid on it? Its pretty clear which of verne's "peruvianus" are actually peruvianus (Icaros seed) and which are on the cuzco spectrum (Koehres seed).