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  1. Ariocarpus is my favorite genus of cacti. I love the tubrical growth of the plant and how it blends in with mud even though it is most beautiful when uncovered. I grow many seedlings but i do not have many recent pictures of them. all seedlings are 10 months old now. Currently i grow ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus (one 3 headed graft and 4 seedlings),4 ariocarpus agavoides seedlings, 7 ariocarpus retusus subspecies trigonus seedlings, 8 ariocrpus retusus subspecies confusus seedlings, one ariocarpus retusus 4 year old, and one ariocarpus bravoanus 3 year old. also one ariocarpus confusus grafted to a pereskiopsis. You guys got any ariocarpus? i have only a few so i really want to see some of your collections. i have only seen a few really nice ones but at this point just about anything tops my collection of them. A. retusus A. Bravoanus A. kotschoubeyanus three headed graft. I will show off my seedlings once i get a chance haha.
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    Sacred Succulents Order

    Im perfectly willing to not have to use paypal, but my thing is i wish they would put pictures of at least some of their cacti for sale up. it would give us all a better idea of what we are buying. 2$ for a catalog is kinda silly especially when its hard to order from them and pay to start with. so who are these Ed and Betty gay collectors who spreading genetics around?
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    Sacred Succulents Order

    Im perfectly willing to not have to use paypal, but my thing is i wish they would put pictures of at least some of their cacti for sale up. it would give us all a better idea of what we are buying. 2$ for a catalog is kinda silly especially when its hard to order from them and pay to start with. so who are these Ed and Betty gay collectors who spreading genetics around?
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    What did you do to your cacti today?

    The way i have the main heads set up because they had so much vascular tissue i think i have at least 3 points of contact on the ,main heads to the root stocks. With the main heads having such large vascular tissue you would think it would be impossible to not have it fuse. Today i did more garden stuff. im gathering recycled plastic containers of my families trast to be used for seedling trays for the remaining 200 or so seeds i need to plant of my trichocereus hybrids. I may also be getting other seeds soon from a friend so i need these other containers. Might be getting an IR light heat mat for extra root development and higher germination rates.
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    Nursery greenhouse San Pedro?

    Looks like your basic american PC pachanot to me aka San pedro. This is the most common seen at least in america, The way i learned it is its some kind of hybrid or isolated clone which is more cold tolerant than "normal" san pedro hoever so far as we know this clone species was developed for landscaping or something of that nature, but the cactus is not found in the wild and such which is why we assume it is a hybrid of some sort. someone correct me if im wrong.
  6. Shoot, i just personally started my journey into Micro propagating and it has been a lot of reading so far and looking at pictures. I think someone young like myself who still has hopefully 50 more years at least of working in the cactus field this would be yet another project along with all the others. If im already growing ariocarpus, aztekium, and many other slow growers from seed than i might as well use the time im weighting on them to becomes adults to work on other projects/ Just because it is hard or will take a long time does not mean we should not try. Hell when most of us first started growing cacti and found out it took a couple years for them to even look much like cacti when grown from seeds. Now the germination time from seed to a foot tall does not seem like a lot of time to most of you, still a lot to me, so if i have the space and know how micro propagation, Chimeras, and whatever other experiments i will do if i can
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    What did you do to your cacti today?

    I took at least 10 other pictures i would upload but i figured this was enough. I left the ritteri on the root stock for this long in hopes of a flowering but i aw none so this year is graft and recovery year. Does anyone have experience with upside down grafts? I only know of one person personally who had one and it pups like a monster/
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    Sacred Succulents Order

    Oh thats cool. They nemed the clone after the area it grew it, cant wat to see what all these cluster fucking seeds end up like. I really want to order the catalog for sacred succulents it is just a pain in the ass for me to have to pay to see their products. But alsi a good wall to keep hister out.
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    Ariocarpus appreciation thread.

    So cool to know its rather easy to graft ariocarpus areoles, as 'easy' as any other grafting areoles. I dont have enough specimens to attempt such experiments at them moment Here is an update picture of my ariocarpus retusus Subspecies confusus scion grafted to pereskiosis. The one tubrical with the areole hair tuft is pretty new but there is another areole and tubrical forming below it and to the left. The whole scion is swelling nice and growing much faster than its brothers and sisters which are on their own root,.
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    Monstrose Cactus

    To my knowledge a true test of a monstrose form is for it to produce pups or be able to take cuttings and produce clones that have a similar mutation a lot of the time, such as now, cacti grow weird because of some environmental factor or damage.
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    Sacred Succulents Order

    I recently got seeds from Sacred succulent on a trade with a member on SAB who had ordered them and i had lots of crosses. 1 - Trichocereus huanucoensis X Trichocereus peruvianus ‘Serra Blue’ 2 - Trichocereus huanucoensis X Trichocereus peruvianus/ ‘Juul’s Giant’ hybrid 3 - Trichocereus peruvianus ‘Serra Blue’ X Trichocereus sp. SS02 4 - Trichocereus peruvianus ‘Serra Blue’ X Trichocereus huanucoensis 5 - Trichocereus sp. ‘Luther Burbank’ X Trichocereus sp. SS02 6 - Trichocereus sp. SS01 X Trichocereus pachanoi 7 - Trichocereus sp. SS02 X Trichocereus huanucoensis 8 - Trichocereus sp. SS02 X Trichocereus peruvianus/ ‘Juul’s Giant’ hybrid 9 - Trichocereus sp. SS02 X Trichocereus peruvianus ‘Serra Blue 10 - Trichocereus sp. SS02 X Trichocereus sp. ‘Luther Burbank’ 11 - Trichocereus sp. SS02 X Trichocereus sp. SS01 12 - Trichocereus pachanoi f. monstrosus X Trichocereus sp. ‘SS02’ 13 - Trichocereus sp. ‘Juul’s Giant’ X Trichocereus sp. SS02 14 - Trichocereus sp. Validus X Trichocereus sp. 'Lumberjack' I have no experience with any of these clones much less their hybrids except for 4 months of having an ss02 cutting so far. The one that interests me the most in your and my stock is the 'Serra blue' trichocereus. Anyone know what it is?
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    What did you do to your cacti today?

    A friend of mine finally sent me some grafting stock to get my aztekium ritteri grafted onto new stock. The old root stock was on its last leg. I had some of the root stock already but i needed to move pups to be able to cut the main head right. ONe of the pups grafted onto a myrtillocactus geometrizans. nice little twin In this one it is the underside of that pup, you can see almost a number 8 looking water core on it. i think the upper lobe is for the one pup and the larger lower lobe is for the other one. With that in mind i layed the scion on the root stock so that both areas of vascular tissue met with the ring of the root stock. I hopt they take at both points, if not i hope that at least one takes and feeds them both This is the aztekium head upside down showing where i cut off the old root stock and then spent an hour shaving it down without hurting the aztekium. The old root wstock had warped and twisted and hardened and just been a pain to remove. This is the last picture of it whole. I basically cut the aztekium head in half and this is what i saw. the bright color is always stunning and i see it in every aztekium ritteri i have seen cut open thus far. i love all the vascular tissue steming from the water core to the skin for the pups. There were over 36 smaller pups on the main head so it was impossible not to cut though some like this. 5 grafts in total. 3 large pups, the main head and the base which had the old root stock attacked to it which i grafted upside down to make a pup factory.
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    Mimosa hostilis

    I have MImosa Hostilis and they close up like that from what i have seen. I know many acacia and mims have thorns but if this plant has thorns i would say it is MH. I have always known all my mimoa hostilis to close up like this at night time and if it rains or is a little nippy I tried to add pictures of my mimosas but apparently they are too pic so i have to change their file size.
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    petunia violacea/Shanin

    Wrote this once and the page lost it ugg. Anyway this thread is about Shanin which i believe refers to the species petunia violacea which is a common ancestor of most common hybrid petunias. Though i am not talking about the hybrids. This species is thought to be a mild psychedelic causing feelings of flight or something along those lines. i read one or two of the old threads on here from 2004 about it but they have very few replies and all old information. I think i remember reading somewhere the chemical or whatever in the true Shanin plant is similar to what is in Salvia D. but no Identifiable alkaloids i know of have been found in petunias. I have done a bit of research but no luck. i got Shanin seeds from a trusted friend in texas several months back and being the nice person i am i shared them with a friend so she could grow them. she lived close so i could come see them. She planted hers indoors before i did mine and got a flower first. And here is how it looks. I have read that younger plants can still change flower color when they get bigger but to me this looks like all the pictures i see of shanin online. such as this ANyone know anything else about shanin or petunias?
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    Ariocarpus appreciation thread.

    I have only ever heard of tales of people grafting the areoles of ariocarpus. Sometimes i hear it works and then sometimes i hear it never works. I think it depends on the species, root stock and so much more that makes it hard. Grafting a wholoe specimen is hard sometimes especially when cutting away rot so many times all you have left is the areoles anyway. So sorry about your girls, ariocarpus can notmally handle everything except too much water
  16. Hello one and all! i could not find an introduction area so i will jump right into things. I am from the USA and have been avidly collecting cacti for almost 2 years now though i have been growing plants and cacti my whole life i only recently got into the psychedelic ones. last year i joined a different psychedelic plant forum(not sure if i can name names?) myctopia and i really enjoy it there and i here that it is just as good here. My favorite species of plant is Ariocarpus and now to the cactus porn. This is a Peruvian torch(trichocereus peruvanus) which was grown from seed back in 2007 from wild harvested seed from peru. It is one of the more "true" peruvian torches i have seen. It does not show signs of being a hybrid other than what may have happened in the wild. This second picture is of my Aztekium Ritteri scion grafted to a myrtillocactus geometrizans root stock. it was originally a 14 headed cactus but 4 heads went to a friend who grafted them. 2 of the 4 took. one was on a Ming thing(cereus forbesii monstrose) and the other was on a pilosocereus azures. Third picture is of my second aztekium ritteri graft which has over 36 heads, most are small and just starting to form. im working on grafted the larger pups so that i can graft the main head to a new root stock. The old one is brown and almost used up, when i cut it there was still green flesh under the skin so im leaving the aztekium on it till the rootstock dies. i hope to graft the stump of the aztekium ritteri that is left over once i remove the main head. I will take the small aztekium stump still attached to the root stock and graft it upside down to a new root stock to try and pup farm it. second picture is of both aztekium echinocereus rigidissimus ssp. rubispinus or the rainbow hedgehog cactus. this is just a little picture of it. water added for effect Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus triplet grafted to a stenocereus root stock. this one recently put off new growth not shown in the picture but it is doing quite well. after 2 months of rooting i checked on it to find more roots than i could hope for, glad the stenocereus is working good. Ariocarpus Retusus sub species confusus grafted to pereskiopsis (supposedly) spatulata. the pictures are a minor show of its stages from being grafted. I have had so many people try and tell me the color is sun damage/stress. its not, its from being grafted. the last picture shows the recent growth. its about 2 months old grafted and 9 months old as a seedling. My two lovely Trichocereus Bridgesii Monstrose cacti aka penis plant or penis cactus. I have both clone A and B in this picture with one of them pupping picture is about a month old This is supposedly a san pedro i grew from seed. grafted it a couple months ago and its looking really nice. but its 5-7 spines per areole. even seedling pachanoi dont have that many spines. so im guessing it is a random hybrid like most trichocereus are. I have way way more to show just waiting for someone to comment.
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    What did you do to your cacti today?

    I know that would be really cool if that is what poco is. Thats why i posted here thinking maybe someone knew. think i need to post it in one of those ID threads?
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    Trichocereus - Altman Nursery Strains

    There are a lot of fat bastards in here. A lot of Peruvanoids i would like to have, not too interested in the PC pachanots but i like san pedro even the PC. Not many long spine peruvians here, most look like pachanoi crosses of some kind or another. Any idea on the genetics>?
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    What did you do to your cacti today?

    So i have a couple things. First off Is the so called Trichocereus "poco" which as far as i can tell is syn with trichocereus Tarijensis. Any ideas on this one or what it really is? I bought it a month or two ago and had to cut off a large amount of spines near the tip because of those stupid fake flowers hot glued to the plant. What is the origin of this plant or its known history anyway? is this a so called "poco" or maybe its a cuzco? Second is that i have had this species of Opuntia for a long time, close to 10 years. for the first 3 it was in too shay of a spot but they have been growing good in this new full sun area for a few years. Anyway as of today the first bloom opened and i think i finally IDed it as some kind of Opuntia engelmannii of some kind. It has produced one orange flower with slight red or pink in the middle, but i know this species produces plants which make yelow white and orange flowers on one plant depending on the variation it is or hybrid. Early in the day Later this Agapostemon Virescens bee thing came by and pollinated it and took away a huge load of it.
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    Ariocarpus appreciation thread.

    Looks really beautiful. has this one flowered before? self fertile? did you collect pollen for future use?
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    Pelecyphora Aselliformis?...Peyotillo...

    From what i have been told or perhaps read over the past year Mescaline and other alkaloids are present in the plant to help ward off potential predators because the alkaloids are very bitter and unpleasant. Thus a mouse or other animal might take one bite of a cactus and then decide not to eat anymore because of the terrible taste. I am pretty sure this is correct but hell, misinformation is out there in bucket loads. The problem is some information which is not on wiki is known by other collectors. I read a post in the thread and got the pictures mixed up with the species in question. I never thought The rainbow had it in it until i saw this thread haha
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    Brazilian Rape' / Hapi available

    If only i lived not in america haha.
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    Lumberjack origins?

    I believe there are some pachanoi out there with more peruvianus in them and some peruvianus out there with more pachanoi in them. And an infinite combination inbetween. The evolution of the trichocereus genus is not fully known but they are all of course closely related and each has a bit of the other in them even if its only a bastard hybrid way way back or something.
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    Lumberjack origins?

    I will have to go back and read, i must have missed it somewhere. I have actually seen cacti called T cordobensis at my lowes last year and saw 1 this year as well. So what exactly is it? And oh lord the PC pachanot. Took me a year to find a pedro that was not a PC pedro. i have read about the bridgesii possibility. I and a couple others believe it has peruvianus in it as well if not as the main hybrid back in the day. I know spine numbers and such dont always mean much but the length, number and style reminds me of a short spined peruvian torch. like this one but not with the shield style areole of course.
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    Trichocereus ?

    I agree that it would seem to be one of your guesses. I have never seen this species before that i know of but after looking them up it looks like one or the other.
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