[Rhynchites auratus]

On 29/06/2019 at 5:28 PM, trucha said:

What did you use to capture that beautiful image? Very nice!

 

Just my smartphone camera (Pixel 2xl) and a cheap clip-on macro lens from amazon

[Salvia Divinorum cuttings]

9 hours ago, LLotus said:

I know this post is a little old  but how did these get through customs? Any info'd be great  A PM would make me a happy guy!

Sorry to disappoint mate, I live in Europe

[Sceletium seed pod]

Thanks mate, this was just taken with my smartphone camera (Google Pixel 2XL) and a cheap clip-on macro lens from amazon.

[VRG x Peru2 trying to be a loph]

Several of them from this batch of seeds are looking similar

[Weird Chalaensis x VRG]

[Last Raspberry This Season]

 

[Chalaensis x VRG]

Little update a week later, it's looking weirder and weirder almost like the non variegated part is trying to munch on the albino part

[What variety of Khat is this?]

Thanks a lot PH, they all came from the same seeds so maybe it's just different phenotype expressions.

[What variety of Khat is this?]

More pics:

[Red Indo Krat Getting Purple]

Definitely was helped by cold weather, but my other genetics did not change color at all. Those Red Indo seedlings have always been especially red, here's a pic from last year:

 

[Red Indo Krat Getting Purple]

[Year & a half Kratom seedling]

Nice, but unfortunately it's not uncommon for us to get -8°C to -10°C in the heart of winter here so I gotta bring them inside.

[Dawson Pasacana x OP]

17 hours ago, Inyan said:

Any updates on this little one?

Sure, there you go

 

[Blue peru getting freaky with it]

[2 phenos of Fields Pach x Dawson's Pasacana from the SAB store]

Longer spined:

 

Shorter spined:

[Happy Cathy]

That colour! So beautiful

[Trichocereus x long haired pere]

Damn would have been a cool chimera 

[Kanna blooming season]

Thanks PH, I'll try pollinating it again but so far all my attempts have failed, and everyone I know who's had  flowers never saw a seedpod. I actually can't find a single picture of what a kanna seedpod looks like.

 

Got lots of clones and the mother is nowhere near root bound, kanna doesn't have a very aggressive root system ime that's why I like using it as a companion plant for trichos

 

[Kanna blooming season]

Yeah I don't really understand the cycles of this plant, it flowered for me in early spring (around Feb/March) then went dormant and skeletonized during most of the summer then started growing actively again around the beginning of August.

I started this plant last year from a small cutting and it stayed under lights for its first 6 months or so.

 

I hand pollinated it last time it flowered, but like I said the flowers don't seem to have a stigma, only stamens. That makes me think Sceletium is probably dioecious and I have a male. Hopefully the one I grew from seed is female if that's the case.

[Sausage Fest Peru (more pics inside)]

Haha, the little seedling on the left is poplar I think, I pull those out as they have aggressive roots.

But I did start cover-cropping some of my cacti with crimson clover, white clover, alfalfa, mustard, phacelia and tares.

 

I use this mix on leafy plants and it makes a great mulch & compost, innoculates the soil with N-fixing bacteria, helps soil structure, fights bad nematodes, and is a first line of defense against pests.

[Collana Pichu's amazing skin texture]

I just brushed my fingers on it quite heavily and nothing came loose, the spines are still quite flexible though with it being so young.

[L. fricii cv. Kikko degraft from China]

I definitely hope to cross it with some of my other weird looking lophs. It hasn't flowered for me at the moment though, but I recently removed and grafted a bunch of pups growing on upper areoles. Not sure on the species yet, I assume fricii but the seller never labels his plants.

 

I ordered what I believe is a cv. Takenaka this week from this same seller, can't wait for it to arrive. A cross between both of these plants with weird turbercles could turn out nice I think.

 

I also hope to cross it with this other japanese cultivar I've had for a little while, cv. Ooibo Ginkan:

[Psycho0 Middle Cut]

Here it is now

[jourdaniana var. mammilaris 61.jpg]

3185, the seeds were purchased last year though so yours could be a different batch

[jourdaniana var. mammilaris 61.jpg]

Very nice choice Inyan, I grafted one of these from koehres seeds a few months ago and so far it definitely seems true to form, it has permanent spines which are quite hard and not brittle, very fun to touch. Hopefully it'll bloom before the end of the season so we'll see if it has jourdaniana flowers.