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Well if I understand right, you could take a trichocereus, and graft every areole on the cutting - and so wind up with like 50 clones from a 12" cutting - is this incorrect?

Mushroomman - yah I've got some interesting little buggers from this year's crosses as well - here's some pics of a few of those as well as some Roseii#1: TPC X SS02/SS02xpachanoi/Juules: TPM x (SS02 x pachanoi) TPQC x TPM (curious to see if this cross puts out more freaks than the Psycho0 x TPM and (SS02 x pachanoi) x TPM crosses - if so we can deduce that the TPQC is cresting at least partly related to genetics, I would think.. Roseii # 1 x open pollinated

Wow, those photos are awesome - love your collection Bogfrog! Here's a pic of a grafted piece of TPM x SS02 - it has just started really growing and looks badass with the contrast between fresh growth and the suburned part.

Seriously bro, time to come off with some heavy greenhouse picture porn..

Nice! I have some of Zelly's validus hybrids going myself - def excited about the Validus x Lumberjackus cross..

T. Lumberjackus FTW! It looks like a bridgesii with an attitude problem.. Not that it isn't beautiful, but it def has a vibe..

Those are really cool! One of the neatest hybrids I've seen - don't have any in my own garden but I sure appreciate the pictures.. Wonder if the Validus hybrids via Zelly and Mel will have that sort of look to them? Hopefully this year in Oz y'all can get some more terscheckii hybrids going

Nice pics! I think there is something about the spachianus genetics - the Roseii #1 seedlings I have look distinctly spachianus, some of them.. Dunno why that would make a difference though..

Yea that looks like some real-deal old world pachanoi right there!

Beautiful pics! My open pollinated Roseii #1 seedlings are mostly variegated - only about 3% survived, but of them 5 are variegated - I'll post pics when I get some time - really pretty little things - they are grafted which is the only reason they survived I do believe

Nice - is that the Yowie/Sausage clone in the first two?

Hi Mushroom man - that cactus of your does look similar - what is Dawson's garden?

Yah its not an Icaros I know that..

Noticed that my grafted section of TPM x SS02 is starting to grow - woo! This is my mutant project - we have a T bridgesii cristata, a caesposita, and now this cross growing on the same pachanoi: And I potted up my favorites from 3 Australia hybrid seed batches I grew out: Super Pedro x J3: Super Pedro x Psycho0: T bridgesii "Bruce" x T. macrogonus "sausage"/(Yowie?) Also, anyone know what strain this is? I totally dig this fat blue peruvianoid from Australia - heard maybe it was "Sharxx Blue" or something? I got it with a a cutting of Roseii 1 and Roseii 2 - I prefer this to either of those I think..

Here's my examples of this cross - two are similar crest but the the other one has the really closely spaced ribs - and is putting out a very pretty little columnar - I'm curious to see what happens to the columnar section - will it go crested and I'll have a "crest on a stick" or some such thing? The one in the back started out monstrose, then went dichotomous and both columns are normal thus far.

Well, it went cristata, and those sections keep growing cristata, but it has also put out some columnar sections which continue to grow.. I'm curious to see if the TPQC x TPM cross puts out more mutants than the other crosses in which TPM was the father - if so then I guess we can deduce that the TPQC's behavior is at least partially genetic rather than some weird mutation brought on by slug infection or whatever..

From the 2009 batch of TPM x SS02 that Hellonasty and Watertrade posted I got two types of crests also - the more common looking one like Hellonasty posted and then also the really tight/small ribbed one like the last one that Watertrade posted.. I'll post pics of mine here when I get some time to take new pics.. There's going to be quite a few of these beautiful crested/monstrose type things coming out of the 2012 crosses, and a way more seeds went around than from the 2009 batch, of which there were only 300 some seeds total in the fruit.. The TPM x (SS02 x pachanoi) cross is a winner for sure, in terms of freaks - 6 of the 9 I've grafted to pereskiopsis are going weird on me.. Naming the individuals that go into circulation could be fun and useful - the most important thing though of course is that the hybrid/parentage is accurately represented - i.e - "TPQC x TPM v. 'Tarantula'", or whatever..

That one does look similar, Nemesty.. I didn't ask Malo where it came from but I think it was one of several cuttings he got straight from Knize - he ordered a whole bunch of cacti from down in South America - his garden has a variety of fat, beasty pachanoi types - all growing in the ground.. No way the huarazensis is the same as Juules giant though - least not what I've seen of Juules, which looks a lot more similar to a "normal" pachanoi.. In that picture that Mira posted - I'm not sure those are all the same - I think that might be the T. "Puquio" up against the fence there and the really tall columns with that unusual ribbing/undulations on them - the huarazensis is in the foreground on the left - the 3 smoother ones on the front left.. I remember when I was there he had T. scop, T. huarazensis, T. puquio, and T. ayacucho all planted near each other - the huarazensis had got as tall and fat as the others by that time though.. All of them looked to be in the area of 6-8" wide on the biggest columns - they truly seemed like trees to me, like if you wanted to you could shimmy up them and they might hold your weight..

Sure thing - the one have in the USA is called "huarazensis" - I've attached a pic of it - def pachanoi type but is immediately distinguishable in person from others due to the notches and tiny spines - it also turns bluish in a way that regular pachanoi don't usually do.. It got a reputation going for apparently strong spiritual energies that emerge from it.. As far as I know most all the cuts are from Malo up at the nook who has a beast of a mother plant - I was lucky to see it in person - this one gets very thick, moreso than regular pach - kinda like a scop or some such - fast grower too - great plant overall, easily my favorite pachanoi type.. Malo crossed it with a variety of other pachanoi types and also crosses it with my N1 - on the huarazensis x N1 cross though we are not sure if the N1 pollen took or one of the others - open pollination could have easily occurred as his garden was flush at the time with flowers - my seedlings from this cross def look more huarazensis than N1 but they are small enough that the mature spines are just starting to emerge..

Look like bridgesii to me - all of them. Could be hybrids though with bridgesii dominant - really hard to say - if the bridgesii was the mother and the father a pachanoi or whatever, the offspring could look very bridgesii indeed..

Definitely some weirdness in my garden at this point - have about a half dozen of each cross growing on pereskiopsis - one of my (SS02 x pachanoi) x TPM looks like that spaceship from Prometheus..

Nice pics! Love the hemisphere thing here on earth.. I've had fine success grafting seedlings that were quite older onto pereskiopsis - like 1-2cm seedlings. I also cut a pup off of two of my crested TPM x SS02 seedlings this fall and grafted them to pereskiopsis - hooked up just fine and are growing well.. Those pereskiopsis are champs!

I brought my pereskiopsis grafts indoors for the mild winter here a couple weeks ago and they have taken off - they get only indirect light, but my batch of seedlings has started growing very fast on them when they had almost stalled while outside - the pereskiopsis like the warm temps for sure!

I get the pollen into a ziplock bag, by first rustling it out of the flower, and then I take a steak knife to scoop little bits of the pollen out and onto various parts of the other flower's stigma - with a pointy knife you can basically drop a little clump of pollen right in the opening. Using cotton swaps you wind up with more pollen trapped in the swab than on the stigma.

Love that open pollinated psycho0 - gorgeous!