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    Wretched pestulence in SoCal - need help

    Great, thanks for all the help! Unfortunately I can't move the TPC outside - it's huge and heavy - it took me and two professional movers to get it up into my apt and into the living room - and we almost couldn't do it..
  2. Yes indeed the veterans nailed it - MushroomMan you're correct with Lumberjackus and Huarazensis, and Nemistry that one you posted a pic of ("Sharxx Blue" is the strain name I believe) is the other. Now, since you two already got the seeds, the rest of you that played this little holiday guessing game and didn't get seeds the first time around, PM me with your addy and I'll get them out to you. I don't have all the crosses anymore but you'll each get some of them.
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    Cleaning bulk cactus seeds

    Keeping them in the fridge in water for a week or two is fine - the cold seems to help them germinate. If you just wanna go quick with it, once you mashed the mix all up in some water - strain it, then put the whole pulpy mess on a plate and run it through a food dehydrator - once the pulp is all bone dry, the seeds will easily separate from it with a little manual agitation. All the pulp won't get out of their, but that doesn't make any difference - just make sure it is bone dry for storage or else the not-quite-dry pulp can start to mold. When you sow the seeds though, make sure the lot you sow has been completely separated from the pulp, as the pulp can start to mold when rehydrated.
  4. I'm afraid no one has guessed them yet.. Very good guesses though - and both N1 and Psycho0 are top 10 for me.. I of course love the crested and mutant strains but I'm not really counting those..
  5. Yea Hookahead I've got a seedling that is behaving similar to the "WTF" strain you've got there - mine is a (SS02 x pach) x TPC but it kinda looks similar in the way it is growing, and it developed a bunch of little black rot spots near the growing cresty parts - this resolved itself though and it appears healthy now (although it has basically stopped growing since it is winter here now)..
  6. Ho ho ho! Ttis the season for gifting and receiving - life is good and ol' nitro finds reality to be quite enchanted and delightful these days - so I'm gonna share the stoke by sending two SAB'ers some of these mutant seed - it's a contest though, first 2 people who guess it win - here's the rules: 1. You can't have already received these seeds directly from me. 2. Guess which 3 strains of trichocereus ol' nitro finds most aesthetically pleasing - you just have to guess 1 of the top 3 - so you get 3 chances basically - only post 3 names max. Happy holidays!
  7. A deep Ayahuasca journey represented Cannabis to me as a weakening agent, a deformer - deforming of people's deeper vision and clarity, and of their purpose - a sidetracker, a sneaky stealer of dreams - wrapped up in a delicious, fragrant package just like alcohol is.. I noticed with me, the psychedelic parts of cannabis - the seemingly profound insights, turned out to be isolated points of perception - random "deep thoughts" increased, while big-picture vision became murkier and murkier. This is in stark contrast to the comprehensive 360 degree, holistic awareness and clarity that arises from ayahuasca, mushrooms, and cacti..
  8. I'd been growing them for about a decade - The TPM was fairly rootbound - when it flowers though it puts out several.. The TPC I'd grown since it was just a 20cm chunk, which I bought some 10 years ago. Both specimens were purchased at a small and now defunct cactus/succulent store in southern California..
  9. Haha I'd be open to that but I'm afraid 2013 produced minimal flowers for me - and none on my mutants.. Only 2 crosses did I produce this summer - T. bridgesii v. "Psycho0" x T. peruvianus v. "Paradeyes", and the reverse - Paradeyes x Psycho0.. That's a very fine cross, which may be making the rounds soon, but there was no windfall of glamorous mutant seed this year unfortunately..
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    Sick looking Trichocereus bridgesii

    I can't really tell what those "fine white hairs" look like from the pic - but healthy roots will have something like that - they look like hairs sort of. That thing doesn't look too bad off to me actually - TMB's often get sort of scarred with age and develop that pale callous type thing on them.. What it needs is some fresh healthy growth - good water, soil, fertilzer.. How much sun does it get per day? It almost looks like too much sun but that would be pretty rare inside..
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    peruvianus from GW is it an Icaro?

    Yea that is splendid - def a peruvianoid similar in look to Icaros - looks similar also to what some people call "macrogonus" and I see a bit of the cuzocoensis look in there as well.. Fear not the large areoles, as they are in vogue - Roseii #1 and Roseii #2 set the trend for this..
  12. Interesting - so you're thinking the little bugger with germinate and begin growing in the pereskopsis? Main issue I see is that you won't have a graft - the seedlings will throw roots and may successfully suckle off the water and nutrients from the pereskiopsis - but won't be grafted so it would just grow like a regular seedling..
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    Grafts -Photos & Updates

    You can also leave one or two on, let them grow, and then graft to them when they are big enough - basically you're making a graft tree at that point. You'll want to think carefully about space management in that case - pretty soon your scions will encroach on each other if you don't do it right - this happened to me, as seen in the pic below. I wound up removing that loph graft and the column under it and giving it to a friend - the crested tricho on the top had become quite imperialistic indeed and was on the verge of impaling the loph. behold:
  14. Can you post pics of what you've got in terms of mold? If it's the greenish blackish slimy mossy stuff you might needn't worry - I get that a lot in my seedling trays and they don't seem affected by it.. The stuff that will kill even large trichos is the fluffy white mold - kinda looks like dandelion puff - that stuff is gnarly..
  15. To avoid mold, always sterilize/cook the soil mix prior to planting seedlings.
  16. Right on - so it looks like I got a cross with the sausage plant in it - have not seen any terminating growth so far with my Bruce x Sausage hybrids - only have 5 left though, not sure about the other dozen.. One friend of mine says his seedling is doing the monstrose thing, as is one of mine - but that's a Bruce trait..
  17. Ok I'm a little confused now - the seeds I got a few years ago were T. bridgesii v. "Bruce" x T. macrogonus v. "Sausage" - that much I know. But then I'm reading where people are saying Yowie is the same clone - is this the case? On the Tricho Serious website he has Sausage as a bridgesii (though acknowledges it could be one of several species, and has it separate from Yowie which he lists as pachanoi. Can anyone clear this up? http://trichoseriousethnobotany.blogspot.com/search/label/Trichocereus%20Bridgesii%20Lageniformis%20Sausage%20Plant
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    Show off your freaks

    Here are a couple of mine that are going weird - these are hybrids from Oz so y'all are to blame for this Bruce x Sausage - that whole pot is Bruce x Sausage but this one is looking unusual - such a great cross - fastest growing hybrid I have encountered thus far.. These two are non-freakish Bruce x Sausage but they are so nice I have to show them off - the one on the left is my fastest grower and has serious attitude - to me it looks like an SS02 on steroids or something.. This is Super Pedro x J3 - the one in the foreground is a massive and increasingly horrific looking thing - dunno what's happening up top - looks weirder in person..
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    Grafting tips and tools

    Great work GoT! Sterile technique though isn't that crucial, at least in my experience - I clean the razor blade with alcohol to begin with, but then use the same one on everything I'm grafting that session without cleaning it in between - I'll sometimes clean off the slime from the previous cut in between grafts, but that isn't crucial either..
  20. HFS man that is incredible!! Wow oh wow..
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    purple traits in sso2

    Hhhmm, no, I can't really agree with that statement - that blonde SS02 x SS01 is more peruvianoid looking overall, and is much more thickly spined - like you can't really pick up a cutting of it without gloves on - and it's more of a lighter green with blueing whereas the psycho0 is a darker green with blueing.
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    purple traits in sso2

    Nice! Yea your SS02 x SS01 is no ugly duckling either! Do you have any pics of your SS02? That is a badass stand of that one you have going there..
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    purple traits in sso2

    Yea I love the spiny ones in general!
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