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  2. Posted

    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 :)

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  9. Posted · Edited by nitrogen

    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:

    IMG_1740_zpse27340fd.jpg

    And I potted up my favorites from 3 Australia hybrid seed batches I grew out:

    Super Pedro x J3:

    IMG_1743_zpsd4585245.jpg

    Super Pedro x Psycho0:

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    T bridgesii "Bruce" x T. macrogonus "sausage"/(Yowie?)

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    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..

    IMG_1751_zps54962ff4.jpg

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  10. Posted

    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.

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  11. Posted

    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..

  12. Posted

    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..

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  13. Posted · Edited by nitrogen

    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..

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  14. Posted

    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..

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    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!

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    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.

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  24. Posted · Edited by nitrogen

    Personally I'd get the pollen off of them, then put the pollen in a container with a desiccant to remove the water content - the problem with those filaments is that the pollen will pull moisture, and the moisture will lead to the pollen going bad pretty quickly.. If you dessicated the whole filaments that would work too - but you for sure don't want them to be damp in a ziplock bag for long at all. There is a product in the USA called "Damp Rid" which is excellent for this purpose.

    In general I like to collect the pollen by putting a glass/cup under the mouth of the flower, and using a knife or any such utensil to fluff the pollen off the filaments and down into the glass - can also tap at the outside of the flower to get pollen to fall out into the glass.

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