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    "Serra canyon" is a bridgesii also -" serra blue" is a peruvianus - I grew out some Serra Canyon x SS02 a few years ago - nice bridgesii - only have 3 left and they have done very poorly due to being planted in a bad spot haven't grown in like 3 seasons - they were a good looking bunch of seedlings though I remember that..

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    Wow - super gorgeous grafts, man!

    I've gott get into growing ario's and astros from seed - is it hard?

    Per the penis plant on pedro - I have never observed the "slow-growing TBM" phenomenon that others describe - In my experience TBM's - both clone A and clone B - grow about as fast as a typical bridgesii - once they get going the clumping variety will put out a flush of pups that will each grow to maturity very quickly. They just need to be watered and fed right and they can be quite vigorous..

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    Nice - that is a fat one you got there!

    BTW, the pics I posted are all of the same plant in the same pot - just at different locations and different times - it changes its appearance quite readily based on environment.. All trichos do, but I notice it quite dramatically with the Lumberjackus..

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    Halycyon Daze, the variety with the very fat cuts that went around might have been the T. "huarazensis" - I got a couple of those and they are indeed massive.. It grows fat in general, much more so than either Lumberjackus or Eileen.. It's a pachanoi type though - looks nothing like the lumberjackus...

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    That's interesting - I had not heard that about the thick cuts and over-hyping and so forth.. But I have heard very little actual info about the spirit of the plant in general - lack of data is what it amounts to..

    I don't recall v. Lumberjackus ever being sold or traded en masse - here and there people have propagated it and sold/traded/gifted it - but there was never a large motherplant like Eileen - certainly never cuttings as thick as Ed's Eileen.. It is not particularly widespread in general either from what I understand..

    If it is allowed to grow big enough though it looks like it would get thick - the new pups on my Lumberjackus are generally thicker than the new ones on my Eileen, and we saw how thick Eileen can get..

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  13. Posted · Edited by nitrogen

    Here's some updated pics - these are the (SS02 x pachanoi) x TPM - I grafted some of each cross but this cross I grafted first and they got a head start - they all look like they're growing a bit unusual to me, though it's too soon to tell for sure..

    The one though in particular is all sorts of weird - it's putting out little pups at the end of each of the original areoles, and then in the center looks like it's starting to crest or some such.. If it turns out the crosses with TPM as father have a high freak rate as well as the TPM mother crosses that'd be awesome.. The last pic is a lone TPM x (SS02 x pachanoi) which is starting to look a little odd also - finger's x'd!

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  18. Posted · Edited by nitrogen

    Stillman those sure look healthy whatever they are! That cross would have been TPM x SS02 rather than the reverse - not sure if y'all just say it differently in Oz, but I've always been under the impression it is said/written mother x father..

    Anyhow, I reckon we'll have some interesting developments with this year's batch - can't wait! Here's a few pics of some of the (SS02 x pachanoi) x TPM babies I grafted onto pereskiopsis - they have just started to turn on the growth (grafted about a month ago).

    In the third pic, the larger scion on the right is actually a TPM x SS02 - I grafted a couple pups from that cross along with some of this years infants - I've found that larger seedlings graft to pereskiopsis with high success..

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  19. Posted · Edited by nitrogen

    I've heard the bruce clones grow slowly - the bruce x macro "sausage" seedlings I've got are growing very fast though - the quicker by far than the super pedro x psycho0, scop x super pedro, super pedro x scop, and super pedro x J3 crosses I have going as well.. The bruce x sausage were planted a year after the other 4 crosses but are tallest of the bunch

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    Right on - I have wondered how those would turn out - those babies are actually SS01 x TPM, not the reverse. My comrade Mel/vin made that cross from the TPM pollen and his SS01 - thing is, he tried to get it to take on several of the SS01 flowers - none made it but one - my TPM pollen was getting kinda old, but we figured it was worth a go. Problem is, he is not confident that the SS01 was pollinated either fully or at all by the TPM, given the other flowering plants in the garden at that time, and the lack of success with the TPM pollen on the other flowers - tiny little fruit it was too..

    Anyhow, hope those freaky genetics got in there - I haven't seen any mature examples of that cross yet..

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