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  1. Posted

    Has anyone had problems with their tricho seed not being viable due to fertilizing while the flower is forming?

    I hadn't fertilized my plants in a long time (2 years) and added Miracle Grow to all of them a couple times during the time the fruit was forming - this produced vegetative growth and I was hoping for also bigger fruits on the cacti which were forming them. Nice healthy fruits formed with a good quantity of seed inside them. But I'm worried that the 20-20-20 fertilizer might have disrupted something in the seed forming process, though I would assume the cactus would use the fertilizer in a good way.

    Anyhow, I'm about 12 days in on a hybrid seed cross and no signs of life from it, and a week in on another with nothing doing. I harvested several other seed crosses and potted them up a couple days ago - should know within a week or so if they are going to come up..

    Has anyone simply gotten un-viable fresh seed from a tricho? Someone sent me a batch of unviable seed a few years ago, but I didn't ask more about it - could have not been viable simply because it was too old or had been mistreated or some such..

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    Here's a recent pic of my seedlings of the TPM x SS02 cross - kept 10 for myself, only 5 germinated, 1 perished early on - so, 4 survivors, but all are freaks I am happy to see :)

    I have noticed that the really gnarly crested variation seems to like less sun - it turns reddish more easily - now is shooting up a little green column type thing though - moving itselt to higher groumnd maybe?

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  10. Posted · Edited by nitrogen

    I've got some Ecuadorian pachanoi x N1 and the reverse seedlings which terminated and then threw pups - strange looking things - the top of these seedlings terminated in a round/globe shape - smooth with no spines or areoles, and then put out a pup or two lower down on the column - the pups look perfectly normal. I believe they terminated due to some sort of bug or other environmental hardship..

    Anyhow, the pic above doesn't look quite like that - and hopefully it will turn out to be a freak!

  14. Posted

    Here's my TBM-A - photo taken a couple years ago - I have since pruned it back substantially.. For it's own good of course..

    This is marginally smaller in girth than the plant I mentioned above - but it's still quite fat..

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  15. Posted · Edited by Evil Genius

    That hulk's dick looks to me just like a mature, healthy TBM-A - that sort of girth is not too unusual IME.. You know though, I had one sent to me one time that was fatter than any TBM-A I'd seen - not the same strain though - it may well have been that other genus entirely..

    Edited by Mod: No Discussion about Potency please!

  17. Posted

    If by interested you mean that I'd swap sexual favours, promise my first new born and even my left nut for some piece of that sweet action. Then you are correct.

     

    Hahaha - very generous offer! I'll take the newborn - I can get a good price for a healthy newborn on the open market - or at least make stew..

    Halcyon - that's a good question - I would imagine they would have a good shot at it - certainly the more normal forms will flower - the columnar and monstrosus progeny. I read on the nook today that monstrosus forms will flower more than cristata forms in general. Both my crested forms that flowered this year did so off of columns that were not crested - on the pachanoi the column was fully normal, and on the peruvianus the column was monstrosus - waiting currently to see if the peruvianus takes the pollens I gave it.

  20. Posted

    Def curious on the updates - These pics are badass!

    The first cross was TPM x SS02 - that one reliably produced mutant seedlings..

    The other cross, a year later, was SS01 x TPM - problem with that second one though was that my confederate was unsure that the SS01 was pollinated by the TPM - could have easily been open pollinated given the state of his garden at the time- and by the time the TPM pollen got to him it was a bit old - so, not sure on that one - I did not sow those seeds myself so don't know how they came out for people - have not yet seen a pic of the results..

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  21. Posted · Edited by nitrogen

    Hahaha - I guess Psycho0 x T Peruvianus Monstrosus does have a sorta nightmare sound to it! I'm curious to see how things turn out with the TPM as the father instead of the mother. As mother it yielded freaks at about 40-60% rate or so the only other time it bore a fruit (3 years ago or so)..

    I have a pachanoi that went crested a few years ago and then also put out columns from the crest - will post pics at some point - I have another plant of this specimen that did not go crested - the one that did seemed to go crested after being eaten up pretty good by snails or slugs - I think that's what precipitated it, but I'm not sure. It may be that it has some cristata genetics that were brought out by the snails - regardless, it's a really nice pachanoi, I found it at a random nursery - not the PC clone, def more of the true pachanoi. Anyhow, I've crossed it with the TPM and fruit is developing - the TPM is the father - interested to see what becomes of that one also

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  22. Posted · Edited by Evil Genius

    SS02 X SS01 is a really nice hybrid - vigorous, spectacular spines, great color - beautiful but difficult to work with in terms of repotting and such -

    TPM x T. bridgesii "N1" and T. bridgesii "Psycho0" x TPM fruit is coming along nicely - will be available for you folks down under here as soon as it's ready ;)

    Edited by Mod. No Discussion about Potency and ingestion plz!

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  23. Posted

    as much as it would suck to have your collection racked, i can't help but note the irony at some of the more sulfurous suggestions for retribution here. "spirit plants" indeed.

     

    Fuck that - nothing wrong with some good ol fashion punishment - if for no other reason than they learn not to go taking someone else's things..

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  24. Posted · Edited by nitrogen

    They ought to be shot..

    EDIT - nah that's a bit harsh, but not much pisses me off more than a theif - especially of something sacred like these plants - it's not like a coke dealer getting robbed or something where the people sort of deserve each other..

  25. Posted

    Which Scop are people referring to? The only one I can visualize is the one which is almost completely spineless and looks very different from any other tricho - the "classic" scop.. But there is another one in Oz yes?

    When trading pollen, I've had success but only if we trade pollen in a baggie rather than on q-tips - A good way to gather it is to place a glass under the flower and tap/shake the flower so the pollen falls off the stamens and into the glass - I brush it off the stamen with a knife or other object and then do the tapping/shaking actually..

    I suppose Qtips work, but they leave very little pollen on the pistil of the other flower - I've had many fails using qtips..

    Per storage, the pollen seems to only last a month or so in the fridge - I've heard its best to store it in the fridge rather than freezer, and be sure to double or triple bag it to prevent moisture from getting into it..

    I've had best results with pollination by scooping little clumps of pollen out of the baggie with the tip of a knife and depositing the pollen directly on/in the pistil (the female reproductive thing in the middle of the flower) - and/or, holding a nice clump of pollen deep in the pistil and gently blowing on it so it goes right into the middle of the pistil..

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