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  1. kapitän kamasutra

    Is Epiphyllum self fertile?

    Not sure if the seeds I have are small compared to other Epiphyllum, but compared to other cactus seeds they are rather big. I will keep you posted if anything is growing out of these.
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    Is Epiphyllum self fertile?

    Interesting. I can't say if the plant was a hybrid or not, and I have not seen the flower. I hope the seeds are viable, I just did put some on soil. Maybe If they are selfed seeds from a hybrid some seedlings will grow into Disocactus phenos? If they are indeed cross breed with another plant I'm hoping the curly mutation passes on to the seedlings.
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    The Sowing Out Thread

    today (scoph X brid) X Superpedro Superpedro X (scoph X brid) validus X juuls huanucoensis X Kimnach
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    'Time to die,' German clock told hospital patient

    But now 'tue' is 'kill' in french... This clock is evil...german device
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    DSC00611

    holy flower buds, batman!
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    id please

    Nice bridgesii! I don't think its TBM, tho, no rib dropping. looks more like a plant that was grown skinny for a while then got introduced to better growing conditions. When the base swells in better light the ribs disapear, forming an almost round stem.
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    expired

    I'd love some cereus seeds! pm'd
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    thoughts on this Pach?

    Beautifull plant! These are my favorite type. Out of 5 or 6 'pachanoi' seed orders I have yet to grow a real 'pachanoi' phenotype, they all grew the 'macrogonus/peru'-type. Wonder if someone still sells viable KK339 seeds nowadays? happy growing!
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    The Legend of the Skull Mushroom

    the same guy also knows this mushroom, so... The one with the skull is a cool piece of art. The aborted baby one I dont like.
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    ID Please, found them on my tomatoes.

    Hi Slice. I don't know for sure but think they might be Psathyrella sp.
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    Now is the season

    Yes, the urban area aspect is the reason for the pics to be a bit shacky, I wanted to be quick to not raise to much attention. The higher temperatures don't seem to bother them. There are many new pins growing, and it looks they are growing fast. When I find a different spot with a bit more privacy I'll try to make some better pictures.
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    Now is the season

    ...for Psilocybe cyanescens in my town. These are growing on a supermarket parking. Nice! I'm taking prints on cardboard for microscopy. I can give away prints* to 4 people that are keen. *microscopy only
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    Have you seen any cool movies lately??

    'Drive' was good
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    Free Trich seed for experienced growers

    Hi Got, seeds I got! plus extra seeds make me haiku-ee mucho generosity I staring them today under fluros and put them out in the sun in spring, and keep you informed about their progress. Thank you!
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    can anyone tell me what this is?

    T. macrogonus subsp. macrogonus. ( aka. Trichocereus peruvianus ,sorry for adding confusion...) i like this nomenclature
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    Burn muthafucka! - cacti damage by fire

    Look, tbm is pupping once again! Good some of the plants survived at least, sucks for the greenhouse.
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    Fertilizer for Acacia maidenii?

    I have two maidenii seedlings growing in a pot since 3 years. They grow a bit slow and the foliage stays rather small. I think the main problem is the short grow season here, but i wonder if I could help them with some ferts? Its my first Australian native plant, I'm not sure how much i should give them. I guess only a little dose? low nitrogen?
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    moon seed give away

    Gratulations to you lucky devils and hi5 for Planthelper and this giveaway!
  19. I wonder some time now. Could a Trichocereus be grafted on a root stock like Lophophora or Mammillara to produce a bonsai on the window sil with mature appearance, maybe even mini flowers? I'm about to try it with a Mammillaria, but even if this works I see a problem that the Trichocereus will root on its own after some time. Do you know if this has been done before? Also if you have any recommendations about easy, hardy and steady but small growing species I could use as root stock please tell me.
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    Grafting a fast large growing cactus on a small slow growing root?

    Style grafting sounds tricky, lol. I'd imagine having to do microsurgical operation on a closed flowerbud, a couple of days before flower opens. I'd rather try Chamaecereus as a mother then. Seriously, I might gonna buy me a nice healty peanut motherplant for christmas. Should be easy to score. Then January or Feb I can hopefully trade dryed Trichocereus pollen with someone here and get some crossing going. IF crossing works and IF the Chamaecereus growing/flowering traits are dominant in the F1 then this project could be finnished in less than a half lifetime. Sound like a plan. You are saying chimera happening more often when seedlings are grafted on a stock and then start flowering very soon? Interesting, I never heared about that. For the flowering hormone it would be cool if it was a paste that miracly makes flowers on treated areoles. They are searching the florigen a long time. Maybe maybe one could graft a free flowering cactus (like peanut cactus again) on a Trichocereus that shall be forced to flower before its time. Let the Chamaecereus clumbs get big and flower like mad, but also leave a tip of the stock growing. Then hope for that the peanut grafts flowering hormone somehow drips into the stock and the Tricho begins flowering. I don't really think that works but it wouldn't hurt to try it anyway. Obviously I have time to paint this crappy pictograph, I could do the graft as well
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    Grafting a fast large growing cactus on a small slow growing root?

    Interesting experiments, I like that. I left 5 bidgesii seedlings dry and good dehydrated outside in the end of last winter. They stayed around freezing point for several weeks. The nights got colder, lowerst night temp was -12°C. 4 plants dryed out and lost the green colour after a while, but one plant stayed (yellowish) green and was not obviously destroyed by frost next spring. It took up water and stayed around for a couple of weeks but unfortunately it never started growing again and then rotted away. Bringing down the flowering time might be a very long project on its own. I was thinking to accomplish this with grafting when I started the thread, but not sure about it anymore. With my limited experience with grafts I feel it depends on scion size rather than whatever stock is used to promote a flower, and grafting might only help the process in terms of growing speed, but still the scion needs to reach adulthood, which might be linked to a certain growing size. Scion can flower from stock that itself has not reached flowering size, but I'm not so sure if it works the other way around. so maybe no bonsai Tricho with flowers...but I'm still trying a bit more grafting soon. It will be some years till there will be flowers on my Trichocereus, but I'm very interested in the hybrid possibilitys already. Crossing peanut cactus with Trichocereus, making F2, growing a few 1000 and selecting a little clumbing peanut pedro with white flowers. sounds so easy . Has someone here ever tryed making a Chamaecereus X Tricho?
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    Grafting a fast large growing cactus on a small slow growing root?

    Nice, good luck with the roots! I think that counts. Did you select the cold hardy seedlings on purpose or just left them a tray in the cold by accident? How low can they go (temps)?
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    Grafting a fast large growing cactus on a small slow growing root?

    These are the Cylindropuntia grafts today, roughly 3 weeks old. So far all the scions have not grown, but have not shrivelt away eighter. And I spotted the first roots on the Cylindropuntia pieces...yey! When doing the grafts I cut a lot of the skin away of the small stock pieces in order to remove most of the areoles. I'm not sure if this was good. It looks like the open flesh invited some rust, the meristemes are sunken deep into the stem, some new shoots already tryed to form from the sides in spite of cutting the areole. After putting the scion on the stock they where coverd with pieces of Cylindropuntia skin to help them stay hydrated. Don't know if it helped but so far it didn't hurt them. 5 Seedlings were grafted to Opuntia pads. One is looking good and has swollen alredy, the others didn't make it. Still no bonsai-Trichocereus or fast growing cactus on slow growing roots in this thread. Instead Turbinicarpus alonsoi flower <
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    moon seed give away

    I like the fact that the large percentage of the active members here know what they talk about, and many seem to have a true, deep connection to the living things they deal with, compared to other similar sites i have come across.
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    The Sowing Out Thread

    My latest sowing bonanza L.w. Shafter, Texas L.w. Hipolito L.w. Hipolito mountain form L.w. el jabil, Chihuahua L.w. from Tamaulipas L.w. Huizache L.w. Cedral L.w. decipiens PC x Superpedro J2 x PC Superpedro x peru Psycho0 x Superpedro kk 242 Opuntia engelmanni O. robusta
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