caapi care

[caapi care]

Just noticed that the Ourinhos is sprouting from a couple of cm's above the soil level! 
Hey sagiXsagi, been a while! Hope you're well.

 

I just trimmed back the dead offshoots and kept the main stem/s

Now just waiting on Tunkunaka. I took cuttings before winter so it wouldn't break my heart entirely to loose the big one, but it would be much preferrable if it could come back to life!

[caapi care]

Thanks for your help.

I've moved them inside to a sunroom where they have been for the past month or so since the nasty frost arrived. But it has been a remarkably mild winter overall. 
 

[NZ members?]

pm'd you cobvlog

 

[caapi care]

Hi folks, I have some large caapi vines which have lost their leaves over winter.

I was thinking about cutting them back, hoping this may promote them to re-sprout once spring arrives.
How close to the soil level should I be cutting? The vines are 1.5-2m above the soil. The main stems seem healthy but wither further up.

[Tricho seed swapsies]

Old thread I guess, but have you still got anything available @MrDuke?

I've got lots of trich hybrid seeds, potentially the same ones as you though lol..

[socket passed away]

sorry to hear you lost your lil buddy drifter xo 

 

sending hugs

[nz pereskiopsis to sell/trade]

hi just thought i'd put this offer out to any NZ members who haven't managed to get themselves some pereskiopsis yet.

 

pm me if you want to buy or trade for some. I'm using most of what I have but can offer a few small mothers to get people started as it really is a wonderful plant to have if you are raising cacti from seed.

[Introduction and Collection]

welcome, awesome collection you have there!

[Monstrose/Weird Tricho seed]

curious to know what your seeds have been treated with ace1928??

[Garden Update 2018]

Thanks it takes a lot of work but we love it!

[Garden Update 2018]

heya, been a while so I thought I'd share some garden pics.

this is a combined effort between me and my partner over the past 2 nearly 3 years.. he is 'Padonkluft' on this forum

we grow from seed, graft, make lots of cuttings.. prioritise plants over most other things

we sell the plants we are less attached to and use the funds to provide for the other plants

 

where to start... um, well i've been growing ariocarpus from seed and grafting them to pere, got a pretty decent set up now thanks to my partner's building skills

this room is kept between 19 and 22 degrees, lights are on 18hrs a day

 

here's last years ones all grown up

 

plants are everywhere, indoors and out.. we're facing a pretty shitty cold winter but everything is holding up ok

 

...on the deck, nitrogen mutants.. variegated bridgesii and pach crest.. cordo crest, tbmv and variegated pach crest.. standard tbm

 

greenhouse

 

first seedlings we sowed in late 2016

 

out the back

 

wash house full of mostly Zelly seedlings, some from Interbeing and Sacred Succulents too.. and more on the deck too

 

sunroom.. tbmv getting some good colour.. tbmc..

 

kitchen window.. Bonny x TPM variegate, bridgesii variegate and Sharxx Blue x TPM crest.. Juuls Giant x SS02 variegate.. arios

 

 

[Share your cactus thrips experience]

I'm having issues with them this year... haven't quite established what takes them out, I've used neem a few times but I think you need to be really systematic as they reproduce quickly.

 

They have been thriving on my pereskiopsis grafts... not appearing on much else but I've kept them away from the rest of the collection. Damage looks brown and murky.. takes a few weeks to show.

Also I'm pretty sure the white/yellow bugs are the juveniles, the adults are black with a white patch in my garden, although I'm aware that they come in a few different colours. 

[My lovely little paradise]

love your garden Smithy, awesome work I'm sure a whole lotta time and effort went into that but the payoff in terms of beauty, enjoyment and rejuvination is 10-fold 

[seeds for trade]

alot of the icaros crosses have thrown mutants

[seeds for trade]

*bump*

 

anyone?? 

 

has everyone got these by now? or has the trich hybrid market been flooded and everyone has too many seedlings already?

i've got some other stuff too

 

like

 

boneset

elecampane

sinicuichi

black radish

banana cantalope

rock melon

ariocarpus retusus mixed forms

ariocarpus hintonii

ariocarpus fissuratus

acacia acuminata

acacia burkittii

acacia floribunda

 

[seeds for trade]

hello

 

I've got some of zelly's trichocereus hybrid seeds to trade,

approx 12 seeds of each type:

macrogonus x icaros

juuls x icaros

validus x icaros

icaros x sharxx blue

icaros x (ss02 x ss01)

icaros x lumberjack

icaros x KGC

validus x KGC

bertha x KGC

juuls x KGC

huancoensis x bertha

 

pm me with your seed list if interested

 

thanks

 

 

[NZ members?]

Hi obsidianjaguar, there's at least 3 planty people based in Auckland I know of.. Not sure how often they're online here but with any luck you'll find them eventually

Also.. Plants can be posted nationwide, if you're ever after some trichs pm me.

 

Hi oatis it's getting mighty cold here you can take solace in that haha

[NZ members?]

Brug sanguinea seed - rad!! Been many years in the making to get this hasn't it?

is it the red variety?

[NZ members?]

No datura but I've got a few rooted

double white brug cuttings if you're keen.

Will pm ya

[NZ members?]

Hi, 

Haven't been very active on here myself but I'm just wondering if there's many New Zealanders on the forum at the moment and if anyone's keen for some trades. Got a fair amount of trich seeds, seedlings and maybe some cuts available. Keen to find a couple of things too. Pm me or comment below.

Cheers

[Seed swap]

Hi, I've got some more seeds available for trade:

 

Bogan x Yowie
Yowie x Bogan
Bogan x Scop
Anna x Roseii #1
John x Roseii #2
Bridgesii x Pachanoi
Pachanoi 1 x Pachanoi 2
Pachanoi 1 x Peruvianus
Pachanoi 1 x Scop
Pachanoi 2 x Scop
Pachanoi OP
Schickendantzii

 

pm me if interested 

[Nitrogen´s Connoisseur hybrids - pics and seed giveaway]

Sharxx blue x TPM

 

Psycho0 x TPM 

 

Unknown 2012 X

 

[Seed swap]

They look so good!!

 

I will definitely have pics somewhere but I recently realised I lost the chord for my hd. Once I get a new one I'll send you some parent photos.

 

well done they look very nice

[Post a random picture thread]

[Share your dreams (the sleeping kind, not the "I want a pony" kind)]

Was walking along the edge of a huge grass covered crater of a dormant volcano with my mum and her two horses and I slipped..

Grabbed onto the edge and dug in my fingers as deeply as I could, very aware that loosing my grip would most likely entail death. Seemed like it took forever for my mum to get off her horse and help me, but she eventually did, passed me the reigns from her horse to grab onto and he pulled me up and over the edge. Then we walk further along, mum back on her horse and leading the other one behind her. Then without warning the male horse jumps up onto the female horse, squishing my mum between them. I panic and call for help, out of nowhere other people appear and help me pull mum out. I was sure her back would be broken or something serious, but she's fine, just brushes herself off and then laughs about it.

Then later on I am going to visit my old landlady, she wants to show me a house bus she has for rent.. It looks like a pretty normal house bus on the outside but when I go inside, I realise its much much much bigger than it really should or could be. Flash as fuck too, two stories, massive conservatory along one side, amazing views down into a forested gully which extends for miles.

She tells me I can rent it for $60 a week.

..Wake up really wanting to live in a house bus