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Was hanging out with my cacti today and decided to take a few pics since I got my camera back recently. Just cause I love makin' a bit of cactus porn. This is the most interesting new addition to my collection. Being in NZ, I had always assumed I'd probably never get ahold of a crested San Pedro here. So I was stoked to pick this one up for NZ $20. Next up, this is one I've been pondering over for a while. I picked it up as a seeling from the department store, but it's not like any other tricho I've seen from the same supplier, which isn't too uncommon of a thing to happen as sometimes they do only small batches of seed. I have tentatively been calling this a 'True' T. peruvianus, as in not KK242. Any thoughts? This is a stock standard T. pachanoi. It has exceptionally good growth rates. The 2nd tallest branch only emerged as a pup late last season, and the main branch was only as tall as the pup is now this time last year. This is a T. macrogonus tip cutting that has also done exceptionally well - It's put on around 45cm of growth in the last year. My Juul's Giant got off to a late start for flowering this year. But alas it is going to have one (also signs of a possible 2nd bud emerging). It'll be interesting to see how late this blooms. This graft grew an extra branch, so I decided to turn it into a double. More grafts And finally a few 'family photos'. Tricho's contained in this collection(to the best of my knowledge) are: T. pachanoi T. pachanoi f. cristata T. peruvianus T. peruvianus v. short spined T. peruvianus v. KK242 (T. cuzcoensis?) T. macrogonus T. taquimbalensis T. chiloensis T. terscheckii T. spachianus T. scopulicolis T. huascha T. bridgesii (not pictured) T. bridgesii monstrose T. spp. Juuls' giant

I first visited this collection about 3 years ago when I heard about it through a friend. Today I was in the area again and I happened to see the house in the window of the real estate office, its up for sale. So I decided to go check it out before it gets bought out by someone else (these cacti might even get cut down when the new owners come in, who knows). Anyway, it's a pretty impressive thing, with many hundreds of San Pedros each multiple meters tall. The owner also grows the Tequila Agave's and other cacti. Unfortunatley he lost his leg a while back and so hasn't been able to maintain the cacti as well as he would like so they're goin' a little yellow. Still pretty nice though.

Thanks man, those are really cool. Its always interesting to read stuff from back when hardly any westerners knew about shrooms!

The one advantage of making a tea is that it kills off any nasties that may have accumulated on the shrooms either in the wild or after picking. I have always noticed, in the case of P. subaeruginosa, less bodily discomfort and weird stuff going on physically with tea as opposed to eating them. Not sure what the reasoning is for this but thats just what I noticed.

High altitude South Island NZ

A few more...things are in full swing now!!!!!

No prints at the mo. What could you do with them anyway? I suppose you could try to broadcast a spore / mycelium slurry onto a field, but I'm pretty sure indoor cultivation is a no-go. Saw one pic of it once that looked fake (the one in the flask). However I have successfully started a new liberty field by getting about 200 fuzzy stem butts and about 20 whole libs, blending them in water and diluting this down to 10 liters then throwing it round a sheep paddock behind my house. Two years later I found about 20 libs and the next year found about 70. Haven't been back there as I moved.

Sorry but how do I download this stuff? Clicked on the last thing in the post 'files' and I am now downloading a BitTorrent file called 'The Most High CD Rom'...is this all of the stuff that is listed, or something else?

Yeah it'll grow. Those things make good graft stocks. I've done it before. It will be skinny for a long time though.

Yeah it'll grow. Those things make good graft stocks. I've done it before. It will be skinny for a long time though.

For an outdoor plant, it is a good idea to make the cut at an angle. Otherwise water pools in the middle of the core bit when it sinks in after callousing and mold and stuff grows in there. Unless you never get damp weather where you're at. For an outdoor plant I doubt that angle vs. flat is going to make a difference when it comes to number or size of pups. It's going to produce whatever it feels like producing either way. Besides, with trichs, more pups = less overall growth on each one. As for treating the exposed cut, I'd simply make the cut early on a day thats forecast to be warm and sunny, then in the evening cover it with something to shield it from moisture, such as a plastic bowl or bucket. Then take that off whenver the sun is out until the thing seems sufficiently calloused.

I'd say cut the mother, and leave the pups to grow. Leaving not much of a stump of the mother, maybe 10-15cm. Cause once they have had their vascular bundles diverted away to the pups, its hard to get the original length cranking again. If you were to take the pup off instead, I would disagree about leaving a bit of the pup on so that more can grow from the 'stump' of the pup. In my opinion this makes the plant look messy and butchered, and any pups that come off it will now be going through two areole connections between the roots and the growth. I reckon it's better to make a nice clean cut at the base of the pup, but thats just my 2c.

Can you give more info on the pink flower one please? It's a trich I assume? What kind? If you don't know the species please describe it i.e. was it pach-like, tersheckii-like, etc?

Probably a mistake, T. peruvianus and C. peruvianus are definitely distinct plants.

It looks like T. macrogonus to me.

So it looks like some of my cross pollinations might have been successful, at least the initial signs are hopeful. I am just wondering, for those of you who have harvested your own pedro fruits for seed before, when is the best time to harvest them and what is the best way of collecting the seed? Is there any way of avoiding the fruit going real sticky and the seeds being stuck in a dried-fruit-like sticky goo? Do I wait for the fruit to drop off naturally? etc etc. Any help would be appreciated who knows maybe I'll have some spares.

Cheers for the tips. My digicam made a horrible sound when I tried to turn it on a few weeks ago and its kaput so no pics at the mo unfortunatley. But things are lookin pretty rad. Got some Juuls x Pach and maybe some Juuls x scop and some pach x scop for now. Nothing too spectacular but hopefully in a season or two there'll be some more cool stuff going on. These should be interesting none the less, its almost refreshing to see crosses that should probably have short spines

Nice efforts, that's kickass!

Yes, this is common in bridgesii monstrose growth. Maybe you would uproot the mother plant and check for mealy? Or if the other pups look fine but not the main mother, then maybe its just that because so much pupping has occured that the resources have literally been diverted away from the original base plant. I guess the question would be do you leave the pups on this one that is growing roots, and try to root the pup with more pups coming off it, or do you take off the one thats growing roots and then also remove the pups from that one and root them all up individually. I would probably go with individually, unless it looks particularly cool with its current pup formations.

Sounds like sunburn to me

I've heard different 'professionals' pronounce psilocybe in different ways. Apparently the technically correct way sounds like 'sigh-los-sye-bee'. But theres many variations upon that. So long as people know what you're talking about, I think thats the main thing. Whether you say 'sye-low-sybe' or 'sylo-cyb' etc etc. most people would still know what you be meanin'.

I'm pretty sure insect oils are not too good of an idea with cacti. Maybe the probs your seeing are a side effect of that? On the other hand the oils might be fine I've just read in a few places to not use them, and so have avoided them myself.

Niiiice one bruvva. I've got some of that shit goin' down in my hood too. They are like fireworks going off. Well thats what they look like if you make a timelapse of them from bud formation to opening to closing...been trying it out a little this season. Might stick it on YouTube once I've got it all done. Even though it's only poormans (no tripods or timers here folks!) timelaps so we'll see. But yeah its looking great there man.

Agreed (with the first one, that is...'f' sounds more than 'p' sounds) Also keeping in mind that species ending in 'ii' the i sound is actually pronounced twice. So for williamsii it would be willy-am-see-i (roughly...)

Some more points: Scops commonly have 5 or 6 ribs, with occasional 4's and very rare 7's. Pachanoi commonly has 6-8 ribs with occasional 5's and 9's and very rare 4's. Scops have rough skin (as can be seen in bits pic) which you can rub your finger on and its rough. They also do not produce the blue 'frosting' (glaucous) that can be rubbed off. Pachanoi has smooth skin and if you rub your finger on it you could imagine it making a 'squeaky' sound. There may also be a blue or whitish frosting that rubs off which scops do not have. Scops do not pup as readily as pachanoi. Scops are really chunky and large diameter compared to many pachanoi. Scops are slower growing than pachanoi. Scops have a tendency to do weird stuff with their ribs. For instance you may see a part where it has added or deleted a rib (or both at the same time), or it has grown a new rib and then decided it actually doesn't want that rib resulting in a little mini-rib part way up the plant. Pachs are much more stable with their rib count with the exception of young pups which often have a change in rib numbers as they grow.