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Hey all! has any one got any pics of a decent size kimura's giant bridge x peruvian??? it was from herbalistics a while ago.

such a lovely looking plant! is there much other bridge x peruvians out there??? ive just become fascinated with it latley. mines only small though! kimura's that is :P

does any one know where kimura's come from? some info would be much helpful. cheers

oh and did any one from perth grab the peru x bridge from frasers nursery a while ago? there is a pic of it somewhere on this site. that should be crankin by now!

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I don't have my notes on this but it came from a Nursery if I recall correctly, ultimate collection data unknown.

there are two Kimuras clones if I am not mistaken... Kimuras giant, and Kimuras spiney giant.

I believe it was named for the nursery owner or something like that, but I think that the owner had passed on too, making collection data impossible to obtain...

hard to say, but the clones and their offspring are very interesting

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Did anyone ever find a pic of kimura's giant itself?

Trout said he would take one at one point, but apparently never did, and beyond that I can only find pics of hybrids.

The kimura's giant X SS02 and reverse both grow like mad if treated like tomato plants, I'd like to see the parent.

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On 3-3-2014 I received an unrooted golf ball sized pup of ss02 x Kimura's spiny giant in a trade, today the damn thing is 22" in a 1 gallon pot.

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I was given about 30 seeds of Kimuras giant x bridgesii and none came up. Various other hybrids in the same container did cept for the juuls x bridgesii and the above. I guess they were old. They are both clones from the US?

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The Sacred Suculents description is promising :):)


"Kimura’s Giant is the fattest pachanoid plant we grow, the actual parentage is unknown, but it resembles what we would imagine a hybrid between

pachanoi and tershceckii would look like- upright, 8"+ diameter green stems, short spines to 1/2", white flowers"
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Yeah, you can see why I want pics :wink:

Putting their description in my brain I can just as easily see what I would call a really honkin' fat true pachanoi. The areoles would make the difference.

One thing I noticed, on the net there seems to be some confusion if 'Kimuras Giant' is just a shortened name and the same as 'Kimuras Spiny Giant'. I checked my old emails and a 2015 sacred succulents price list had both.

So thats that, they are different so dont get the names mixed up folks :)

Their description of Kimura’s Spiny Giant is "...6–7" thick stems, abundant spines up to 2", possibly a T. peruvianus/T. terscheckii hybrid"

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auxin, you are absolutely correct,,, there are two seperate clones,, i have the kimura giant, but not the ksg,,, tbc tho, most of the kimura giant hybrids, are pretty spiny, spinier then there counter parts

i will pic the kimura giant in a bit

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looks like a pc xtersch, or tersch pc, imo, but yep here is one, btw its been out in the freezing cold for 2 months, and has seen the teens without shelterpost-15960-0-67677400-1449857307_thumb.jpost-15960-0-16775700-1449857320_thumb.j

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That should make one impressive plant in a few years :)
Good to know they can handle a chill, occasionally my 'first frost' can be in the teens. [This year it was 24° F, the KG X SS02 and SS02 X KG groups were totally unaffected]

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