What did you do to your cacti today?

[CβL]

I have a Blenheim Peruvianus growing that I can propagate for next time I see you Nem.


This applies for all the days: I dug the ****ing ground, and I'm so tired of digging, and I almost hate clay (if it weren't for the fact that a small amount makes the soil superior - I would hate clay).

[Nemisty]

I have a Blenheim Peruvianus growing that I can propagate for next time I see you Nem.

Woah! That would be primo if you could CBL cheers! That plants proving to be elusive to source.

I grafted some seedlings today from some seed you gave me to bro. SS02 x Serra blue, Validus x LJ, and Glaucous. Put them on some real lush pereskiopsis peices I had lying around.

Plants got some rain today!! Forgot what cloud, moister and wet soil looked like after about 40 days without rain?

Re-rotated my pots that I had recently turned. Wish that thread about pot orientation was posted at the beginning of summer!!

[Jox]

Today I thought I should get organized for winter, my autumn clean up.

Re-potting some cacti & re-arranging a greenhouse, it is a work in progress which I hope to have finished by the end of the week. Once I'm done I will get some better photos but here are some I took to day.

Cheers

jox

[Optimystic]

found some little webs on a couple pach tips..... upon closer inspection saw some little red spider mites... they've just been out 3 or 4 days and already sheesh... so I got out my tried and tested remedy, sulfur x diatomaceous earth and I went ahead and dusted them all to deter the littlle buggers...

also I found a little sunburn on one of mine that tends to get sunburned ez... seems like the one with the thickest skin is the most sensitive, but its the older part of the column which seems to have lost all its wax and looks green instead of blue... and thats where the sun tends to penetrate...

the sun is moving fast! I just put these in a shady spot by the fence and in not half a week, the sun has already made it pasts the fence line... everything else is in bloom here =) Its definitely springtime

[slice]

repotted/separated dozens 0f kk339, huancabamba x ss02 and a few baños x pallarensis. kk339s in the pic

Edited March 18, 2013 by slice

[CβL]

The garden bed... it's almost completed! I've never dug so much in my entire life. But I'm at the point where I can plant the plants! :D

Just need to plan the layout, and plant!! :D

[naja naja]

smiled with joy as I noticed the first signs of growth on some freshly grafted Nitrogen freaks seedlings. Always the same, pretty much 14 days to show signs of new growth.

Peace

Naja

[prier]

I collected trichocereus, lophophora and frailea, seed / pods. Pollinated lophophora and copiapoa flowers. Repotted some random bits and pieces. Made some ornamental "planters". Did some presentation work on several dozen plants. Showed an old customer around and sold a few thelocactus. Plus a host of other chores.

[Mr. Bowser]

Taking a break after transplanting -72- SS02 x SS01 seedlings and -72- T. Peruvianus Los Gentiles seedlings. Next up -72- T Peruvianus Serra Blue x SS02 seedlings. After 6 months in their seedling containers, they were getting pretty cramped.

[Swiper]

Gave some away to friends !

[GoOnThen]

Over the week end

Tried to save some pieces of yet another graft ( Echinocereus knippolianus ) that had the Hylocereus stock rot. I was able to save six pups and graft them onto Pach. With a bit of luck I will now have a number of them now just a lot smaller than the original.

Planted out another thirty pere pieces. That makes 150 pere now and thirty odd small Pach stock. Its going to be a busy winter.

Grafted a few Harrisia jusbertii and a couple of Astro seedlings onto pere.

Checked on the seeds that I put down during the week.

Started closing up my grow room to keep the temps up to a nice 30- 35 deg

Opened up half of the shade cloth curtains inside my green house to bring the temps back up from 25-30 to 35 - 40. Loving the control I have of the temps in the green house. I still haven't closed any of the venting yet.

Cheers

Got

[naja naja]

TPM X N1 showing first signs of growth.

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TPC X Multi

Edited April 2, 2013 by naja naja

[gtarman]

I moved 4 takeaway containers worth of seedlings into potting mix - first time I've ever done it, so time will tell with the results. Most had been pea sized for a couple months, so I carefully plucked them from the sand and dropped them into little pots of searles cacti and succulent mix (probably not ideal, I know, but that was the best thing I could get).

Then I gave them a tiny bit of water to settle the roots in to the new medium, and semi-covered the pots with moist takeaway lids to maintain humidity while the plants adjust.

Might put up some pics of my plants tomorrow for the first time ever! Camera phone FTW

[Stillman]

Looked at my tricho babys in the green house and thought Jeeze these things grow quick. I'll always be indebted to PD for that first package of his Hybrid seed.

[bogfrog]

i was a bad girl and bought more cacti i dont really know where i am gonna put them...

but they are very coool cacti

variegated san pedro brain

mutated frailea

copiapoa hypogaea

another copiapoa

some sort of cactus which seems to be giving birth to another cactus

some sort of crest

here's the one pic i managed to take at castle rock, love those barrels

[Snowfella]

Cheered my Selenicereus megalanthus along in it's attempts at flowering for the first time in my care, got to be getting close as the bud now is over a foot long from stem to tip. Just hoping that our recent cool change won't make it abort or something similarly silly.

[CβL]

I've started to move the cacti (still in their pots) to sit on the new garden bed, as I haven't really figured out how I'm going to lay it out yet.

I'm now thinking I'll arrange them so that each plant is similar to its neighbours (so they change smoothly in appearance) and the slowest and shortest cacti are at the front (so they don't get their sun blocked by the quicker ones).

I have selected about 5 seedlings that are going on the accelerated pathway to get big for the garden too - Peruvianus (BK08612.4, BK08612.9, EG Wild-collected), Psycho0 x Pachanoi, Beauty-big-golden-spine pachanoid from bit's open - but it's extremely hard to decide (maybe a second garden would help? ).

[mushroomman]

Came home tonight and found this little beauty in the mail box

[Auxin]

Today I transplanted my two smallest T. terscheckii 'Valle Fertil' babies.

Significant because I left those out all winter in a bone dry spot to see if they would die.

Warm winter- nights only got down to -9.5°C at the coldest, but not a hint of damage on the golf ball size Valle Fertil's

[qualia]

pulled out a planter box full of seedlings and realised a lot of them had "self terminated" (is that the right term?), and have shot little pups on their heads. really interesting, totally wasn't expecting it. hope it continues and isn't just a result of the less than suitable growing conditions they were in.

[mutant]

Have been pollinating the Stenocacti, and transplanting stuffs and cuttings that had rooted these days. Lots of stuff in budding. Some Rebutias [pollinating them too] and Mammis are too flowering.

Also went to the woods and picked the first morchellas [spring mushroom - well it fruits in automn for you ] for the year ...

Edited April 4, 2013 by mutant

[Optimystic]

@ Auxin - Nice... I have 3 T's around Golf ball sized and now I feel silly for moving them away from the window on freezing nights... I left them away for a couple weeks but when i put them back in that spot they got a little yellow on one side from the sun... Im just glad I caught it ... they're okay now .. I should have just left them there... they spent last night cold and wet and seem to be okay.. it was 43 here or around 6 degrees C

as for what i've done with my cacti... I moved 50 columns into the hoop house last night, a few small plants too... they've gotten to around 2 or 4 hours of direct sun since the sun moved past the southern fence line... so I put them where they'll get several more hours of filtered sun... it's also been raining for a few days in a row so it was about time for them to cut down on the drinking eh

also im excited about 3 separate boxes I opened yesterday and today... quite a few packs of seeds and quite a few little starter cacti including a few minis :D ... some were surprises from a fellow Sabber :D Really cool!!! everyday is a holiday and the mailbox is sacred hehe

Cheers

Edited April 5, 2013 by Spine Collector

[mushroomman]

This morning I grafted 2 trich validus and 2 loph seedlings to peres

[Snowfella]

Pampered my Selenicereus beyond belief, it's first bud is just starting to open here and we have a stormcell incoming.

So......

Problem hopefully solved!

[Stillman]

cactus people are so strange..