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Re-potted into individual pots, you can see the snail damage on some - they love to get all the way to the fresh growth on top! These were all in long pots and they were crowded and bumping into each other in the wind, and some snails were having a field day with them, I think they look fantastic in their new homes! :wub:

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Tidying up my greenhouse, will post some pics tomorrow, its lookin good.

I got some tacky plastic shelves which have really helped me squeeze a few more pots onto the table. Spring is good.

My love for my plants has been refreshed and renewed.

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Love the garden GOT, really look forward to seeing it finished :) is Len a slow grower for you? Mine only grew about 10cm last year

Len has been one of my best growers. None of my Trich have put on the sort of growth that B caapi's Norma has but most put on around 1 foot + a year.

I didn't get a lot of growth last year and I put that down to moving them and having to cut the roots that had grown out of the bottom of the pots ( some where over a meter long).

I also wonder about the flowers slowing down the growth as well.

This is a pic of the Len tip cutting when I first got it in October 2009 so it didn't grow much in the first season. So really this season is its forth true season and It is a bit over 5 foot now. It was also still in the same pot until I planted it out a couple of weeks ago

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Cheers

Got

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Rescued a bridgy that had toppled in a pot I have at a friends, waiting to move into my new place. Sured him up as best I could and gave a bit of water cos shit is dry as atm.

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Cut a few rootstock in preparation for grafting

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received a bunch of new monsters/crests including a chimera !!

planted 3 myrtillocactus crest cuttings with rootlets

checked one of the mandrake root cuttings and it seems it has taken alright.

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Wow its all kicking off now huh!

Great pics everyone, so nice to see all that enthusiasm and fresh growth.

A little hidey-hole some of you will remember from last year:

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I think some of the oldies in the cactus society would go into cardiac arrest if they saw your collection Ceres. That pot the lophs in up the top right in the 1st pic looks very worthy!

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LOL! Cheers mate, although sometimes i think i'm gonna break down at the sight of them all too.. This is just my table...they are everywhere...and i really do mean everywhere :(

Just gotta take it one patch at a time eh, and not think too much.

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I potted up some super fat cuttings I received this morning, happy days! :P

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Rosei 2

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Super Pedro

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Rosei 1

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Eileen

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HB01

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hey ceres love the big astro hybrid and the tricostatums.

many more too

would love to see more of that strange crest, what is it?

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Which crest do you speak of mutant? I cant see any crestys in the pics.

Just a guess, but perhaps you're recalling the strange multi headed euphorbia crest i have?

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Which crest do you speak of mutant? I cant see any crestys in the pics.

Just a guess, but perhaps you're recalling the strange multi headed euphorbia crest i have?

I know you have a lot of cacti but really Ceres did you even look at what you took photos of. :P

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Second pic left side middle

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Cheers

Got

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Ohhhhh... I see it now :P

In my defence.. When there are so many, you see them, but you don't really see them.

I'm pretty sure its some kinda rebutia. Its got a few seed pods ripening and has already provided me with alot of viable seed if anyone is keen to grow some. Its a freaky lookin thing thats for sure.

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Grafted a TBM Crest pup, a Booby Cactus nipple and a Lophocereus schottii monstrose var. spiralis areole onto some Scop seedlings I got from CC.

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lol

it could use a bigger size of pot, maybe...

are you kidding me? sure I'd love to try to grow them seeds from cresty rebutia/sulcorebutia or whatever plant!!

I am little confuse with sulco/rebutias: well I lost some, some from root mealy damage, but I am beging to wonder about their true needs. DO they need rest during the peak of the heat of the season?

Sabry very nice project... Would sure love to see what happens next - good luck!

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Haha yeh it does. I'll get there eventually.

Will pm you when the pods are ready mutant :)

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there are so many schools of thought, regarding "how to secure a scion" but this one is my current fav, I wonder if it will stay my fav, so far so good.

pedro in the back centre, shows how the stock got prepared a few day's in advance, so to avoid sunken core issues.

than I just used electrical tape to tie down and secure the scion! :)

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I grafted some L. williamsii var caespitosa and Trichocereus taquimbalensis seedlings to pereskiopsis today. :)

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After some rain we'been having very warm weather some days now.

I checked how dry/wet the soil is, as many of them are freshly repotted and took some shots.

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The 2 big astros I have chosen for my own collection as favourites. The one in the purple pot is one of the first cactus I ever got. The small one I did from seed and I kept due to the 6 rib count

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Mandrakes , lopho grafts

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various seedlings. I plan to leave on the roof this winter

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L. carasmontana or something like that

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new comers, were bought as a pack from an awesome grower from poland

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Potted up the majority of seedlings from zellys seed. Fark what a mission, finding enough containers was half the battle.

Anyways, Had some free time and took a few photos of things about the garden.

Some texana seedlings just under a year old. Raised them in straight pumic sand and now moved them to a proper mix

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'Pachanoi' I raised from Cactusplaza seed. Hmmm we shall these how these pan out...

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Huanucoensis x kimnach looking plump. Only reppoted them just over a week ago

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Macro from Ceres starting to take shape. I have a good feeling about this guy.

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Another macro looking fabulous as usual

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And finally a bud on my T. lobiviodies 'purpureominiata' Should be able to cross this guy this season.

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Well, actually yesterday I brought in all my plants from the yard, which was rather fortuitous as we had the first really good frost of the season. The cardboard is a little extra insulation from the cold in the unheated garage. Everything but a few seedlings, the hanging plant, and two slightly more mature Trichocereus are in terra cotta, which of course means my back aches from some serious lifting (the soil is soaked too). If you look closely you can see I stacked a few pots on the others to save space.

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I have been meaning to ask, since I know you and other people in colder climates bring in in winter to protect from frost.

OK, the garage is cold and unheated (and dark) but its better than outside and ine trichos can put on growth even in summer.

Don't your plants etiolate at all? Has it happened to you? Or the garage is cold and dark that they're easily convinced to sleep for a couple of months?

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Hey mutant, I've been doing the same thing for years with great results. Check out the tallest plant in the third photo and you can clearly see the seasonal growth marks without any significant pinch, much less etiolation. It's really all about the rather rapid cooling come fall where I live. They could get all the light in the world, but without the required amount of heat nothing is going to move. Oh, and not a "couple of months" of sleep, try six months from mid-October to mid-April.

~Michael~

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