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Oh man. That is beautiful!! One of my TPM x SS02 is cresting. I can't wait till it's big and beautiful like that!

I added some new plants to my collection today. 2 Echinopsis (Trichocereus) deserticola plants. :)

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I took the plastic wrap off my first Lophophora w. to San Pedro grafts. Two of four look great, and it have high hopes for the the others.

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I'm trying to graft a tbm pup on this one too. I don't think I was agressive enough trimming off the skin around the graft union though.

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sowed out some newly acquired seeds...
100x LW v. texana
100x LW v. moctezuma
100x L koehresii
30x L jordaniana v. mammilaris

would have liked to have gotten on to this earlier in the season, but it should be ok. got a heat mat :-)

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Was recently blessed with the first loph flower of the season, it popped out on my birthday no less.

Guess its time to give the loph's their first drink of water in 3 months, spring has sprung!

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second day I picked up rootless cacti all over my completely destuct greenhouse

was blown away with air

great disaster, great blow to an ambitious business thing

really shitty stuffz allround the whole thig

but hey cacti are pretty good at abuse!

you can behead a couple of them in a godly disaster..

boy shit

plan is not working as planned

but a a true sagitasrius, so, thats going to be resovled

I will proceed with wut I do most,

old school cutting and propagating,,,

wish me good health from injuries to the fucking cacti

fucking boggers spined each other!

having thoughts about keeping the gh too

shit where I am gonna put the cacti?

emotional piece

a disaster , 2 of my fave lophos kids

were cut in vertically in half lophos os 1.5-2 y/o , just getting to pubescence

but shit happens no?

but hey other 2 and other is here to tell the story, no?

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Oh no mutant! I'm so sorry. You have a gift for working with cacti, don't let a set back get in the way.! I've often been inspired by your work, I hope you are able to make a speedy recovery.

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Dude, that really really really blows.

I'm sorry to hear :(

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thanks dudes.

the power is in the cacti: they can clone from limbs like no other plant. can you cut your hand and grow yrself from it? no (fuck wouldn't it be cool? cut yr hand, BAP it and then after 6 moanths another 3 limbs occur - oops you used too much! )

I am quite a cynic when it comes to my unfortunes... whats good to be a super fucking sagittarius when facing destruction and not being able to think and act optimistically, practically... I am a bitter person nowadays, so spines suit me. I catch almost all cacti with bare hand nowadays, except from the glochids ones... maybe that's the best reason to get on to cacti this season, and the season is a awesome of a reason as always.

I am very pissed off , because it was spring time in my GH, now it winter all over.

lots of damage and lots of anxiety (where are all thos cacti gonna go?) , got to make a grafting set up quickly

thankfully most of my monster mostherplants , lopho grafts, and bigger lophos were unharmed

and eulychnia spiralis monster has hacked but thanfully the piece was ound, the cut was universal and most importantly the cuts were not infected with rot.

the myrtillocaclicium chuimera was harmed and also hacked. grafting rescue planning at work....

the most important blow is that the location of the GH might be too fucking windy for anykind of GH or whatever ... very tricky and crucial shit..

another is that I was just getting to love being a happy gardener again.. now it winter again, practically and virtually. and a hell much of material is there rained on these days..

I got to go with the plants, and the roof is gonna be filled now...

pfffff....

times like this I was better with constructions, metalic works and all that stuff.

cheers cacti sepherds,

what doesn't fucking kill you

makes you stronger

its 3 days and I'm getting the feel of it

peace

PS:

hey do T. pasacanas stand bad weather? thinking of doing a plantation...

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hey do T. pasacanas stand bad weather?

I've got T. pasacana seeds from Isla de Pescadores in the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, which looks like it might have some knarly weather....

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Zelly>> sea-side? yeah I got problems with winds but asking about pasacanas cold hardiness..

hey this ''small plantation' is aiming to the insides of the gully . there was a fire recently - destroyed the GH and the whole vegetation allaround...

its an 'era' for the conquering the gully - a first class chance.

reminds of me my first ideas (visions) of doing grand things : argyreias and turbinas conquering the whole gully and my picking the seeds lol..

should try it now, even though so cold is not good idea for argyreia, that's for sure... now that I have an unwanted

to plant berries and all ... and all kind of stuff to form the gully again with paths and all...

there's a steep 70 m^2 somewhere in the gully with very fresh soil.. thinking of doing a tricho experiment there.

they should be less exposed to the cold temps there...

I am thinking pasacanas varius sizes, some echinopsis, varius tricho except bridgesii...

I am thinking of abandoning the idea of the GH in that place... and the airs make it too risky for even expensive plastic/polyester solutions...

I am thinking of solutions to bring all or most of the cacti elsewhere... some friendly GH would be perfect but not yet sure...

and shite, they say there'z cold breeze coming ...

atheist, cynical and loud-mouth cactus fucker. can he survive?

I say I make sure the cacti stay after I am gone..

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uh, yeah DID NOTHING WITH MY CACTI , just drinking beer and thinking out impossible ideas how to turn this disaster into a fruitness

with such disaster EVEN ME did not dare to start repotting todaay,

fuck how do I long spring to come

then I will hack the fuck up of them... well not... just joking

I will start hacking them up ONLY if I am sure it doesn't rain anymore or I put a roof on the roof.

#drunk

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thats a real set back Mutant................just clearing it all up and picking up the pieces would be a real burden................

all the best...............

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Chin up Mutant. I know how you feel.

My seedling greenhouse blew over a few weeks back.

Nitrogen mutants, zelly crosses, aussie hybrids fully labled now all completely scrambled. :unsure:

I have no fucking clue whats what. All that effort to keep labeled and organised for so long un-done because I didnt bother to restrain the greenhouse one morning.

It was too depressing to even scrape them up off the ground. I just left them for over a week cause I didnt want to deal with the situation. Im slowly starting to chip away at the mammoth repotting task.

But hey life goes on. I sowed some new cacti seed to make myself feel better and it seems to have worked.

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yep. fuckers can survive long burried under wet soil, lol!

well this was the 3rd blow in my GH and I had no luxury for grief. I took off all the shadowing cloth that , as soon as the nylonis blown, cause even more damage. Imagine very strong winds, and nylons and shadecloth tearing appart and catching to ferocacti, which then got back and forth hacking nad scrathing (the ferocacti) other cacti, pushing one into another and all..

in older occasions I had such scars in lopho grafts, as well as marks from scratching, probably just the shadecloth..

Maybe we should make a "scars" thread, I got much to show lol!

think ferocacti, pasacanas and a bunch of ten pachycereus ... boy they're bombs!

I will probably leave all the ferocacti up there. them strong fuckers...

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plans plans plans, some minor repottings, and more cacti moving to my roof. most of the monstrosa material (includ. 10+ pachanoi crest motherplants) is safe home

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Yowie, this is probably not a good photo for EG's clone database, so here you are a wound yowie, a nz yowie, but I suspoect its the same as oz..

Hey zelly that's what I was talking about.. the Pinus pinea I planted there. I aim to plaNT most at the upper and left of the pic. less steepness.

will also use black nylon for weed prevention this time! will probably plant some succulents too.. delospermas and some cypress allaround...

getting there is hard and steep.. wish good luck to my strained knee ...

I hope I get some better results from the other outside spot, were ferocacti grow faster than trichos (it is the disasters too though)

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fuck I wish a had a couple of you SABers helpling me out.. but I got a nice new fellow learning fast and catching up the cactus flu, a worker, and propably some locals coming to chop up cypress wood for fire...

Gonna be an interesting day tomorrow, will try to remember my camera!

cheers

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I up-potted/repotted/potted alot of my cactus today! was fun!

1 - Juul's Giant

2 - T. Bridgesii

3 - T. Peruvianus "var. Wild Andes"

4 - T. Bridgesii

5 - T. Pachanoi (short spined T. Peruvianus ?) See this post for more details -> http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=37634

6 - T. Pachanoi (Possibly PC, from my mom)

7 - T. Bridgesii

8 - T. Bridgesii

9 - T. Pachanoi var. PC

10 - Crassula Corymbulosa

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laid down some seeds: huarazensis x N1; scop x N1, juuls x t. bbg (what would the bbg be?), t. werdermannianus (herbalistics), huarensis x ayacucho, puqiensis x ayacucho, huarensis x puquiensis, juuls x huancabamaba,

and heres some planted 7/11/13 (first ever seeds planted lol)

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top: con x tig

bottom ayacucho x huarazensis

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(what would the bbg be?)

Berkley Botanical Gardens

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From Sacred Succulents Trichocereus List

"...T. BBG? (which came unidentified from a plant sale at the Berkeley Botanical Gardens) likely a wild T. pachanoi, but with

the largest flowers we’ve seen on a Trich."
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Did some more grafts. A tpqc crest with pachanoid phenotype. A crested portion of my chemsha crest as the two previous grafts are growing normal ATM. And a few other areole grafts of plants I didn't want to cut up.

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A few shots from the garden unfort they are from myphone.. Tbm I scored today from the markets .. Macro from foo ...looking great ...post-9727-0-89707600-1392527468_thumb.jp

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"spring has sprung"

yes it has!!!

DOG bless zones 8-9-10

edit: being carrying cacti back and forth (I got a hurt back and knee, wish them luck, I try to work with loads as spaced as I can to not cause any more harm) , bought soil today, have been starting repotting, will be doing more today.. been splitting my cacti in different workplaces, also tomorrow I will finish up the preparation for a small greenhouse I can use for a while really close to my house, where I have transferred materials and cacti. many cacti and succulents remain in the original GH which I have repaired a bit (not the roof thought) . Rooting in the fluro + heatmat indoor and this works fine. Try to make it in time for the season.

Could he make it?

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what a thing.. huh! this is in a clay pot. a lopho on selini graft. what a find! awesome in any way....!

dont know what to do with those

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i would just like to re-iterate the power of plants and what they teach us.

a very close friend of mine has left vic to move north to follow his passion and i'm gunna miss him but like i said to my lady,

"He's only going north , he's not going to the moon"

:P

anyhoo's, he says to me

"Do u want some cactoose , i got's soo many spares n shit?"

i went over, we drank some water, we chatted , ate some almonds and loaded my van.

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cost me the petrol.

ah the power of plants indeed!

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