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blood n bone is really good mixed in but tends to attract fungi/make lovely conditions for moulds if just left at the top ,

very much quicklier indoors tho than out so might not be all that of an issue outside... :)

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Yer I just scratched what's left on top just then with a stick :) cacti and brugs look happy with my b&b, dynamic lifter and old piss banquet :)

At least they all got a good feed, and the rains was it in :)

I'm a pretty rough-as-guts gardener these days, and my plants love it :) or they die lol and I say good riddance to the pussys survival of the fittest etc no room for weakness in my garden!

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I'm a pretty rough-as-guts gardener these days, and my plants love it or they die lol and I say good riddance to the pussys survival of the fittest etc no room for weakness in my garden!

i'm with incog.....

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WOOOOOOOO! 4 or 5 days after sowing..... a lovely

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defo an all night frost outside judging from all the white roofs

so flicked on the tortoise heaterpost-14443-0-57414200-1417847572_thumb.j and sat down with them all for a cuppapost-14443-0-70884300-1417847595_thumb.jpost-14443-0-78571600-1417847611_thumb.jpost-14443-0-59907400-1417847628_thumb.jpost-14443-0-08135900-1417847680_thumb.jpost-14443-0-59716700-1417847718_thumb.jpost-14443-0-05581400-1417847731_thumb.jpost-14443-0-43803800-1417847743_thumb.j

added this odd-looking contraption to Ixtlahuatlpost-14443-0-68935600-1417877845_thumb.j

by the time it arrived 13 peruvianusjs350Xjessica sprouted, 1 tersch' catamarja, 3 validus z mutt,

2 more tersch'js354Xjs361's, 2 validusXlumberjackus and 5 tersch' la rioja's also sprouted

-sweet!

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*finally made that transparent cover of about 15 m^2 on my roof pergola (did not do this myself, metal technicians did it)

*took cuttings, mostly of monsters and off 3 biggy pachanoi crest mother plants , planted and watered some newly rooted // this in my covered GH where the climate is dry as we got a wet automn over here now - uncovered cacti still look happy at these temps though, while those inside could take some more watering as they are rather un-pumped ( I was missing with a an injured back )

*took some shots with my new smartphone (wow) but they look shit

*sprayed (blue spirit , water, concentrated soap: a classic) the underside ofhalf of the leaves of mandrakes, which were infected with fucken mealies. should repeat

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the cuttings and the scopulicola spot (some are of the cordobensis aka lances)

Incognito>>

man I missed ya , hope you posted more often. I too have that "rough" gardening style mostly, I just dont call it natural selection (its actually an irony to call a garden of potted cacti a process of natural selection :P ) , I reply "that's why I grow cacti" to the obvious point that cacti dont really need that much care.... and boy I consider it a difficult task to kill most columnars at my climate.

Now , fertilising is another thing.. I haven't experimented a lot ferting plants or cacti but still know from experience that when I use fresh soil , the commercial soil I use, all plant react positively showing vigour, fattening of stems and speed of growth... Of course this happens because the new soil is pretty rich in nutricients...

I got several big specimens in pots where they have probably long expended (new word I just learnt, very useful) the soil, them and the seasonal weeds. So, ferting columnars is kind of 'obligatory' in long term cultivation, or else even an otherwise fast grower tricho with fat tips will stall. Or you keep making new tip cuttings to make new plants replacing the previous one, which is what columar cacti lovers with few space do, especially when seen only ornamentally and aesthetically.

But what you meant by 'natural selection', I take, is plants that are so rebust and resistant that are neglected and still survive and even thrive.. I had one such argyreia ( I think it was a cutting from my first plant I did from seed) , rootbound in a ~18lt pot , with its main a vine going up to 4 meters, in a semi-shady spot , I did not water it the whlole year, maybe just once in the summer I guess, and it survived the whole fucking summer... how did she do that? maybe the relatively wet/cool summer we had played a role? but still a

I like that too , the idea, (kind of like Auxin is trying to do in a difficult climate) , think I get wut you mean. I currently got dozens of species of both succulents and cacti exposed to the upcoming winter, in higher altitude than I am at - where several myrtillocacti and bridgesii were killed by snow couple years ago. This is not an actual choice and I do wanna save some of them, like the pasacanas and a couple big qspecimens I cant carry my self like my biggest pachycereus pringley, my biggest pasacana, a biggy myrti coachal, my yowie motherplant is still there (got another in the ground too there) , and couple of scops I regard as hardy.

PISS>> I think most fast grower cacti can take piss straight, especially if in the ground. Hell you can stress them a lot and they might ust express the "black rot" infection at most... I would not imagine them to be burnt if the piss was couple weeks old.

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4 wings bridgesii - stenocacti

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I should sell my 7 rib PC's so I can buy me a bigger house.

mate, 9 ribs is the hot ticket these days.

and if they have flower buds, the sky's the limit! :P

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:drool2: roof pergola you fkn genius ,that sounds like heaven......

if only i had a flat roof ,

buggery!

-good to know piss dsnt hurt cacti as much as I'd previously thunk

- how did you add a rib, take one from another pc? x]

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Psylos you appear to be a space age cactus grower :)

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thank you kindly , and honoured , I'll maybe feel like one by the time I get a hold of an 8foot validus,

tetrapterys methistica and a few virola bonsai...

WOOOOO yossssssssss!!!! today i checked some analien probing devices :P in my itty bitty cactus city

not only this perupost-14443-0-61617300-1417950035_thumb.jpost-14443-0-00389700-1417950048_thumb.j

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but also this mutt!!!!post-14443-0-03103300-1417950073_thumb.j :wub:

never known frost to stimulate rooting before ... fkn eh!

so yeah I watered them in...

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mightve done somethn else but I forgot ... oh yeah , checked the smellysyphilis assholiformis but still no rootajes

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Today has gone from bad to worse. Yesterday I noticed a few of my cacti had been nibbled on, some had their whole crown chewed out.

Rats.......

Dirty, stinkin, good for nothin, cacti chewin Rats! Some of my most treasured specimens have had the arse chewed out of them.

I am devastated.

These are plants that I have nurtured from seed and have been lovingly tending to for the best part of 2 years. I watched them germinate, take their first little baby steps onto their grafting stock, go through their adolescent growth spurt, then reaching maturity and witnessing their first flowers into adulthood.

But these filthy vermin had other plans for them. I have already caught 3 in strategically placed traps. I thought it might have made me feel better to see them dead.

It didn't.

Then as if that wasn't a big enough kick to the ballbag what happened next was.

While I was inspecting the rat damage I noticed that some of my babies that I had degrafted have the dreaded orange rot.

I believe did every thing right. I let them dry out for a couple of weeks then put them on a bed of dry sand in a warm sheltered area and still this happens. We have had really high humidity and rain the last few days so that is all i can think of.

I have gone into damage control but part of me just wants to give up. I have had orange rot before and know full well how devastating it can be. Ive cut as much of it out as I can but if i cut any more out I am going to be left with a pancake.

I dont know whether to be angry or just crawl under my bed and cry.

At the moment I have them under a fan, inside, I am just hoping for a miricale.

Should I dust them with mancozeb? I really dont know what else to do.

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only thing I can think of is kittys,

or rat poison (wharfrin) check your local rules n regs on wharfrine and its nasty stuff by the way

peanut butter is the best bait to poison ;)

I only see rats near rivers and in remote country side here

since pretty much everyone has a cat

I wish you a better go at it next time round after ridding them

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why cure the side effect when you can take out the cause? was my thinking re- rats

and sorry thats not helping towards healing the already damaged cactlets , *sends hug*

i hope someone with good advice in that direction chimes in for ya

also theres some awesome ratting dog breeds that are also lovely company...

if ya dn know what to be, anger-wise,

channel it into a solution/resolve, if at all possible, wherever applicable; in a way you wont wish you hadnt when reflecting on it later... or as humanly close to that.... to cater for "tomorrow's you" and how they/you'll feel then.

and is only natural to be fuming about it in my book too tho , ... the little bastages

-later edit- i found out what other folk my end of the web do about them ... ick

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Well some of the posts from you guys had me stressing but my cacti deemed to have at least not died from their ferting. Had plenty of thunderous rain to wash it in cacti seem as happy as larry.

My Lophs just POwER out here's outdoors all year round, flowering well and gathering seed which hopefully someday I'll have the time and inclination to grow.

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Took a few pics :)

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Aloe Vera flower.

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Babaco 'Champagne Fruit' .. It's a hybrid paw paw apparently. The leaves look really cool.

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It's fruiting too! Has any ever tried these?! Quite excited tbh. Any idea if the seed will be viable? Happy to share if so..

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Peres farm and Pachanoi pup factory.

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My first blueberry! Not quite blue yet..

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My favourite Trich. Definitely blue!

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The Trich above was cut from where this pup is growing.

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Pachanoi, with two Peru's in the background :)

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Bridgesii 'Helen' x Macro on left, Peruvianus Matucana on right :)

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Rivea Corymbosa

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Rivea Corymbosa (black pot) and Banisteriopsis Caapi (pink pot) doing the tango!

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Brugs were getting way too much sunlight, I moved 'em to a shadier spot about a fortnight ago, seem to be loving it.

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Likewise with the fruit trees, it's my first time growing these. Currently growing Longberries, Raspberries & Youngberries. They're doing really well, exceeding the heights of their stalks though.

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Is this scale?

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F*ckin rats! Surely this is not the work of snails...

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Bolivian Rainbow chilli.

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Gollum>>

sorry to hear about your rat attack and all

fan inside sounds pretty cool and if they are trichocerei they should make it

photos?

Brendo>>

yes its scales BLOW THE MF WITH PRESSURE WATTER

nice colourful chilli plant!

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yes its scales BLOW THE MF WITH PRESSURE WATTER

I'd recommend you keep a few old toothbrushes with your cacti collection, they come in real handy at times.

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*adds alcohol-hand wash and sulphur to the kit bag list too*

today in the cactery some seeds of gold arrived RAAAAAAAAAAWRZ!!

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so I put them aside and dumped some 2"er pots in some bleach solution to soak.... and planned to stuff them ....

and kill them with power

 

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by nuking em in the microwave

and sow the other them after tonight's performance at the royal albert hall

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I think it's still too young to pressure hose, I might just end up damaging it. Toothbrush is an excellent idea, and ISO alcohol is I'm guessing the same as what's in rubbing alcohol?

Thanks guys :)

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I wonder how much he's toughening em up with that pressure hose, like some fkn lol .. kickboxer toughening up their shins .... I'll bet they like it when decent size and I didnt realise they were that tough...

yes my hand wash is about 60-70% IPA (isopropyl alcohol) :)

that combined with garden sulphur and toothbrush was one of the best tips I got from from EG all year ,

saved no end of cacti and having to pay thru the nose for mighty wash

and either is cheaper than a 3pack of bic lighters

I'm tempted to get a steel atomiser/sprayer and get some reg ipa/grain alcohol fuel/ethanol for heaters

and just dilute it a little with water

since its what i used to clean down big fkn industrial pharmaceutical pumping machines and their parts

when i used to wrk for the evil pharma ... I'd say 70% alc, 30% water would be a nice start

but was 90% for steel parts n piping/ vats etc...

using hand wash gel is nice for the toothbrush since it blobs, and melts slowly (like some other things :P )

fkn priceless are the blueberrys

keep it bushy and they like pine clippings as mulch a lot / anything similar

they feel a bit on the ericaceous side (acid lover / lime hater - like azaleas n rhodedendrons))

your gna really enjoy them

they really love the garden soil here and i add pine so i can water them with our hard tap water

(PH7.8 - 8) when the waterbutts run out of rain (PH3.8 - 4)

also ... for some reason a wild species of willow here keeps tryna steal its turf , even going as far as mimicking the blueberries leaves in response to my weeding it out every year, .....clever mfkn bastages plants eh?

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as much as i loathe football (post Cantona),

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it somehow managed to draw everyone else in the house ...

giving me ample opportunity to finally sow the seeds of gold a day later than planned... *gets superxcited*

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tryna pin-point what improved my nuke tek for the last sowings whilst chilling with the cacti,

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need a baking ceramic dish that fits 25 x 2" pots max and still fits in the nukrowave

and with more excitement at yet more seeds of validaceal gold yet to arrive ...

... made love to all the cacti while thnkn bout your cacti :devil: for making winter worth while

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old toothbrushes sound awesome, hadn't thought about them, zelly you rule.

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Even though it's December but I still have a few trichocereus growing

All the SS02Xbridgesii and bridgesiiXSS02 and some grafts on Stenocereus and of course some pereskiopsis grafts

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old toothbrushes sound awesome, hadn't thought about them, zelly you rule.

i took zellys n eg's advice on paintbrushes / applicator wands for pollinating a step further and a step back and used paintbrushes for the

"hard-to-reach-with-a-toothbrush-without-fukkin-em-up-parts" of some areoles/between spines/more-delicate-than-tricho-plants ,

but especially seedlings

my taquimbo has bruised nipples cus of slightly forceful toothbrush work so go especially easy on effi plant eh?

also has badly bruised ones I can only assume was from shipping

oh yeah , the softer the toothbrush the better for loph fluffs, (one of the benefits of havn kids ;) )

hard ones have ripped the skin on mine when the bristles got too close to the loph

however if they get close enough to make light contact for a very short period

and not rough contact....: it lightly scratches a beautiful blue sheen on los lophos

but is easy to go too far and hurt them

i wonder if there's a special comb for peijotl?

I'll bet they'll know....... if anyone does

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paintbrushes / applicator wands for pollinating

Trouble with paintbrushes for pollinating is when your number of cacti exceeds your number of paintbrushes.

I solved that issue one day when I pulled a fluff ball of hair off my dog, taped it to a nail, and trimmed the end even.

You can make lots of paintbrushes from a roll of tape and a shedding dog.

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