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Anyone growing Trichocereus purpureopilosus?

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Anyone growing Trichocereus purpureopilosus? I swear over the years the flower is getting more pink. Just a few years ago the petals were white and the sepals pink, now the whole thing is pink. Any thoughts?

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Torsten, I believe you got one off me a few years back, has yours flowered yet?

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Gorgeous!

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prier, never heard of this species. Really nice blooms.

Your greenhouse looks top notch as well. Got any juicy full room pics?

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Very cool flower

Prier do you have any cuttings or plants available ?

Cheers

Got

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prier, never heard of this species. Really nice blooms.

Your greenhouse looks top notch as well. Got any juicy full room pics?

Seriously bro, time to come off with some heavy greenhouse picture porn..

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Hi Prier, I do! Its one of my favorite Tricho´s for hybridisation. Flowers are extremely beautiful and the shape of the plant is gorgeous. Have at least 60 Hybrids with it. The Flower changes from year to year, depending on the general situation of the plant. I have plants that changed their flower color within one year tremendeously. Its something i constantly experience with hybrids.

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Cheers eg. Good to know i'm not the only one experiencing variation in this plant. I must get onto doing some hybrids with it, probably a bit late in the season though now. What have you crossed it with eg?

GoOnthen send me a pm, i'm sure we can work something out.

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WOW beautiful plant man. Not growing it but I wish I was :)

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I'm growing it. Mine has not flowered. This picture is making me excited to see mine flower!

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Thanks for bumping this. :)

Cheers eg. Good to know i'm not the only one experiencing variation in this plant. I must get onto doing some hybrids with it, probably a bit late in the season though now. What have you crossed it with eg?

GoOnthen send me a pm, i'm sure we can work something out.

I missed this post :BANGHEAD2:

Prier is there still a chance on this ?

Cheers

Got

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Last week from the hardware store I bought A cactus labeled T. purpureopilosus for a good price too . Although I never heard of the species until that day I love how evil the spines are , definitly my favorite cactus ( I say that about every new cactus i buy )

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Not sure if this is the right One. Purpureopilosus doesn't have very dangerous spines. But they look awesome. Can you post a pic?

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Hi Double Action! Unfortunately, I don´t see one in your Picture either. Can you post a close up too next time you get to it? Purpureopilosus is one the species that´s the most misidentified. True Purpureopilosus looks like Brevispinulosus. In fact, I think Brevispinulosus is a variety of it.

Yours might be a soehrensia but that´s just a guess right now.

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Sure I'll take a better pic later today. It's the one on the far right. It's from Altman, bought at home depot for $6.99.

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Here's mine. I have seen lots of variation with the ones at the big box stores. Some with huge spines and some like mine with smaller spines.

Here's mine on the left. post-12824-0-02589700-1396385525_thumb.j

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hrm looks more like a young Pascana or Terscheckii @ Double Action

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Double Action, are you sure that plant wasn't labeled T. poco(aka T. pasacana)? I have the same plant from Altmans, posted a pic of it here:

http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=29996&page=57 post#1409

I saw a plant at HD yesterday labeled T. purpureopilosus, but it looked more like hostilis' plant.

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http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk202/nad_likes_vagina/Mobile%20Uploads/0328142233a_zpssr08l1mt.jpg

Here is a shot of my purpouropilosus that was aquired at lowes with the same label as Double_actions plant. They had a few purpourpilosus"s with different spination . I wad considering potting them seperate but theyre so darn spiney ha

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Hi Guys! Double_Actions Plant is something else. Poco, Pasacana or something like that. We´ll see when it´s bigger. The blue color is weird, but that could be the lighting.

They obviously have problems with the labels. Hostilis Plant looks a bit more like it. But i don´t think it´s one either. Purpureopilosus has very stumped Spines. You can see the Plant in Priers Picture on the right side.

Hostilis, your plant may turn out to be a variety, but you´ll have to wait until it´s a bit bigger. Would like to see this Plant again in the future.

The Problem with the Labels may also be due to the fact that the current taxonomy made a huge mess with purpureopilosus. Currently, it was placed under Echinopsis Lamprochlora but that´s a totally different plant.

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I say pasacana

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Hi Prier, I do! Its one of my favorite Tricho´s for hybridisation. Flowers are extremely beautiful and the shape of the plant is gorgeous. Have at least 60 Hybrids with it. The Flower changes from year to year, depending on the general situation of the plant. I have plants that changed their flower color within one year tremendeously. Its something i constantly experience with hybrids.

Hey EG, how about posting up some pics of your purpourpilosus's, along with some of the hybrids you've created.

Also, what can you tell us about the growth patterns in general. Tall columnar or short clumper?

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