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Lopho-porna loca holocaust thread

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well, I thought I would make a new thread for lopho porn - I know mine is tame compared to some of yours, but I sure have two beauties, so, before snails, rats or whatever gets them, I took some shot of them - I sure can say these are fuckin hardgrown... 

 

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this is the reel deel, a kid from my one-headers. the strong one. his weaker or less luck siblings died , well I worry a bit because its so into the soil, lol exactly the carrot it should be 

 

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these are my 2 favourite and pretty impressive specimens - they are one-headers, but they're so old they have pupped. One on them - thankfully one of the side heads and not the main one - was attacked by a rat and the other suffered a bit sun burn. they have some history, I have them many years, and one of them had suffered the very vicious attack of a magpie when young... 

 

now that I think of it, I havent seen many "tall" lophophoras 

 

well my arm is pretty thin, so there you go / go figure 

 

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well this is my first dichotomisation, and it seems / it might be what I call the one-header strain, which would make it even more interesting 

 

 

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more wide heads on short pachanoi stock 

 

and there come some pics - well this is not a sale thread, but I wouldn't mind see them go

 

they are of course of the caespitosa variety and maybe a combined and aggressive strategy is what they want... I leave them be and they can be reasonably hardy (the caespitosa more than the one headers and intermediates) 

 

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well nice arms, and nice weeds, I am sure someones might / should/ ought to comment on... 

 

 

and there come, next, 3 pics from my herd... my boys (or are they girls) are and should be hardrgrown, most (if not all) are caespitosas so I prize one headers more..  

 

 

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the 4 specimens on the left (not the multi-header on the right) are grafted on echinopsis..  many years after this experiment , its got its good points, but not speed wise...  but it might be a question about grafting in general.. Lophos grow reasonably fast, caespitosas certainly do and they all root easily off a strong graft , even one-headers 

 

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oh, and oops, why they fuck are they flowering? do they think its spring or something? I am mistakinging? do lophos flower fancyliy and twice like say lophos and mammis? 

 

 

 

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thanks..

 

I am such a propagation freek... I was thinking, mainly about by 2 own root biggies, why should I risk a rat or snails damage them or worse and not bring inside to dry , photograph the root and perhaps propagating a bit... well I do this all the time (well once a year) with mandrake and last time I checked these two had awesome roots. Only they seem really happy and flowering now and we have a wave of small summer inside automn - maybe thus the flowering? 

 

 

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my cacti journey began from a freebie pachanoi I received from here in 2008. I think it was 2009 which I found 4 x one-header lophos in some nursery. The two biggies are from then, so I have them approx 8 years... But they are not all from the same period. In their first year they did not grow at all because they were in a substrate of gravel, perlite and cactus soil, so its was few if any actualy soil - did this with a couple of my slow growers at my newb days.. 

 

Some of the caespitosas , at least 8 came from a local nursery as well, but at a later point. 

 

one headers like depth to their pot.. caespitosas grow much faster and dont need as deep pots. 

grafting is surely a good way to increase numbers 

 

 

 

 

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