sagiXsagi Posted October 23, 2016 (edited) 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... ^^^ 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 ^^^^^^ 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 ^^^^^ 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 ^^^^^^^^^^ 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) ^^^^^^ 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.. 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 Edited October 23, 2016 by sagiXsagi 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sagiXsagi Posted October 23, 2016 (edited) 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? Edited October 23, 2016 by sagiXsagi Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strontium Dawg Posted October 24, 2016 They're real nice sagi. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ex-Cess'es Posted October 24, 2016 Cool lophs sagi 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1967Ford Posted October 25, 2016 You have some real beauties there sagi! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sagiXsagi Posted October 25, 2016 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
myladyluck Posted October 30, 2016 Lovely looking buttons. How long have you been growing up your loph collection? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sagiXsagi Posted November 1, 2016 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 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites