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Strange little loph seedling. Is it crested?


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Hi fellow cactus addicts

 

My first real post on hear 

 

Anyways nessled in my seedling collection, in a takeaway container, amongst other lophs seedling is this little fellow, looks pretty weird huh. Im interested to hear people's thoughts on if its crested or not and if not whats going on.

 

Its wayyy smaller than the rest an and approximately 3 months old 

 

Opinions please

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It certainly is freaky! Here's a pic for reference.

Most of the time when we think of a crested loph, the first case with the single meristem comes to mind.

From the look of it i'd say i wants to be polymorph/ monstrose.

Only time will tell!

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55 minutes ago, Spiky Mc Cactus Face said:

:lol: its just kicked in, i got a monstrose loph, fuck yeahhhhh:uzi:

Lucky bastard.  I can't wait to see it in a few years especially if you graft it. I bet it grows up to be a beast :)

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13 minutes ago, Ethnoob said:

Lucky bastard.  I can't wait to see it in a few years especially if you graft it. I bet it grows up to be a beast :)

Cheers man i hope so to, definitely keep ya all updated. Gonna have to go find me some perry and practice seedling grafts for sure, i reckons it might be a while away thou as its tiny.

 

Im super stoked, only early days yet...fingers crossed 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Ethnoob said:

Thanks mate, I hope you're right :)

 

All good mate 

 

The seed came from an ebay seller called northern_rivers_seed if anyone else wants to try there chances.

 

If he is a sab member, then big ups from me. 

 

 

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It’s unlikely you’ll be able to tell if it’s actually going to crest until it’s a lot older. Crested lw is extremely rare, more often found with fricii. I’ve grown thousands from seed and never had a crest, I’ve got my fingers crossed for you.... Monstrose is cool too, but lophs tend to be very stable, though varis can happen sometimes.

Theres a guy here northern rivers, an incredible collection, so it may be the same guy...

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Its still looking weird lol. But unfortunately the due to some horrible hot days it dried the container out a little, think i caught it in the nick of time but it looks like some damage might of occurred 

 

But hopefully its just were the seed capsule was sitting and finally come off and will green up with time..says the hopeful optimistic in me :blush:

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