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Psycho0 apomict?

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So I have a bunch of Psycho0 X TPM and TPM X N1 plants growing. The TPM X N1's all look the same and, not surprisingly, very similar to the Psycho0 X TPM's which also all look pretty much the same... with one glaring exception.

On the left is a normal Psycho0 X TPM, on the right is the odd one, behind it on shorter stock are some TPM X N1's.

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The odd Psycho0 X TPM is fatter, darker, has fewer ribs, fewer spines, fatter spines, darker spines, wider V notches.

It looks like what I'd expect a psycho0 pup growing on Pereskiopsis to look like.

Did I get an apomict seed or is this just some wild outlier or contaminant seed?

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I personally wouldn't call it an apomict, just a cross with Psycho0 dominant genes. It seems to display some subtle TPM characteristics.

Beautiful plants all of them!

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What's going on with the one on the left? Looks like some interesting pupping going on at the base.

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I think that's just due to the impale grafting method.

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yup, thats an impale with a few root buds.

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Hi Auxin, can´t wait to see This One when it´s bigger! Don´t think it´s contaminated Seed... just an unusual Type. Love Those!

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I say the one at right has started taking up more mature characteristics while the other one not.yet.

not much to say except it does look more pachanoi for a bridgesii mother hybrid.

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Yeah, it may just be eager to grow up, or perhaps more willing to give proper growth under artificial light. It'll be interesting to compare them in september after they've both spent six months under full sun.

If the right one is simply mimicking a more mature phenotype it begs the question, is that a behavior that can be artificially induced.

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whats more artificial than grafting (indoor lights or outdoors sunshine) ?

sorry how old are the seedlings (history etc) ??

some seedling becoming more mature early might show something in its heritage or it simply is getting more 'food' than the other grafts.

fast trichocerei and cerei, actually many genuses of cacti can take up the mature phenotype in a short time , say ~2 years from seed.

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Theyre actually about a year old, only recently (few months) grafted. I had carefully hardened the babies off and grew them under the full sun this year so the monsters wouldnt be limp-wristed and rot prone. It was only as fall approached that I grafted some of the non-monsters onto pereskiopsis and put them under lights, thats why they're wedge grafted. So all relevant visible growth was done while grafted and under lights, but it was done on seedlings that had grown hard under summer sun for some time.

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would be cool to see how ti grows

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