zed240 Posted January 16, 2015 what the fahk does yowie mean anyway? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie Although that cactus was named after a SAB user who also used the name "Yowie" at the time. But that link will tell you what a Yowie is at least. As far as what I've done to my cactus today - I pollinated a Yowie flower with scop pollen before heading to work, taking the pic with the pollen donor in view is how I label which flower has been molested with which pollen. I'll also be doing a couple of loph and astro grafts later tonight too. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Getafix Posted January 16, 2015 Took some pics of a few of my lovelies..... Getafix 20 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
incognito Posted January 17, 2015 Your are a nut psilos :D A good nut :D my favourite kind of people Wish u could rig me up a wonderful prop contraption, yours are freakin primo! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted January 17, 2015 (edited) aww fangx bruv yayy .. likewise me olde, likewise ... hope your feeln better after that Chinese , our Chinese is probably the best one i ever knew thankfully, i think theyve replaced msg with amanita muscaria for a while now just drop me a line when you're ready with some room and show us what you got out there as ingredients and I'll see what I can cook up in me virtual cauldron of steamy hot sex scenes - of boxed plants of course I'll PM you with what i put here earlier, save it getting lost in history Edited January 28, 2015 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spooge Posted January 20, 2015 (edited) Been planting more when i can................getting there Edited January 20, 2015 by pimento 22 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gimli Posted January 20, 2015 That looks great, Pimento! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slice Posted January 20, 2015 nice! it will look like a forest soon, do you plan walking in between those in 15 years from now ? because I think it wont be possible. What spacing are u using? regards. Slice 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spooge Posted January 22, 2015 nice! it will look like a forest soon, do you plan walking in between those in 15 years from now ? because I think it wont be possible. What spacing are u using? regards. Slice If I walked away today and came back in 15 years, yeah man I rekon your spot on, it'd be a mad mess. With care, attention, trade and propergation over that time I should be able to keep it under control. Spacing........1m -1.5m between plants on all sides, some a bit more some a bit less. As plants grow if they are monsters or really invasive there's always the option of moving their slower growing neighbours. As its growing I'm thinking that the patch is an evolving thing and moving plants, cutting them etc.... is good, change is good. Across the road from the patch I've planted Jacaranda's, seriously considering moving these to plant more trichs so it makes a trichocereus avenue.......... 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted January 22, 2015 (edited) fed the cacti a little seeing as its a really mild winter kept knocking my gear stick over though , . I think I can see grafting should , in time, develop some deft kung fu-like hand steering skills though. .....and with glochids as initiative , that's pretty hardcore and got a fruit :3 and yayyy ,glad I managed to cast me safe travelspell in time for this ole(no bic lighter for size ref so used a 2p coin) battle axeof ataquimbo or if its a werder... Edited January 22, 2015 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted January 22, 2015 (edited) phlibberty phuckin flyrtle whyrtle , rainbow magick perple tertle one looks like it has more ribs but oddly enough they number the same from pictures i see the very opposite of the werder that I already had (strong centrals upward - 7 legged dull yellowie-brown flattened spider + skyward hard on ) - (minus 1 spine per areole on the whole)very golden strong centrals downward pointing on this new one tho.... with a little redding at the base of the spines and "naughty spine" tendencies looks like their spines are hand in hand the spines seem far too yellow all the way down the cactus , fading to golden brown not enough red/grey for thinking it's a tacaquirensis , judging by the ones I already have... but then again, they were named tacaquirensis subsp' taquimbalensis maybe thats the difference between taca and taquimbo? including presence of "naughty spines" (thanks mutant for that ID feature to watch out for) on them both Bought as a terscheckii but hoss doesnt feel the terscheckeality ...or think it has the amount of ribs a horse would expect from terschey bars if its a taquimbo ... i may well have found the divide and have labelled it one anyway for now sneaky fuckers arent they? ... looking so similar ... cactical ops ninjas these wide boys are anyway I added a bunch of horticulturalgravel .... enough to reach the pot lip.... so it doesn't fall on the cactus tank if we have another earthquake or someth'n daft ...like a couple of times in 2001 perhaps its another werdermannianus clone , reminds me most of that scorcher Ceres had and perhaps these two little taquimboscrumpsciousnesses that came as werder are maybe tacaquirensis ? or the whole of the above (minus werdermannianus); vice versa re- taca' & taquimb'o at least I think I can guess what that "Vallidus" on ebay about 4 or 5 months ago really was now x] (if not pasacana - lol - incase anyone else saw it and remembers) glad I didnt buy it , this hefty was only a little bit more money x] Edited January 23, 2015 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_Cursive Posted January 22, 2015 (edited) Been planting more when i can................getting there IMG_0610.jpg IMG_0611.jpg IMG_0612.jpg IMG_0613.jpg IMG_0615.jpg IMG_0616.jpg IMG_0617.jpg IMG_0619.jpg Edited January 22, 2015 by _Cursive 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zed240 Posted January 22, 2015 ^^^ Hey Cursive, what's with the use of reaction gifs in a few posts? This isn't the Shroomery! Yowie popped last night. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DiscoStu Posted January 23, 2015 (edited) planted 20/10/2014 tl: cereus peruvianus x trichocerus peruvianus - they all dies mostly but a few of them lived, although i think they might shrivel up and die now that i'm introducing them to atmospheric conditions bl: cereus peruvianus - i underestimated how quick these would grow, luckily the others are quick as well br: spachianus x bridgesii - these are pretty quick too for trichs, looking forward to seeing their final form tr: t. pachanoi OP: a success rate of roughly 0.0% Edited January 23, 2015 by DiscoStu 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted January 28, 2015 made a first grafting attempt to graft my broken yowie and heres the sun! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nitrogen Posted January 28, 2015 My experience exactly! Pimento man, that is gonna be a serious cactus patch a few years down the road.. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DiscoStu Posted January 29, 2015 fucking went out to water this morning and bloody greenhouse fell over, lost a lot of good men out there this morning, poor one out for the fallen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dreamwalker. Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) I found a yellowish stem in the middle of a huge San p, thought at 1st may be lack of light. I cut the top on the yellowist areole (cutting down away from the areole), I find barely cutting the top of an areole encourages it to pup, (on grafts & scions also). will cut again when bigger ...more yellow to chose from this time. Edited January 29, 2015 by Dreamwalker. 10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dreamwalker. Posted January 29, 2015 fucking went out to water this morning and bloody greenhouse fell over, lost a lot of good men out there this morning, poor one out for the fallen bummer...hope you can salvage most of them... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evil Genius Posted January 29, 2015 Hi Thunderhorse, how did the grafting with the wax go? Never saw someone trying to repair a broken cactus. At first I was kinda sceptical, but with grafting you can do a whole lot of things that many people wouldn´t believe. I am not sure if a broken cactus can grow back together but I would recommend you to keep a very close look at it because of infections. The thing with the wax is actually something i´ve never heard before. Did you read that somewhere or is it just a try? The problem is that it oxygen can´t get to the graft, which might cause infections. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted January 29, 2015 I remember seeing something like wax in one pic TH, but didn't undestand what it was... I did not yet understand what the cutting damage was, I thought it was just pressure and surface shit.. waxing near the surface of a cactus recently grafted doesn't sound so wise indeed... the graft needs air at the points of no connection until it heals... if you keep the humidity inside with wax, it can fail easily. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
amp Posted January 29, 2015 Wax is/was commonly used in grafting fruit trees. I think it has fallen out of fashion to some degree. Hi Thunderhorse, how did the grafting with the wax go? Never saw someone trying to repair a broken cactus. At first I was kinda sceptical, but with grafting you can do a whole lot of things that many people wouldn´t believe. I am not sure if a broken cactus can grow back together but I would recommend you to keep a very close look at it because of infections. The thing with the wax is actually something i´ve never heard before. Did you read that somewhere or is it just a try? The problem is that it oxygen can´t get to the graft, which might cause infections. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gr33ntea Posted January 30, 2015 (edited) I took pictures of this graft i made. I wasn't expecting it to survive. It has been growing way faster than normally on its roots. Can't wait until it grows the human nail like spinesOpuntia tephrocactus articulatus grafted on Opuntia ficus Indica Edited January 30, 2015 by gr33ntea 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gimli Posted January 30, 2015 (edited) Picked up some stuff from Alienteaparty. Yowie cut Bridgesii - thanks! 83cm Pachanoi. Had to cut it from the pot it was in as it wouldn't fit in the car Some Cuzco This pot is quite a spectacle! Can't wait to take cuttings and make a cacti forrest (thanks pimento for the inspiration) Edited January 31, 2015 by Gimli 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gimli Posted January 31, 2015 Grafted a small Cuzco pup onto a piece of Pachanoi. Hopefully it takes. *fingers crossed* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gimli Posted January 31, 2015 Today, I became a pin cushion! Did some small pups into pots 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites