Mine are a peruviana type, and are quite large and sweet. Crunching up the seeds was not so good as they were a littler bit bitter. But I was surprised just how good these fruits were compared with the other tricho fruit I've tried over the years. If a good quality dragonfruit was a '10'  for sweetness and flavor, these would be an '8'.

So anyway I'd love to hook up with any other like minded people to share these great genetics and hopefully do some hybridizing in the future to develop a superior fruiting tricho. 

Lemme know if you have a good fruiter. I'd love to get a cut.

Cheers!

They have really come picked up speed and their growth is vigorous as is supposedly expected from Timewarp.

I have noted two distinct spine form. About 3/4 have the usual short spine Pachanoi form, and then 1/4 show a far longer length and more numerous spines count, reminding me of a Peuruvianus. 

According to a NZ seller Timewarp

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Trichocereus pachanoi “Time Warp” has mostly very short spines and is a fast grower.

The spine form is no related to maturity of the plant as both big and small plants show both forms.

Is this diversity usual and does anyone know what causes this variation? 

Is it possible that some are following their mother the Timewarp and some are following the spine form of their father because they would have inherited both genes.

I have also noted that these are pupping machines. With several two year old plants throwing several pups. Teenage pregnancies I am calling them.

These are the long spines

These are the short spines

These are an example of pups

I’ve so far lost more than one plant to this simply by not paying attention to my cacti.

Seems to be some sort of of cacti borer which is eating the middle core of cacti.. No signs of pests but black marks have appeared in the side of one (suggesting some sort of fungal? Issue).

its seems to have eaten the core of 4 plants OVERNIGHT!

if anyone can assist in educating me on what this is and how to treat that would be fantastic.

Thanks SAB fam,

The root stock are Tricho.

The question is do I feed it like its a tricho, or do I feed it like a LW.

I can feed my tricho tons of water and fertilizer and it will go from strength to strength.

My un-grafted peyote, I care for by neglect. No fertilizers, No water for moths unless it is above 25ºc.

What way do I go?

These are my biggest so far validus x bridgesii out of 50 seeds all but two were highly variegated and only a few variegated seedlings have survived

Group shot

I have selectively bred some Trichocereus Hybrids that flower EXTREMELY EARLY with a very small size. If you have some flowering trichos in your garden or collection, please let me know and i will send some of the seed to you! All i ask in return is that you please use the plants you raise from that seed to breed it with some San Pedro Cacti to create San Pedros with a colored flower! You can use them as mother or as father. Both directions will be badass!

I already grow five San Pedro Hybrids with colored flowers and I want to increase that number now! This year, I´ve given seed of them to some skilled growers and you will be able to get some cuttings as soon as it´s raised. I only had like 30 viable seeds so couldn´t give out more. But in the next years, we will have some badass flowers on your Plants!

It has this very long spine in the middle of the areola, the areola is white fuzzy and protruding.

Does it remind anyone of anything in particular.

What I can read is: 

Scop Hulk

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T/pc Trojan OR T/Pot????

Lamq (T?u?p OR Lama 

Can any one made sense of the label?

What named pach clones may originate from Matucana or would rival these Pachanoi? Tia

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"Four-ribbed cacti...are considered to be very rare and very lucky...to have special properties because they correspond to the 'four winds' and the 'four roads,' supernatural powers associated with the cardinal points" -Douglas Sharon (Taken from Plants of the Gods, 2nd ed., 2001).

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Huachuma is called the “Cactus of the Four Winds”. The number four is very sacred to the indigenous cosmology of the Andes, as well as to many people and cultures all around the world. It is associated with the four directions, the winds or spirits that each direction houses, and that are always called upon during ceremony. The Incan empire was also divided into four regions of earth. From Cusco, a sacred city and the heart of the empire, a road departed in each direction (). The four-ribbed Huachuma is seen as the most sacred and magical of the cacti. These are very rare, and finding one is an auspicious act.

https://drugs-forum.com/threads/san-pedro-an-introduction-to-the-cactus-of-four-winds.70797/

Now I find myself suddenly the caretaker of at least five 4 Wind Trichocereus Bridgesii or Pachanoi.

Which makes me wonder are they really that rare or have I just gotten extremely lucky?

Oh yeah, here's the link: http://www.koehres-kaktus.de/shop/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=trichocereus+scopulicola&categorie_id=0&x=0&y=0

Anyway, i have noticed that my T. cuzcoensis is the fastest of all of my adult Trichos.

Here it is a a year back or so

I have cut have taken a few arms off of it, and it pups in no time. Even the pups grow very fast; like there is a noticeable growth every week (i hope im not seeing things)

I know there are variations from one individual to another but i started this thread so if a lot of people post their fastest growing Trichocereus in their collection, maybe we can gather up some data about which species or crosses have the fastest individuals amongst their genus.

"...contemporary bioassays of this species in the US have [in some instances] revealed it to sometimes be more potent than Sceletium tortuosum, though of similar quality (pers. comms). C. rossii which is much more common than C. edulis in Australia ... appears to be inactive"  - Garden of Eden, S. Voogelbreinder

Leaves from C. edulis have a nutritional profile suitable for human consumption. 

- in vitro biological activities were described for C. edulis including antioxidant, immune modulating, antimicrobial; anticholinesterase and anti-tumoral activity
- antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties validated
-  Exerts a high in vitro anti-neuroinflammatory activity and contains compounds with the potential to prevent neuronal cell damage 
 
Primary literature interest in the medicinal effects has been through the phenolic fraction, of which is particularly abundant.

 Some phytochemical analyses have noted: β-amyrin, oleanolic acid, uvaol, monogalactosyldiacylglycerol, catechin, epicatechin and procyanidin B5

Máximo P, Ferreira LM, Branco PS, Lourenço A. Invasive Plants: Turning Enemies into Value. Molecules. 2020 Aug 1;25(15):3529. doi: 10.3390/molecules25153529. 

M.I. Rocha, M.J. Rodrigues, C. Pereira, H. Pereira, M.M. da Silva, N. da Rosa Neng, J.M.F. Nogueira, J. Varela, L. Barreira, L. Custódio, Biochemical profile and in vitro neuroprotective properties of Carpobrotus edulis L., a medicinal and edible halophyte native to the coast of South Africa, South African Journal of Botany, Volume 111,2017,Pg 222-231 doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2017.03.036

R.B. Mulaudzi, A.O. Aremu, K.R.R. Rengasamy, S.A. Adebayo, L.J. McGaw, S.O. Amoo, J. Van Staden, C.P. Du Plooy, Antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory, anticholinesterase and cytotoxicity determination of two Carpobrotus species, South African Journal of Botany,Volume 125, 2019, Pages 142-148 doi: 10.1016/j.sajb.2019.07.007.

Omoruyi, B. E., Bradley, G., & Afolayan, A. J. (2012). Antioxidant and phytochemical properties of Carpobrotus edulis (L.) bolus leaf used for the management of common infections in HIV/AIDS patients in Eastern Cape Province. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 12(1). doi:10.1186/1472-6882-12-215 

B. Ibtissem, C. Abdelly and S. Sfar, "Antioxidant and Antibacterial Properties of Mesembryanthemum crystallinum and Carpobrotus edulis Extracts," Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science, Vol. 2 No. 3, 2012, pp. 359-365. doi: 10.4236/aces.2012.23042.

It is interesting because it is showing some interesting morphology with an unstable rib count and spiraling growth.

However recently it grew a pup. An analogy is a 2 year old human give birth to a baby of its own.

My question is how common is pupping with seedlings?

How did San Pedro evolve or change from this to the forms we know today?

What is the difference between natural selection upon the alleles of San Pedro populations verses the effect of artificial selection upon said populations?

How might the variations in phenotype, chemotype and genotype that we know from present day populations of these cacti relate to their evolutionary history over time?

I wanted to share these questions about this evolutionary history and status of San Pedro cacti as an introduction to the consideration of an alternative theory of their evolution and taxonomic status. 

I would like to suggest that the form of cactus widely known as Trichocereus pachanoi (or E. pachanoi, but I will largely use the Trichocereus genus for discussion) is a domesticated form of San Pedro cactus that has been shaped by human selection, propagation and distribution. This has resulted in a plant which I believe to be distinct from the original population of the plants. I believe the desirable traits selected for include short or nearly absent spines and high alkaloid content dominated by mescaline as the major alkaloid, as well as other aspects.

It is my belief that nature itself does not select for absent spines and high mescaline and that San Pedro populations, once established, if not subject to human selective pressure then gradually lose these traits, gaining increased alkaloid variation and increasing spine size, count and number. 

Much as Zea or Corn originates as a hybrid between two distinct species, I suspect that San Pedro is a product of hybridization from an original population that was remarkably different than the cacti we call San Pedro today.  I believe this ancient population was larger, wider, had more aggressive spines, a thicker and woodier vascular core and differences in alkaloid quality and quantity and that hybridization of this population with other plants occurred, which resulted in plants that were more desirable in terms of their traits, with these plants being selectively propagated over time in an ongoing process which gradually resulted in the production of San Pedro cacti, which were domesticated further by repeated selection over time.

When a population of these plants is allowed to naturally reproduce over time, they slowly change, and become mixed populations which exhibit variations including plants with longer spines, less alkaloid or different non-mescaline alkaloids becoming predominant as well as other changes. Over time populations slowly drift from active populations to populations with specimens including active and inactive forms and eventually giving rise to populations with few to no active forms. 

This theory states that populations like T. cuzcoensis and it's allies, are not distinct species, but are rather populations of San Pedro cacti that have reverted over time because of natural selection, to feral forms.   The idea is that various populations are in various stages of reversion and adaptation from their cultigenic domesticated forms. Each of these populations can be addressed specifically in terms of this and in relation to its variations, genetics and its cultural and environmental history, often over thousands of years. 

Note that this theory is unknown online and disagrees strongly with the common consensus about the taxonomy and evolution of these plants, which I feel is highly confused and largely incoherent. 

I strongly suspect that the ancestor of domesticated San Pedro was akin to Trichocereus atacamensis or Trichocereus terscheckii.

This is a cursory introduction to the theory, which I will address further as time and interest permits.

She said that it did not grow very tall and that it was like a watermelon inside, since it broke off, I know what she was talking about, as the core is very small. She could tell what it was

by looking at it, yet I do not know these traits and would like to know how to distinguish .