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Both you gentalmen have very beautiful specimens. I get the zebra thing a bit in my semi shaded garden as well. Here is a couple of ozzie pc pups from the bottom of a loph graft... One pup was dichotomous.

Jurema had a cup of cammo and admired these weird little plants

Decreased rot vulnerability is not the main reason. A proper draining mix and correct watering achieve that. The point is increased fine root growth and faster above ground growth.

Took some pics of a few plants that almost died in a move...thought a few of these wouldn't make it. Damage is from sunburn after being boxed up. The last of the four I just thought was looking nice This last one is a tubercle graft from a really nice ariocarpus that started to rot after bad sunburn. All attempted tubercle grafts died, I held on to them though hoping I might get some growth later on..10 months later a few heads look to be forming

crystal kaleidoscope Rather then looking at glitter and shinny things, it splits your reality into kaleidoscope like images This is a kinda crappy pic i took pointing the camera down the crystal kaleidoscope and at my morning dare, its a little blurry but you get the idea

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What better way than to learn from the pro? I'm just a semi literate amateur

Looks like zelly's crosses are well represented in this thread. After having great success growing my first pack of seeds, which were zelly's BBBxValidus, I dropped a few more packs of his gear tonight. Huarezensis x Psycho0 Lumberjack x Psycho0 Helen x Lumberjack Oscar x Huarezensis Scopulicola x Huarezensis Clyde x Huarezensis

to encourage more fine root growth, add pumice & not perlite. as for lowering the risk of rot, have you considered limiting the watering cycle? are your growing conditions the same as kada's or other people, who may be forced to grow cacti in highly humid/tropical environments?

Nice plant! I would leave it myself, and experiment with this technique on plants you dont mind losing first.

I wouldn't do it.........but if you do, please update this thread.

More in today from zelly and nitrogen Huanucoensis x psycho0 Scop x huarazensis Huaraz x psycho Validus x huaraz Juuls x psycho Huaraz x scop Pach oscar x huaraz Huaraz x ss02/ss01 Huaraz x tpm Psycho x tpm Psycho x lumberjack Lumberjack x tpm Lumberjack x sharxx blue Psycho x sharxx blue Exciting!

Finally sowed some seeds yesterday, Sierra blue x ss02 Koehres scop Scop x bridge Yowie x SxB Knuthianus x SxB SxB x knuthianus Fields macro x rosei 2 Psycho0 x peru john Ethereals open Ben Macro Rosei 1 EG Tarmaensis 1,2,3 Micoz/PGC open Pc 1 Fields 1-5 Scop 1-4 Zed240 Psycho0 x yowie Yowie x psycho0 Yowie x pc Pc x BB scop Secret garden open Psycho0 Sausage Goliath Werdemannius abg1 Red spine peru Yowie Len Scop x bridge Cordobensis Macrogonus Cuzcoensis Bruce Couple sources of loph willy, some notocactus, ferocactus and randoms.. Many thanks to the seed breeders and sharers!

ah i cannae list em, got everything down from olive, mysubtleascension, hukstable and a stack of J1 op.

personally i just take small steps with seedlings ill start by cutting holes in the lid once they are starting to show spines, a week later i the double the holes, another week later ill take off the lid after a month of no lid inside i move them outside to shady covered area for months, i try and introduce 3 inch seedlings to full sun over winter so they have some time to toughen up before the summer arrives.

Yeah ya dew ( just like a BOSs ;) ) finally got 5 secs to knock up my propogator#2 list so far ... just need to hunt down 15 more tricho flavour seeds now...

my biggest sowing event as of yet. all put out on 7th Oct, got some other things in the mail hopefully next week. Astrophytum asterias SUPERKABUTO Astrophytum capricorne Astrophytum myriostigma Ariocarpus agavoids Ariocarpus confusus Ariocarpus fissuratus Ariocarpus fissuratus var. lloydii Ariocarpus furfuraceus Ariocarpus trigonus Aztekium hintonii Aztekium ritteri Epithelantha micromeris Leuchtenbergia principis Lophophora williamsi var. caespitosa Lophophora williamsii v. texensis Mammillaria heydri Mammillaria Longimamma obregonia denegrii Pelecyphora pseudopectinatus Strombocactus disciformis Trichocereus Andacollo Trichocereus Bridgesii MM Trichocereus Cordobensis OP Trichocereus Goliath Trichocereus Macro AD OP Trichocereus Norma x Psyco0 Trichocereus Peruvianus Trichocereus Scopulicola x Bridgesii, verigated log Trichocereus Scopulicola x Peruvianus 'John' Trichocereus Scopulicola x Peruvianus 'Rosei' Trichocereus 'Super Pedro' x Pachanoi 'PC' Trichocereus 'Super Pedro' x Scopulicola Trichocereus Psyco0 x Pachanio Trichocereus Psyco0 x Sausage Plant Teichocereus Red Spine peru Trichocereus Werdermannianus 1 Turbinicarpus flaviflorus Turbinicarpus lophophoroides Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele Turbinicarpus schmiedicheanus Turbinicarpus schmiedicheanus ssp. schwarzii Turbinicarpus swobodae

I kind of think it must be environmental. I've noticed the striping on a few different plants of mine. Fields pach seems to do it a lot. Regardless, your zebra is a great looking plant, Philo. This Fields Pach gets lots of shade from early afternoon onward. This Fields pach is in full sun and you can still see it, just not as pronounced.

Here you go Eg, this is right before sunset