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Jox pic of one of your babies I grafted about 8 I think all are 5 ribs except for one. heres a cool one the mice love these guys is weird I had to put them in a protected area, anyway the mice ate the apical growth point out of this one so it pupped one of my favourite grafts

We use it it seems to help for the rot prone ones if you can get it cheap enough it can't hurt. Alot of the QLD cacti society people use a mix based around this and volcanic rock.

Michael and KP thanks for posting interest in the thread. I hope to get some sequencing done on the the above species,or at leasts examples of these phenotypes that I have access too. Am currently attempting to organise access to the labs for the end of the year. I believe ( and this is mostly from reading both your opinions and work) pachanoi, peruvianus, macrogonus and cuzcoensis is one greater specie with scopulicola & bridgesii falling into another category. And the pachanot I believe is a f1 hybrid in my opinion a good example pc pach x scopulicola spine variation in the progeny is extreme. I am still hoping to get some Australian photos too, and known hybrid flowers are welcome too.

Hi guys am looking to compile a flower data base for the following Trichocereus species. If anyone has some sold photos of blooms from specific species (groups)would be much appreciated. Specifically these four species categories Hybrid flowers welcome but only if both parents are known. T.pachanoi T.macrogonus T.peruvianus T.bridgesii T.scopulicola T cuzcoensis Either attach here in this thread or pm me and I will give you an email address to send to. Much appreciated.

I am looking for reasonably close up shot of flowers front on shots so we can make out stigma and anthers also shots of plant etc. The idea is to build a data base to actually classify the plants from a true botanical prospective. Down the track I hope to back this up with some genetic mapping. But the flower data base is a great way to start.

So update of some of those grafted Astro crosses I made. There is a very high percentage of monstrose growth not hugely monstrose but not symmetrical either. I sent a few of these crosses out has anyone else seen any weirdness? Will be interesting to see if they continue to display monstrose growth or revert to normal growth

pachanot heres an article. They also show great variation dependent on environment http://www.largelyaccurateinformationmedia.com/pedro/pedro.html

When you get excess I would be interested in a culture.

Like the Kraken but pumpkin...

Thank you very much look forward to reading it.

I am happy to trial any new and and interesting ferts on various flowering plants if you get it up and rolling Big Red. I just bought some Boost actually, when used with PK13 14 I've found it exceptional. We messed around with it when I was growing Chilli and it definitely increased yield. To the point where plants were losing limbs due to so much fruit. Was expensive but worth the play. I'm thinking about using it on my flowering cacti this year to see if it will help increase flowering period and bloom number, I guess it may even increase fruit size? If you have any articles regarding this I'd love to have a read.

I have a heap of Lobivia that are albino but I don't have time to graft them unfortunately.

I got two of zelly's albino LJ grafted one is pink one looks white so far but not as white as that one Jox.

let it get bigger before you bap it

Just opened a parcel from the very generous WB containing some seed of epic proportion. This shit is like the Chinese womens swimming team circa 1990s... bolo03.jpg

I have a few heavily varigated lobivia hybrids, they are almost white in places others are turning pink. I think when they get that pink red its because of anthocyanin pigments being dominant over any functional chloroplasts. How old was that little white one before you grafted it? it looks like it slacking in all pigmentation pretty cool.

this little red one came from a lumberjack cross too.Off Zelly

would be keen

I got one seedling at the moment been grafted for 4 weeks that is pure red

any update photos? I may be doing an assignment on albinism in plants for uni.

Great cacti thread to help tie in with origins of Australian clones http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?s=3d26acbc74294f5117a9d726330d6d29&showtopic=16641&page=2

Alice Springs is the hub of secret shit

How can you say scientology is a load of shit .... cures homosexuals and is going to take us to outer space (if we pay heaps of money to do the right lessons). Why do you think John Travolta loves that shit so much lol... Don't get me started on Tom Cruise. lol Did anyone ever read what Burroughs wrote regarding them? Pretty funny.