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    This is my set up its in an IKEa cupboard 60 watt cfl puts out about 5000 lumens roughly. Dosn't get to hot running 18 hours of light. I have another box similiar set up am thinking about putting on shorter light period to see if I can force flowering? should be interesting.

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    I am putting a few cacti grafts under lights and want to raise a few seedlings while experimenting with canna based hydroponics I have a 60 watt cfl bulb that puts out about 4000 to 5000 lumens and gives off pretty good heat.

    Is this about ball park for cacti Has anyone got any pics of there own set ups?

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    I have been playing around with an Opuntia sp (unknown) as a stock for grafts, just using various pups I have, how long before you can tell if the grafts have taken? I went into it a bit blind but so far all four grafts seem to have taken, its been 3 weeks and nothing is looking worse for wear? I am curious to see if the graft will grow more rapidly as I have similar sized pups of each sp rooted in soil as a comparison.

    Heres a couple pics from a week ago, like I said its a bit rough as it was a bit of a spur of the moment thing with alcohol involved lol, I am actually quite surprised its worked this long lol.

    I think this is G denadatum

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    and an unknown Lobivia sp/ hybrid?

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    I used anoth Lobivia sp as well as an Echinopsis hybrid (some sort of barrel type) as the other two examples but I don't seem to have taken photos of them.

    Any advice would be much appreciated.

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    Does anyone have a any idea which Gymnos are self pollinating as I have a few specimens developing flowers, I think I would like to do some experiments with grafting these guys as they are so hardy, I read G gibbosum was self polinating? what about G baldianum or G mihanovichii? or denedatum for that matter? Sorry for so many Qs hahah am a bit curious to mess around with a few crosses as well. I'll look up a few things on pollinating cacti flowers as well.

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    I don't think its prickly pear but I think its Opuntia sp the spines aren't as fine and nasty as a prickly pear and the diameter of these guys is about 2cm at top end also they aren't really paddled ie not so flat. I'll take some pics of muy grafts and a few more of the above plant.

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    Have been experimenting with grafting using this cacti does anyone know the species, we have access to a specimen that is about a metre and a half tall and have attempted grafting Gynocalycium , Echinopsis and Lobivia species to it with good results so far. I figure its a bit of a weed really.

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    No floor buddy, and just go to a timber yard and buy some heavy treated pine some lighter stuff for strutts and knock it up yourself or some corrogated iron for about a tenth of the price, it will be a much larger deeper, Heavier and longer lasting gig.

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    I did some testing today smoked a small amount of leaf and flowers from a purple flowered S splendens then chewed a flower up as well. Feel very relaxed and spaced out now maybe a touch of blurred vision and difficulty typing, I think if I was to blend a few varieties and species of Salvia together and smoke or chew it up you could have a very interesting time. Definitely doing a bit more research.

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    did some research on one of my S splendens bought as Salvia vanhoutei

    Interestingly enough it was one of the first S splendens kept before it was dwarfed and may hold a few more interesting elements or possibly higher levels, in saying this it will have to be researched to access if any of this is true.

    An extract I found on a gardening forum

    Here is the scoop on Salvia vanhouttei. I got the burgundy (brownish-red) flowered plant from Longwood Gardens who in turn purchased it from a nursery in South Africa on a buying trip. I then disseminated the plant to as many nurseries, collectors, and botanical grdens that were interested over several years. The plant in the images posted looks like this form.

    Betsy Clebsch had Dr. Ian Hedge, emeritus of the Royal Botanical Garden of Edinburgh and the world's foremost expert on Salvias check out the provenance of Salvia vanhouttei and determined that it was probably the result of early breeding experiments on Salvia splendens by Dutch or Belgian nurserymen. The sport was named after van Houtte, a Belgian who did much collecting in Brazil.

    The original burgundy form often throws orange flowered seedlings that look a lot like the ancestral splendens. These were distributed by several persons, including Frances Parker of Beaufort, SC. In my hands, many of these were weak growers.

    One of the individuals who bought the burgundy vanhouttei was Barb Smith of Pendleton, SC (near Clemson University). She came up with the form Paul (dark purple), named after her son. Some of the Paul clone generated the other forms, including a lavender, a plum, a light orange (peach), and other orange to red forms. Pine Knot Nursery of southern Virginia (Clarksville) near Henderson, NC also had a plant of Paul that threw similar colored forms, which I have.

    Properly, all of these plants should be listed as Salvia splendens, although there probably are genes from other sages thet contribute the different leaf shapes, growth habits, and flower colors. Any generation after F2 is going to develop forms that vary from one parent to the other.

    Naming these is a problem, since many of the discoverers of the chance seedlings have not given them varietal names.

    just a bit of info for anyone who is interested.

    Mick

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