Psyentist

April 24, 2015

Not singling you out here zelly. You's are all as bad as each other, hah!

And I don't see it as a bad thing either, I see it as passion.

But I think these discussions are great for people (like me) who don't know other people that grow trichs to compare phenotypes and get general info behind some of the plants they're growing.

So thanks everyone!

April 24, 2015

Wow, people take tricho id's very seriously!

I hear what your saying about the whole genotype/phenotype thing zelly. But the problem with that is most of us don't have access to dna sequence testing equipment so the genotype can never be known, all we can go off is the phenotype to distinguish between species or clones.

Let's take a dog for example. A jack Russell has puppies to an unknown father. These puppies grow up to look like staffies but with jack Russell colouring (may not be possible but just an example). If you were to sell this dog and didn't know the mother you would call the dog a staffy cross (phenotype). But if you did know the mother you would call it a jack Russell crossed with what seems to be a staffy (genotype). With a lot of hybrids and open pollination occurring in cacti the father is often unknown so all we can use is the phenotype.

In my opinion the best way to learn about these plants is to collect as many different suspected genotypes, grow them out and compare their phenotypes. So I think really people can call their plants whatever they want to distinguish their collection, but the more history/pedigree you know of a plant the better.

Take this for example....

I got this from Bunnings labeled as a T. peruvianus, but it obviously isn't.

I call it a T. terschekii but if anyone asked about it I would say I got it as a peru.

Maybe it's a cross, who knows?

I think this 'discussion' is a great idea but it saddens me when people start arguing and taking personal digs at each other.

Remember, everybody knows something you don't.

April 23, 2015

Rearranged the tribe and put them in their winter-sun resting place.....

April 20, 2015

Here's one I have labeled as a pach...

Spines and areoles are very distinct from the Peru/Cuzco....

April 20, 2015

Here's a pic of a crest I have labeled as a Peru.

This is what it looked like two months ago...

Now it looks like it's starting to revert a bit...

I tend to agree with the Cuzco theory.

(Close up of the areoles with prominent swollen base on the central spines)...

April 6, 2015

Pm'd

March 25, 2015

Thanks guys,

It's not squishy at all and I've moved him now where he only gets a few hours sun in the morning.

That's makes a lot of sense about the base being burnt zelly, I was pretty sure it was sun burn but it was a bit weird as I'd put a lot of other new cacti in the same spot recently and they'd all been fine. So I was a bit worried about him.

I guess he was just a bit less acclimatised than the others.

Cheers for easing my fears!