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    I would definitely recommend that you get a different sowing soil. I use a mix of coarse sharp sand and high quality sowing soil and the percentage of mineral ingredients is quite high. Probably somewhere around 70% sand and it increases your chances of success dramatically. This soil takes too long to dry out, which causes all kinds of problems. If you have any questions or run into problems just let us know and we try to help.

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    16 minutes ago, sharxx101 said:

    My mate is in asia and was wondering if this is a tricho?

     

     

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    A view from the top would make the ID more reliable, but I can already tell you that it´s probably not a Trichocereus. There´s some bluing around the areoles that doesn´t occur on Trichocereus in this form. With the color changes on the areole it´s probably some Myrtillocactus species or form, or another columnar cactus similar to it.

     

     

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    35 minutes ago, Breizh-cactus said:

    Hi dudes this is my Scop Koheresii who really don't looks like Scopit ....

    All his brother are the same !

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    It´s Trichocereus werdermannianus. We grafted a few and they are pretty cool. Wrong species though. They are still sold as Scops in Peru. These Peruvian seeds were picked up by all kinds of shops.

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  8. Posted

    2 minutes ago, DiscoStu said:

    dunno if you're aware of eg's new book and i missed a thread here if it was made

    but here i am shilling it anyway (do i get a free copy now?)

    https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/trichocereus-volume-2-san-pedro-hybrids-book#/

     

    Hey mate, thanks for posting. The whole campaign started pretty well and we still have lots of time to reach the goal, but it´s a little bit early to tell if we´ll make it. For now we´ll only print the books sold through the campaign. If we make it I´ll print some additional books and I´ll definitely do a giveaway with one. ;) 

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  9. Posted

    On 28.11.2017 at 3:59 PM, ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ said:

    ... :D are you up for writing books on sonoran desert/colorado river toads, aya malpighiacea and tropical myristicacea from the amazon? maybe one for iboga too? or more? ;)  ;)

     

     

     

     

    I´ll probably stay with the cacti for now. It´s already challenging enough and it´s usually best to write about something you are most passionate about. Never say never so I don´t want to rule out anything for sure, but it´s probably not happening within the next 5 years. I still owe my wife a Holiday. :lol:

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  10. Posted · Edited by Evil Genius

    On 25.11.2017 at 5:18 PM, Inyan said:

    Very nice catch indeed my friend. The real truth is that while professional breeders often breed or attempt to breed like this when trying to recover or bring out recessives, many traits may indeed come out in the very first wash such as colorful flowers. in the first filial generation aka f1. However, as things progress to the f2 or backcross you have to grow out many more seedlings than one does in an f1 cross to attempt to bring together and keep together those traits one was after. It is nice when one can see the trait one is after such as colorful flowers as this makes it easy to simply breed color to color thereby increasing ones chances of getting that desired trait. However, other traits that one can not see may be lost in that f1 generation. This is where backcrossing to a known species or cultivar with that trait is important. However, one may also get lucky in breeding your f1 siblings together and get a wide spectrum of possibilities in that grouping as well. When breeding a diurnal flower to a nocturnal flower one comes out with other interesting possibilities as well such as breeding in diurnal flowering times into an otherwise nocturnally flowering species. One might even produce an extended blooming hybrid in which the flower stays open rather than closing.

     

    Crosses such as Yowie x Huarazensis may show a very different profile than Yowie x Huarazensis. It is certainly wise from a hybridizers stand point to make such crosses and from a collectors stand point it is very wise to try and grow a few from opposite crosses such as this. However, the real magic and where very large numbers of seedlings will produce much more diversity potentially is a cross such as (Yowie x Huarazensis) x (Huarazensis x Yowie) and the like. Assuming one picks the best two of each variety or seedling one  has and performs sibling crosses as well things could get very interesting very quickly. The trouble again is that some traits are harder to distinguish simply by looking at a specimen.

     

    Now, sometimes we see that a hybridizer makes a cross such as Trichocereus pachanoi LER x Zelly2. What are you getting with such a cross? You may think this is easy. Trichocereus pachanoi LER (50%) x Zelly2 50% = 25% scopulicola 25% grandiflorus. The reality is that independent assortment means you could get a seedling that was 50% LER and 50% scopulicola. You may get any percentage of genetics from the Zelly hybrid from either of its parents, but what you can be assured of is getting 50% guaranteed from the LER parent. Then you have chromosome crossover which basically equates to getting new and novel mixes that were not apparent in either parent species or cultivar.  Now, technically this cross is also what is termed an outcross as LER is not a parent, grandparent, etc. to Zelly2. However, other traits for which LER and scopulicola both have in common is one reason such a cross could be made. An added benefit of such a cross is that you are also increasing genetic diversity even more in the resulting seedlings than one would if one simply crossed back to the same clone of T. scopulicola. What might be lost here is any interesting recessives that the cross to T. scopulicola clone might have had hidden. Again, this is another reason for the backcross. Backcrossing to the exact clone in question allows for recessives not seen in that parent as well as those seen to more fully express themselves in the resulting offspring. This is particularly true when those recessives from one parent are heterozygous rather than homozygous or when a compounding effect could occur due to multiple genes having an influence as is often the case when intensities of color vary within a species. You may have one specimen that is pink, one that is red, another dark red, another crimson red, and so on.

     

    To illustrate what happens when we are just working with a few genesTrihybridcross.thumb.png.c6dc11fce53da3bda462d5b9d5f04250.png. You can see it readily becomes apparent that one has to grow out more than 2 or 3 seedlings to get a reasonable chance of that 1 special hybrid and even then nothing is guaranteed.

     

     

    Great post. 

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    16 hours ago, ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ said:

    too sexy those fat ones are,

    ..i remember once apon a cactus today thread a few years ago whining about there being no modern significant tricho books and even having written to that graham charles dude about it to no avail

    thanks for granting that wish man its so nice to have your last book just to have and to hold

     

    is being on the mailing list enough to get the next books or is there something else to do that I missed?

     

     

    Hey mate, it´s always hard to say before the campaign is actually online and we have some firm orders that we can use to pay the printing costs with. The mailing list is a great help and without that and the social networks that I am posting on we would have a very hard time getting it done the way we want to do it. Just like the first book, the second will be a bigass chunk and all the pages will be in color. It´s going to be a beautiful book and I am just glad when I can put it in my book shelf beside the other one.:wub:

    But yeah, apart from the book it´s been an amazing year for the community. Some of Misplant´s Zelly hybrids started to flowering with some beautiful colored flowers. That shows that our COLORED SAN PEDRO FLOWER project was a great success and it´s just amazing to see these incredible hybrids today. Today, there are new colored crosses done every year and it´s just great to see after there werent so many of them in the past. It´s going to be an amazing year 2018 too, and it´s a great time to be around. The quality of the available seeds is a completely different world than what we had only 10 years ago and it´s a great time to be a Trichocereus grower. 

     

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    Hi Bagels, it looks completely normal to me. There´s a glaucous epidermis color, which is normal for some strains. There also are some minor discolorations, but these could be from the plant having a stressful time, not enough nutrients, sun burn and a whole lot more reasons. It´s one of these internet myths that similar discolorations automatically mean virus infection, but that´s just misinformation. Unless the discolorated area grows substantially, affects the whole body and starts making circular patches, it´s most likely not a virus. It´s a Trichocereus pachanoi. 

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    Yeah, it happens a lot that cacti that are grown together at the same place tend to pup at the same time. Not entirely sure what causes it, but I think it might have to do with their inner clock. They somehow sense when it´s a good time to pup. Would be interesting to see if two clones of the same plant would pup at the same time, even if grown at two completely different places. I think they´d probably not as it seems to be directly affected by the weather or light.

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  19. Posted · Edited by Evil Genius

    And @Micromegas, I have absolutely no problem with you asking questions about why this thread was removed. You know that I respect you very much and I am also more than happy to comment on the reasons for the removal of a certain thread. In this particular case, there were very good reasons for the removal. I have nothing against archaeological content and if it´s done the right way I am more than happy to have it, but there´s been major problems in the last months in regards to low quality ingestion related content and this is me going against it. When it´s about historical ingestion and use of cacti, the content just needs to be presented in an acceptable form and open discussions are like an invitation to rule breaking and undermining of the rules, which have already been ignored WAY too often in the past six months. I had a lot to do lately and I was shocked to find some discussions pretty much taking a dump on the forum rules, which is why we´re now going against it, and it also means getting a grip on gray area stuff that´s used to bend or get around the rules. My offer in regards to archaeological content stands and we´ve always been open for scientific papers. If there´s anyone that wants to add quality content to this topic, feel free to get in touch with me and we´ll find a way. 
    Apart from that, there´s just too much room in open discussions for threads to drift off and rules being undermined even further, which is not acceptable to me. Especially not right now when we just got a grip on the wave of rule breaking posts that we just had. 

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  20. Posted · Edited by Evil Genius

    Hey guys, so first of all I don´t think I need to be insulted here as a Nazi. This part of my posting isn´t about Micromegas, who is a dear friend of mine. I am talking about Skellum and I gave the member a warning point and he can be very glad that it wasn´t a permanent suspension. I am the LAST to call a Nazi and I won´t have this shit anywhere. So this is why I am already out of patience with this whole thing from the start. I am a super relaxed person if you talk with me like a normal person I am very open for criticism, but there´s a line and if this is crossed again it won´t end well. 

     

    @Micromegas , Postings about use of Trichocereus usually derail and end up with stuff that is directly rule breaking and it´s why I chose to remove it.  It´s a fine line between archaeological posts to "which species did they use and in what dosages" and doing these public discussions to find out whether or not a mod made the right decision to remove it is not fair towards the mods. Our mods have to make split second decisions and it´s part of the job. I chose to remove it, because the ingestion related discussions in the past months were getting out of hand and people kept ignoring the rules left and right. In the past months, I removed multiple threads because it was as if everybody had suddenly forgotten that we actually have rules against ingestion discussions. Quite honestly, I needed to make a decision to either stop moderating here because of all the ingestion related postings or to go harder against them. I chose the latter, which is why I am taking a harder stance against these postings now and it only works if people get the message that they have to respect the rules and that there are no ways around them with clever word plays and other things that are just undermining the rules. I love to be part of this community and I enjoy the quality of content that we have here, but I do not want to be a moderator in a forum where there are ongoing discussions about ingestion of cacti. I always said that and it will never change. I am a big Trichocereus fan and everything I do is because I want to protect these plants. I also have great respect of Archaeological content, but compared to scientific papers, forum discussions about something like that usually get to the point really quickly and end up with postings about potency and which species were the most active ones, etc. Not sure if you noticed, but there are cactus soup postings all over the internet these days and they hurt the community more than you can imagine and will lead to some governments outlawing certain cacti sooner or later. Personally, I will not give them any ammo and I stand firmly behind the practice of removing ingestion related content. There´s only one exception, which is scientific papers. In theory, having an archaeological discussion about historical cactus use sounds nice, but we had these a few times already and it cost the mods weeks of work with constant baby sitting of the thread and removal of postings and I am a bit hesitant to do that again, especially since our rules are actually pretty clear about it.  I personally think that archaeological use of cacti is an interesting subject. If there´d be well researched input I´d be delighted to keep a well written paper about this subject that doesn´t derail and everyone interested in that is always welcome to make use of my offer to write one. 
    Archaeological use of cacti sounds nice, but if you take a closer look it´s often used as a clever way around the rules and I wasn´t having it yesterday. Personally, I would love to read a scientific paper on this and I would have no objections against articles on that subject either as long they can be presented in a reputable way. I think that´s very fair. With a well researched paper, you can publish high quality content of archaeological significance, while open discussions about use of cacti will pretty much lead to people losing respect of the rules (which have already been more or less ignored in the past months) and I am going against it now. 

     

    Also, the original poster chose to ignore that the first posting was removed and reposted it right away, which is another reason why this thread isn´t happening in this form. If he wasn´t happy with a decision that I made, he could´ve message me and we´d have a chat about it. If I remember correctly, he´s a long term member that knows very well about the rules of this place, in particular the cactus rules. When someone talks with me like a normal person, I am more than happy to look for a solution and maybe find a compromise, but simply ignoring the moderator´s decision and posting it again is not really a respectful way to deal with the people moderating on a volunteer basis. 
     

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  22. Posted · Edited by Evil Genius

    Red discoloration is often a sign of stress. In this case, I don´t think it´s a problem though. Some species have a higher tendency to produce a reddish discoloration at the base and apart from that the plants look very healthy. Trichocereus grandiflorus has a different shape than other Trichocereus species, what explains the slightly odd shape too. These look pretty good as far as I am concerned. 

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  23. Posted · Edited by Evil Genius

    Hey guys, drew the winners and I hope I did it right. I pulled 10 random winners from the numbers posted in this thread. That means one or two won multiples and whenever I drew one that no one took I pulled another one. The bold ones are the winners and their numbers. @Master B

     

    1
    6 Zyppel
    13 Dozer
    19
    13 Dozer
    12 Macca
    11 IssaMel77
    19
    16 Mean Green
    18 Tom Bombadil
    20 Uda
    20 Uda
    18 Tom Bombadil

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  24. Posted

    On 22.5.2017 at 6:52 PM, DualWieldRake said:

    Im really stoked about the caespitose properties of these santa's EG, i'm anticipating a forest of columns like that crazy graft some guy named una once showed years ago :)

     

    I'm counting already 6 pups on one graft

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    You must have already tried this, what is your experience with these? they just all go caespo?

     

     

    Yeah, we had a whole lot of mutants in these too. Some incredible seeds. We´ll probably wrap this up sometime soon, but maybe we´ll give it a few more weeks to get some visible results. But pretty happy about the photos I saw so far. Thanks for participating. 

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    Sorry EG havent asked yet.... but do you mind drawing this with a random number gen after say Sunday the 6th 8pm ozzy time...

     

     

     

    If EG cant do it i will organize another trusted member to do it.

     

     

     

    Good luck and thanks my beloved SAB...

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Hey mate, great contribution. Happy to do it. Just make sure to remind me when it´s time to draw and I draw like the wind. :lol:

     

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