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  8. Posted

    Yes it is a very fast growing, fat, semi monstrose pachanoi. I got this plant from a garden in the Northern Rivers region of NSW, it was imported in the late 80s/early 90s by a friend of a friend. It hasn't been propped much yet and very few people have it.
    as far as monstrosity, It regularly gains and loses ribs as well as branching from the growth tips. It also has a habit of shooting four ribbed stems for the "cactus of the four winds" people ;)

  9. Posted · Edited by prier

    I've been growing plants for years, you may have caught me as half of the Cactus Orgy stall at EGA events. I recently started selling plants in my local area as well. I'm looking into starting a website but in the meantime I want to get the hang of the ol' mail order system. So I've picked out a few bits and pieces to sell an mail away to far away places. Although I can't send stuff to WA or TAS, sorry.

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    1x T. pachanoi "Woolunda Monster Pedro" $50 SOLD
    2x T. pachanoi "Yowie" $30 each
    3x T. bridgesii "Psycho0" $30 each
    1x T. bridgesii "Dawson" $30

    6x T. terscheckii hybrid seedlings (5 years old) $15 each

    2x L. williamsii (slightly damaged, 6 years old) $50 each SOLD

    +$ postage and handling

    All plants have been grown in their pots for minimum of 18 months and will be sent bare rooted

    I will have orders packed and sent within a week of receiving payment.

    PM me if you have any more questions or to place an order

    Cheers

    :D

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  11. Posted

    Room available now! $652pcm + leccy + Internet
    Musk Vale. 5 mins to Daylesford. 25 mins to Ballan. Over an hour to Melbourne depending on where you need to be.
    Country living, wood fires, nice large communal spaces, studio room. Massive garden, it's basically a mini arboretum.
    Established vege gardens, room for chooks, gets a bit frosty but.
    Sharing with one male mid twenties, driven horticulturist/musician/event manager.
    send an e-mail to peri dot jeffery at gmail dot com

  13. Posted

    Cheers cobber :)
    That particular planter was an award winning piece constructor by a former employee. One of my inspirations in horticulture.

    Just to let you guys know, I'll be taking a bunch of interesting trichos, lophs and other assorted goodies. Things we don't ordinarily stock :D

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  19. Posted

    Dunno if anyone has posted this before, thought it might be of interest to some who don't have BRITTON & ROSE

    Trichocereus pachanoi sp nov. (Britton & Rose 1920)
    Plants tall, 3 to 6 meters high, with numerous strict branches, slightly glaucous when young, dark
    green in age; ribs 6 to 8, broad at base, obtuse, with a deep horizontal depression above the
    areole; spines often wanting, when present few, 3 to 7, unequal, the longest 1 to 2 cm. long, dark
    yellow to brown; flower­buds pointed; flowers very large, 19 to 23 cm. long, borne near the top of
    branches, night­blooming, very fragrant ; outer perianth­segments brownish red; inner perianth­
    segments oblong, white; filaments long, weak, greenish; style greenish below, white above;
    stigma­lobes linear, yellowish; ovary covered with black curled hairs; axils of scales on flower­tube
    and fruit bearing long black hairs.
    Collected by J. N. Rose, A. Pachano, and George Rose at Cuenca, Ecuador, September 17 to
    24, 1918 (No. 22806, type).
    This species is widely cultivated throughout the Andean region of Ecuador, where it is grown
    both as an ornamental and as a hedge plant. In some of the lateral valleys on the western slope
    of the Andes it appears to be native, as for instance above Alausi, but as it has doubtless long
    been cultivated it is impossible to be sure of its natural habitat.
    It is known to the Ecuadoreans as agua­colla or giganton and has been passing in Ecuador
    under the names of Cereus peruvianus and Cereus giganteus. It is named for Professor Abelardo
    Pachano of the Quinta Normal at Ambato, Ecuador, who accompanied Dr. Rose in 1918 on his
    travels in the high Andes of Ecuador.
    This species belongs to the high Andes, ranging from 2,000 to 3,000 meters in altitude. In the
    Chanchan Valley it certainly comes down to about 2,000 meters and overlaps the upper range of
    Lemaireocereus godingianus, which difers from it greatly in habit and fowers. Diferent as the two
    plants are, Richard Spruce, keen botanist as he was, confused them, as the following quotation
    will show; the part in italics refers to the Lemaireocereus: “The brown hill­sides began to be
    diversified by an arborescent Cactus, with polygonal stems and white dahlia­like flowers, which,
    Briareus­like, threw wide into the air its hundred rude arms. Lower down, at about 6,000 feet, I
    saw specimens full 30 feet high and 18 inches in diameter.”


    Trichocereus peruvianus sp. nov. (Britton & Rose 1920)
    Plant 2 to 4 meters high with numerous erect or ascending, stout branches, 15 to 20 cm. in
    diameter, glaucous when young; ribs 6 to 8, broad and rounded; areoles large, 2 to 2.5 cm. apart,
    brown­felted; spines brown from the first, about 10, unequal, some of them 4 cm. long, rigid and
    stout, not at all swollen at base; areoles on ovary and flower­tube hairy; mature flowers not seen
    but evidently large and probably white.
    Collected by Dr. and Mrs. Rose near Matucana, Peru, altitude 2,100 meters, July 9, 1914 (No.
    18658).
    This species resembles T. bridgesii but has stouter and darker spines. It is found on the western
    slopes of the Andes at a much lower altitude than that species.


    I would like but don't have the original descriptions for macrogonus and bridgesii, these are both in a book by SALM-DYCK (1850) in Gordon Rowley's personal collection.
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  23. Posted

    Katu, on the subject of variegation. I have a plant that shot a sparsely variegated branch. I cut it off a few years ago and have been growing it on. All the new growth came out normal, so I recently cut the plant again just at the top of the variegated section. Hopefully some nice variegated branches next spring. Not really photo worthy just yet.
    Curious this was brought up as this is the only San Pedro clone I've watched shoot a variegated branch.

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