prier
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Pachanoi is a funny species, just like a lot of trichos it was named by naive botanistst. Britton and rose rarely ever interacted with the locals and failed to be aware of the social significance of San Pedro. Trichocereus have been propagated for a long time, whether intentionally or not. To add to the confusion, Trichocereus is a genus still speciating. It spread all over the Americas over three thousand years ago. San Pedro refers to any Trichocereus with medicinal value, particularly pachanoi, bridgesii and peruvianus. There are so many intermediates between those "species" it's overwhelming. Pc pachanoi is one of thousands of San Pedros, and numerous Tricho pachanois.
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There's a lot of San Pedro clones, it would be impossible to tell which one is depicted in the hieroglyphics. Pc pachanoi is just one of many, find me a specific reference to that plant before the 1920s. Go on....
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No. The Mayan hieroglyphics depict San Pedro.
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Both the plants are still there, the garden is exceptionally interesting in regard to early cacti horticulture and distribution. It would be interesting to get the original mail order lists and see when the plants were available and where they may of ended up. A lot of the points Halycon Daze makes are mostly superfluous, there were at least four pachanoi clones that came over to aus from Ritters expedition, all of them spineless and fast growing.
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No longer have any poultry due to some arse hole cat. here's a pic of my pekin and silkie hanging out in there favorite place under the brug (where they were buried)
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prices on lophs?
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Sorry, Field's Cactus Garden to be precise. The PC Pach is planted next to a shed facing north. The other Pachanoi clone (I call it Fields), was planted in among a bunch of trees facing South. This is where nearly all of the original PC pach material came from, even stuff you see in the states, correct me if i'm wrong trout. There were originally four gardens planted in the late 1920's early 1930s. Fields, Dawsons, Hall's and another in Essondon that is no longer around. These four blokes in Aus paid Ritter each 1000 pounds to go exploring, as long as he sent them heaps of goodies. Once the garden was established Field used to have a mail order list, sending plants all over the world.
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Don't cha love it when your teeth don't hurt any more. I'm going to be poor for a while but thank fuck they're almost fixed. Just had root canal surgery on two of my teeth.
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Fairly common to see turbs with flowers bigger than the body.
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There's definitely a reason it is the most common cultivar. It was originally planted at fields facing north, the other clone was planted facing south. It grew quicker and was therefore distributed more widely in Australia.
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Had to look up escayachensis, silly Backeberg.
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Yeah that plant won't grow very fat in such a small pot. Get it in the ground.
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Um, I did label that plant incorrectly it's actually a E. meloformis crest.
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Mammillaria gracilis c.v. snowcap f. fugginweirdmonstathing
Echeveria agavoides c.v. "Peri's Choice" (check out the crest mate)
Euphrbia obesa. v. cristata
Neobuxbaumia euphorbioides v. cristata
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thought i should mention i'm happy to sell cuttings of variegated lophs too
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This plant is Kanje's, I've been looking after it for him the last few years. bit weird how it flowers.
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These plants were grafted about 5-6 years ago. original scion was variegated, quickly reverted under shade. This year I put them out in full sun and they have gone yellow. looks kinda shit in my opinion but freaky none the less. Also there was originally three. someone bought one of me at the last outdoor EGA, if you're on here I'd love to know how your plant is going.-
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Earth Frequency is one of the best festivals i've been too. can't make it this year unfortunately. I would highly recommend any one going must see "VAETXH" most psychedelic music you will ever hear. Have fun!
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Little off topic, but it looks like you're out in the dandenong ranges. A friend of mine moved out that way recently and is a little worried about taking his cacti out there, so i've been looking after em for him. How do they go out there? I'd imagine Trichos wouldn't mind the wet too much, what about other cacti?
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You'll want to include regular applications of fungacides in your watering schedule. I always water in seed with a fungacide straight up, something like copper oxychoride is good as it deals with algae too. Also what EG said, lightly top dress with sand, helps stop a bunch of stuff.
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I think you're right kapitan. looks a lot like Senecio kleinia, specially if you're in melbourne, both para and cactusland have grown a lot of it.
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There are many cacti with very different immature spines compared to mature spines. Tricho. Pasacana comes to mind. When you root a mature cutting it nearly always reverts back to immature spine. Dunno if this adds anything to the conversation, just a couple of cents
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You really don't need to do anything special, if the cactus is happy it will flower when it's ready
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PleaSE help me ID this CacTuS
in Cactus & Succulent Identification
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Edit. Rant rant rant...