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It's about 3m/10ft. Been in the ground 6 years, it was just .6 or .9m (2-3ft) when I planted it. It was pollinated with another terscheckii, PC pachanoi, a peruvianus (from eBay Jessica, Spine Collector), the Berkeley botanical garden peruvianus in my profile pic, and a nice grandiflorus.

Some terscheckii buds, blooms, and bloomed.

So...neobuxbaumia cuttings then? I bought some of those white pots earlier this year. Paid extra because they're a little bigger and sturdier than similar black ones. Damn things are breaking apart in just a few months. One crumbled last weekend while moving a 1.5m peruvianus coming close to severely injuring me.

That's what I think is happening. It's summer for me, and some of mine display this right now. Old and new growth, all on the same plant.

A pretty T./H. andalgalensis flower. I pollinated it with spachianus but forgot to pollinate the second flower.

I talked to a guy on Facebook a couple weeks ago who just got a shipment of cactuses in the USA from Mr. Knize. I couldn't find a website for Knize though.

For local trades I meet people in public parking lots. For online trades I rented a mailbox at a local shop. The guy who runs the local home based cactus business has regularly found T. pachanois missing or with branches broken off. I've heard him tell people who ask for San Pedro that he doesn't have any while standing right next to it. Even if you think a person is ok and would never steal your plants, you don't know that they won't tell someone else who will. I'm sorry for your loss.

I have two cereus that are both self fertile. They set fruit regularly even with just one blooming and no human intervention.

Do you think that the tristerix would be able to parasitize other trichocereus varieties? Does it only go after T. chilensis and E. acida because other trichocereus aren't growing nearby? If I were foolish enough to seek out seeds would I be putting my whole collection at risk or just my chilensis?

Love that flower skirt. Mine didn't set fruit. I may have pollinated something else wit thelegonus pollen but I didn't track it.

The plant in the link at the top of this page is the one from Poots. Here are my two from Sacred Succulents. T. validus T. validus? NL52509a

I agree with thelegonus. Should have a real big flower.

I think this terscheckii from Poot's Cactus in California looks a bit like validus. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

Hey, I got one of these too. Definitely stood out as a unique plant.

Not that cold for me. Coldest of maybe 20f/-7c, but 25f/-4c is more common and causes frost damage every year. Some plants are completely unaffected even without protection, some frozen tips with or without protection. Bridgesoids and chalaensis regularly get frozen tips. Cuzcoensoids and peruvianoids rarely. Pachanoids rare but but fare worse than Cuzco and Peru. Terscheckii/werdermannianus/etc have never had any frost problems. Placement in the garden makes a big difference, and I expect daytime temperatures make a big difference. Even on my freezing nights it's often 50-60f/10-15c in the day. I planted a row next to the house in a spot that gets no sun until noon. Almost every cactus in the row froze, even some that had never been affected before.

My main shaferi monstrose crested and was pretty slow. It got top heavy and fell over a few times, snapping off at the base eventually. The ones I grafted to spachianus are taking off. I'll be doing more grafts this year, and one is headed to NZ soon so you may have a chance to get one before too long.

A few T. shaferi monstrose.

Maybe it helped some, but I still had lots of frost damaged tips.

I gave this guy a handful of cactuses last year. One was this monstrose pachanoi that he mistakenly planted upside down. I decided not to tell him so I could see how it survived. Well a year later, you can see that it's not surviving well, but it produced a pup that's flowering. I have a few of these plants that are taller than me and have never flowered.

Looked like millipede to me.

Interesting... Bachs is where the pics I posted above came from.

Several people suggested bridgesii when I posted it to the Facebook page.

Ack! So sad! I love this clone. I would take a gloved finger and peel away the skin over the soft parts and gently ream out all the rotten flesh. That has worked well for me.

I'm thinking it's environmental, but now that I've got a little part of the she-bang in my garden I may have a different opinion in a year or two. These plants are growing a couple hundred miles away. Practically next door, right? I think their problem is environmental too.

I've also become interested in this idea recently. I'm thinking crossing this (suspected) Pink Glory with some of the usual columnars might lead to good results. Looks like a thick slightly longer spined T. spachianus and grows to at least 6ft/2m. This König Ludwig looks interesting too. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Trichocereus-hybride-Konig-Ludwig-Echinopsis-/111337202841?nma=true&si=GmeeL0YZW%252ByMa9JA%252BBzkbFu1q1E%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557