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The tip went to a friend in Florida. I believe it's rooted now. I'll post it up if I can get a picture from him.

#3 looks familiar. Probably E. cuzcoensis from Berkeley Botanical Garden. Not sure of the collection number yet.

I passed up an Altman pachanoi yesterday - I better go take a closer look.

Clone two taken a few weeks ago. I'm pretty sure it's going to take down that fence soon. And around 5/7/14, cropped just above the fence line. I cut one of mine around 1/9/14 to get some pups. Here it is 4/18/14 just starting to pup. And today, 6/7/14.

Don't forget Altman's T. poco (large one in back) and T. purpureopilosis (three smaller ones).

My lumberjacks came straight from JRL, so I'm confident in their ID.

I'm curious about effect of the color also. I recently bought a roll of "landscape fabric" to use as shade cloth. It's a thin black fabric generally laid on the soil to suppress weeds. It was a fraction of the cost of shade cloth.

A week before listing it as bridgesii x peruvianus hybrid cv. Lumberjackus, the seller had listed the same plant as bridgesii cv. Centipede with the following description: You are bidding on a Trichocereus Bridgesii cv. "Centipede" cutting. My cultivar is named as such is because when started digging the bush, there is a BIG poisonous green centipede guarding the plant, which is why it is named "Centipede".

Zelly- What kind of laundry soap do you use? Do you use bleach? I've been thinking of piping my laundry machine into the garden also.

The davesgarden Pilosocereus arrabidae looks significantly different than other pictures of Pilosocereus arrabidae.

I got a few trich cuttings in my checked luggage into San Francisco, California from Chile with no problems. We were waved right past customs on our very early morning arrival. I was given a form on the plane just before arrival. There was a yes/no check box asking if I had any plants, fruits, vegetables, etc. I marked yes since I didn't want to lie. During customs prescreening, I was asked why I marked yes. I told them I had some granola bars with dried fruit in them. Then I was waved through without any further checking.

Hostilis, All Lophophora are prohibited in California. From erowid: California law states that "every person who plants, cultivates, harvests, dries, or processes any plant of the genus Lophophora, also known as peyote, or any part thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than one year or the state prison." (Health & Safety Code:Ch.6,Art.3,Sec.11363) This is notable because the wording includes the entire Lophophora genus, not just Lophophora williamsii.

To add more confusion, I've read that the "Trichocereus santiaguensis forma mostruosa" is actually a T. shaferi, not a T. spachianus. (It's cactus-art vs sacred succulents round two!)

Sorry, false alarm on the bridgesii. The spines looked too 'regular' from the top, but it's clearly a bridgesii from the side view.

Not sure that's a bridgesii.

Someone once told me that no one knows and no one agrees how to pronounce botanical names, so just say it with confidence and others will follow along.

Don't forget manual control. Go out in the early night with a flashlight and pick and stomp.

Yes, yes! Please show how it looks now. I've thought of getting this for years and think I may be getting ready to do it.

I think this guys trying to get in the competition. http://bit.ly/13Xa13U Or http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewitem?itemId=221282370588 And hey, I got a mention too!

My monstrose column from Sacred Succulents began to crest a few years ago, recently becoming top heavy and snapping. On the upside I've now got three plants and two grafts. I never would have cut into it if it hadn't self selected.

That seller is a good guy. He's got plants with good genetics, even though they're not in great shape when he lists them. The prickly pear looks like a shaferi monstrose to me. Maybe it was a coded private listing. I suspect trucha may know more about it than he's letting on.

And two flower flushes this year of what I think are T. shaferi.

Here are a few pics of my T shaferi monstrose. I picked it up from Sacred Succulents about 10 years ago. Earlier this year it got a little top heavy and fell over. I was able to pick it up and stake it, but when it fell the second time it broke. This piece is about 41 centimeters (16 inches) and 3.6 kilograms (8 pounds). A flower bud or two developed last year, but they aborted.

It's been 10 years since I looked, but the San Francisco Botanical Garden had a sickly salvia divinorum and a very large heimia salicifolia. Maybe others. They both have searchable plant catalogues online. If only going to one I'd do Berkeley. An hour and a half east is Poots House of Cactus. This is a retail nursery but they've got a few giant terscheckiis and Pachycereus and lots of other nice cactuses to look at. Good prices too, in case you want a temporary souvenir.

I bought this from Sacred Succulents in 2001. I believe the label said it was T peruvianus from seed. Recently I ID'd it as T. chalaensis (hence the label on the pic) based on columnar-cacti.org and a plant at the Berkeley Botanical Garden. It looks a lot like the T. glaucus pictured here though. Any thoughts about the differences between chalaensis and glaucus?