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  6. Posted · Edited by oncewhywechange

    11 hours ago, Strontium Dawg said:

    My dad always told me you won't find mushrooms in paddocks fertilised with superphosphate.

    You rarely see fertiliser used around the dairy farms around south east QLD. If you see dead thistles in the paddocks it will be a spot spray by the farmer, No mush luck around that. 

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    10 hours ago, withdrawl clinic said:

    hi, lou!

     

    the cathas in the pic, are what we call the red strain.

    i named the vienna white, the planthelper, and started calling some x pollinated strains pinks.

     

    the red strain originated from wa, and the property owner of one of those trees in wa, became even a member here for a while. he found sab, because he investigated why some people, tresspassed his garden and kept pruning his red catha.

     

    the vienna white, comes from the university botanical gardens in vienna, it was sourced originally, from yemen.

     

    the narrow leaved, comes from trees in the royal botanical gardens sydney, and a tree in tarango zoo.

    rumours say it was confiscated by the border patrol.

     

    the plant helper is a x cross between a narrow leaved and a vienna white, it displays good hybreed vigor.

     

    once all those plants got established, many cross polinated seeds got produced and traded.

    the pinks are one of those open pollinated breeds. there are as well, narrow leaved semi reds, and planthelper pinks and many intermidiates.

    yemen bosts, to have hundreds of different strains. we got as well at some stage seeds from south africa, but some description of his seeds were incorrect....

     

    hope that helps.

    broad leaved qat makes an easy cutting, narrow leaved qat, does not strike well from cuttings, but produces suckers. those suckers can be used, to produce easy cuttings as well.

    but once the narrow leaved plant stops producing leaves in a spiral fashion, the abilety to take cuttings from those plants diminishes.

    if you start of with a nl sucker, and often take cuttigs from it, this action will slow down the aging process to some degree.

    madragora took cuttings of mature narroleaved plants, where a young side shoot is formed, and had good success, but she was an above average probagator.

    if you want manny nl's you might just propagate from seed. if there are many other cathas around, than some to all seedlings could be cross pollinated.

    so choose narrow leaved seeds from an isolated tree.

    PH2 isn't been produced anymore?

  19. Posted · Edited by oncewhywechange
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    Hey,  I have a few large trees in 500mm to 300mm pots that need to go. 

     

    Tricho's also.    No stuff arounds, need a small truck or trailer.  can prune right back to fit in a wagon. They will handle it.

    local pick up , postcode 2463, 2464.   PM for plant info.

  20. Posted · Edited by oncewhywechange

    On 08/02/2022 at 9:11 AM, Glaukus said:

    You can quote as many scientific extracts as you like, but i guarantee you that if you sprinkle cinnamon powder on a cactus, it will be covered in mould before you know it.

    It's one of the biggest myths that goes around cactus noob circles that cinnamon has antifungal properties. Cinnamon oil may be a different story but that will likely burn the shit out of a cactus.

    Go on, I encourage you to try it for yourself!

    I do agree, It will only make things worse on trichocereus, Like most oil base products, It will burn cactus in summer. I do use  oil based products in winter though for insect control.

     

    The facebook guru , mentioned . lives in a alpine region in the united? states. this guru also grows tricho's mainly in hothouses. Great understanding of disease and book proof backing on the species.  Holds no value in australian conditions . blah blah blah.

     

    your plant has two infections, firstly it would of started as a stem spot? [fungal] followed by a bacterial infection, like a canker type thing.  I like to also mention bridgesii act badly to humidity and wet feet. so using a loose soil mix, fert well with a good amount of pot ash. ] will help it get by with no real issues.

     

    antirot by yates will help combat rot but will not help with stem spots, a good black spot systemic fungicide will help. but like mentioned is a bad ass chemical so do not use on edible crops, saying this if you eat coles fruit n veg it will defs have been sprayed many times with bad ass systemic sprays. lol

     

    backlash welcome, lol. 

     

     

     

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