hostilis
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Can't wait to see how those turn out. You should graft one just to ease my impatience.
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Oh it's your cactus!!!! That is awesome. I thought you said that it was at a neighbors house, whoops. I would be cloning that dude and making hybrids if I were you.
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I concure, a beautiful legit scopulicola if you ask me!
P.S. I would be all over that!! After asking the owner of course.
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I would be more worried if every single one of them started doing this. I've had the black spots show up and it seems pretty random. When I first started growing I freaked out when I saw them. I stopped watering, stopped fertilizing, even went in there with a knife and started cutting! The poor cacti were in bad shape after I was done with them. Hehe. Turns out the black spots posed no harm at all. The only thing harmfull to them was me! Lol.
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Awe man! That's a sad day for sure. Hope you can pick up the pieces.
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Nice guys!!! I have since collected seeds from my alberto plants and they were yellow fruits. Even though one of them is growing super fast and has tufts of hair it still has yellow fruits. So I think it is some kind of hybrid, but the others aren't. I see now the different look of the seedlings that come out of my seeds. Some of them that have no little trichomes on the imature areoles turn out to be the really slow growing dwarfs, and the ones that do have little trichomes on imature areoles end up being faster growers that grow tufts of hair after flowering, but still have yellow fruits like only alberto's do.
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I have two different clones (or species?) of pereskiopsis. One hairy and one bald. The hairy clone gets bigger leaves, glochids, spines, and stocks. This clone grows slower and also seems to take longer to get woody. The bald clone grows smaller stocks, glochids, spines, and leaves. It grows faster and gets woody faster.
Keep in mind these pictures are of plants in the same sized pots, light cycles, soil mixtures, fert/watering cycles, and everything.
Hairy clone
Bald Clone
PS: Yours look like the bald clone grown in different conditions.
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I've had plants bend away from light when it's too strong and towards it when it's too weak. I think they literally just make a decision bend themselves. I have no clue how though. Lol.
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"Everyone has different techniques for grafting."
That's for sure. I dry my peres out for 3 days before I'm going to do the graft to avoid the water oozing through. Then I put vaseline on the seam, darkness for 3 days, and humidity for 7-14 after that. Depending on how it looks. I also don't water it untill day 10 after the graft. Has been working well.
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Mine's real long but skinny. Too bad it's all about girth.
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Yeah. I never use any sort of support for my seedling grafts and I get 95-100% success usually.
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One time I grafted a TBMC to a pachanoi and only 1/4 of it fused to the stock. I thought it was a gonner for sure, but I let it keep going. After about 3 weeks it started EXPLODING with growth faster than any TBMC graft I have done previously. I was alarmed! It was pretty awesome, but the part where the cores intersect has to be fused. If you can see the core when you look at the unfused part you will have to re-do the graft.
I'll post some pictures later on when I get home of the graft when I started it a few months ago and it now. It is 8-9x the size in just a few months.
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It's just horrible, isn't it?
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Here are some possible mutants that have showed up recently. What do you guys think?
Possible variegated L. williamsii var. huizache
Weird double headed Obregonia denegri graft. It's growing too fast and splitting and stuff. It almost looks like it's cresting, but I don't think it really is. What do you think?
Crested or double headed L. williamsii var. decipiens.
Definitely crested TPQC x TPM. I love this one.
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It's mainly Selenicereus hamatus, but there are a few dragonfruit. Also pereskiopsis, S. grandiflorus and some other selenicereus.
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So I sowed some A, asterias variegata and A. myriostigma variegata from china. I got tons of variegates, but some of them were pure white and were dying off. So I grafted them. The other ones had green/yellow/pink/white color, but these were all pure white (albino looking, but will probably start to have color once they start growing.
Top: asterias
Bottom: Myriostigma
The grafts.
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One of my echinopsis split open after a rain storm and it looked just like this. I'll have to post a pic later.
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It looks like splitting to me. It didn't really have any trails or chomp marks. Looks like it got too much water and just tore a bit.
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I hand pollinated it with L. alberto-vojtechii pollen. It's self sterile, so I don't know if it actually worked, but all the self pollinated fruits had 5-20 seeds in them.
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Even then, the amount of fruits on each stock is weird. And they're aranged in circles around them. I think they used some kind of chems to make them flower in perfect circals like that.
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I had a loph fruit the other day with 44 seeds in it. I was blown away!!
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I just pulled a fruit off my loph that yielded 44 seeds. It was a hybrid cross L. williamsii x L. alberto-vojtechii. I'm not sure the cross worked, but that is the most seeds i've ever heard of a loph fruit yielding. Anyone ever had that many seeds or more from 1 loph fruit? The most this plant has provided in one fruit has been 20, and that was self-fertilization.
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I am waiting for the price to go down. They're just way too much right now due to all the hype. Kind of like L. alberto and A. caput-medusae.
Check this one out
Wow, that price is crazy.
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Got the seeds!! A bunch of extras. Thanks sooo very much. You're awesome Evil Genius!!!!!
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What's wrong with these Loph's
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They look good to me as well. maybe a bit thirsty.