Cactus of the month year day thread? Which cactus is really shining for you right now?

[Cactus of the month year day thread? Which cactus is really shining for you right now?]

thats a beautiful terschekii Horse.

 

 

Helon........  she comes from the riverland in SA

i got this plant from Mr X.

sexy thing, like a big club bursting at the seams

 

             

 

i don't know whats going on with these sideways pics, i edit them to be the right way up but they upload sideways.

 

 

[Cactus of the month year day thread? Which cactus is really shining for you right now?]

this plant is floating my boat atm

 

terschekii x psycho0

 

      

[Post a random CACTI picture thread]

yowie

 

[pod]

awesome pics and results people, love the Narelle Master B, thank you for sending me one.

your werd op's are sexy as Psyentist and Berenger

I love them Len op's long time.

 

takes bit of effort and cost to distribute these genetics so its great to see the fruits.

oh...... and please do feel free to send me any sexy plants you have too many of...... inc variegates and mutants, lol

 

I got my Pod 1 seeds in around January 2016, long time after most on this thread

my seedling to pere skills suck so mine are all on their own roots, come spring I will do a whak of impale grafts.

 

 

 

 

[S.G Pod 2 Photo Thread]

good onya for starting this thread Solomon

a pic of my Pod 2 seedlings, sown December 2016

 

 

I've tried seedling to pere grafts numerous times and I just can't get it so I wait till seedlings are big enough and then impale them on pere that I've sharpened to a point, these are obviously way to small to do that with yet though.

 

[trichocereus SGmix]

We don't discuss that kinda thing on here man.

this cactus forum is about the aesthetic appreciation of cacti.

[trichocereus SGmix]

the SG mix from pod 2 (2016) are a mix of most of the open vars that were avail in the giveaway from Mr X's garden. After making the giveaway seed bags up I mixed all the remaining seeds together.

i sowed the seeds I kept from pod 2 in December.

 

link to the pod 2 thread that has the list of the seeds that went into the SG mix 2016

 

Hopefully Pod 3 giveaway may be happening soon........

[eBay/Gumtree finds]

 

not sure if this has been posted yet but apparently the below sold for $888.00.... Does this seem right?

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Trichocereus-peruvianus-variegata-Cactus-rare-/262840809429?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=a%2BFKG%2FmXEdrnDkulPExPebJ7jRM%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

 

These plants go for heaps of dough.

The one before this one went for $615, was a bit smaller.

[I'd plz]

I was thinking lanky mango or a pepino

[Trichocereus grafts for sale.]

Sold.

 

i do have more crested trich grafts and some grafted trich mutants as well if anyones after any......

[Trichocereus grafts for sale.]

Howdy

 

I have some crested Trichocereus Pachanoi grafts if you'd like them

 

$30 ea or $100 for the 4

 

1,        140mm pot

 

2,        125mm pot

 

3,         100mm pot

 

4,        100mm pot

 

 

 

postage and tracking for 1 graft is $10, Australia wide

postage and tracking for the 4 grafts is $15, Australia wide

plants are sent bare root, no pots or soil

 

payment by paypal or direct deposit to bank account

 

thank you

[gladiatus, taquimbalensis, cerues sp or a mut?]

saw another one of these plants today at a cactus shop

 

         

 

dunno why the pics are sideways

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[eBay/Gumtree finds]

 

This is pretty pricey, but would love to have one this size. Is one of my favourites

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/mclaren-vale/plants/mexican-giant-elephant-cactus/1139884098

 

 

 

went to pick up this plant today, unfortunately the tip is dead so i didn't buy it

 

     

 

 

but these were there so i got these instead

 

         

 

looks like werdermannius and maybe a gladiatus

 

[SS SA Tersheckii not?]

 

ok so in my pic...going on spooges names, "tip1" is on the left, and "tip2" is on the right. which one are we calling validus/valida?

 

Prob tentatively calling both tip 1 and tip 2 Validus (ish) for the moment.......

 

[SS SA Tersheckii not?]

SA ss Validus +1

 

the Fields Validus were not imported, they were seed grown

the place with the ss terschekii has plants that are as old as Fields and maybe Dawson's??

does any one know if the Dawson's plants were seed grown or imported?

[zed240's 2016 big trichocereus seed competition give-away!!]

Nice chilensis plants Zed

are these from the same place as the SA ss or are they from a different plant or plants?

 

 

[eBay/Gumtree finds]

I've a 30cm pachycereus pringeli, seed grown, that's lived here going on 2 years now.

Shes potted,  outside in the elements and has done fine through the winters so far, more spikey than this biggun is so I presume this big one will do fine here Micromegas, thanks for the reassurance but, be very sad to kill the plant.

i do have trouble with some forms of pilocereus and azurocereus hertlingianus sure don't like the hail we get here.

 

Thanks Nrivers, the plant would look very nice in your wonderful garden also.

i got her for 300 and some trade plants.

The person selling the plant has a cactus shop in a town bout 25 mins from where I am, some nice plants there, not many trichs but, lots of ornamentals and some nice pillars.

 

[SS SA Tersheckii not?]

 

The story I got was the ones you've called "tip 1" and "tip 2", Spooge, which have the more robust spines, were cuttings planted by the current owner and were taken directly off of the SA SS tersch mother plant which is nearby. It's strange that they have larger and thicker spines than the mother plant displays, maybe it's due to more sun and less water in that particular spot, if they really are the same clone as the owners comments suggest they are. 

 

I heard the same story from a guy that went to the garden before me.

The owner of the garden was reluctant to let tip 1 and tip 2 go. The ss is about 20 meters from where tip 1 and tip 2 were growing, both areas get full sun.

Theres 3 or 4 different cactus plants growing with the ss, a chance then maybe tip 1 and tip 2 were a different plant growing amongst them all.

The areoles on the huge ss plant at the property are uniform from the base of the plant to the tips, no areole or spine difference at all.

The areoles of the ss and the two tips are different I think.

Ive had the ss in my garden for a few years now, originally from the eBay seller, looks nothing like these 2 new tips to me. The 2 new tips are much more Validus like than any terschekii I've got or that I've seen at Dawson's.

 

crossed the ss with yowie last season, repotted the seedlings a few days ago.

[SS SA Tersheckii not?]

Those market pics are great!

 

Beautiful plants TH, the werdermannius is magnificent.

 

Wonder who named the plant short spine terschekii, was it the guy selling cuts on eBay a few years back or did someone name this plant previously............

 

Some pics below comparing the 'SA short spine" with two other nice fat plants that are there, these 2 plants are much smaller than the 'SA short spine', either planted later, had a hard life or slower growers perhaps.

All the cactus there appear to be the same age, could these 2 other small plants be remnants of a much bigger plant that may have fallen down or cut down etc and then a few tips from the plant re planted......... 

There are 2 large perus there also that resemble rosei's, their spines are bit different from the rosei's I got from Fields.

The big fat chiloensis there is more like a pasacana, so maybe that plant is a hybrid........

 

 

'SA short spine' (not)

      

 

 

x2, 1 meter tips from the two small plants

 

 

Tip 1 on the left

            

 

 

Tip 2 on the right

            

 

 

 

Perhaps these pics can help establish that they are Validus, Terschekii or hybrids......

[eBay/Gumtree finds]

It's a beutiful plant, I offered 250 when the ad went up last week.

messaged again this morning with a better offer in case the plant is still available.

good size to go in the ground.

[What did you do to your cacti today?]

 

@spooge

 

Valida is happy and putting on weight daily mate. Thanks bud.

 

 

 

Awesome Glaukus

good to see she has settled in well and is growing

[gladiatus, taquimbalensis, cerues sp or a mut?]

Thanks EG

 

gladiatus, well thats ok   

neolamprochlorus, fairly sweet   

 

a regional form of T. taquimabelsnsis / T. werdermannianus, now thats a fucking special   

[terschekii or pasacana or werdermanius or ?]

 

 

 

I am curious what its gonna do in full sun... do you know where it was kept? 

 

 

don't know where it was kept Sagi, i presume in some sun.

the pot it was in was tiny so I'm hoping for a growth spurt this autumn now she's in the ground

 

 

 

[gladiatus, taquimbalensis, cerues sp or a mut?]

Thank you EG.

 

The plant was close to 2m

heres a pic of the gumtree photo

 

 

 

managed to successfully get the plant out in one piece.

when i got her home we took her up a hill a bit in the wheel barrow and planted her, i went down to the shed to get some ropes and pickets to support her while she establishes her self, and when i got back the plant has snapped off just above ground level. So i chopped the pup off and the main stem, the pup and the rooted bit are undercover to heal.

 

main stem is around 1.8m

 

pup 

 

 

some shoots with a ruler for scale for the ribs and areoles

 

         

 

 

 

[gladiatus, taquimbalensis, cerues sp or a mut?]

got this plant off gumtree

wondering what it may be?

 

                  

 

thank you