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nah almost though. tiny little spines. usually they are missing though.

I received a cutting of a juuls giant from tom juuls yard via our friend Trout. Well his friend that is. here it is all potted up and ready to root. sitting in front of my big juuls giant cuttings that are also rooting.

Those "Macrogonus" look super similar to T. Bridgesii.

I scored what i think is a jackpot. I just got me a huge T. Scopulicola plant that I am going to be using as my backyard show piece and future mother used for cuttings. I got this thing for a steal too. also pictured is a 12ft long arm of a bridgesii plant i took center cuts from. 8 total. Very nice plant. also pictured is a catapillar that eat into my small bridgesii and hollowed out part of it! also pictured is a top cut of a Peruvianus. freakin huge.

EG you really opened my eyes with this comment. it never even occurred to me that starting tons of seeds would not only produce awesome cactus cheap but.. all the variations! DUH. cant wait to start mah seeds. i have so many freakin projects going right now and now that i have a live in gf i have a whole new person to assign projects to me!

wow guys. lots of great info. insights i didnt really consider. my whole idea is to be able to provide properly labeled tricho's to the community since as we can see its kind of a bitch to find decent stuff often. I plan on trying to get my foot in the door with selling cuttings/potted plants from nurserys ( i have one connection so far ) while i start tons of seeds. that way im kinda sorta up and running when my seeds get going. but it really does seem like i should just focus on seeds for the next 2 years and hope to have somthing badass in 5 years. if this is my path it will become clear what i should do ;)

Ya that photo is not of my plant but of an MS Smith plant/photo. Very simliar looking to mine though. Im confused as to what you think a scop *should* look like though. Everything ive seen looks just like what I have. Kinda square, filled in look with small spines. do you have pics you can link me to showing a spineless scop? now i gota get one..or 10.. nevermind i see them now. very nice looking those spineless scops.

heh its most certainly a scop. pics dont do it justice. this plant was made from cuttings from a gigantic mother plant thats been growing for like 10+ years at the guys mom's place that i bought it from.

so jealous of your huge dense crop of cactus

my juuls has begun pupping!!!

that is such a gorgeous thick cactus. did you grow that? what soil mix do you use ? Right now i use a 1:1:1 mix of local made really nice cactus/palm mix:SAND:decomposed granite. I cant wait to see my new inground plants take off this season.

What do you think this is? It looks very similar to a bridgesii i have but the spination has me wondering...

so what do YOU think it is!?!? im just gonna average the results from everyone HEH

Finally got some of my plants in ground. My first landscaping project. The entire thing is irrigated. Pic 1 - T. Pachanoi Monstrose + Succulent i dont recall name of + T. Macrogonus Pic 2 - Astrophytum Ornatum + T. Cuzcoensis + T. Grandiflorus Pic 3 - Browningia hertlingiana + TBM's + Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum My soil mix is a 1:1:1 mix of local made cactus & palm mix that is very good + sand + decomposed granite. It smells so goooooood.

I was told this is a cross between a myrtillocactus and a "peruvianus". Im not sure if they meant Cereus or Trichocereus peruvianus. But its got the spines of a peruvianus and the body of a myrtillo... how sic

so this doesnt look like SS02 either i take it?

potted my newly acquired cuttings from sanpedrocactuses.com and a few others from my local nursery. Pic 1 - SS02 Pic 2 - Lumberjackus Pic 3 - T. Peruvianus Pic 4 - Stenocereus Griseus Pic 5 - T. Bridgesii Pic 6/7 - T. Pachanoi (Legit san pedro. im collecting tons of these and propagating the hell out of them.) Pic 8 - Group shot Pic 9/10 - T. Peruvianus up close

i didnt realize they were rare. i think i paid 10$ for it.

you are exactly right. thats what it is. see i thought that was wierd. i even told the guy "i didnt know that was possible to cross those two"

/me waits for the inevitable "looks like a cuzcoensis to me"

I was at the nursery this weekend and found some very sexy cactus. I took pics and the guy was telling me all the names but alas... im not the rainman and i have since forgetten the names. can any one help me ID these cacti? Pics 1-2 = Group A Pics 3-5 = Group B

awsome thurberi actually sounds correct. ya i love red spines and thurberi has it. im getting a few soon. As you can see i have quite a few available ;)

Is this a terscheckii?

I dont know why i didnt get a cutting of that chiloensis. its freakin gorgeous.