Myeloblast
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What do you mean by inorganic top dressing? Such as sand?
Sand would be an option, I use expanded shale, turface, pumice, decomposed granite, whatever I have on hand. As others have said though, just dry soil will probably work for your plant since it has a stock plant beneath it. But if you wanted to root out some pups too....
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I can probably help you out with some grafting stock. Pm'ed.
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You can definitely root it as is, and the stock will probably root first, then the scion in time. Is it a loph grafted to a columnar-type grafted to pereskiopsis? Doesn't really matter, but interesting. Nice plant!
I like to fill the desired pot with soil mix, then put a layer of inorganic top-dressing on top of that, then set the plant on top and situate into the top layer.
Keep it in a hot area and resist checking for roots as much as possible, and eventually the roots will pop out and find their way to the soil below. Do not water at all until you know root buds have formed, then water very lightly at first until the plant has somewhat secured itself (gently try to wiggle it, feeling for resistance...sounds a bit dirty lol).
This method works really well for some of the tougher species to root that may take a long time. Since you have some stock left, it will probably be more forgiving to early watering and will root quickly
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Double Action, are you sure that plant wasn't labeled T. poco(aka T. pasacana)? I have the same plant from Altmans, posted a pic of it here:
http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=29996&page=57 post#1409
I saw a plant at HD yesterday labeled T. purpureopilosus, but it looked more like hostilis' plant.
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It was grafted maybe a week after germination, so very tiny. I don't think I took any pics at the time of grafting, but I'll take a look through my photos later. I wasn't expecting much out of this graft at the time
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Inversion graft of the bottom half of the single Ariocarpus Godzilla x Godzilla seedling I got to germinate...after many months of nothing it has finally burst into growth and is pupping like crazy
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Good to hear, thanks HN.
Here's two of my koh-yo's showing nice color:
Kikko starting show on this one:
And one other astro I picked up cheap at a garage sale of all places
The label reads Sun 7.0 x Sun 2.0, not sure what it refers to, maybe flower color? I'd love to know if anyone has info
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That Echinocactus crest looks near identical to the Myrtillocactus geometrizans miniature crest I have. Not saying that mine is labeled correctly either but looks more Myrtillo to me than not.
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HN, in your experience is variegation related to genetics that much in Astrophytum?
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If you haven't thrown the pach seedlings out, try to drench them again. The wet - dry - wet cycle may help to get them to germ, especially if as Ethnoguy said the peat has dried it out too much. Sometimes I will have two plastic pots in a baggie, and one will germ really well and the other won't because it has dried out slightly. It's always the pot that is getting more heat/light from positioning -- it's more centrally placed under the lights or near an adjacent black pot or w/e
Or, they really are nonviable seed, in which case your new varieties should fair just fine with your method. Personally, I use the baggie tech as well with 2" plastic pots.
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afungitobewith, do you use those blades for any size stock? What about when the diameter of the stock exceeds the blade length? I'm still trying to find the perfect knife for larger grafts...
I use scalpel blades too for peresk, along with thumb forceps. Just what I had from an old dissecting kit, but I have definitely crushed some of the more delicate seedlings. The seedling has to be slid along the blade to not crush them...can be difficult.
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I really like this species as well, great color to them and excellent grafting stock to boot. Not a bad find at all
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Thanks mutant lolmyeloblast (wut a fucking name!) >
trichocereus poco = trichocereus pasacana in my eyes, great catch, them with reddish brown spination are prettier IMO, because there are blond pasacanas as well.
Would like to see pics of the two spine colors together if you got them. I hope for some variety in my own pasacana seedlings, will be interesting to see what comes of them.
As for what I did today, removed pressure from a couple grafts, moved them into the propagation box, and took a couple pics.
Ariocarpus retusus v. confusus x A. fissuratus v. lloydii grafted on Myrtillocactus schenckii seedlings
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Yea they typically don't last long once they arrive lol. Both of these plants were still on the wooden pallets and not priced for sale yet, fresh from the distributors.
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Picked up a couple plants at walmart:
Labeled Trichocereus poco, from Altman's plants
big astrophytum, looking forward to the flowers. Not sure of the distributor on this one, but not Altman's
Got them settled in to my collection today.
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Some ario seedlings finally starting to green up after removal from humid conditions
I had to add shade cloth to get them to grow again, even under T12 fluoro's
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myco, I have a ton of ariocarpus seedlings and they don't like much light at all when they are tiny. They will be green if they are growing much at all, if they are red/purple they are stalling. I will get some pics of seedlings a little later for you.
Here's a kotsch v. elephantidens of mine going crazy with pups and flowers
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IMO, the tip cut looks pretty healthy and the black dots should be nothing to worry about. Superficial damage of any kind seems to cause them in my bridgesii plants.
The base though may have some issues. In the last pic, it's hard to tell but at the soil line there appears to be a black spot creeping up. That, along with the bruises and blacking at the cut edge, make me think it's serious. If it were my plant, I would unpot it to see if root rot is present. The tip cut really shouldn't be fatter than the base if the roots are functioning.
just my 2c
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I'm hoping to add some diversity to my collection and grow more plants to trade with in the future. I'm interested in most larger Tricho species and hybrids that I'm not already growing (see my post in the sowing out thread: http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20598&page=7 ).
I would prefer to trade for them, but we can work something out if I have nothing of interest.
Seeds I have to trade:
Myrtillocactus geometrizans
Stenocereus griseus
Ariocarpus retusus
A. retusus v. furfuraceus
A. fissuratus
A. fissuratus v. lloydii
some other assorted ariocarpus varietes in small quantities (nothing rare really)
mixed astrophytum hybrids
I also have some PC pach cuts and bridgesii pups to trade when it gets a little warmer
Let me know what you have
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I'm interested in trading as well, but my tricho collection is pretty slim compared to most on here.
Also, not in SoCal, but south central US.
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I second what EG says about not cutting this plant, except for removing pups for grafting. Too much of the plant is affected to surgically remove it, especially the growing tip. It will dessicate and shrivel to nothing with extensive cutting.
Has this plant grown at all for a while or been in dormancy? I notice with my lophs that when they stall (from nutrient deficiency, colder temps, no water) they get the same appearance as this plant, become soft/dehydrated and eventually become infected with some type of rot. Getting the whole plant in a warm spot with some light would probably be beneficial, perhaps repotting the stock in some fresh soil too.
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Ariocarpus fiss. lloydii x Godzilla
Ariocarpus Godzilla x Godzilla
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And also. in picture 2 what are those plants with the big cotyledon leaves in the middle/right there?
Although they aren't mine, they look identical to my Stenocereus marginatus seedlings and I can see a label nearby that says Sten marg. Pachycereus pringlei is another species I've started from seed that has a huge cotyledon at germination and I'm sure there are others.
Amazing plants Hellonasty, love the big Ario.
Beautiful gardening Getafix!
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Chavin Culture (900-200 bce) Ceramic
in Cacti & Succulents
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Very cool, thanks for posting hookahhead. Looking forward to reading this