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So it is in NZ afterall. I want some. But not for $111 !!!

Be able to comment on T.candicans in a couple of weeks :D

They irradiate the seeds somehow I believe to make them go weird colours, then graft after they sprout.

This is NZ's most unique clone. To be honest some days when I look at it, I wonder if it's even Trich. Have not seen this anywhere else online/in the world. It sprouted mixed in a lot of completely different seeds from KK T. Peruvianus "Martin"

That'll be T.Huasca imo

Wow, thanks again guys I am quite proud of this collection - I have invested a lot of time and a fair whack of chash in it. I do believe it to be fairly unique in NZ but would love to hear from others with similar if they exist! I'm not a cacti+succulent society member as I just don't have time right now. I'll attempt to answer some more questions now I'm writing on the pc instead of my phone heh - Centipede: the terscheckii is around 20 years old (assuming this garden was planted all around the same time) - here it is when I purchased it - it was neglected/badly chewed and not doing so well as opposed to the cpm which was thriving. Unfortunately the gung-ho guy who dug it up before I could stop him just put a spade under it and ripped the roots right off so it came with just a stump of a tap root. Too me a long time to get it to root properly too, but it's come right in the last year and the new growth is quite awesome imo. Older users here will remember me gushing about the cpm find, I drove away with a car full (literally) of cuttings for $30 haha Mutand/PD: Pics 5 and 9 - on the far right you can see the terscheckii too which gives you a better idea of the girth. I will take a better pic of it but it's not a pretty beast - I guess you'd say it has character heh. In pic 1 the blurry one is a grusonii, but there is a ferrocactus in the forground of pic 2, and also in pic to to the right of the orange flowering thing (Rebutia tarvitaensis?) is a seed grown terscheckii which is quite different - sown at the same time as the ferrocactus in that pic (6-7 years old). I should get a closeup of that one too for shits and giggles to put in the terscheckii thread. As for the columnars - they are mainly Trichocereus/Echinopsis. There are a few Pachycereus marginatus (white lines down ribs), Pilosocereus glaucochrous (blue with fluffly ribs), one very skinny one I've lost the id of (pic 2 far right), and some standard as Cleistocactus - that's about it really

Thanks all In the terscheckii pic second is Peruvian from Martin, third is a rescue from a crazy old Asian lady who seemed intent on drowning her cacti which lived in the shade haha. I had no idea what it's true form was when I bought it in a very sorry state. It's now one of my faves, love the blue ones!

Two closer images of the main herd, as promised: 8) 9) 10) Grusonii - much liked 11) Scopulicola - the beauty. 12) Terscheckii - the beast.

Thanks all good times, I really thought I might have some land of my own to plant them before they got this big! :D

Freakin sweet/undamged plant! I think cereus of some sort too, black spines and blueness is unusual, although I have seen the blue in Cereus caesius

Hey guys, my flowers so far this year No pach/peru stuff yet, that's usually around christmas. It's shaping up to be a bumper year in terms of flowers here, lots of plants that haven't flowered before have put out buds Pseudocandicans: Spring Blush: Echinopsis spp Spachanius: Pecheretianus

Thanks guys unfortunately I can't control the crosses, but will end up with lots of fruit if those bumblebees are any indication lol. May or may not distribute the unknown seed? To dilute/diversify the gene pool or not??

Schick Echinopsis Sorceress Trichocereus Golden Confusion Echiniopsis Paramount Orange Trichocereus Pachanoi "Yowie" This guy has never flowered before, but is the fastest growing thing I have. When he decides to flower, he doesn't do things by halves as you can see! Trichocereus Golden Confusion Schick Echinopsis Sorceress

Hmm the coarsest I'd consider "sand" is 1.5mm and under (at a guess). Anything bigger becomes shell pieces/chips/flakes? And yes, when it comes to seedlings 7mm is far too big, I sift my seedling mix though a colander, so pieces are all under 2mm, topped by a 1-2mm layer of very fine material through a flour sifter. I wouldn't bother worrying about drainage for seedlings, assume the mix is only going to be an inch or so deep anyway. It dries out very quickly. The only use for sand around cacti is surrounding the seedling container to maintain moisture, imo. I put my seedling trays inside a shallow plastic container on a sandy bed of about 1" depth. "Sand" doesn't offer any benefit that I can see being mixed in.

Where did you get the idea that sand is good for cacti mix? Sand is not good at all, it acts as a bonding agent and cakes things together, preventing free drainage which cacti like. Coarse sand would be better than fine sand of course, but no sand would be best of all. Perlite or fine gravel (3-7mm or so) or pumice are the ideal mixers with whatever fertile mix you prefer, to promote drainage. Sometimes you can find piles of the stuff on the side of the road in roadworks or similar, if you want it free. In my experience anyway. YMMV

It is Cereus of some description. Cereus Peruvianus is a generalization for any Cereus looking remotely similar to yours. Cereus taxonomy is worse than Trichocereus, even more so because it's not widely studied.

As you probably know, I have some I need to part with. Maybe we can work something out after christmas? I'm hella busy till then.

Pachycereus Pringlei imo

The webserver (72.29.73.51) still appears to be active, however the domain name registration lapsed on Nov 19th, it's currently in the redemption period, which means if it's not renewed shortly it will expire and somebody else can purchase cactusknize.com

I can't see any spines?

Hrm, my picture is not the best, nor is plant totally healthy, being 2m tall in a 30cm pot. i am sure that it would look very similar to the one you posted in that environment. It is certainly of a similar girth. The thing which sets apart terscheckii and taquimbalensis are the ribbed and slightly curved spine ime.

I'm open to changing my ID - would you ID the picture I posted as Validus?

Wow that's a beauty! I like the garden :D

Yep, if this one is then that one is too - that distinctive spination is a giveaway.

Yowie's the dark green trich with the dual downward pointing spines. Grows like a freakin weed :D