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Hi all I have just acquired the biggest potted cactus I have ever seen in NZ. I believe it's scop or pachanoi, and stands around 3m tall including the pot. I had the seller help me load it into my car, but now I'm home there's no way the wife and I can unload it. I was wondering if there's any friendly souls in the area who could help me out this evening? Beer for helpers? Cheers

Thanks It was only NZ$15. I drove VERY carefully. Picked it up from about 20km from home. I'll take the pups off tonight It measures 2.5 metres from the soil.. 8.2 feet! :D

Help arrived not long ago.. here it is in it's home... hope you can get an impression of the size from this pic. I'll post some better ones in the light tomorrow

Hmmm... wheelbarrow might be where it's at given I have to wheel it up the slope behind the house. There's no way this guy will fit on my deck! Since I posted it over at thenook, it cost me $15 NZ.. if you can believe it.

Like this.. and don't ask me how much it cost.. you'll die.

Hey guys Need a bit of advice.. my macro that I was going to chop up to propogate (been too busy in the last couple of weeks!) has suffered a weird infliction. Here's the story: I put up a new greenhouse - just a light steel frame with clear pvc cover. I moved into it my yellowing T.P.montrose, and my macro, to encourage some spring growth. The greenhouse is about 1m tall x 1m wide x 600mm deep. So here's the problem - the macro which was not suffering at all, but not growing either while out in the weather has started to cave in on top. The top has gone yellow and yeah.. sort of caved in like it's suddenly lost all it's insides. The yellow is not soft or squishy. This took less than 30 hours It hasn't been a blistering hot day here, just a regular early spring day with some sun some cloud. Probably around 16-18 degrees celcius outside so I wouldn't have thought it would cook. The only other treatment the plant has had is a half strength fert about 1.5 weeks ago. What causes this? Dehydration? Shock at moving to a warm sheltered environment?? This is my first cactus trauma and I'm worried! The damage happened a few days ago now :| It hasn't spread.. what's the best treatment for this? Water ? Food? Abstinence?

Have got myeslf a few little succulents (a haworthia and a gasteria and one other) which I'd like to put in the centre of our coffee table. It's in a mice sunny position. In some nurseries I see these potted in what looks like a fine gravel - is this ok to use? I would have to go out and find some. I have available a medum fine pummice mix - could I use this instead? what sort of feeding schedule would plants in such medium require? Thanks

They're some nice cacti! Does your camera have a white balance setting? See all the blue fringing around the stones in the pots? It's called chromatic aberation, and yours has a pretty severe case. If you adjust the white balance to the appropriate setting (cloudy?) and it's still so noticeable I'd return the camera as it would appear you may have bought a bad copy.

A moment of half intoxicated inspiration... cheers to faslimy for the new plant! Some will like, some will not. Kinda oldskoold photoshop filtering. Click for bigger version (can't really appreciate from thumbnail). Higher res available on request - photobucket wouldn't let me upload a bigger image.

Tricho for sure. Sharp price. No idea Cereus peruvianus. Expected price.

Wow! Is this your personal collection or is it a nursery?

Bah.

Grafting stock perhaps?

Yep, nice pachanoi.

Thanks man. Wish I could take the credit, but that has to go to corromandel cacti here in auckland who I purchased it from a couple of months back (NZ$36 ). It hasn't been assayed as I wouldn't know how to do it accurately. I don't think I'll ever be able to bring myself to cut it at all, and I'm having similar doubts about my other cacti now

Prize for most pedro in one locality ever?

Looks a little marogonus to me, similar in some respects to my unknown beasty:

Run your fingernail along the skin - pachanoi should feel waxy smooth, scop should feel bumpy. Looks like Pachanoi to me, possibly short spined peruvianus.

Picocereus Noworkingus?

Here are some cacti from our winter gardens here in Auckland Domain. I'm particularly partial to the Euphorbia meloformis. I must get one for my collection

Holy shit!!! I must collect more cacti!@# Very nice!!

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Property...on-61767671.htm

Cereus caesius Monstrose: maybe.