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the other thing, ime, is the fissy's are much more prolific flowerers then the other species- BUT my fissy's are much older then the rest of my arios. i got one bravo flower while the fissys flowered , and now the trig and scaphs are flowering

my a. fiss, definitely flower before any of my other ario's consistently, year after year.

....that moment the mail truck pulls up and the mail guy pulls out a big cardboard box, and you know its full of new friends for the garden!

i know that Huanucoensis!!! All the tersches and robinsoniana's are in flower right now too, yeah??

hey do some research into the corryocactus genus...

Dont be sad...

Hey Auxin, to answer your question, once in february and once in march, i dissolved 2 tblspn' s(i know, REAL scientific) of msg, and 1 tspn of sugar per gallon of water. i also ground up 1 adult multivitamin high in trace minerals and 1 calcium, per gallon. when the water cooled to around 110f i added white widow mycorrhizal powder as directed, and then watered regularly. i also watered with coconut juice a few times last spring as well, just randomly when i would buy a coconut with the kids anyway. i got alotta flowers this year, but again that could just be the weather we had in southern california from even last summer throughout (the pachanoi flowers at a local theme park were bustn this year as well). I think the sure way to get flowers is to grow your cactus to maturity. the hunt for hormone induced flowering is for early column flowering or hard-to-flower types like tbm or whatever. i just like having fun in my cactus garden and messing around. i bap'd my first areoles this summer as well this summer. that was pretty successful. a few of my buddies on this forum, and some from other groups are gearing up to do some more calculated experiments this winter and spring with msg, which im sure they'll post on this thread, or i can share from others if/when i see stuff. cheers!

the wright brothers didnt land on the moon--- you've given us all hope!

i tried msg this spring and had an EPIC year of flowering! Who knows tho, there were no controls, and it could have been from ANYthing else in their growing enviroment. I may try some experiments next spring with some controls involved. I have read some pretty conclusive articles on it, and a few "ma&pa" testimonials promising results, particularly from the China/Japan/Thailand farmers...

the offshoots are definitely not typical of echinocereus either,they usually pup from the base and cluster, but cactus never cease to amaze me. the specimen would be large if its is echinoc, but i saw a guy selling them on FB in 10g pots they were MASSIVE. Good luck figuring it out. Flowers will help. EDIT: here are some large (imo) echinocereus in 10g pots,,, they can get pretty big in pots

echinocereus has harry flower buds,,, that would be a very large echinocereus specimen. i 'd like to see pics to give it a little more scale

welcome khhaven!

i have seen alotta astro-freaks in the northern hemi, but that... THAT... is especially cool on its own roots going from normal growth to crest: magnificent!

a name for any seed grown plant is fitting, such as all the named icaro sourced seeds that have producued standouts that are now cloned by their name. If you only labeled it bk08611.4 there would be great ambiguity to the identity of which one. BK still sells seedlings of it to this day, there are probably thousands of them. Some of the seedlings germinated crested and others mutated. Furthermore he sourced seeds again from the same local in 2014. From my understanding the BK08's are from the 2008 trip, not 1986. btw, i think Leyenda is not only great sounding but very fitting. Here is a pic BK shared of the 08611.4 mother plant with EG from his website Trichocereus.net. The field trip notes and even dvd's are available for purchase from ss... if thats what you want spend your cash on when you buy from them

i dont think you should degraft it, but just up pot it,,, and let the roots find soil,,, it would make for an interesing looking specimen.

thanks for recommending! ima book guy, but ive only ever read one on cacti. most ly use cacti books for reference. Ill have to order this one. thanks again!!

is there a certain species of selenicereus that works best??

What are you changing your grafting stock too? I'm sowing out what should be some freaky astro next week

Any updates on this Philocacti??? im cant hold my breath much longer!

just reread the op. im a dult

i have used it on a bridgesii stump to allocate the areoles which i desired growth and it worked splendidly!

i have some validus x hz seedlings that i got from zelly, there just sprouts now, but will definitely show em off as soon as theyre worthy!

scopxeileen sounds like a ridiculous hybrid! i'll be keeping an eye for seedlings!

my question is, when they do this, if you cut below the roots and let dry to replant, would the aerial roots dry out too?

11 days old!!! what do i win?