Derkshaman

Just in search of some cool Trich seeds. Interested in a wide variety. Especially keen on Psycho0 x Yowie or Yowie x Psycho0... wish I could find some! Also any crosses with Rosei #1. If anyone's selling some crosses please let me now. Thank you!

I have before. I'm not convinced it's useful for trichocereus. I mainly have used it because of the added fungicide... but I rarely use it. Do you recommend to? The piece that I'm struggling so much to root has is already real skinny and has a thick callous. I don't think it has any application for that plant at least.

Seems a little expensive to use in the soil mix anyways. Dolomite lime provides the calcium and magnesium... Gypsum or soil sulfur for the sulfur. Much cheaper amendments and are easy to obtain

Hmm

That makes perfect sense. I've noticed the same thing! I'm more concerned though now. This one has already dehydrated pretty bad. It's wrinkled and the ribs are sharp! Surely it should feel the need to get rooted. I give it water sometimes because it's at no risk for rot (after having made it through months of regular watering when I assumed it had roots). Perhaps I should force it dry for even longer.

I'm really excited =] hopefully I can obtain some of these

Coir works really well, especially for seedlings... but it's very necessary to add a little sharp sand to the mix... I also like to add some compost to richen it up a bit. Coir needs consistent fertilizer i've found, as it contains none on its own... I like using time release fertilizer like osmocote to get the necessary n-p-k, and usually a bit of lime & gpysum for minerals. Coir will stall your plants if you don't stay on top of a fertilizer regimen, while other mediums cut you more slack. I love how cheap coir is... where I live it's actually the same price as bulk peat if not cheaper. Easy to store, etc... really has a sponge effect on soils; it's very hydrophilic, and doesn't ever compact. Supposedly the lifespan is around 3 times longer than peat- it takes 3 years instead of one to start going sour.

Definitely not! It's not my first rodeo As I was saying, amazingly enough, this clone has even rotted just sitting in air, and I live in Arizona. If it wasn't so attractive at times, I would have given up on it long ago. It has no immune system. On top of that, it really procrastinates on rooting. Speaking of slow rooting... I have a hybrid trichocereus cutting that won't root; I've never really had this happen before. I got cut a 60cm piece in half- a tip, and the midsection from right below it... The tip rooted and established itself very quickly, and in fact, this led me to assumed the mid cut was as well, being in the same conditions, dry soil for over a month in 100-110 degree weather, and began watering it regularly. Eventually, it was getting really slim and still hadn't made an offset, so I dug it up expecting to find a grub of some sorts. Instead I found a cutting still without roots, after 5 months! This piece has no rot or anything; the callous was well developed and even months of watering without roots didn't hurt it. So since then, I have repotted it, put it in a place with just some morning sun, keeping it dry most of the time and splash it with water every once in a while... it's now been another month, a total of 6 months since planting.... no roots! I assume patience will eventually sort this out! It's still a little odd to me though, and I'm open to any suggestions.

These put out an edible and quite tasty fruit, hence the name Peruvian Apple. They are quick to flower and fruit. Fun to have in the garden.

Pumice isn't available anywhere (obvious) where I live either. I've made a lot of calls and asked around. I would never consider spending $17 just for a flat rate box of it. After some time though, I finally pinpointed a sand & gravel company, 40 minutes from my casa, that sells pumice by the square yard... I'm hoping to negotiate a smaller purchase! Lately, the bags of perlite I buy are DUST... what a waste, so I have no other choice but to switch. Really looking forward to being able to water without floating perlite ;D. Power, the cactus you describe sounds just like mine! It is literally the only cactus I have ever had rot, and it does this quite often... it's impossible to grow a flawless piece for very long, because they are so quick to bubble up black and then scab up! Just wondering, what state do you live in? Madgenius, I appreciate your feedback! Zelly had talked me away from rooting into minerals... I like to hear everybody's way of doing things. I have since potted up several cuttings in my typical 50% perlite mix, but instead used small 4-inch terricota pots to stay even drier. I have the several cuttings remaining, which I will try rooting in sand or etc like you encourage. So you do recommend some plain, non-compacting sand?

Are any of these seeds still left over, floating around?

It looks fine to me. The roots can happen sometimes... sometimes for no reason at all! Usually it happens when the plant is a little thirsty though, or when growing up against something. In your case, the cactus is probably just a eager for a drink! I'd proceed to water it as regular. Also, don't be too nervous with this plant. I have one, and it doesn't seem to be especially frail. Sure, it probably isn't some invincible beast like some of these clones are... but for a mutant, it's pretty resilient and does fine under typical care.

Howdy man. Welcome to the forum Are these seed grown, or clones? The second reminds me a lot of Altman's pachanoi... I actually got some from Home Depot, they were hiding in a batch of PC pachanoi.

The Euphorbias I have all have aerola of some type. The ones without thorns... just apply it to where they put out branches, leaves, or flowers. I don't find this chemical very useful: most plants already have a good idea of how many branches they're able to support. Most of the BAP applications I see result in skinny growth, and sometimes aborted pups, slowed growth, etc. The plant normally is bottle-necked by how much chlorophyll it has- how much photosynthesis it has going on, and branches accordingly. Applying it a slow growing succulent would be especially detrimental.

Still going! I'm happily surprised to see. There is hope

Happy birthday dude

Your property is beautiful man! So much room to continue building too.

Is there a way to link photos directly from my flickr? And to avoid the 2mb limit? Anyways, here's the mother plant I was talking about... seems to be pulling through in the end, putting out offsets now. I got around 15 more feet of cuttings now to plant! They are scattered about, but here's most of them.

Perlite is pretty lame, the bags are often half dust! I'd like to buy pumus but it's so so readily available where I live, and it's very expensive! But I guess since it's reusable cost is well worth it. I think I ought to use more of this, versus sand. Normally the soil is a mixture of compost, coco coir, or screened potting soil. I don't have any compost left this year, and had a bag of Fox farms soil that ive been using lately, and it doesn't need much screening like the majority do. I like your advice Zelly, I'll be sure to put a better effort into communicating with my plants.

Done for now. Can close whenever. Thank you

Howdy everybody. I'm pretty new to these forums, but not so new to collecting cacti, which I've been seriously into since I was around 13 (granted I'm still very young). I know I don't have a lot of posts yet, so it's hard to tell how serious I am about collecting, but most likely by the time you read this I'll have some pictures of my garden up to share! Anyways, with enough of an introduction I'll get to it. I'm currently seeking a couple clones in particular, from others in the US (due to the hassles of importing). In particular, I am looking for a cutting of T. Bridgesii "Psycho0". After seeing some pictures from Nitrogen on Misplant's website I'm quite obsessed! Other clones like "T. Argentinensis", Sharxx Blue, Yowie, and Rosei #1 are also on my list to obtain. If anyone has any other unique trichocereus clones, especially ones that get blue and have long thorns, I'd likely be interested in those as well! I know these plants are hard to come across, and that those who have them might be hesitant to trade. If anyone is willing, I would pay quite generously.

I appreciate the tip. I'll incorporate this technique from now on.

Thank you! It sure gets a lot of attention. It simply worries me because I know with my other form of monstrose bridgesii, that the 'tips' eventually stop growth and a new section is put out from a thorn cluster; if no thorn clusters are present the plant is halted forever. I don't know much about the crested variety though! I'm hoping to learn how to graft well. I think I'm capable of grafting with seedlings on pereskiopsis, but I've never had success grafting larger pieces to san pedro or myrtillocactus, although I only tried twice. I think what I was missing is a humidity chamber of some sorts following the graft, and perhaps i Needed a sharper type of razor. I wouldn't dream of cutting this plant! Not until I'm a master of grafting, at least. But that would be my end goal.

After educating myself about shipping costs, I now have no large preference to find the cuttings domestically. Would love to arrange a purchase from AU just as well!

Most of the pictures are of Trichocereus Bridgesii, a very typical looking clone! The poster child. The ones that grow a bit fatter, and long spines of mostly even length is usually classified as Peruvianus (the bridgesii almost always have one thorn that's significantly longer than the others). Then I see some very cool variety of San Pedro! I'm not sure what the last one is, but it looks heavy! I live in Arizona so my first instinct is Saguaro, but clearly it's not after inspecting the thorns! I'd be interested to hear other's ID.