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yep you're spot on gerbil, the summer flowers did not set any seed. But two plants hung onto a few flower buds which opened a couple of weeks ago, looking promising! whats the deal with summer flowers not setting seed?

Hi, I have a bunch of Trichocereus open pollinated and hand pollinated hybrid seeds, send me PM if you're keen on trading for any other interesting cactus seeds! T. bridgesii (OP 2014) T. bridgesii x peruvianus T. bridgesii x pachanoi T. knuthianus x (scopulicola x bridgesii) T. pachanoi (OP 2014) T. pachanoi "Yowie" x (scopulicola x bridgesii) T. pachanoi x bridgesii T. pachanoi x peruvianus T. pachanoi x (scopulicola x bridgesii) T. peruvianus (OP 2014) T. peruvianus x bridgesii T. scopulicola x bridgesii T. (scopulicola x bridgesii) x knuthianus T. (scopulicola x bridgesii) x pachanoi OP=open pollinated seed is from last year, all others are freshly harvested this year. Cheers

sweet sorted Geebus only 2x $12 kk2152 mids left now..

i have this rooted cut for $30 , bit scratched up but otherwise healthy 30cm length above pot, will probably have to go into a 17.10 satchel due to length. or i can cut it.

buyer pays postage, free delivery or pickup Melb northern suburbs knuthianus 30cm $30 bridgesii 34cm $40 roseii 2 37cm $50 "cordobensis"/spiny scop 38cm $40 scop 37cm $40 peruvianus 32cm $40 sorry no TAS/WA

dropped price a little, gotta get rid of these plants. even cheaper if you wanna come pick up a few..

probably about 5 years old. not certain when they germinate, but I would suspect springtime or early summer after temps increase, snow melts and water becomes more available

Went to visit my phleb which I stuck in the ground on old farm land in central Victoria early October 2014. Planted between a couple of big embedded rocks. Very exposed, full sun all day Watered only twice since then, last watering was mid November. Was kinda surprised to find her looking reasonably happy. Rainfall since planting 80-100mm, mean max. temps 26-29°C with a couple days max temps >40°C

dangit I've ordered a bunch of seed packets off this vendor last week. Will report back re: viability, didn't get any lophy seed though.

also a bunch of monstrose/crested progeny seedlings in 2inch pots for $5 each. only the ones that havent yet monstrosified tho im sorry these are pretty small ranging in size from 2.5-5cm tall pach monstrose x pach pach monstrose x ss02 bridge kk919 x pach monstrose N1 x TPQC P0 x TPM Juuls x pach monstrose

So annoyingly I gotta move again soon from outta northern suburbs melbs, it would be really sweet if any friendly local plantheads would be keen to come over and help cut down/ dig up some of my cacti and make the moving process a bit easier for me? mostly seed raised stuff, no names, will be $1/cm and heaps of rooted cuttings of scop, peruvi/macro, pach, bridgie, knuthi which will be much cheaper, as will lots of hybrid seedlings and all kinds of shit like that. these plants aint even been NAMED yet so do come and meet em and i will sell you one for probably just five bones. Serra Blue x huanucoensis Serra Blue x ss02 Luther Burbank x ss02 Sausage x scop PM me for details

repotting after roughly 3 months reveals a decent looking root system! I started a second lot on 11/11 , only one had rooted after 40 days. They were moved out of the propagator after only 20 days. and, fingers crossed for a good seed set this year. 2 sweet ladies beginning to flower right now love this tree

looking good! 50% aint a terrible start

How's your plant Alice? My mate has a lot of variegated tips occurring on his caapi and he's quite worried. I think it looks cool

So 3/4 cuttings have started rootin. The 4th is looking very dehydrated and I expect it will perish before rooting. Cuttings taken from 4/5 year old potted plant recently topped up with some granular ferts, vigorous early spring growth

i have seen nodules at other repottings but didn't really notice any the last time.. next time I see some I can send a few out to people if anyone wanna try inoculating half of their seedlings

I thought it was a bit of perlite at first haha. Good advice I will start letting things dry outa bit, they've def been kept moist

Damn fine looking plants everyone! yeh bullit mine doesn't thrive in hottest part of summer, I try to get mine behind some other plants when it gets scorching to provide some dappled shade.. Busted out one short inflorescence first week of spring. somewhere around 5 years old, 40cm pot with native potting mix. Repotted 4 times. For the last year or so I have been keeping it pretty wet, not so much during winter when it wasn't growing much at all. Kinda been treating it like a Trichocereus i suppose, wetter recently. At first sign of winter warming I potted on into a marginally larger pot with just a couple cm's fresh mix under the rootball, and a bit on top to cover exposed roots. a sprinkle of slow release native granules mixed in. Since then I have been watering the hell out of it, t pot drains very well because it is so 'rootbound'..

would be a great project to georeference all the available locality data!

here's a pretty rough fit, all i could knock up for now

For rooting cuttings that are prone to rotting in soil, try a mix of sand/perlite/vermiculite/cococoir. I've got roots on sanguinea by wrapping stem in sphagnum then plastic wrap

Have fun gang wish I could make it today

Fuck , that's a ripsnorting entry Sabry. But you pretty much had it in the bag with "apply chemicals" ;) Hit me up and I'll get it to you asap. I've got a couple of runner up prizes lined up so pimento and newageshaman, pm me your postal details! Thanks for participating everyone, all entries made me seriously fucking happy. Will be more material to distribute after summer

Yes for sure that would be great EG. Damn, stiff competition! Thanks for resurrecting the comp with your excellent entry pimento, really made my day..