Jump to content
The Corroboree

nitrogen

Members2
  • Content count

    430
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    7

Everything posted by nitrogen

  1. nitrogen

    Pachanoi/pachanot farkin bULLshIT

    Yea personally I'm all for keeping the idea that peruvianus and pachanoi are 2 different species.. There's going to be a blurry line between them - a continuum of traits - but I'm sure that's true with all sorts of plant species - begonias for instance.. The dark blue, spiny, fat type of peruvianus strikes me as very much a different plant that the shortspined pachanoi - think the Icaros variety vs the huarazensis type pachanoi.. In my garden the ""Sharxx Blue" and "Roseii1 and 2" clones from Oz and the "short-spined peruvianus" which I renames "Paradeyes" are on totally different ends of the peruvianus spectrum - with the "Sharxx Blue" and Roseii clones are way more "peruvianus" looking than the Paradeyes clone, with the latter resembling more of a longer spined pachanoi.. -- But yea - the common ancestor issue - problem with that is that all life on earth evolved from little microbes - if you trace the lineage back far enough then everything is related to everything else.. We make distinctions on grand, obvious levels - which "kingdom" something is in - plants vs animals - that's clear enough, but then within each kingdom, the further we subdivide, the blurrier the boundaries get, and by the time you get to the finest distinction, the "species" distinction, there's a lot of boundary blurring indeed..
  2. nitrogen

    What did you do to your cacti today?

    People should run some spoof auctions on ebay just for laughs and to make the casual customer realize what a farce things like rib count are.. Run an auction for "Uber-rare 9-rib pachanoi - 12" cutting - $7,250.00" or "T. bridgesi - blessed by local shaman in Missouri - 8" cutting - $43,225.00"
  3. nitrogen

    What did you do to your cacti today?

    Might be the "Paradeyes" x Psycho0 cross - I sent some of those seeds out to people as simply "Short-spined peruvianus" (SSP) x Psycho0 before naming the peruvianus "Paradeyes"..
  4. nitrogen

    hylocereus megalanthus 4

    drool!
  5. nitrogen

    What did you do to your cacti today?

    I'm worried you're not gonna have enough cacti..
  6. nitrogen

    What did you do to your cacti today?

    He just mad because in Greece they eat their young and everybody knows about it..
  7. nitrogen

    What did you do to your cacti today?

    No, I don't think he is.. - In all seriousness though, if I had such pansy-ass scopuliculas that they couldn't handle a *housecat* brushing into them without falling over I'd chop them up and find another use for them Lol, I mean, we're not talking about livestock here..
  8. nitrogen

    Pachanoi/pachanot farkin bULLshIT

    Aesthetics and because, IME, bridge + pach > bridge alone, in terms of inner beauty.. And because certain pachs > than certain bridges, in terms of inner beauty..
  9. nitrogen

    Taquimbalensis

    I wonder what the father was?
  10. nitrogen

    Another Suburban Find

    Did you just chop that one out of someone else's garden?
  11. nitrogen

    Show off your freaks

    TBM-A and TBM-B in the same plant.. We were most impressed with this specimen..
  12. nitrogen

    Pachanoi/pachanot farkin bULLshIT

    I was just kidding w you - "friending" someone through a "friend request" is facebook lingo..
  13. nitrogen

    Pachanoi/pachanot farkin bULLshIT

    Hhhmmmm, that explains why you didn't respond to my friend request..
  14. nitrogen

    Weird phenomena on some of my Trichocereus

    Yea mine get the same thing - my psycho0 clone is doing it a lot these days.. During hot summer months you can water pretty much every day with impunity..
  15. nitrogen

    Pachanoi/pachanot farkin bULLshIT

    It sounds like in Oz it's more confusing.. In the USA we have only one "pachanoi" clone that is commonly found in people's yards - it's all the same clone - the "Backeberg" clone or "PC" - if you see a pachanoi growing in the USA in some random person's yard (and that person doesn't happen to be an acid-casualty and ethnobotanical geek like myself ;)) then it's almost always the "PC" clone.. Occasionally you'll find a one-off pachanoi type like how they found the "Juules giant" clone but those are rare exceptions. I've often wondered whether it's appropriate for the term "PC" to be used in Oz or Europe because from what I see online it looks like y'all have a widespread variety of pachanoi types, and the one you call the "PC" isn't the one that Trout identified as such/the one we have here in the USA..
  16. Check these out - the first is what I recall my friend Mitosis had growing - it looks like a big fat bridgesii - but much fatter than any bridgesii.. And what is this here? This is not a terscheckii no?
  17. nitrogen

    T. huanucoensis (?) & T. X?

    Yea the first one in person looks a lot more bridgesii than peruvianus - it has that typical bridgesii coloration too - it's just so fat.. The one Mitosis had looked just like this, and I remember him saying that that plant (I think he called it huanucoensis) was not a plant valuable to shamanic traditions. I don't know the origins of either plant..
  18. nitrogen

    T. Bridgesii "Jeans"

    Oz can ship cuttings to the USA with no customs problems.. Don't ship lophs though, that can lead to uncomfortable questions..
  19. Dragon fruit are extremely expensive out here in the SW USA - they go for like $9/lb or so - the most expensive fruit in the store usually, when you can find them - they are the red outer/white inner variety and they are delicious..
  20. Yah the TBM-B (short form) often puts out pups that look like normal trichos initially.. The TBM-A (long form) does also actually - usually ribs and spines, and then as the pup grows it developed into the singular rounded type shape and goes spineless..
  21. nitrogen

    About KK #s. Sacred Cactus website.

    Indeed, the owner of that website is a tosser who himself regularly mistakes the identity of the cacti he aggressively markets on ebay.. Karel Knive is, apparently, a bit off his rocker, and you never know exactly what he'll send you - but he's not a complete wanker like the guy above.. My comrade Malo, who spread around the popular "huarazensis," clone got it from a Knize shipment that included a variety of other pachanoi types..
  22. nitrogen

    Show of your massive grafted lophs.

    Ok hold on, hold on - I got one here - this is a massive grafted loph from a number of years ago when I still had lophs - that's a slice of grapefruit for reference:
  23. nitrogen

    Show of your massive grafted lophs.

    Lol, this thread is such a fail.. Pity too..
  24. nitrogen

    Messing around with grafts a few photos

    Wow, that's awesome! My favs are the Nothinks pachanoi, J3 OP, and the Psycho0 x spachianus.. Gotta love that SS02 x SS01 F2 hybrid crest also - that thing is gorgeous! Back in the day when Sacred Succulents was (it seemed like) pretty much the only one producing a lot of the interesting hybrids, their SS02 x SS01 cross got a bit of a reputation for being particularly vigorous and fast growing.. That really spiny one in the pic on the top - the second cactus from the left - that looks a lot like an SS02 x SS01 also..
  25. nitrogen

    Lumberjack origins?

    Mine is growing in just a small amount of direct sunlight each day here - but it's got this killer blue-green color going and heavy glaucus
×