Trichoserious

[quote name='mutant' timestamp='1293211701' post='282221' Does black rot occur to Eilleen and PsychoO ??? Yup.....a well established eileen started from a cutting few years back has recently been affected with black rot. I held high hopes for this clone to be largely immune to black rot. Still, the rate of recovery is markedly faster than other unnamed bridgesii.

I've seen similar (not quite so extreme) profound puppage from introducing a BAP laden paste. Maybe some gnomes pranked you?

Indeed....volume of light certainly seems to be the critical key. In my climate there is consistently strong winter growth, also with no etoliation. Perhaps something less than half the rate of the other seasons. Also, coloration is a bit more subdued shade of green...less vibrant somehow....but they do put on at least a foot during the winter months here. And while temps remain seasonably high, they do in other climates as well. The difference in growth I attribute to higher levels of sunshine. My southern US contemporaries also experience winter growth with no etoliation, but not to the same degree.

Black spot/rot seems to be a fairly typical condition during the rainy season, rarely progressing to full blown rot. So some seasonal scarring due to the black spot is "normal" to this climate with the PC and peruvianis. My bridgesii take it harder, with much greater scarring, and an occasional loss....i used to think it was just the robustness of the specie...until receiving some named clones, who have no troubles at all. I couldn't find any pics specifically showing the black spot, but this one show the corky scarring in several specimens that comes after healing...

Yup, SB. I'll chime in and say that I've experienced growth rates of 5 feet plus in a single season. UV rates in zone 10B here are the highest in the contiguous 48. Coupled with an unprecedented number of cloudless days, torrential showers which quickly pass back to sunshine, and insanely high humidity. Add to that good draining sandy soil and the year round growing cycle....it can, and does happen with regularity. Cereus blast out better then six feet regularly. I've pilocereus pushing 4' a year. But the staple to the herd, and the prize of the flock is good 'ole pachanoi. It's growth rate dwarfs my other actives (inc.Eileen, thx reshroomEd.) PC pushes 5 feet a year routinely, and a few years back....when my rootbound mama plant had acclimated and expanded into her new terra firma conditions....she pushed out six feet on a few stalks in just a year.

I was blessed to purchase a cutting a while back when reshroomEd was being generous with us folks across the pond. The bugger grows fast for me. I'm in a 10b zone. A single large cutting was divided into three, with two plants being experimentally treated, and the third kept as a control. First plant received surgical removal of the apical meristem. Within a month, four new base pups and a fifth top pup burst out. One base pup stalled. Here's a pic from a several months back. Current growth is about 40% more with both plants, and an update photo is due to be taken/submitted. She's the one bottom right in this pic: Test #2 was treated with a 20% BAP solution in lanolin around the third aereole layer. It sprouted five new pups as well. The brownish discoloration is an effect of the lanolin attracting and holding dirt/grime. For a year, the surgical test was top dog as far as mass produced, but has recently lagged behind the hormonally influenced subject. The control had not pupped, but exhibited robust growth. The point to this post in this thread....with them all, the spination is virtually identical to my other bridgesii. Were I not to know it to be a different cultivar, i would not note any difference, other than her enhanced rate of growth.

/me opines Looks like a hybrid if either. More likely a different trich....

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