Zelly.....the Green-thumb hero

[Zelly.....the Green-thumb hero]

Don't know where to start

There's no way i can thank zelly enough

 

This uy has been helping me a lot, even before I joined SAB. Once I joined SAB, zelly sent me a lot of seeds throughout the years without asking me anything in return. 

 

Since 2014, laws have changed a lot to the point that by late 2015 I can't receive any packages containing any plant material (seeds or cuttings). However, sometime during this period zelly offered to send me a cutting. So I asked for a PC cutting. He sent me a package but unfortunately customs refused to release it. A month later, a friend went to the states and zelly sent him a package. Fortunately, I received the package with a beautiful PC cutting that had flower buds. 

 

Last year, zelly contacted me and offered me some of his seeds. I told him that they won't pass customs. He sent me a lot of crosses in a very intelligent way and the arrived to my house safe and sound. 

 

I've never seen anyone get out his way and spends time in packaging and sending packages without asking anything in return. 

 

Zelly I appreciate your friendship more than I can express. Thank you my friend

 

I planted the seeds 2 weeks ago and most of the crosses already started germinating and I'm very excited as if it was my first time.

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/TvTAuq6vwrJncXkx5

 

[What did you do to your cacti today?]

I've never seen so many Trichocereus indoors.

I solute you sir.

[Most of my collection]

Nope, it doesn't really rain here. It's like 5-7 times a year.

They're also grafted so I treat them according to the stock not the scion.

I only take in the 2 A. kotschoubeyanusthat aren't grafted, along with a L. diffusa.

[Most of my collection]

Thanks buddy, I'm somehow wishing that one of them would start creating. But that's some wishful thinking

[Chavin de huantar clone..........pachanoi????]

It's grafted to Stenocereus.

I think grafting on these kind of stocks makes the scion display adult characteristics. At least this is what I'm seeing on Zeus.

Here is Ogun's pic of it in Peru....it has longer spines than mine

http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/uploads/monthly_12_2013/post-11286-0-73342600-1386791205.jpg

[Sun damage ?]

Not really, I have a few bridgesii & bridgesii hybrids that do that in winter.

This is an SS02Xpachanoi.

[Most of my collection]

Here are the damaged Aricarpus' (Ariocarpi ???)

[Sun damage ?]

If what you have is the same as this

Then, according to EG, it's some sort of virus infection, not sun damage.

[Most of my collection]

Thanks a lot buddy

According to the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone, I'm in zone 14. Also we have dust in air, which might makes them look like this. Maybe it's my camera. I really don't know.

Hahaha, yeah I had to improvise. I already caught and killed the rat. Only after it ate all the growing tips from all the Ariocarpus', except 3 that were grafted higher stocks.

Last year, I was gifted a small cutting of a bridgesii monstrose from a local friend and he told me it's a different clone than what we have here, but I still can't see any difference yet.

[Chavin de huantar clone..........pachanoi????]

Is this from Ogun? I think that mother plant looks intermediate between pachanoi and peruvianus just like many of the plants growing wild around Ancash. This plant certainly doesn't look like a Lima pachanoi but it also doesn't look like a Matucana peruvianus (which is the reference point most people have when talking about that species).

Yup, Ogun sent me a pup, and what you say makes more sense.

yeh im told wild type pachanoi too , i kinda see what you mean about peruvi but just learning those buggers myself too

its definitely unique and loveable , and i think it has the power to go hyperglaukemic /glaukaceouss..nesss or whatever you say for it's blueability/glaukosity ...

I'm sure if it will blu-up , it'll do it in your scorching sunshine and capable hands mate.

took some pics of mine to add if they're any help

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and if it's any consolation i keep seeing peruvianus in the beloved single 1cm spined pachanois knocking about too..

Hahaha, yeah I read this term before; "wild" pachanoi.

Does "wild" describe the spination? Or is it just a term to distinguish it from other "common" pachanoi.

I've had this clone for a little more than 2 years now. The original pup has 2 offshoots and is in a more shaded place than the graft (the pic in the 1st post), which is in full sun. Non of the 2 is showing any glaucinous ;)

It's a unique and beautiful plant, but I just wanted to understand what makes cactophiles label it as pachanoi or "wild" pachanoi.

[Chavin de huantar clone..........pachanoi????]

I'm so confused why this clone is considered to be a pachanoi.

It has long spines, V notches and large areols. All these characteristics describe a peruvianus. However, it's rich green with no glaucinous (at least in my environment).

So why is it seen as a long-spined pachanoi? Is it the length of its flower tubes?

Enlighten me please.

[Most of my collection]

Thanks a lot TH

[TBM shooting roots from above soil]

I would leave it as it is. The bigger the tbm the faster it grows.

[How to Save this Fellow]

Just cut it where the union is and plant it.

[Most of my collection]

Thanks a lot olive.

[Most of my collection]

I had to move some of my Lophophoras and Ariocarpus in this depressing cage as a temporary solution, cuz I have a rat that ruined a lot of specimen.

[Zeus]

So I had this Zeus freakish cutting for some years. I traumatized it a few times and finally it started to regrow again.

It seems as its pupping from the growing tip

[What did you do to your cacti today?]

When this graft is deflated, it kind of looks like these wild Lophophoras.

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IMHO,variation isn't a stable characteristic. It needs a certain kind of environmental to be displayed.

I have a seed grown variegated Lophophora, that "greens up" during fall and winter and turns yellow in the summer.

The original stump is green as a normal Lophophora and haven't thrown a variegated pup in a year.

So maybe variegated isn't a "simple" mutation.

[The Sowing Out Thread]

Hi all!

I want to grow other cacti than trichos also but I'm quite clueless and need to learn a LOT. Im looking for collectible, rare plants.

Would you be so kind to enlighten my ignorance and guide me through a choice of seeds? Thankxz so much!

Try Ariocarpus, lophophora , astrophytum and aztecium.

[Seed storage - desiccant?]

I really don't know, so this would be an amateur opinion.

I think these silica bags might such the humidity for the seeds survival?

[a southern cactus garden]

I think your collection is a nursery...... My kind of nursery.......one I've never visited before.

[Show off your freaks]

Interesting observation

[Show off your freaks]

[What did you do to your cacti today?]

I have a rat in my garden, it's been living harmoniously with my cacti on the roof, however, it started to do some damage.

This A. fissuratus had 3 fruits popping from the to

The rest are Lophophora