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Bought some seeds of T. Peruvianus v. Aricapampa. From what i found on internet, seems it has pachanoi like looks (the same as T. Peruvianus v. Huancabamba). Maybe somebody has grown up plants of those species?

Thanks, i already have seen those pictures and forum thread. The first picture is from malaysian vendor. Seems a little different, not short spined like everywhere it was saying. The other is a little old thread. Sure, there are some ppl who already have fully mature cacties, and maybe have a little more info. the attached image from http://www.australianethnobotany.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=670

There are not much such good people. I think that doing good things to others, in return does good things to yourself.

Found one good simple way to test plants on total alks. content. It is much better then tasting cactus flesh. http://www.springerlink.com/content/1573q37124274217/ Dragendorff reagent: Solution A: Dissolve 0.5 g bismuth nitrate (Bi(NO3)3 5H2O) in 20 ml of 20% acetic acid Solution B: 5 ml of a 40% KI solution in water Procedure: Before use, mix 20 ml solution A, 5 ml solution B and 70 ml water

Maybe your T. Bridgesii like on the picture. That seems Huttington's clone. Maybe it is some natural cross of Scopulicola and Bridgesii. P.S.- If you have some excess of it, i'd like to buy a small cutting that can be shipped in small packet.

On Australian clones they are nonexistant. Only on small plants, there are 1-2 mm spines, older plants devoid of them at all. One Berlin seller grows them from seeds, and they always almost the same in appearance. He uses one old mother plant, and one young plant to pollinate the mother. There are a lot of seedling and they look almost the same and have the same traits. Seems FR991 seeds crossed with other trichs varieties on the way:)

I think that it was because it was large order. Small letters (less than 2 kg) easily go through customs, because the majority of them is never inspected. I buy small plants on ebay, and all goes succesfuly. Can not tell about USA or Australia, but seems it is universal rules. Trucha, could you please investigate a little more about T. scopulicola? Means its chemical analisys on different plants. In that article, the Scopulicola was a bit more spiny than Australian one (that seems more authentic). Spineness may be due it was not pure strain, but some hybrid.

This could be due too high light intensity, that caused overheating, and not due to light spectrum. But that was just a fact of life.

I saw one, but i dont remember the source, HPS and Fluorescent (cool white 6500K) lights were compared with cactus seeds germination. Under Fluorescent lights there was muuuch better germination rate. I also would like to see full study, maybe i will find something, but until now i have only what was written in many articles. Spectrum and uses of HPS and MH lamps: HPS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_vapor_light MH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_halide_light This exerpt from the first article High pressure sodium lights yield yellow lighting (2200 K) and have a very poor color rendering index of 22. They are used for the second (or reproductive) phase of the growth. If high pressure sodium lights are used for the vegetative phase, plants will usually grow slightly more quickly. The major drawback to growing under high pressure sodium alone is that the plants tend to be taller and leggier with a longer internodal length than plants grown under metal halide bulbs. High pressure sodium lights enhance the fruiting and flowering process in plants. Plants use the orange/red spectrum HPS in their reproductive processes, which produces larger harvests of higher quality herbs, vegetables, fruits or flowers. Sometimes the plants grown under these lights do not appear healthy due to the poor color rendering of high pressure sodium, which makes the plants look pale, washed out or nitrogen starved. High pressure sodium lighting have a long usable bulb life and six times more light output per watt of energy consumed than a standard incandescent grow light. Due to their high efficiency and the fact that plants grown in greenhouses get all the blue light they need naturally, these lights are the preferred supplemental greenhouse lights. But, in the higher latitudes, there are periods of the year where sunlight is scarce, and additional sources of light are indicated for proper growth. HPS lights may cause distinctive infrared and optical signatures, which can attract insects or other species of pests; these may in turn threaten the plants being grown. High pressure sodium lights emit a lot of heat which can cause leggier growth, although this can be controlled by using special air cooled bulb reflector/enclosures. What was written about LED grow lights in the article http://www.littlegreenhouse.com/guide3.shtml There is also charts and comparisons. Just interesting about LEDs- LED grow lights are the newest lighting option for plants. They are advertised to be the most efficient and coolest running grow lights available. We have tested several different types of LED grow lights and have found none that outperform much cheaper fluorescent grow lights of similar wattage. LED plant grow lights are also not recommended for use with plants that you want to be viewed, because they give plants an unnatural appearance when the light is on. the reference on the study of fluorecent lights http://www.planetnatural.com/site/xdpy/kb/fluorescent-lights.html In summary, fluorescent lights are efficient sources of light for growing plants in specific locations or situations. Blue-red fluorescent tubes may elicit an adequate response from some crops, but cool white light is as, or more efficient for most crops. For several crops requiring especially high light intensities, the high energy discharge multi-vapor lamps should be investigated as well as high output and very high output fluorescent tubes. At the end more scientific article on different lights for growing plants (very useful) http://www.controlledenvironments.org/Light1994Conf/1_3_Tikhomirov/Tikhomirov%20text.htm 1) The time for maximum affectivity of photosynthesis of plant canopies appears earlier with red (600-700 nm) and later may shift to shorter wave length regions of PAR. This shift depends on specific plant reaction to spectrum of PAR; 2) The relative effectiveness of blue rays increases and green and red rays decreases with higher levels of irradiation (Fig. 2 and 3); 3) Maximum photosynthesis of canopies is possible only under combinations of blue, green and red radiation. Any kind of combinations of two of these wavebands or with only one spectral region, always reduces productivity. More articles (NASA research) http://www.controlledenvironments.org/Light1994Conf/Contents.htm

Archaea, i'm fully aware that this is a myth, especially that green color is not utilized by plants. I'v read a lot of articles in which was shown that under green lights the plant was grown very well. The best light for plants is that is close to sunlight spectrum, which contains 27% of blue light (by its total energy). HPS lights, the best i saw,- Sylvania GroLux, contains only 30% more blue spectrum than ordinary HPS lamps.

Maybe those articles could be helpfull for selecting the lights http://www.greenmanspage.com/guides/lightguide.html Some info from another website (search engine finds a lot of them) # Metal Halide Lamps Metal Halide (MH) bulbs emit a light spectrum which appears blue-white to the human eye. This color spectrum is more conducive for vegetative growth, or starting seeds and cuttings. High Pressure Sodium Lamps High Pressure Sodium (HPS) bulbs emit a spectrum which is more concentrated in red/orange light. This color is ideal for the fruiting and flowering stage of a plant's development. It is a good multi-purpose light as well. Conversion Lamps There are two(2) types of conversion lamps: HPS Lamps which run on MH ballasts. # MH Lamps which run on HPS ballasts. This type of lamp allows you to tailor the light source to the growth stage of the plant (again, using metal halide light for growth and high pressure sodium light for flowering/budding) merely by changing lamps. Flourescent Lamps Traditional T12 and T8 fluorescent lighting is simply not powerful enough to light an area more than 8-10 inches below the bulb. With the recent introduction of the highly efficient T5 technology, T5 linear fluorescent fixtures can now put out a respectable 92.6 lumens per watt. T12 lamps typically put out about 30 lumens per watt. Our T5 fluorescent lamps are excellent for starting seeds and cuttings, but are also able to produce enough light for full term growth. Because of their minimal heat output, they can be placed very close to the plant canopy to maximize the light output. Note: Halide and High Pressure Sodium are referred to as "High Intensity Discharge" (HID) Lamps.

Maybe she was a woman in the past life:) She also has good waist, and flowers at her head. Beautiful, i would like to talk to her:)

Interesting what had become later to that T. Pachanoi? Very interesting clone. Would be nice to have it be growing in my own garden:)

I think that to conduct those studies it is necesary to obtain large quantities of the same clone. This best can be done by propagating plants by tissue culture method. In this case there whould be a lot of plants with the same genetics, that could be compareed after treating (growing) them under different conditions.

Seems it lacked the watering all the winter. P.S.- So, I will pot it all in one pot as is.

I have bought monstrose form of bridgesii (longest sections 14 cm). I have no previous experience on how to propagate it more efficiently by cuttings. At what stage of growth can it be made, and how long (their length) they must reach to successfully root them? Can i split shoots (stems) apart and pot them separatly, or is it better that they grow all together in one pot? Thanks in advance!

Trucha, i live far from Germany. I'v bought the seedlings on German ebay. I asked Mario (on ebay his alias is cultureplants), he is the owner of the items, "Can i be assured of their authenticity?". He sended me that picture, the cactus grows in his greenhouse (near Berlin). Mario is very good seller (and collector of different plants), and replies a lot of questions.

Thanks! Pardon , instead shot was meant shoot. And how it comes that in one pot there are 4 shoots. This is its growing pattern, that it sprigs them?

I think that long spined form is some hybride of T. Scopulicola (maybe with pachanoi) because i recently bought some seedlings from collector in Berlin, he sended me his mother plant picture. he said that it is 50 years old. So it seems he grown them from authentic Ritter seeds. This plant has no spines when mature, and the seedligs have short spines (as was described by Ritter).

I'd suggest for a funding (crowdfunding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_funding) to create projects on sites like http://www.indiegogo.com/ http://www.kickstarter.com/ http://peerbackers.com/ https://www.profounder.com/ Creating project is free, just publish some info (state the goal) on them and some pictures, place some references on your project funding on different sites. Many would be glad to help (i suppose)

I often use them for reference, and downloaded himself a bunch of them.

I changed lamps to MH (6000K), because i wanted that the look of cacties be better. Maybe i'm wrong, i had not experimented much with HPS lights, i just assumed that in nature, sunlight contains appreciable amount of blue spectrum. It is better to experiment with different light source to select the best for cacties. Now i grow them under CFL 6500 K, they appear to thicken more than from natural lights on windowsill. It is maybe due to the fact, that lights pour on their tops, so they just adjust their growth point (they grow on the top) to take more light. Even T. bridgesii seedlings (grown first year on windowsill), now have become clublike. I found one article here http://www.kadasgarden.com/CLophophoramescaline.html it says that for Lophs. in tissue culture the best for their growth was blue light, surprisingly the second was green, and the third was red. But alk. production was better in full dark (without growth at all). I took pictures of my cacties on the fifth of april, and will take them again on the fifth of may to show the difference in their size in a month period.

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This depends on reflector used (and side reflectors), but no more than 4 sq. meters. just buy cheap luxmeter and test light intensity in the area. it must be no less than 10000 lux at the bottom of this area. P.S. - HPS are only 10% outperform MH lamps, but MH lamps have better spectrum, especialy for cacties, they are much more fatter in this case and have bluish frosted skin, like on sunlight.

It does not have the capacity to persecute anybody. It is nongovernmental research. It has no official status. You can not take any published unofficial info, and persecute anybody, it has no legal status for that. For example- I could tomorrow publish in internet an article about that lawn grass contains psychoactive alkaloides, and then anybody can be persecuted for growing lawn grass? T. Scopulicolus is Bolivian origin, it does not occur in Peru, so it has no relevance to Shamanic use, because in Boliva there are no shamans which use cacties in their practice. And T. scpulicola is rare even in Bolivia, I can not find any picture in its native habitat.