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    Cactus under lights!?

    In my opinion LED lamps is marketing gimmick. If you look more closely on their specs. they provide less lumen output per watt (55 Lm/W) in comparison to HIDs (MH 90 Lm/W, HPS 100 Lm/W). And transformer gives no less heat than from HIDs, only distributed over more space. LED lights cost incomparably higher than HIDs. So no economy.
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    Cactus under lights!?

    I grow Trich. seedling under CFL light upto 2 years old. The results much better than growing them under sunlight on windosill. This is because the light is stable (no bad weather, no clouds, no too hot direct sunlight) And they dont need stagnation period, growing two years without breaks with day time between 14-16 hours. So if you grow from seeds, in two years the cacties are much larger and healthy than ordinary growing. And there is one more benefit, the light goes verticaly on them (on their tops!) - but just a little slanted, so they grow directly upright, and getting much fatter (to absorb more lights). If you need to provide more lights from sides, add side reflector (as in growboxes all sides reflect the light) I use 2 U- shaped lamps OSRAM DULUXE L 55 W (totally 110 W) with ALANOD reflector. I'm planning this winter (i'm situated in nothern hemisphere- europe) to use MH lamp (400 W) on larger plants. My lamp produces 150 000 LUX on 50 cm distance from it. It can be used to grow 90 cm. cacties all year round (I saw pictures on our local forum). The first attachment is T. Pachanoi (4 years old, grown fromm seeds, 90 cm long) in hydro culture under HPS lights, due to lack blue spectrum is too thin. (this is not mine, i downloaded this picture from another forum) The second attachment is our locally manufactured HID lamp with built-in internal reflector. It has large bulb and is only slightly heated on the surface (no more 100 C).
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    Cactus under lights!?

    Yes it must work. The only I advise is to use Metal Hallide lamps instead of flouro. Starting from 250 W, Metal Hallides are more efficient. Personaly I have 400 W lamp (with reflector) with color temp. 6000 K. The light spreads better, and its intensity close to sunlight. Flouro light generaly good for short plants, and it is better to have U tube CFL lamps (like OSRAM dulux L), and not spiral lamps. One more point, if you growing cacties, it is better to use lamps that have some blue waves. the Color of the cacties would be better, and they are more stout, if they were grown under lamps which contain blue spectrum. So better to take lamps with higher color temp (6000 K and more). HPS contains very little blue spectrum, the cacti will grow, but be thin.
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    The ordinary-ness of "Eileen"

    O course, Michael everyone has his own opinion. I enjoy your collection. Your posts were very valuable for many of us.
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    The ordinary-ness of "Eileen"

    It is only 2 years old. Are things changing so fast? This is good topic about Eileen, why to close it? My post does not touch consumption, and the law does not have back force (for older posts). They can not change the past.
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    The ordinary-ness of "Eileen"

    The tops are spineless and areoles inverted. Definitely they have genetic closeness to T. scopulicola. Someone can trade a clone?
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    Some T. scopulicola forms

    This is 50 years old T. scopolicola in greenhouse (Berlin) it is spineless, but the seedlings (it was motherplant) have very short spines.
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    trichocereus scopulicolus

    Yes, i agree, but in the meantime, ppl could abide to the rules, and talk about using them for grafting purposes:) If someone has more info on the subject, could it be possible to PM me?
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    trichocereus scopulicolus

    This plant is rare in Europe, i found only one collector who sells good seedlings of those cacties. I think they are great grafting stock:), but can not find much verification for their use for those good purposes. So I'm buying them at some risk, if they are not good for grafting:), so i must wait for their beautiful flowering (at least it is a consolation) I attached a pictuture of mother plant that is growing in collectors greenhouse in Berlin.
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    trichocereus scopulicolus

    From a recently performed chemical analysis of the plant, it is active, on the par with T. Pachanoi. see- Olabode Ogunbodede, Douglas McCombs, Keeper Trout, Paul Daley & Martin Terry. 2010. New mescaline concentrations from 14 taxa/cultivars of Echinopsis spp. (Cactaceae) ("San Pedro") and their relevance to shamanic practice. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 131 (3): 356-362.
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    The Sowing Out Thread

    I sowed seeds of Trichocereus peruvianus var matucana. Eleven days passed and no one is germinated. I saw similar posts on macrogonus and peruvianus on their poor germination. Peruvianus no germination after two months, macrogonus one germinated. But bridgesii and pachanoi well germinated in a week. Maybe those species need special treatment like stratification or the seeds were non viable at all. I put my sowed seeds in cold store (wet) and planning to hold in it for two weeks at +5 C, maybe then after this treatment they show better mood to germinate.
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    fungicide solution suggestions???

    Green maybe is algae. But I usually use fludioxonil (brand name: Maxim) fungicide. I spray seedlings just in case of mold. It does not affect seedlings in any way. But perfectly controls the mold. P.S. - in any case it will do no harm to seedlings.
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