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he is stripping the tip! that bastard

are the neem granules something you would mix into the growing media? The soil I use has something called Suscon Green added and I havn't seen any root mealys.

*gazes in awe* i'm speechless. i absolutly must visit S. America, ASAP.

definatly Eulychnia imo, maybe Eulychnia acida http://www.columnar-cacti.org/eulychnia/index.html

i have 3 photos labeled validus - I can't remember who or where they came from, you've probably seen them

Sweet! /dreams of visiting Peru next year

scop imo o_O

i've never used fungicide, i did sterilize the first batch but now I've had the same results without doing it so I don't bother. It clearly isn't necessary

interesting here is one of mine, does it look similar? I like that cereus, looks nice

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looks identical to the batch i'm growing, they naturally grow thin and fast like that. Going to be very interesting to see what happens to them in a couple of years with heavier growth.

chiloensis?

nice specimen, they eventually become columnar and thats one of the few pictures i've seen on the net where you can see that habit developing.

he has posted many on the nook if you search, i have them all saved on my harddrive respect to osprey

i'm such a bastard, mine is flowering also and i walk right past it to stare at others. I do love the red flowers though.

i'd get it just because it looks cool, its really hard to tell what it is from the picture.

they both look like kk242/cuzcoensis or whatever to me. the areoles on backebergs tarmaensis look much larger.

that is very obviously a scopulicola. thanks for posting. big trichs rule.

random stuff from today that 4 inch rotting cutting that i rescued and posted here a while ago, now it is pushing out longer spines, but only 3. i like it a seedling from a store pachanoixscop seedling @ 3 years i have a few hoodias, mostly gordonii and a macranthus. one of them, a seedling around 2 and a half years old and probably what I consider the least vigorous is putting out buds. a gymnocalycium, the species name escapes me right now another, more common one - Gymnocalycium horstii. plant was quite dehydrated in this photo Coleocephalocereus pluricostatus, seed grown

amazing, i'd bow before that plant

This thread has no topic anyway I'm starting to get that feeling too, I mean they look a little different but not different enough. I should be collecting more pollen from this Spachianus type plant that is flowering - it will probably go bad by the time the others bloom. *looks at the picture again* ok I've decided they are the same plant. I could always go to the botanic gardens here and take some pollen (they have a few trichs), not like anyone cares. I'm going to arrange myself a visit to the private greenhouses of Mr Benbow in auckland, he is the retired seed vendor. He has mature Carnegias and Pachycereus that look around 30 ft and he has a Trichocereus pasacana, fully mature- its the most amazing sight, all indoors. The only trichs I saw were a massive Scop and some Thrixanthocereus (hairy ones) I think he might have a validus.

I think the midday/afternoon sun is the one which can turn the epidermis a lasting yellow, I've tried to get them at maximum light while retaining their rich colours. I was also starting to think that other short spine peruvianus clone I have is a Juul's after seeing a picture of yours.

I do love them more than anything else in my life (they keep me going) but I feel as though I don't give as much as I could and constantly feel lazy as a cultivator. I have had a quick and easily informed run and don't appreciate it. I'm compensating for the wide variety of succulents with a 2 section aluminium kitset glasshouse, 50% woven shadecloth and half bubble wrap in the other. The bubble wrap was hung using curtain wire and hooks, the german loph pros on the nook gave me the idea for bubble wrap as a cheap product.

NZ is so small you'd think it would be easy to trace every clone but no the community is well, nonexistant. There have been a large number of scopxpachanoi distributed through a nursery so that is a very probable ID. To me thats what it appears but I'm really not good at ID's

haha, funny names. tephrocanthus? thats insane. oh yea its definatly a Werckleocereus. classic