Ambient
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Congrats to Uda, the proud new owner of the cliff cutting giveaway
Hope to see more of you there next time.
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Heading off now, free cliff cutting for the first person who spots me in my cactus shirt, and two more for trade if anyone else would like them.
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Glad to see the cut is doing well Skellum
Aerial roots will generally terminate on their own, you can remove them if they bother you, I can't see there being much danger from a few tiny well aerated wounds.
Terracotta pots are nice if you can find them cheap and don't intend to move your cacti very often. I used almost exclusively use terracotta pots for the drying and aesthetic value. Now days I'm thinning out my terracotta in favour of terracotta coloured plastic for my display collection, and large cheap second hand black plastic pots for the farm. Plastic can still have the aesthetic look of terracotta (in my opinion at least), weighs exponentially less with increasing pots size, and allows me to buy food at the end of the week... student life ya'll haha. I actually prefer the slower drying of plastic pots for the dry Mediterranean climate I'm within, or maybe I just make my soil mix just too dry. This might not be the case for some eastern states users though.Really, type of pot doesn't matter so much when compared to size of pot or lack there of and going straight in to the ground. As long as you have a good well draining soil mix just go for the largest one you can reasonably afford to fill, and bare to look at. I can't remember who it was, maybe someone from here, said they water their tricho's like tomato's and feed them like tomato's and they grow like tomato's. This has more or less been my experience, within the hot sunny dry climate I'm in.
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Hey everyone, I'm thinking 10am at the Vic Park farmers market (McMillan Park, Vic Park, WA). I've not been to the park before so I figure I'll update this thread with a good location to meet once I'm there (also open to suggestions if anyone already knows the lay of the lands on market days).
Looking forward to reuniting with a few fellow cacti enthusiasts and meeting some new ones, cya this Sunday 16th April, Mcmillan Park ,10am.
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2 easy, hopefully ya can make it BT. I've also had some interest from a few mates outside of SAB, so I'll be there either way.
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Sunday16th of April, 10 days from now, Vic Park or otherwise. Bring trades if you want to, or just come and chill. Spread the word, fellow cactus heads and friends welcome
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I've had to relinquish my hold on the Peru #3 cut, so it is available. I'm sure Ambient will update the post soon, but want potential buyers to know sooner rather than later
Cheers Wezza, just updated the add.
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Peruvianus cutting #3 please :D
Can you message me per favour
Just PM'd you Wezza, sorry for the slow reply, been flat out at uni over the last few days.
Thx for the nearly meter long 'Cliff' cut mate. He is absolutely gorgeous.
I now wake up every morning with a menacing erection.
Look forward to next years sale.
No worries Skellum, glad you're happy with the cutting, Cliff is a beautiful clone and my favourite non mutated bridgesii.
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I'm keen, Sundays are usually good, just not this weekend.
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I see you're now advertising the first plant for sale as "peruvianus X knuthianus" on Gumtree and here. Have you found out that was actually the exact cross of this plant, or did you just decide to plonk that name on it for the ads?
I mean, obviously you can do whatever you like, but to me it seems disingenuous to put the details of a hybrid on the plant when you don't know that's actually what it is.
Why not sell it as "trichocereus sp." or trichocereus peruvianus since that's what you got it labelled as, you can always put a question mark after the name, like "trichocereus peruvianus ??", or even something like "Trichocereus aff. peruvianus", with the "aff." meaning it's something close to that family but maybe not an exact representation of peruvianus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_affinis
Just my thoughts, you probably know tricho people like labels, and it almost seems mean to make up a hybrid label.
Having said all that, I really think it's a great looking plant and if you were selling smaller cuttings to post I'd take one.
Cheers for the heads up man, I wasn't aware of the species affinis nomenclature and as Mapacho suggested was just using it as a best fit naming. I can see the problem it may have caused, fortunately in this case I already knew the guy who bought the cutting from me and was able chat to him about the ID being a "as best as we can tell" type ID and not an official cross. I'll keep aff. in mind for future ID
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Two new Psycho0 cuttings and a Peru x Knuthianus added.
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once you start trying to ID crosses with no parentage info its largely guess work, IMO. you'll never get a solid %100 answer. and even if you get a bridge x pach x peru answer, (just an example) then which pach? which bridge? which peru?
its tricky business.
haha pretty much, I feel like the more I know about cactus ID, the more I realise how much I don't know. Hopefully Patrick's new book will help me out a little once it arrives
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Prices reduced on Cliff and Psycho0
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Cheers guys, I also posted these on a trichocereus FB group and was also suggested Knuthianus for the first so I think you're right on that as it seems to be the general consensis
I've had a few different suggestions for the second one, pachanoi, pachanoi x peru and T. santaensis. I'm leaing towards a peru cross or T. santaensis.
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Does anyone have fresh pollen to trade? These guys are going to go in the next day or so, hoping to pick something up as soon as possible.
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Hey guys, this looks like it could be interesting if you're looking for something to do on the 25th or 26th of Feb.
The Garden Club & Societies Plant Fair
"A large variety of plants will be on sale representing African violets, bromeliads, bulbs, cactus & succulents, chrysanthemums, epiphytic cacti, ferns, frangipani, gerberas, heritage roses, hibiscus, hoya, iris, orchids, palm & cycads, pelargonium, roses, Gardeners' Circle & the wildflower society's gifts".
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Hi eYann, I'm up in the hills East of Perth somewhere between Midland and Mundaring. I often do jobs down near Cockburn though, so I'm happy to meet along the way if that makes things easier.
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The first cacti was sold to me as a Peruvians a few years ago, but I've had a couple of friends suggest that it might be a cuzco. I can see why they might think this and hoped I would be able to get a general consensus from you guys?
The second cacti has been suggested to be a short spined peru when I first received it as a small cutting many years ago, I was hoping for a more definite ID now it's a displaying some mature growth.
Thanks in advance
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Two more huge Peruvianus cuttings just added!
hi!
im looking for dutchans pipe vine cuttings - i noticed in another thread you mentioned you were growing some. do you know where i could get some cuttings? im more than happy to pay.
thanks!
Sheridan
The vine is still there, but I could only see one flower and no seed. I'll check back again in a month or so and see if it's produced any pods.
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Hey, yeah there was a vine which covered the shed at my parents place, it should be coming in to flower soon if not already. I'll have a look to see if there are any seed pods next time I'm there.
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Cheers man, she is a beauty, spiny AF, but grows real quick and is a good teacher.
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Just added a bunch of new cuttings and potted cacti to this thread, WA based, local pickup available.
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Just added a few potted cacti, more nice strong bridgesii.
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WA Cactus Clear Out
in Seed & Plant Sales
Posted · Edited by Ambient
Years later and I'm still trying to clear out the majority of my collection... I think I'm slowly starting to get ahead of the growth
link below to my Gumtree profile, adds updated regularly, postage available to all states in Au excl. Tas (sorry guys)
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-seller/Gumtree/1007818662