Grafting Comp- Feb 2007- No new entries

[teonanacatl]

nice:) ill take some pics of mine when i get back home.

[SirLSD]

anyone else got any flowers yet? my largest cardona graft has one starting and the second cardona graft is only a few weeks away.

[rahli]

These two are my first attempts at grafting so they are a bit rushed (the peres were small when the grafts were done).

Even so they are a late entry to the comp.

- Seed germinated 23/04/07

- Grafted on 02/06/07

- Latest update 13/07/07

Edited July 15, 2007 by rahli

[SirLSD]

my camera was on the wrong setting. but flower has now opened.

[teonanacatl]

nice one, alot of mine are looking like they will but only my small on has (I posed a pic of it somwhere. If those are comp eligable then you win the first to flower bit, I can dig up the prize list if you want. Keep meaning to post pics of mine but been away.

[SirLSD]

cool. yep she is eligable. hopefully she has been pollinated with my large SAB williamsii graft.

[teonanacatl]

nice:D well man prize is yours if you want it. Good effort btw :D

[SirLSD]

yeah cool. what was the prize? thought i saved it but cant find it now. and eba is still down isnt it?

also what were the other prises for other catagories?

[teonanacatl]

First Loph to flower:

- 100 Lophophora sp (Teonanacatl)

- 1x 30mL Newly activated '2nd transmission' Goanna dreaming (A. obtusifolia) flower essence (Minerval and sophie)

- 1x 30mL 'Fruit of passion' flower essence (Minerval and sophie)

- 20cm cutting of E. pachanoi aka T. pachanoi (Jono)

- 10cm cutting of E. pachanoi x scopulicola (Jono)

- 10cm cutting of E. lageniformis aka Trichocereus bridgesii (Jono)

- 1x clean P. cubensis spore prints on foil (Naja)

First Loph to flower outdoors only:

- 100 Lophophora sp (Teonanacatl)

- 1x 30mL Newly activated '2nd transmission' Goanna dreaming (A. obtusifolia) flower essence (Minerval and sophie)

- 1x 30mL 'Fruit of passion' flower essence (Minerval and sophie)

- 10cm tip of E. lageniformis aka T. bridgesii (Tribal dreamings)

- 10cm tip of E. peruvianus aka T. peruvianus (Tribal dreamings)

- E. lageniformis monstrose plant (Tribal dreaming)

- 1x clean P. cubensis spore prints on foil (Naja)

Largest Loph after one year:

- 100 Lophophora sp (Teonanacatl)

- 1x 30mL Newly activated '2nd transmission' Goanna dreaming (A. obtusifolia) flower essence (Minerval and sophie)

- 1x 30mL 'Fruit of passion' flower essence (Minerval and sophie)

- Slightly variegated Echinopsis cuzcoensis (Teonanacatl)

- Basketball trophy (Creach)

- 50 plastic squat pots (Creach)

Largest Loph after one year outdoors only:

- 100 Lophophora sp (Teonanacatl)

- 1x 30mL Newly activated '2nd transmission' Goanna dreaming (A. obtusifolia) flower essence (Minerval and sophie)

- 1x 30mL 'Fruit of passion' flower essence (Minerval and sophie)

- 10ml of shamanic purfume to protect and ground (Hebrew)

- 2 x E. scopulicola x bridgesii seedlings (Darcy)

- Peruvianoid pup (Young Tripper)

- 1x clean P. cubensis spore prints on foil (Naja)

Largest Trich after one year:

- 100 Lophophora sp (Teonanacatl)

- 1x 30mL Newly activated '2nd transmission' Goanna dreaming (A. obtusifolia) flower essence (Minerval and sophie)

- 1x 30mL 'Fruit of passion' flower essence (Minerval and sophie)

- 1x clean P. cubensis spore prints on foil (Naja)

- 5x KK919 E. lageniformus seedlings (Jono)

- 5x KK2150 E. pachanoi seedlings (Jono)

Other:

- 100 Lophophora sp (Teonanacatl)

- 1x 30mL Newly activated '2nd transmission' Goanna dreaming (A. obtusifolia) flower essence (Minerval and sophie)

- 1x 30mL 'Fruit of passion' flower essence (Minerval and sophie)

- 1x clean P. cubensis spore prints on foil (Naja)

[teonanacatl]

But as there was little to no intrest in competeing this year im wondering if we should save for next year and try to get more people in. I think now we should cut down prizes to only for largest and first flower lophs.

[rahli]

I'd be interested in competing next year but would have more chance if at least 1 outdoor section was keep in the comp.

I've come to this a little late and am not sure on the yearly start dates and entry requirements.

I'll get my stock ready for next year.

[prier]

I should be ready to do a little grafting next season, I have lots of tricho hybrid seeds which might be interesting. I just need to get a bit more peri.

[Hagakure]

dang you guys are absolutely blitzing my efforts.

think my problem has been letting em get too cold and light levels.

now i have a big foam box to chuck em in and a reliable timer to turn the power on and off. so heres hoping next year i will get some better gains (as well as losing less grafts)

still here is a pic for those interested.

[teonanacatl]

if the intrest is there we can have more sections, problem is the number of people who expressed intrest and the number that are competing is not the same.

[Ace]

Hey guys, I'd be keen to compete next year. I have made a couple grafts now (started back in ~April), but they are nowhere near as impressive as yours at this point (tho one of my originals has begun to pup!!). My prob was I didnt have enough stock at the beginning of the year, so I had to start late (very late...).

I hope to have a forest of stock and a heap of seedlings (lophies, trichs, arios) at the end of this year, but I'll probably just potter along and graft as I go. Depending on my financial (and peres/trich stock) stance at the end of the year, I'll buy up a heap of seeds and enter the comp and see if I cant take some of you old pros down

p.s. remember that pers grafing tek I did up a couple months back? That was my first graft and was very successful - but is still only fairly small. I will try to get some pics up into that thread when I can

[Auntyjack]

Hi guys,

Would any of you be able to help out with a cut or two of peres so I can start building up some stock for next year? Would be much appreciated.

Please PM me if you can.

Thanks

AJ

[teonanacatl]

Imma try and sort out free peres and cheap loph seed to get people started so give me a few days. Im trying to finish the grafting booklet atm lol

[Auntyjack]

That would be fantastic teo, let me know what you need to cover the costs and postage. I'll definately be in it

AJ

[tobias]

Well I finally got around to taking a couple of photographs like I promised back in March

These 2 are my only entries, all the subsequent graphs I've done have met 1 horrible fate or another.

They have been grown outside the whole time. Growth basically stopped a couple of months ago due to the cold but they are now in a small greenhouse again and growing nicely. One of them even appears to be splitting from the current growth spurt.

As you can see from the next picture a mouse took a liking to the smaller of the 2 about 5 weeks ago. It doesn't seem too concerned though.

[SirLSD]

But as there was little to no intrest in competeing this year im wondering if we should save for next year and try to get more people in. I think now we should cut down prizes to only for largest and first flower lophs.

so i dont win?

maybe i could just take the loph seeds and the bridgesii cutting and leave the rest for the next comp and chuck in a 1 inch L williamsii caespitose pup and 20cm T pachanoi cutting.

Edited July 20, 2007 by SirLSD

[teonanacatl]

no you win man, its yours if you want it, pm the people whose prizes you want.

[kadakuda]

what the hay. nothing compared to others but its good fun. great pics all!

variegated fricii

koereshii

variegated pedro

small willaimsii graft

TBM

caespitosa....my teeny tiny littl'n. the ones on their own roots are bigger lol.

[gilligan]

I hope this works...

my first attempt at a graft, seem to have taken, which is good. There is a new growth already coming through.

I tried a couple more yday, another loph / pachanoi, and a loph / bridgesii, which should be interesting...

How hard is pere grafting, and can it be done from clone cuts, or does it need to be seeds? (better size for seedlings i guess.)

[SirLSD]

peres grafting doesnt need to use seeds. cuttings are fine. seedlings go fine on adult peres. basically same process as grafting on to trichocereus.

other people have great results from grafting onto peres. also has the advantage of being able to plant more plants in a specific are than you would with trichocereus. i havent had much luck with peres though. but i have only tried growing peres one time.

here is my williamsii var cardona grafted onto pachanoi for the comp. has the 2nd and 3rd flowers. they are a little mangled from rough cross pollination. i use tweezers to pull out some stamens from one plants flower and rub them on another plants flower.

[teonanacatl]

Nice plants guys, one of mine has started flowering, got three visable atm.