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Lophoturbina flowering !

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Yes, my first cactusflower this year and it's my most special plant that is flowering !

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My other lophoturbina is pupping. I wanna make pups withing one or two months and graft them to spread them here on the forum.

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A handful of my ariocarpuscollection:

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Stunning, I love those little guys!

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Awesome pics Amanito - you must be proud! :P

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very proud. I hope I can clone them !

Ps, what would happen if I cross this with other loph. will ?? That would be wicked.

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Me too! :lol:

Not sure, but it will gain more and more of the williamsii's characteristics the more you cross it. i.e. if you have a 50/50 lophxturbina and cross it with a loph, you'll end up with a 75/25 lophxturbina. Do it again, and the loph genetics will likely increase again. But I guess this is not guaranteed - only the dominant genes will come thru in the offspring, if that makes sense :wink:

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Very nice!

By all means, hit her up with some Loph pollen if you have one flowering.

Would def be a shame to let that flower go to waste.

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nice one

i have lophs and turb lophophoroides grafted

ive been hoping to make the same

well done. they look great

also you can make mammilaria loph hybrids as well

and there are unsanswered quiestions about x fertility of Lophs and obregonias, strombocactus and ariocarpus

youll never fall short of work in this field :D

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Beauty :)

gusto, in that that specimen is an F1 hybrid the flower wont go to waste if it self pollinates, most every seed from an F1 produces a plant that is noticeably different from the rest and in my experience the explosion of plant characteristics in F2 is where a breeder really starts to get a good idea of where the breeding program should head... for instance Turbinacarpus lophophoroides has thorns, Lophophora williamsii has lil tuffs of hair, Turbinacarpus lophophoroides x Lophophora williamsii F1 appears to have the loph style tuffs of hair implying that spines are recessive to hair thus theres a good chance in the F2 generation there will be a few with thorns, take those and breed with peyote and in the F2 of that cross select for thorns again and keep going like that and before long you'll have a thorny peyote. Thats how ya breed something new :)

Rev, have you noticed how everything lophs hybridize with seem to be in Subfamily Cactoideae Tribe Cacteae? The barrel cacti Ferocactus spp. and Echinocactus spp. are in that tribe too :wink: someone should see if those will breed with loph. If they cant then a plant they can breed with which can breed with loph should be located to act as a genetic bridge. Call me crazy but a 3% mescaline cactus the size of a washing machine is probably just a matter of time, effort, and creativity.

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well i do have a few of those

as good a reason as any to keep the collecting net wide

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What sort of ramifacations does this have for people were lophs are illegal?

Would a Loph x b illegal in the U.S?

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What sort of ramifacations does this have for people were lophs are illegal?

Would a Loph x b illegal in the U.S?

Don't think so. It's only the lophophora spp. that is banned.

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also you can make mammilaria loph hybrids as well

Mamm. Lophophoroides? Never heard of that one. Do you have links of shops who sell them?

Thanks.

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I'm searching someone specialised in tissue-culture who can help me to clone this unique plant in order to spread it worldwide. I don't have a lot of money so I hope somewhere here 's got the skills to clone a few pups.

Thnx in advance.

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Mamm. Lophophoroides?
I believe he meant Lophophora spp. X Mammillaria spp. hybrids.

As for clones wouldnt it be far cheaper to get a pup, graft it onto a Pereskiopsis or Echinopsis (or alternately do a areole graft onto Pereskiopsis.. Link ) and turn it into a pup factory, graft those, and get plants that way? That is if you can induce pupping, some growers use a BAP gel applied to areoles to induce pupping but I'm not sure how risky that might be

I wouldnt blame you one bit if you wanted to keep that pretty cactus as pristine as possible, a areole graft would cause the least visable damage to the parent plant but it sounds delicate, I'd do trial runs on other cacti first.

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I believe he meant Lophophora spp. X Mammillaria spp. hybrids.

As for clones wouldnt it be far cheaper to get a pup, graft it onto a Pereskiopsis or Echinopsis (or alternately do a areole graft onto Pereskiopsis.. Link ) and turn it into a pup factory, graft those, and get plants that way? That is if you can induce pupping, some growers use a BAP gel applied to areoles to induce pupping but I'm not sure how risky that might be

I wouldnt blame you one bit if you wanted to keep that pretty cactus as pristine as possible, a areole graft would cause the least visable damage to the parent plant but it sounds delicate, I'd do trial runs on other cacti first.

A friend gave me an adress of a company of a old psychonaut friend of him. They are specialised in cloning on tissue-culture. I sent them a nice e-mail today (with some references in it ;)) to ask if they want to clone my plant.

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I'm searching someone specialised in tissue-culture who can help me to clone this unique plant in order to spread it worldwide. I don't have a lot of money so I hope somewhere here 's got the skills to clone a few pups.

Thnx in advance.

mushmush.nl

best ive ever seen

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I contacted already a friend of a friend :). But mushmush.nl does only work for companies nowadays, I don't know if they would do it. Maybe if I mention a few friends their name.

Thanks, I didn't think of them.

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Doesn't Darcy here specialize in TC?

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The little one about 5 years.

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Guys, the big one started roting VERY fast today. I have already lost about 5 BIG lopho's to this disease and nothing can stop this :'(. I was able to ent 3 pups :(.

I'm sorry :-/

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Man I feel sorry for u that sucks bad keep em dry & low humidity & hope for the best.

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You might want to get and use ConSan-20 or Physan.

The best thing no matter what else you do if you have a lopho starting to rot is not just stop watering it but gently remove it from all soil and let it dry out like you would healing a cutting.

Drench it with ConSan or PhySan if you have that option. These are agricultural disinfectants that can kill most rot organisms and fungi. Take care not to hurt yourself by getting it in your eyes or breathing a spray mist.

What are its spines like?

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That's a really cool cactus!

Nice Flower!

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