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What is your fastest growing Trichocereus?


Philocacti

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My fastest growing Tricho is a variegated TBM grafted to a pereskiopsis

Isnt that cheating? Would love to see it though, any pics?

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I'd have to agree with Bluntmuffin, my pachanoi grows really fast here. Have it in a few different locations but that doesn't seem to matter.

Even some I have in pots outgrow my bridgesii, spachianus and cereus that all grow reasonably quickly as well.

It may be because I got quite a few pach's from a nearby enthusiast that has probably used generations of seed grown to acclimatise them to this area.

I have a fairly high clay content but that doesn't seem to phase them.

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Isnt that cheating? Would love to see it though, any pics?

 

Since the thread title didn't specify non-grafted trichs, how is grafted trichs cheating?

As for pics.....

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^^^

whatever the case, I don't believe it's the fastest growing tricho in your collection. I am sure it was just a shameless excuse to show off your ugly , sick and lacking own roots TBM.

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My fastest growing was a T. pachanoi.. it was the genetics of my very first Trich given to me by an old punk dude in my hort class years back. The type of really nice blue tinged strain that you often see in T. pachanoi's. Once it got a root system developed on it boomed - nice 8-9cm width and saw it throw half a meter on it's arms in a year in a pot without breaking a sweat.

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not the peruvianus

the kk339 is one of the fastest

ozzie omar [pachanoi] is fast too

not sure about the bridgesii's though...

Tig is a killer. and some seed-sown ones are very fast too

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For me its definitely nitrogens psycho0 X cuzco, it can easyly do 50+ cm per season in right conditions. Hardware store bridgesii is a close second, but only by lenght (~40 cm), p0 X cuzco is one fat and heavy beast!

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I put hb04 (pachxbridge) up there, I got a tiny cut maybe 5cm in march, it's now close to 50cm, and it took around a month to take root. That's 7.5 cm a month through the cold months, and it's really picking up the pace now it's warm. I'm expecting at least 2 feet in its first year.

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^^ yeah they're quickies alright, although a snail chewed the top off mine so it pupped but they got to two 15-20cm pups plus another 5cm one or so

either that or this "spineless" bridges i have put on 30+cm + a 10cm pup in a season in a pot which isn't too bad i don't think

then psycho0 i got off interbeing put out two 20cm pups in half a season, which is odd because i have another psycho0 clone that only put on 10cm or so in a whole season

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Well after a lot of my seedlings got established, this bridgesioid got to be the fastest in my collection so far. It's mid-season now and the bigger limb has grown 36 cm (14 inches), while the smaller on has grown 32 cm (12.5 inches). Most of the other juveniles and adults have grown an average of 15-20 cm.

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Apart from being a nice looking plant, Trichocereus No Think, seems to me to be the fastest grower, also cutting at the base, seems to make all Trichocereus grow faster, or maybe its just me.

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I purchased a 1-meter-long top cut of a bridgesii four years ago. Today, it has grown to a height of 3 meters and has five pups, each of which is now 1 meter long. In the past season alone, it has added 2 meters of new growth to the whole plant.

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I bought this T. peruvianus "Matucana spineless"  pup off Fyzygy 15 months ago when it was 20cm long.

 

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Today, its 1.2meters-tall (5 times its original length) and it has tripled its girth and has three pups of its own. It’s one of my fastest-growing cactus. Its growth has been so rapid that it needed support; it even bent over at one point. I am thinking of cutting it, because it base is so thin and its top 90% is so fat, I fear it will snap catastrophically.

 

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In comparison another bridgesii that I got at the same time and was the same size, has only double in length but gained nothing in girth.

 

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