What did you do to your cacti today?

[Psylocaria]

3 hours ago, sagiXsagi said:

Anyone else get anxious and little bit sad when they cut the cacti?

 

nah, I am fearless, I dont even get stressed cutting my larger bridgesii crest

 

seriously, I have cut back my cacti so much I am immune.

 

OK only when I cut something monster for the first time , of which I got only one.. And especially when its a pristine uncut specimen.. 

 

F.e. I am gonna be stressed a bit when I first cut my Stetsonia crest its first cut... gosh goes so slowly

Yeah, it's not really all that bad, I know that most often, cuts are the nesesary means to a desired result. Maybe this will help me get over the no cut slump I've been in for the past couple years. I have a ton of PC pach stock now, time to sharpen the blade and start chopping the tips off my prized collumns. Its about time. Going on vacation for to weeks, anything that doesn't want cut needs to run and hide.

[sagiXsagi]

its better to cut in the growing season though, because they root like champs

[BedOSpines]

Hylocalycium? looks so weird. 

[Brendo]

19 hours ago, doublebenno said:

On going repotting quest :-)

Ridiculously good idea! I just bought a wheelbarrow, should've invested in one of these instead..

[2XB]

It has taken me many many brews to come to this ;-). Can do 60litres at a time in about 5 mins. The only con so far is that if it runs for too long the heavier components move to the bottom, but I easily fixed that by agitating by hand :-)

[BedOSpines]

Loving the color on this Uebelmannia buiningii I hope it flowers for me one of these days.

[nrivers]

Beautiful plant! Is this the normal colour of the plant, a purple variegate of it or is it just conditions?

Edited July 22, 2016 by nrivers

[sagiXsagi]

^^^ reminds me a bit of Eriosyce occulta, which is equally small and purplish. Very handsome indeed.. 

 

[BedOSpines]

Normally purply red, looked particularly purple today. One of my first cacti ever. I didnt want to kill it so i grafted it and ive been looking for another one for ages. 

[nrivers]

Treated the same as his buddies. Some just power along!

T. chiloensis "Andacollo"

[cryptocarpa]

Celebrated this!

[BedOSpines]

Gratz, how long has it been grafted? 

[sagiXsagi]

Took some pictures.. 

 

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[nrivers]

Love this plant!

[nrivers]

Noticed a new edition is starting to pup "Lorraine". Peres is starting to pump again and the trichos are on the starting blocks getting ready to go! Go the Aussies in Rio!!!

Edited August 9, 2016 by nrivers

[nrivers]

This fero died over a year ago and have been drying him out to hopefully preserve his ball of spines

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On 11/07/2016 at 6:09 AM, nrivers said:

Checked on this cut today, and pretty sure it has thrown some roots. It is busting at the seams!

Very sexy and voluptuous!

... what dyu call that short spined pachanoi top left of the pic?

I'm pretty sure I recognize that one / or have something very similar I sourced from France from a cool SABber.. if not the same clone..

 

[nrivers]

The plant in the background is a seedling of scop x Juuls

[2XB]

 

Processing Deco

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>5mm

 

3-5mm

 

2-3mm

 

Group shot

 

 

Worked really well by stacking 3 15l buckets and girating for a bit. 2mm, 3mm & 5mm drill bits used.

 

 

 

 

[theuserformallyknownasd00d]

so it works as a medium when sifted like this man? I have 4t spread across my yard and notice huge microbial activity under pots I place on it, often myco looking and travelling for ages. I've wanted to use it as a medium but it's never worked well before. Thanks heaps for the tek!! ;)

[2XB]

13 hours ago, theuserformallyknownasd00d said:

so it works as a medium when sifted like this man? I have 4t spread across my yard and notice huge microbial activity under pots I place on it, often myco looking and travelling for ages. I've wanted to use it as a medium but it's never worked well before. Thanks heaps for the tek!! ;)

Hey d00d;

well yes it can be used as a medium- washing is critical as the fines really clog, deco is used for paving etc as it compacts to a hard surface really well - thoroughly wash of the fines and it will be sweet.

I've only read about using it and this is the beginning of my experiments with it. I'm using it in all mineral mixes, but I'm sure it would be great in my organic mixes for trichs etc in place of river sand.....

It certainly doesn't seem the choice medium for premium growers, but a lot of those fancy rocks used are difficult for me to obtain but decomposed granite is easy... I think it be be great, but will know for sure in a few years ;-)

From what I've read it is acidic, so may not be great for everything.. I am still giving it a crack with l.w. though :-)

 

 

[theuserformallyknownasd00d]

Cool man cheers for that! I've got a few decent piles already washed here from raking the dcg driveway, like you've said all the smaller stuff has compacted nicely leaving larger bits ready to go which is why I've been eyeing it off I guess.

 

yeh I'd love a place to buy a few 25L bags of zeolite but can't find it locally and shipping on that sucks..! Perlite it is for the time being but I'll def do some of these now too an report back

[BedOSpines]

Aye bunnings has zeo-clor for pool filters. Or is bunnings not local? 

[theuserformallyknownasd00d]

I was under the impression from word of mouth this is unsuitable for horticulture? If your using it to no nil affect - fkn ay and thx bos ?

[waterboy 2.0]

I've used pool grade zeolite in engineered soil on a grand scale as a plant media/biofilter and it worked out all good d00d.

I dont think its cation exchange is a high as some of the hort grade, slightly different mineral composition BUT still massive cation exchange.

 

EDIT - and on a grand scale I mean mixed by 20T excavators

It is a CLAY mineral...so gotta keep that in mind as well if using in containers

Edited August 26, 2016 by waterboy 2.0