What did you do to your cacti today?

[DiscoStu]

No I have both, they are very different cuts in about everyway.

i have several eileens and it looks strikingly similar to mine,

so there you go

[Psylocaria]

Picked up about 30 feet of PC pachanoi, several rooted out T. brevispinus plants, a T. Tacquirenais cutting, and two myrtilio pups for damn near nothing.

Got these guys put in some digs,

I have all these left over to trade if anyone is interested PM me,

[sagiXsagi]

this looks like hildewintera what is it?

[Psylocaria]

this looks like hildewintera what is it?

Indian Comb Cactus.

Trichocereus brevispinulosus.

Here's a little bit better shot of what I have available for trade. And I went ahead and cut the pups off of the rooted sections for ease of shipping, and/or planting out. Definitely a cool looking plant.

Edited March 2, 2016 by Psylocaria

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

rawrz brevis is v sexy !! awesome plants dude!

[Caudata]

Received a nice little package from Ogun containing

[DiscoStu]

^^how do i get a pach like that into australia?

do i have to shove it up my bum or something?

[Halcyon Daze]

You got a missus?

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

there's a thread for that kind of thing ...

-straightened up in the cactery and created some targets for some new trichogun/slicer's that will also probably get here before any virola seeds might ..

potted on an aloe to an 11l plastic pot and kissed goodbye to the last terracotta pot i will be using ... hope the door doesnt hit it in the arse on the way out ..

extracted all the farty little echinopsis to the "somewhere else" section , .. mainly the windowsills

and worked out a way to have yet even more cacties per square metre :3

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

dang , just did it again

i wonder just how far they can be squeezed in... until thar be zero room left ?

could've sworn i was about to decide to quit collecting them

i guess, with things like the cactus faerie ,... you gotta be careful what you wish for

[2XB]

This project has been on the back burner for a couple weeks (due to the 60litre pot.. .), rooting this tersheckiI/valida type,

temp moisture barrier is bubble wrap Stapled to timber strips.

Edited March 5, 2016 by doublebenno

[BedOSpines]

Seed pod popped on my T. schmiedickeanus spp. schwarzii. I tried pollinating it with T. Lophophoroides as nothing els was flowering. 26 seeds in total, can't wait to grow em out.

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

Edited March 7, 2016 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[Philocacti]

I've never seen so many Trichocereus indoors.

I solute you sir.

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

ty kind sir , was hard to part the green sea :D but took a lot of lung power ;)

[Huachu Ma]

Received a nice little package from Ogun containing

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Nice one, which clone is that? Nr. 1?

Regarts

Huachu Ma

[magical9]

obtained this cutting and will be grafting a ton of the bottom portion ;)

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

swapped 2 floodlights round ... 30w from rainforest box.. for 15w from the cacterie ...

looks much better this way and i think i scorched the poor aya's with it anyway..

if it does particularly well i might find new uses for the other 15watters :3

carried on mulling over the cactical seating plan..

possibly to fill the floor plan of 3 superfukken purple LED tiles :3

[Caudata]

Love your setup Thunder, but how do you explain it to guests? I get enough awkward questions and phallus jokes and my cacti are all outside.

Nice one, which clone is that?

Yes, uno.

Edited March 8, 2016 by Caudata

[2meke]

Cleaned a bunch of tricho seed.

Nothing too exciting. A few nz x aus crosses. Mostly scop and pachanoi.

I'll do a give away after i do a germination test

[Caudata]

What will happen in the upcoming growing season? Will they move to accommodate each other or will pressure keep building until the base splits?

Edited March 9, 2016 by Caudata

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

Love your setup Thunder, but how do you explain it to guests? I get enough awkward questions and phallus jokes and my cacti are all outside.

Yes, uno.

beautiful clone 1 is , a true big daddy cool ! - i can't wait to grow that one ! Well scored me olde china!

but in initial quote to ya : my aunt once told the phallus joke lol - was a first and last for me, the cops think they look stunning!, the old crabby social worker my mum threw at us thought they were ok because they were the kid's idea and as a result they were rescued from my mum for a bit before i could get them back with the cops...but she wanted to know them all in order to check they were legal once i had got them back (but not while they were at my mum's) , which of course, they all are legal.. ,

the new nice soc' worker can feel the proximity healing energy without knowing it and just says "it feels really relaxing sitting in here looking at them" and here fellow sidekick wants us to carry on with the orchid and cactus pots startup on ebay like we were going to back at my mum's before all hell broke loose,.. my mates think they look nice and love my whacky set-ups and out of the box thinking.. ummm , nobody else sees them cept you guys and recently a few at STS and figured i'd throw a couple of pics out on facebook , the first reply made my whole week! ; "damn son your collection be fly!" -

so all in all most seem to think it's nice , even my mum did before she got trolled by my RHS student sister into thinking they were all poisons n shit.. but some folk are really dumb over here even with that sorta accolade ..

royal hulticultural society eh? royal horse shit subduing initial intentions more like

give me david bellamy over david attenburgh any day

erm but yeah , in the past, all my mums neighbours (my grandparents old neighbours) adored them and really cherished the ones I gifted to them .. , pasacanas and echinopsis mainly ..

and a few others i never knew names of ..

they used to come to the garden when my grandparents grew so much fruit and veg and shared with all the neighbours.. i gather those days were the good ones? - so they would just walk in and natter to me while i was pottering about, sharing gardening tips, reminiscing my gramps .. (who were the ones that really raised me ) -especially when the olde bag went away (which she did all the time)..

would often help them with their gardens and pond building.. and theyd supply me with as much garden clippings for mulch as i could use... - was the largest garden in the estate - my gramps wr 1st customers to the place and avid gardeners so bought the 1 acre plot cuz it was the same price as everyone elses back then in the 60s... and they wrked it well for decades to make the soil fkn perfect! - even used it in aquariums before

Edited March 9, 2016 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

anticipated the arrival of 4 cactulas that are labelled werdemannianus .. from one of the only 2 decent uk cateries..

on the shop site they looked very terscheckley but with red twinges at the bases of the spines..

I wonder how these will look when they arrive and what folk think of their ID / labels ? ...

anticipated the arrival of some trichogun slicers ..

went forward in time and added 2 huge taquimboes to the cacterie for the "operation taquimbo" thread ,

in the near but not too distant future..

also anticipating another taquimbo from a cool SABber

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

yayy the future came early today :3

and not only but also;

so the 4 werders came as only 3... along with a refund..

aaand along with them; a new fulvilanus clone !!!

oh yeah, almost forgot.. the future arrived too ...

I wonder what could be in them?..

.. so after carefully moving the peijotls to a safer place ..

all a sudden I get an urge to part the green sea

with one almighty breath i begin to blow the most ferocious gales and suddenly the cactus

- i mean green sea begins to open up a mighty corridor pathway .. :3

and with another mighty lung burst and a I push one of the mightiest Bolivian battle swords into place

as it interlocks into place with the cacterie, with a loud and satisfying "klunk" noise ..

a next draw of breath and so does another ...

they think it's all over ... it is now :D

[Wocket]

My first trichocereus to try to flower.

Grandiflorus: