What did you do to your cacti today?

[mutant]

I once tried to graft a couple of pups ritteri, all failed. I got a seed grown hintoniii. Very small one.

aztekium seedling? nahh, too much of a fitzcarraldo project if you ask me...

[qualia]

potted on jack's monster bridgesii tree, in a terracotta pot. i should've done where i was going to leave it now it's in the middle of the back yard and weighs a ton

[qualia]

would this thread make a good sticky? seems to be a source of ongoing popular interest.

[Bert&Ernie]

Planted a fuck load of cactus seeds will post some pics of shit tomorrow if I can be assed

[Mr. Bowser]

Got a shelving unit to house the cactus/succulent garden over the winter

Brought the garden indoors for the winter its been nothing but cold and wet weather for the last week here with the weather only getting worse. (Half hour of rain and clouds, half hour of sun... repeat for the next 6 months )

[bogfrog]

Neem'ed.. watered... shuffled them around.

nice day for it.

[at0m]

I moved a few pots a little bit to the left to catch a bit more light.

[PositiveHAL]

applied 'Thrive' liquid fertiliser, unfortunately box did not come with measuring spoon as stated on the box,

had to guess the amounts, hopefully didn't over feed, as alot of them where seedlings

All my babies are waking up to spring and looking good

[etherealdrifter]

had a tea with aTom and moved his pots(while he wasn't watching) aliitle to the centre

[chilli]

Picked out some weeds, shuffled some things around, a little fert and seasol.

Getting a bit worried about how soft a little L. koehresii is, hopefully it is just dehydration.

[GoOnThen]

My loph's that are on there own roots have only just plumped up in the last couple of weeks ( one flowered ) and they are under lights. What I did notice was the temps had averaged around 30 to 35 for a couple of weeks on my shelves ( under lights) and most of the cacti have woken up. The problem now is we are having shit weather again and the temps are back down to around 25 deg Roll on summer I am so over this cold weather.

Cheers

Got

[glimpse]

finally got home and opened freebie mail and got one of the most god-damned sexy trich cuttings I have ever seen compliments of deadstar...cheers man! which will be potted next week, the seeds are getting sowed this arvo also be sowing hundreds of seeds from stillman that I knew arrived weeks ago but havent been able to get home to....I really appreciate the generousity of both of you and hope to return in kind to the community asap.

On a side note potted my first T.pach pup and fed the parents some blood'n'bone

Edited September 26, 2012 by eatingsand

[Horus]

I always spread a bit of cow manure around my Cacti the start of spring.

I have potted up the tip cuttings for this season.

And repotted all the gifts given to me by members at meets

Then I thought I would take some Cactus Pron to share in this thread.

Cactus sunning themselves by the pool

And Just admiring my cactus like I do everyday

Then I usually spend time getting out the couple of thorns you seem to always get.in your hand from weeding

Edited September 25, 2012 by colhawk

[turtle_hermit]

one of the most god-damned sexy trich cuttings I have ever seen compliments of deadstar

 

That kind of hype and no pics???

Also thought cacti wouldn't like all the N in blood meal, do you use it a lot?

[glimpse]

it was freakin' awesome and your just going to have to take me on my word for now until i get some happy snaps uploaded

and not to downplay its awesomeness in any way but I should admit that i am quite new to this cactus game but i do have a healthy appreciation of good quality cactus porn

I also had my doubts about using b'n'b for cactus but i noticed recently one of the more senior sab' ers had mentioned using it (hope it wasnt a troll)......... and i had some lying around so i figured i'd try a little and see how they went

[PhoenixSon]

it was freakin' awesome and your just going to have to take me on my word for now until i get some happy snaps uploaded

and not to downplay its awesomeness in any way but I should admit that i am quite new to this cactus game but i do have a healthy appreciation of good quality cactus porn

I also had my doubts about using b'n'b for cactus but i noticed recently one of the more senior sab' ers had mentioned using it (hope it wasnt a troll)......... and i had some lying around so i figured i'd try a little and see how they went

 

The bad thing with blood n bone is that it brings in heaps of animals, for me.

I like chookie poo with some lime.

The only way id use it is deepish in the soil so the critters cant smell it out. Even storing bags of it on my verandah ive found a mess in the morning from something that has eaten some of it and spread the rest around.

good to hear it worked for you.

[Ethos]

Chook poo has been working wonders on my cactus bed, in the last week I have noticed two pachanoi's pupping one pup has 8 ribs or so and a basasl pup is emerging from a TBM.

I need to move my cactus in to a spot where they recieve full sun though I am starting to notice most of my cactus looking skinny compared to what I see here on SAB

[Mr. Bowser]

Planted some Trich seeds from SS and started my first seedling grow log!

T. Peru 'Los Gentiles' (95)

T. Bridge SS02 x T. sp 'Serra Canyon' (53)

T. Peru 'Serra Blue' x T. Bridge SS02 (122)

T. Peru SS01 x T. Bridge SS02 (41)

T. Bridge SS02 x T. Peru SS01 (93)

Each seed pack was supposed to have 30 to 70 seeds... but they averaged a very generous 80/pack! I love SS!!!

[gtarman]

A couple days late...but I did my first takeaway tek the other day on some Astrophytus.

I wrapped the containers with white plastic bags to filter the intensity of the sunlight and placed them in a very sunny position. Now I'm waiting. I think I'm going to peek in there in a month or so and see what's transpired?

Edited May 13, 2013 by gtarman

[Evil Genius]

It isnt really ideal to leave takeaway tek-containers unchecked for that long. If you get a fungal infection or cobweb, you´ll end up losing 90% of the seedlings within one week or so. In fact, you should open them every few days minimum to exchange the air. When i sow out, i control them every day.

Edited September 29, 2012 by Evil Genius

[Horus]

I took a bunch of Cactus, Euphobia, aloe and a seed grown Dragons Blood round to a friends new house and put in a garden out the front.

She wants that Tex Mex feel that goes with the rendered house.

So now the feature plants are in she can do some edging, ground covers etc

Its ridiculous isnt it......if the new laws come in around psycoactive cactus, my gift will have turned her into a criminal.

[bogfrog]

Yeah gtarman, as EG just said, thats really not advisable.

You also need to ensure they have sufficient moisture during germination, if you let them dry out too much then or soon after they would most likely be dead before the month is over.

Its ideal to check on them every few days.

Edit, thats nice of you colhawk, i wish my friends wanted cacti gardens. They just want the benefits of me having cacti.

Edited September 29, 2012 by bogfrog

[PhoenixSon]

acquired some more bread trays for my cactus. They make it easy to move crapload's of seedlings @ once.

potted some up, and sorted them into their seed grown groups. Intresting to see the difference in the plants from the same cross.

[gtarman]

Thanks guys. I just checked them..although I wasn't sure what to be looking for. I was kinda shocked to see that a couple had actually germinated though, after about 5 days! I was told that would take ages. The little seedlings were red though so too much light I think...moved them from full sun to what should be partial shade (hard to tell when it's cloudy...I really should draw up a shade map of my garden).

I didn't know my housemate and his gf were on the porch though, so I was doing my usual crazy babbling to self, and I think they think I'm kinda nuts now. It would probably help if I wasn't

[Nemisty]

Had a look at my big ugly scop and counted five flower buds! Hopefully someone else out there has some scop flower buds developing too cause I'm super keen for some pure scopulicola seed. Even if that means attempting the self pollination method with cement.

Repotted my other little scop into some better soil so I didnt have to continue feeding it, easiest repot EVER! Got away with no punctured fingers.

Gave the rest of the pack a water and some blood and bone.