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if it was me chilli i would cut it up as when they pup i reken it looks better than just one stem of cacti :)

and having more smaller cacti is better than having one large one.

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What's the rosie clone again? Bridge? Pach?

 

Not 100% sure but it looks pretty peruvanoid to me.

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Not 100% sure but it looks pretty peruvanoid to me.

 

roseii is just an old name for peruvianus, similar to the way Trichocereus bridgesii is now called Echinopsis lageniformis

I think people call certain clones roseii to distinguish them?

here is a bit of discussion on it: http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=22871

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found a couple new pups on some bridgesii,

happy morning, now i know why they weren't growing much

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Finally got around to buying some rocks to add to the tops of the pots, ended up going with scoria but am wondering what everyone else is using?

Gave a lot of the trichs a good dose of blood and bone too and now they all look nice a pretty with their new rocks.

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How do I know when the fruit on the melocactus is ripe?

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Well just moved into my new property a couple of weeks ago and have started the huge and absolutely satisfying job of planting all my babies into the garden.

Photos below of stage one!!

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Good effort!

This back yard will be unrecognisable in a few years lol.

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Good effort!

This back yard will be unrecognisable in a few years lol.

 

Yeah I know but I have a small problem which is the 300 other seedlings I need to find a spot for!! Going to have a seedling give away shortly me thinks!!

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all this talk of roseii, i got a new pup :worship:

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After killing almost 500 good seeds im having some success with indoor germination.

These are super pedro cross psycho0 from Shruman

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The row in the middle are buttons from watertrades giveaway.

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These are buttons from myco

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While i was out and about the other day i drove past this, any ideas on the ID ?

Its got so many beautiful flowers :wub: one day mine will be this big.

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Cereus peruvanus?? Nice eating fruit "Peruvian apple" I advise you to mulch your cacti with crushed limestone, for the aesthetics, calcium and weed protection :)/>

What's the theory behind the large gravel discouraging mould?

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It cant overgrow it because the particles are too big. Besides, there is no light getting to the soil what makes it very hard for something to grow below the covering layer. Plus it provides humidity for the seedlings.

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WelI, I spent the week end on the end of a grinder removing the chicken house and run to of course create more cacti garden.

This is stage two, I think three more cacti beds to come!!

Planted our Peru- (HB01), Cuzco, Knuthianus, Spach, Pach, J1 open, LC002, SS02 x Bridge, TBM, Sausage and a couple of mongrels.

The old wood stove was in the chicken house so decided to use it as a platform for my seedlings which will become stage 3-5 when they are big enough to go into the ground.

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That's awesome Getafix! I think you'll have a huge garden in only a few seasons. :D

Today (will include yesterday). My brother and I got 5 wheelbarrow loads of pinecones, and made a bonfire out of them. They were messing up the field, and I wanted the ash for my compost heap - so out came the flames. Was a very intense blaze with blue flames coming out the middle. Anyway, today I collected the ash into the wheelbarrow, and was going to bag most of it when I noticed a nail sticking out... So took the nail out, and just decided to sift a little bit more to see if there was no more. Quickly found another 5 nails. Then it was another 10 nails... More and more nails later, I roughly had between 100-200 nails. I must've dug some old ash from when some muppet family member burned wood without taking the nails out. With the now clean ash, I put some of it into the compost heap and added more stuff to it, and bagged the rest of the ash. I think in roughly a year, I'll have some decent compost, and the adjacent plants can start to raid the compost heap by growing towards it with their roots.

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Not just today but done over the last few days.

Finished adding crushed stuff and some regular potting mix to the new bed, built up some "temporary" rock structures and put some of the plants I removed from the temporary bed back in.

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Holding off on putting any more plants in untill I've transplated a C. peruvians from another bed into this new one. Here's the victim in question.

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Going to be a fun job as it's wedged into that corner and I really don't want to disturb the plants around it more than what I absolutely have to, plus I'm going to have to attempt it all on my lonesome :unsure:

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Today I got around to cutting and replanting a bunch of cacti that had been neglected for a long time. I don't know what exactly happened to them, since I haven't been around, but it looks like a combination of cold damage and possum bites (who knows!). I found bridges so wrecked that I couldn't differentiate between psycho0 and eileen, and a bunch of atrophied lophs, arios, and, so sadly, my only and quite old lophophorides turbinicarpus.

On the plus, I found a four year old rooted pach cutting that looked almost as thick as it was short (never seen one grow so fat before growing upwards), and a real treasure, a 40cm fat scop pup with four ribs. Really made my day!

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Took some photo's, 2 diff SS01 X TPM grafts on pere's, a bunch of diff Astro's on own roots, A. asterias, superkabuto mix, SK large white spots, SK variagated, although I don't see any vari yet, COAS and ASCO. And a few other random photo's from within the depths of the lightboxes.

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Had to do some surgery on my TBM, who had pups emerging behind other segments (which were also pupping). Chopped them off, now I'm trying to root them (ouch)

Checked the cuttings a few days ago, and one of them had black rot which was spreading quite rapidly. So today, I chopped it out and covered the wound in sulphur. Cool story, huh?

Anyway, liking the pictures, guys. So nice to see your beautiful, spiky friends!

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Had to do some surgery on my TBM, who had pups emerging behind other segments (which were also pupping). Chopped them off, now I'm trying to root them (ouch)

Checked the cuttings a few days ago, and one of them had black rot which was spreading quite rapidly. So today, I chopped it out and covered the wound in sulphur. Cool story, huh?

Anyway, liking the pictures, guys. So nice to see your beautiful, spiky friends!

 

Welcome to the forums Pinion, hope you stick around. :)

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hey getafix how many beers did you have during transplanting? only those two?

:)

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hey getafix how many beers did you have during transplanting? only those two?

:)

 

Hey Mutant,

I think there were a few more consumed to keep strength up and then a few red wines afterwards admiring the days work!

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Welcome to the forums Pinion, hope you stick around. :)

 

Thanks, Chilli. I really like this community, and I hope I can contribute something to it!

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