double_action Posted March 20, 2014 I visited my friend Bernie to bring him some stuff and he gave me this..... 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dawnbeaver Posted March 20, 2014 I took some photos... 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted March 20, 2014 (edited) On 20/03/2014 at 3:16 PM, hostilis said: Are you sure the pesticide had anything to do with reproduction? I have a hard time believing that an insecticide would aid reproduction with insects. witnessed it with my own eyes , about 8 years ago I used provado from a concentrate pack quite successfully, on some courgette/zucchini plants...never needed it since so I'd lent it out so much it ran out this time when I needed bugs slaying last summer it was the ready made spray and the datura seeds were I think thompson and morgan datura metel ballerina mix I had to get them from there because the ones i'd bought from a uk jerk called "the mush-room"/"sam pedro" i had to tell him were stramonium and get him to change his listing on his webshop after telling him how to ID the seeds .. I wanted the pretty flower one because I think it's a nice smoke and the 'safest' one...unlike stramonium and the accompanying bullshit he gave me ,,, anyhoo,, I still boggle over what the heck made it behave that way but I still have the provado stuff, maybe it could be analyzed? maybe you could analyze it since you find it so hard to believe things that are? Actually after what I learned about the pesticide and seed basts idiocy, I would no longer be surprised if they sold something that made bugs rapidly reproduce on home crops in an attempt to sabotage the plans and confidence of the potential self sustainers or to channel them like cattle into buying their own f1 pest resistant gm strains, you know like cunts do be. Edited November 16, 2017 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
magical9 Posted March 21, 2014 my second rooting section ... - T. Brevispinalosus - T. Bridgesii - T. Bridgesii (X Peru?) (second largest) - T. Bridgesii (X Peru?) (largest) They look huge for bridgesii but they have the spination i think... 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hostilis Posted March 21, 2014 Yeah, the last two look like a bridgesii off a big, old stand that was grown in the ground. Nice plants btw. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted March 22, 2014 (edited) today one juul'sXvalidus seed began sprouting, as did some scops and a fair few boliviensis and the fat lady singing the end of the hunt for validus umm maybe a few more sprouted but only had vision in one eye at the time and the police torch I check with wasn't helping Also non cactaceal ...but so had the banisteriopsis muricata pot that I went to throw away :3.. which is ace because my single previous germination just died randomly however, so did 2 alicia anisopetala last month and they miraculously returned from the dead somehow I sowed the remaining 500 "mischung" tricho mixed species seed from germany in another half standard seed tray like last time.. and potted up some gardener's delight tomatoes into some hydro pots to make room for the 2nd seed tray in a propogator just the black krim and blue tomatoes, the red and yellow marconi and the orange sunshine peppers to pot on next leaving more room for more cacti sowings, maybe more if the purple peppers do their thang finally Edited March 24, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hostilis Posted March 24, 2014 I received some Puna clavaroides from a friend, very small cuttings, so I grafted them to pereskiopsis. Hopefully they'll take! I am stoked about these plants. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted March 24, 2014 sweet f/a today, just blew some smoke at em and watched them smile and just generally be mite free :3 , oh yeah I put a mushroom box between a bent pedro and the window to straighten it took some pics before sunrise and then the sun came out Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Myeloblast Posted March 24, 2014 Picked up a couple plants at walmart: Labeled Trichocereus poco, from Altman's plants big astrophytum, looking forward to the flowers. Not sure of the distributor on this one, but not Altman's Got them settled in to my collection today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hostilis Posted March 24, 2014 I actually just got a couple T. poco seedlings from a friend. Glad to see what they will turn into when older. And I was at walmart the other day as well. They have some huge plants in compared to the usual, but I noticed red spider mites on some of them and scale. Lol. Otherwise i would have gotten a few. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Myeloblast Posted March 25, 2014 Yea they typically don't last long once they arrive lol. Both of these plants were still on the wooden pallets and not priced for sale yet, fresh from the distributors. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrDoRight Posted March 25, 2014 I will be sowing seeds for the first time today , Im using a small plastic container filled with Kellogs Cactus mix and some crushed volcanic rock . In the microwave I sterilized both mixes for 5 minutes each and now they are cooling down on my porch waiting for the seeds to get sowed. I will be doing one tray with 5 l. Williamsii seeds and the other with 10 or so T. ( huarazensis) X (Puquiensis. Ill Probually going to end up doing the bag tek rather than keeping the lids on the trays . 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted March 25, 2014 (edited) theres a nice poco on ebay if it hasn't been bought yet , I was very tempted but I already have plans for so many huge cacti that I might get if the chance should arise... woohah! today 7 perfect little German scops arrived , fully potted up in what looks like bonsai media already in pots I would use too, probably worth the shipping weight extra..., 2 already snagged by the eldest children... ...another juulsXvalidus sprouted, also 6 bbbXvalidus, more just validus totalling 7 so far, another scop, 10 huanucoensis so far ,a spineless terscheckii, 9 boliviensis so far, and so did the mischung trays-in their 100's so far the only seeds with no germination are koehres fulvilanus and tacaquirensis and the absolute best tricho seeds i found so far are from misplant , 5 species from koehres are slow or zero yet, but the rest are awesome for germination rates like the above 2, was especially the speed, vigour and health of misplant's in such a short time really surprised me, that must be what fresh means :] I must've been used to shit cacti seeds until I found misplant , the only quality seeds I've had before like that were loph will from cactusshopuk (own produced) and ones I've picked out of fruits myself and a random uk macrogonus seed seller on ebay I just found a new seed supplier that even has validus on their available list but the pic they provide looks more like my terscheckii from italy and I can't figure out how to buy them yet :3 I found an article about a uk guy who started his collection from a packet of seeds from woolworths in ye olde days so I tracked his cactery down and wrote to him to ask about knuthianus and a few other species, especially about outdoor testing terscheckii, what with him being geographically situated a fair bit higher than me and therefore colder... I gather he is a judge for cacti shows so fingers crossed he will be as enthusiastic as me about flowering trichos and with any luck be a good uk cacti person to know, as long-term as possible. He may be one of those old guys that dont know how to use a phone even lol or otherwise busy , hopefully well though, and hopefully not more politics from bcss -edit 05/06/14 still no reply ... -edit2 17/12/14 still no reply ... Also I aired the cactus lounge well all day with the windows wide open and bought an "altman" strain hybrid montruose pach that looks a bit like this "knuthie" I have that I bought as a pach from Germany and invited a cool new cactus friend I made to the forum too. and sprouted some hylocereus costaricensis in 2 hours in a small pot of water by accident after eating one of the fruits and saving a few seeds because they were the largest hylo seeds I'd ever seen and figured out there's actually a chance that having every single species of tricho is maybe impossible for me, but so fkn what ill still try Edited December 17, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted March 25, 2014 (edited) magical9> the 3rd (?) is a real beauty, could easily not be a tricho myeloblast (wut a fucking name!) > trichocereus poco = trichocereus pasacana in my eyes, great catch, them with reddish brown spination are prettier IMO, because there are blond pasacanas as well. well with all this possible hybridisation you nefver know, but I was lucky to get a rich batch of pasacanas of both blonds and brown-reds, even a specimen than seems to be a "caespitosa" of a uniform phenotype. the notorius 'black rot' doesn't seem unfamiliar with some specimens from my batch - perhaps a good sign! == well what I did with my "cacti" today. besides that, well, I feel that these very similar threads "what I did with my cacti today" and "what I did in my sacred garden" are a kind of proof that us cactus/succulent heads are more earth leveled. apart from the sheer fact I dont have a "sacred" garden, not even 3 or 4 of them, I dont really call them "sacred" and its a real turn-off for me. anyways I repotted a couple of my fave Haworthia, my biggest tesselata at the moment a.o. checked on 2/3 of my HQs after the rain, took some shots. Stenocacti are forming fruits, meaning pollination has been succesful, these guys cross so fucking easily!! moved around some cacti. got to get them shades soon. took some large pots in the new GH. starting to form scop , pach, bridge and peruv 'clans' there too. I am tripled or divided by 3, which is always good with succulents. also deweeded and processed 3 mandrake fruits, cut down the chives (also a succulent) did I tell you repotting ceropegia ? boy these things form massive rootbulbs and root readily and all, I read they are also used to graft succulents of relative families on. every on interested in succulents and cacti got to try them out. Ceropegia woodsi, which I talk of, has a small and but really unique and elegant flower. I would certrainly like to have couple more species of them... I have also been transplanting more EG T.glaucus seedlings. more to come on those, as some of the batch do not show the "characteristic" reddish brown spines, and one of those individuals is so glaucus compared to the majority of the batch that one wonders if the seeds were mixed. This is is defeinately the year where my batch of EG glaucus will be going from pubescence and all this to semi-matutity phenotype. plus lots more Edited March 25, 2014 by mutant 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted March 26, 2014 (edited) interesting that pasacana = poco, yay!! that would mean that maybe I can fulfil the whole species list after all , I love my blonde pasacana, very pretty species indeed. -even looks like a validus in some lighting Edited June 5, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Myeloblast Posted March 26, 2014 myeloblast (wut a fucking name!) > trichocereus poco = trichocereus pasacana in my eyes, great catch, them with reddish brown spination are prettier IMO, because there are blond pasacanas as well. Thanks mutant lol Would like to see pics of the two spine colors together if you got them. I hope for some variety in my own pasacana seedlings, will be interesting to see what comes of them. As for what I did today, removed pressure from a couple grafts, moved them into the propagation box, and took a couple pics. Ariocarpus retusus v. confusus x A. fissuratus v. lloydii grafted on Myrtillocactus schenckii seedlings 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted March 26, 2014 (edited) hey Mutant, I tried to buy 2 of the "hybrid" "monstruose" "altman" strain (knuthie looking thing) just in case you wanted one... , -later edit -they turned out to be both pachanoi monstruose lol- they were even willing to trim both to round down the shipping weight price but one sold before they could get round to invoicing me, (within 10 hours, they were pretty slow) so I snapped the remaining one up without waiting any longer. They may have more in the future because they were tip cuts from large plants.... ...so I'm going to just buy what I need until I get an affirmative reply for my question the other day (I can pick up an extra 1-2 cuts/plants/seed packs for you if I find another "knuthie" for whatever it cost if you like?- or words to that effect) as I would hate to have missed that opportunity; had someone bought both, while i was waiting for them to invoice me oh yeah...and Thunder Horse is a better name than unspeakable one, by orders of magnitudes, and then some.. which is probably why I was named Thunder Horse. Edited December 17, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brendo Posted March 26, 2014 Forgot to pull down the sunshade of my greenhouse few days ago. Came home to about 8 chinese food containers full of white see-through seedlings.. Field's Pach, some of Zelly's Bridgesii crosses, Zygocactus, Loph's, all 2-3 months old and all dead. Great start to the year Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted March 26, 2014 (edited) today I got trigger happy with the feed because all the cacti pot's soil looked and felt dry so I fed them all My big macrogonus from germany arrived, it's so fkn pretty!, and in such perfect condition thanks to having been pro-wrapped and packaged all in all well worth the charge for a bank transfer! , I had to add a lot of horticultural grit to the perlite pot it's rooting in so it would'nt fall over.., it's now my tallest cactus Also some sbs arrived with some pedro notes and feed from cactusshop I've never used sbs before so I bought the biggest concentrate one in case I start using it on the garden too.. It's nice to have a way to feed pups that haven't rooted enough to feed them much via their roots does anyone know how old cactlet seedlings should be before using sbs on them? Edited March 26, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted March 26, 2014 (edited) Forgot to pull down the sunshade of my greenhouse few days ago. Came home to about 8 chinese food containers full of white see-through seedlings.. Field's Pach, some of Zelly's Bridgesii crosses, Zygocactus, Loph's, all 2-3 months old and all dead. Great start to the year sends hug* ...still plenty of time to try again, maybe germinate em in the house instead? I often have to cover the propogators in the sun room with a white jiffy envelope (usually a few hanging around at all timesfrom seeds or papers I've bought) maybe try to just sow 10 of a type at a time , 20 at most, and stagger the sowings, maybe that could help minimise any potential losses? I began doing just that after doing exactly the same as you with my very first 160 loph seedlings .. 'cept i had transplanted them to a flower pot in between and they were a little older maybe twice as old luckily I haven't lost any more since in that way Edited March 26, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrDoRight Posted March 26, 2014 Out of the 10 or so friends I have ONE of them finally accepted a Peruvianus Knuthianus from me which made me happier than a queer in a weenie factory . I failed at grafting my L.Williamsii too A PC pachanoi a few days ago and am now left with a foot long mid section which doesn't impress me . I regrafted it onto a Blue Myrtle cactus and hopefully that takes off . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
magical9 Posted March 27, 2014 potted my newly acquired cuttings from sanpedrocactuses.com and a few others from my local nursery. Pic 1 - SS02 Pic 2 - Lumberjackus Pic 3 - T. Peruvianus Pic 4 - Stenocereus Griseus Pic 5 - T. Bridgesii Pic 6/7 - T. Pachanoi (Legit san pedro. im collecting tons of these and propagating the hell out of them.) Pic 8 - Group shot Pic 9/10 - T. Peruvianus up close 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zelly Posted March 27, 2014 Pic 1 ss02- your plant does not exhibit the highly characteristic spines of an ss02 plant..... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
magical9 Posted March 27, 2014 Pic 1 ss02- your plant does not exhibit the highly characteristic spines of an ss02 plant..... so this doesnt look like SS02 either i take it? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
djmattz0r Posted March 28, 2014 (edited) That 2nd one definitely looks like SS02, if you got it from there then it should be legit and your cutting may just be missing spines. I know he sells legit lumberjackius too But SS02 is a bridgesii with 2 main spines per aerole. Edited March 28, 2014 by djmattz0r 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites