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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.

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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...

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Yeah, the last two look like a bridgesii off a big, old stand that was grown in the ground. Nice plants btw.

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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

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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.

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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

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took some pics before sunrise

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and then the sun came out

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Picked up a couple plants at walmart:

Labeled Trichocereus poco, from Altman's plants

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big astrophytum, looking forward to the flowers. Not sure of the distributor on this one, but not Altman's

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Got them settled in to my collection today.

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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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

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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 :)

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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.

 

 

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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 :(

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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 B)

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?

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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

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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 .

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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

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Pic 1 ss02- your plant does not exhibit the highly characteristic spines of an ss02 plant.....

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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?

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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.

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