What did you do to your cacti today?

[mutant]

^^^

I thought the SS02 was a macro/peruv while the ss01 was a bridgesii.

[EthnoGuy85]

SS01 is the peruvianoid and ss02 bridgesiod

[EthnoGuy85]

SS02 loses it's 2 spine motive when grown in shade. It tends to revert back to a basic Bridgesii spination

[EthnoGuy85]

Potted up my scopulicola and the 'Los Banos' Ecuadorian pachanoi monstrose.

Potted up some nitrogen crosses, and seedlings of Aussie Tricho's from seed via mushroomman thanks again mate!

Los Banos

Assorted seedlings in the greenhouse

Edited March 29, 2014 by EthnoGuy85

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

cactus day today started to 2 lovely emails with pics of chunky large cacti in flower for potential sale from a new friend in the EU region of Cactacea..

I immediately replied in the affirmative in a short sharp blast and should have a fat rooted and some fat tricho cuts on the way soon ..

to boost my chances of making seeds early ...rawrz,,,

also bought a 2 foot pedro ..

checked the seeds in germinatia but didnt have my list with me , they looked really cute is about all I can say but I dnno if any extras germinated

cept for a few validus and spineless terscheckii..

melted in 42C at midday looking at the faces on all the Trichos in a codeine/xylocaine/naprox induced haze while they kicked in,

then when it had dropped to a comfortable 32C some time later; I watered them with cactus feed which should also have cooled their roots down nicely.

I gave all the 1 litre pots 100ml and didn't water the short stuff crew cacti in the aquarium, most are mexican/chilean and pretty fkn arrid and gave all the 600ml pots 60ml and so on at that ratio with the exception of the terscheckiis and bridgesii and the big cut scop and the big rooted kk242 cannon of a cutting... they got double..

might try the urine tek, lol, on the scop stump when its peak heat , maybe june or august, after a quarterly wean off meds, hopefully get it pupping and doing something funky again, gave it 10ml of miracle grow water mix from the mimosa/acacia/brugmansia waterings for now

sprayed sbs on all the cacti and turned them round when the sun had hidden behind the big bay tree and followed the shadow round

the sun room spraying , turning and spraying again, it dried very fast in the heat and , just in time

Hopefully this sbs shit will help visually fix up some of the scarred cacti I bought recently, and the ones I scarred learning how not to keep cacti :]

can't find any more tricho species seeds available that I want and don't already have; anywhere on the net for now

maybe this year will bring some new-to-me and cool assed tricho's...

Also another fruits worth of Hylocereus costaricensis sprouted

and later on I bought another huge mac and 2 more pach's bigger than I can find in uk

still nothing from BEF pots , and just because i wont pay their subscription...

and pulled em up for ripping me off

I'm starting to think they have something against new tricho lovers to the hobby...

and don't want any new members or something ...

Edited December 17, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[mutant]

put shade cloths..... took some shots..

[Snowfella]

Checked em over for hail damage after last nights thunderstorm. Mainly just grazing blows but 2 trichs copped direct hits.

The culprits, wasn't game enough to run out and grab them while things was coming down so these had been on the ground for a few minutes already..

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

faahkin 'ell !! I shall remember to not complain about our piddley hale the next time it comes, after seeing that..

Today it was the start of british summertime and I celebrated by feeding the remaining unfed cacti and switching the wind on

ariocarpus got 2ml , as did all the pelecyphs, gymno's and coryphantha

the lophs got between 3ml and 5ml except the larger one which got 10ml

I dared to water one of my stetsonias and gave the chilean tricho's 3ml each

I checked germinatia and more seedlings had sprouted

asda

hylocereus costaricensis 20/42

zelly

bbbXvalidus to make 7/10

validus 17/20

validusXjuul's 3/10

validusXlumberjackus 8/10

macrogonusXjuul's 8/10

scopulicola 4/10

huanucoensis 10/10

PCpachXjuul's 9/10

PCpachXhuanucoensis 9/10

PCpachXbridgesii helen 8/10

PCpachXmacrogonus 9/10

PCpachXperuvianus 10/10

PCpachX(SS01XSS02) 9/10

cactus plaza

tacaquirensis 6/10

taquimbalensis 8/30

non tricho

loph huizache 4/10

loph paila 3/10

loph cuatrocienegas 11/10

succseed

terscheckii spineless 12/20

koehres

fulvilanus 0/10

tacaquirensis 0/10

boliviensis 8/10

macrogonus with varigated1 9/10

taquimbalensis 8/10

werdermannianus 2/10

non tricho

pele aselliformis 1/10

pele valdeziana 8/10

and I added 5-10ml of tap water to the dry looking ones

and 3-5ml to the less dry but still dryish looking ones

noticed my juul's pup has been growing at the tip faster since the sbs spraying over the last few days

no new growth on the colossus pup yet but it is far newer

I bought an Echinopsis sorceress from germany too

and some Opuntia violacea Santa Rita seeds from uk

Edited April 6, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[magical9]

Finally got some of my plants in ground. My first landscaping project. The entire thing is irrigated.

Pic 1 - T. Pachanoi Monstrose + Succulent i dont recall name of + T. Macrogonus

Pic 2 - Astrophytum Ornatum + T. Cuzcoensis + T. Grandiflorus

Pic 3 - Browningia hertlingiana + TBM's + Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum

My soil mix is a 1:1:1 mix of local made cactus & palm mix that is very good + sand + decomposed granite. It smells so goooooood.

Edited March 31, 2014 by magical9

[afungitobewith]

Looked things over. Debating and procrastinating. Waiting for it to warm up enough for things to go outside. Almost there. Don't have enough room in my indoor setup. I want to make room for the seeds I sprouted so I can start grafting them. Looking into ideas for next season. Like a cold frame with heat cables or a greenhouse of some sort. Something small with a lot of thermal mass that can absorb as much of the suns warmth as possible. Something that stores the heat during the day and releases it as it gets cool at night. Just so I can get another month or 2 in for the season.

Going to start some SSO2 X Juuls and Bridgesii x Juuls. Old seed but should be a few viable.

Edited March 31, 2014 by afungitobewith

[MrDoRight]

Today i brought my pkants indoors because of tonights storm and i wanted too see if my picture http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk202/nad_likes_vagina/Mobile%20Uploads/0331141050_zpsebadweph.jpg upload works

[naja naja]

really need to pot up and de-pere all my grafts before winter arrives. I will have to transport them soon and don't want to have to deal with them srtill on pere stock. looked at my sausage cactus and wondered why i even bothered to repot and straighten this cactus up just a few months ago. In just 24 hours it has bent nearly to the ground in a desperate attempt to remain prostrate. Too many cacti and not enough time to deal with them all before the cold really sets in.

[Optimystic]

NOTHING.... im taking a break after spending a couple days suffocating root mealies from cereoid roots....

I am mentally worn out but I feel better today cause the infestations weren't near as severe

as I first thought... though i've got about 20 plants to check which spent winter near the others....

good thing is those are smallish barely rooted cacti which I was gonna repot soon anyways...

I deserve a mental break so im just gonna relax today after I water my little optunias with leftover

azadirachtin solution... anyone ever used that for root mealies? I read about it working on other types

of mealies and so I just flushed a shitload of soil and drenched some roots in the magic

sigh

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

azadirachtin solution... anyone ever used that for root mealies? I read about it working on other types

of mealies and so I just flushed a shitload of soil and drenched some roots in the magic

Azadirachta indica is the name of my neem tree plant,

is it from the seed or the plant -this azadirachtin stuff, dyu know?,

I will definitely use it if i come across em now thanks for the tip , will be cheaper than all round nematodes

Today i brought my plants indoors because of tonights storm and i wanted too see if my picture http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk202/nad_likes_vagina/Mobile%20Uploads/0331141050_zpsebadweph.jpg upload works

those are some gorgeous plants you have there

Looking into ideas for next season. Like a cold frame with heat cables or a greenhouse of some sort.

I've had some nice energy efficient successes using tortoise heaters at night and in the winter all day in the past

(tubular electric radiator) its if you can get electrics out like with the heat cables

and could use a stat and timer like in the pic to save switching and then maybe an interpet aquarium led strip to boost lower light?

Edited April 2, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[Optimystic]

@unspeakable - not sure but its the Azamax brand.... I love the stuff for mites and thrips and such on leafy plants...

its first time using for this and well first time dealing with this bug...

Im not sure if 'Gunter' means the same thing but I believe he does mention the same thing in this thread.... post #16

http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=27625&hl=%2Broot+%2Bmealies

would you know which type of nematodes? feel free to message me or maybe we can take it to that thread eh

I never screwed around with stuff like that but now that im concerned I may wanna... but I feel good now that

I read that they don't survive in cold winters and well my bigger cacti have been thru some cold nights for sure..

this is a wierd year tho... i've already smashed a mosquito and its not even close to mosquito season here

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

today i got a lovely yellow vff bridgesii from Spain

and an even fatter tricho waiting for me at postman pats office , i think pat wanted to keep it , made me pay extra too, i can see why, its so pretty! but fukkin 75% of the price the

sender put on the box... gah

and I got some decent square nursery pots from Germany which are every bit as good as BEF pots and more than twice as cheap even with shipping added

thank fk someone came to the rescue

I later potted up the yellow vff bridgesii with a nice perlite/sand/compost mix with a bunch of hort gravel on top and added it to the windowsill collection and fed it because it was 33C+ just from the sun and greenhouse effect.

i thnk this nu cut is very much like the german pach "knuthie" so some comparison shots were fun

altman spines

and tip

german pach/"knuthie" spines

and tip

oh and i frgot to post a pic of the macrogonus the other day so

and a night shot of it

-edited with new added pics since the pic links were from a site i left and didnt want the thread to turn to shit - I get what ya mean now EG, sorry buddy, will try rectify any others too

Edited December 17, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[mutant]

the 'bridgesii' in the first pic looks like a PC pachanoi.

and the 'macrogonus' like a bridgesii

agree on knuthianus

[Evil Genius]

That "yellow bridgesii" looks sick, no matter what it is. Sure it is variegated? Needs Nitrogen ASAP. I don't think that´s variegation.

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

today kinda spanned 2 days again and included yesterday and i think my post from yesterday was meant from the day before

but days seem to just melt into each other and its hard to keep track lol

bought a -foot tall gorgeous German scop for like a bargain! but... shipping was just over 3 times the price of the cactus :/

it worked out cheaper than buying one in Uk still...

then shortly after, I got a mail from them saying for the shipping they could send up to 4, so bought another 3 to add to the frst

Also bought a 61cm flowering pach and a 50cm flowering bridgesii from Spain

poked a few first holes in a few of the oldest seed pot's wrap covers with an old ball point pen

and noticed more germinations making to date: 18/20 terscheckii spineless , 18/20 OP validus and a few more

doused everything in mighty wash as a precaution since its been a few days

and left the sun room ventilated for 30+ hours so far,

bought some fly screens for the windows and doors in prep for when the skeeters get worse and to mechanically control sciariad fly

and mite riders like bees and moths ..and still have nature powered ventilation to save some energy and maybe be able to spend less on nematodes

also ordered some porous growing media

added a handful of sharp sand to the soil surface in all the large cactus pots

repotted my 4 trichocereus validusXechinopsis into the funky new heavy duty cactus pots from Germany

checked the less than hardy opuntias i put outside and theyre doing fine by the looks of it ..

oh yeah i poured some anti fungus oily crap on the scars of the new vff yellow bridgesii

Edited June 5, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

That "yellow bridgesii" looks sick, no matter what it is. Sure it is variegated? Needs Nitrogen ASAP. I don't think that´s variegation.

no its not varigated lol sorry , vff stood for very fkn fat its the fattest one ive had before, stemming from an old biker joke

about the vff (very fkn fast)

it's been in full sun in spain after having snapped off a very much larger plant

and then rooted in a pot on a balcony i think and the soil i used as a media ingredient was cheap version of miracle grow which has added nitrogen so thank you

Ive never seen one like it myself before and just thought wow that must be the power of southern spanish sun :D

edit - its turning green gradually from the nitrates in the soil i think

thank you for making me aware of this cool phenomenom and hopefully helping it be happier in the long run

Edited April 17, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

the 'bridgesii' in the first pic looks like a PC pachanoi.

and the 'macrogonus' like a bridgesii

agree on knuthianus

that bridgesii has been severely spine clipped for shipping rolled in card and is from someone's cactus that has been growing in the ground since forever (anythn between 70's back to the 50's) and reminds me very much of pachanoi too

I have a photo of it before it was spine clipped but its not my photo i can see it has at least 1 inch+ spines all over

the macrogonus was 9and a half euros :3

Edited June 5, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

@ThunderHorse- not sure but its the Azamax brand.... I love the stuff for mites and thrips and such on leafy plants...

its first time using for this and well first time dealing with this bug...

Im not sure if 'Gunter' means the same thing but I believe he does mention the same thing in this thread.... post #16

http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=27625&hl=%2Broot+%2Bmealies

would you know which type of nematodes? feel free to message me or maybe we can take it to that thread eh

I never screwed around with stuff like that but now that im concerned I may wanna... but I feel good now that

I read that they don't survive in cold winters and well my bigger cacti have been thru some cold nights for sure..

this is a wierd year tho... i've already smashed a mosquito and its not even close to mosquito season here

i dnt know which nematodes its just an allround nematode pack from nemasys, perhaps they could shed light on it deeper

if youre growing indoor, get some skeeter screens maybe? I just did

Edited December 17, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[hookahhead]

Waited patiently for spring to arrive...

[hostilis]

That's an awesome family photo. Props dude.

[Philocacti]

My name is Philocacti and I'm a cactoholic

Got these today

Plus a variegted gymnocalycium with lots of flower buds, are they self fertile?