☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted May 29, 2014 (edited) Hey C_T, I've never really had much problem with terra cotta, even when sitting on concrete or brick, and that is how I've grown my plants for 20+ years and well, do they look ok? In the photo above they are just acclimatizing in the driveway, but they will eventually sit around the homestead on concrete or brick. I'm certainly not providing ideal growing conditions, but my goal is pretty plants, and not maximum growth. As for using terra cotta, well I know a lot of people regard it as inferior to plastic, but I use it primarily because of my temperate environment where I get quite a bit of rain throughout the growing season. The second advantage for me is that I can bring even wet plants into the garage at the end of the season and simply put a fan in there to help dry the soil as the clay is more pourous. I suspect that with plastic I wouldn't be able to get the soil to dry nearly as quick and I would get more root rot. But I think clay is pretty and I like the natural feel of it, plus cacti and plastic just seem like they should never touch each other. ~Michael~ I was always told that plastic was inferior to clay , and it is in many ways , there's just the practicalities going for it, like when the plant isnt stationary... and lack of accidental shattering they still scratch windowsills though , but not as bad, I still grow my best loph in terracotta, it loves it Edited May 29, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
djmattz0r Posted May 29, 2014 (edited) where are the pics of ss01, ss02, ss03 & ss04? musta missed them...... I had an SS02 previously, but got one of each from my sacred succulents order a few weeks back. For anyone who doesn't know the sacred succulent named clones: SS01 = peruvianoid SS02 = bridgesioid with 2 main spines per aerole SS03 = T. Knuthians SS04 = T. Chalaensis Had one of those awesome days where you get to unwrap a package full of cacti This is what I got from SS, can't wait for things to root so I can plant em in the ground. Not shown is several thousand seeds of 30+ tricho hybrids IMG_20140502_184753.jpg Got the ones with roots planted into temporary containers IMG_20140502_195947.jpg Put the unrooted cuttings into empty pots to get some indirect light under a table while rooting, I'll probably put them into something better to root this is just a temporary solution. IMG_20140502_200026.jpg Which reminds me, was checking for roots and the first one I pulled had some awesome ones starting so I potted it. Checked the rest of them and sure enough... nothing T. Torres and Torres Edited May 29, 2014 by djmattz0r 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted May 29, 2014 (edited) couldnt get over how unbelievably pretty this new macrogonus is ... and how cool the nursery it came from was ... so I ordered 2 more and 2 of their other macrogonus clone and another fulvilanus if poss since it was love at first site for me.... and 2 more terscheckii... pending availability fingers x'd because some little ones have taken quite a shine to these terscheck and this "alien light bulb" macro - to the point that they're no longer mine Edited May 29, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted May 29, 2014 potted up some cactlets 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
djmattz0r Posted May 29, 2014 Got my hands on some gorgeous cuts of some very nice genetics, these are some fatties <3 T. Colossus T. Pachanoi cv Kimnach Also managed to get a bunch of free small pots from work, 2" - 4" perfect for my purposes at the moment. Free is always nice and better than throwing them out 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted May 29, 2014 (edited) RAWRZ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- some git uk square pots seller fkn sent me the wrong pots (quelle surmuthafukkinprise) i guess thats what I get for tryna trust again.. LOL uk can't even get other country's manufactured pots right ! let alone their own manufactured ones ! and now theyre playing up asking for photos and specific dimensions of what they sent (like i dn have a krillion ready for em already lol) and which bloody courier they used .... they need telling these things? calculations say theyre only making a fiver on them tho at most since these lol are the pots I buy from the country of origin... so fck it , I'll keep em n use em for kitchen herbs n for the kids to practice with ___missing___ today I wouldve potted up some more cacti but ya just cant get the fkn staff these days so heres a pic of the new lamp shades i made Edited May 30, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
magical9 Posted May 29, 2014 sprayed my seedlings with water btw is there a special way to sow myriostigma seeds? i planted 100 of them.. not a single one germ'd... i sowed them like i did my cactus seed 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
djmattz0r Posted May 30, 2014 sprayed my seedlings with water btw is there a special way to sow myriostigma seeds? i planted 100 of them.. not a single one germ'd... i sowed them like i did my cactus seed Are the white/yellow seedlings variegated? I don't believe there's anything special for germinating A. myriostigma, maybe a bunk batch or just need more waiting 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hostilis Posted May 30, 2014 I just sow my astrophytum seedlings like any others. They're usually the first to germ (12 hours - 3 days to germ) 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snowfella Posted May 30, 2014 Hit the cactus bed with some well needed weeding, was kinda overdue to be truthfull. Before After 12 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted May 30, 2014 (edited) Rawrz what a beautiful bed !!!! rang the "new" oldest cactus nursery in uk to see if the 2nd order of fulvilanus, macro and macro 2 is a possibility bugger! they ran out of terscheckii ... maybe I can find something new and super awesome looking to trade for them back from my kids at least I get to do the cactus pampering .. decided to pot up the sun scorched velle fertil san huan's .. potted up candicans too huge cactus nursery replied in the negative for a fuck off massive terscheckii canon saying it was too much hassle to post ... , despite posting worldwide>?... methinks if a 3 foot werdermannianus can get here in 4 days from germany then a 2.5 foot terscheckii can fkn get here from france a lot fkn closer ... pfft ok ... custom must be rlly good to be able to throw it away like that ... maybe germany's cites nursery uhlig can help ... - maybe not, fuck paying 200 euros for just a 55cm tall one , and the search continues... mind u maybe thats a good price ... just used to better prices .. Edited May 31, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
magical9 Posted May 30, 2014 Hit the cactus bed with some well needed weeding, was kinda overdue to be truthfull. Before After i actually said "whoa" outloud. LOVE IT. gives me some ideas about my front yard now 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted May 31, 2014 (edited) Yay , my order from the longterm faveourite uk cactus shop arrived ... lol just got a dispatch notice from Kuentz tho , so they didnt make it frst not pictured is a nice Myrtilocactus geometrizans that also arrived from there Edited May 31, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted May 31, 2014 (edited) potted up the new cactlets in this lovely media and these gorgeous EU pots Edited May 31, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M S Smith Posted May 31, 2014 Took a few pictures and noticed buds on my tallest plant, a PC Trichocereus. ~Michael~ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted May 31, 2014 (edited) - potted up the VFF (very fkn fat) bridgesii from France after carving all the nasty scarred bits off it since there were things living in the blemishes -red sky tonight... cactardo's delight Edited May 31, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hostilis Posted May 31, 2014 I went to home depot yesterday and was very happy. Found a TON of plants I've been looking for and some grafting stock. I couldn't take all of them, but i got 30 dollars worth. 2 Echinocereus rigidissimus var. rubrispinus. Awesome purple spines, but the shitty strawflower that was attacked to it pulled them off. But I told the clerk and got 50% off so they were only $1.50 each. 2 T. pachanoi "PC" for grafting 3 M. geometrizans for grafting stock. They also had some astrophytum, some awesome opuntias, some giant crested lobvias that were flowering. It was pretty cool. OMG They had these ugly ass spray painted M. gracilis fragilis plants with a big sign next tto them that said. "COSMIC CACTUS! OUT OF THIS WORLD COLORED CACTI" I'll take a picture of it next time I'm there. It was just too awesome, but yet it made me want to cry at the same time. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZS Posted May 31, 2014 I just noticed this one today - my second crested seedling so far this year - a Huancabamba 10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
djmattz0r Posted June 1, 2014 hostilis those kosmic kaktus are the most terrible thing, I think I posted earlier in this thread with a few pictures when I first saw them nice scores btw, it's always nice to rescue some plants from the big box stores. Put some of my large cuttings outside in turface to root, here's a picture of the group. I still have a few indoors waiting for room outside I also chopped up my Rosei because it wasn't getting better after starting to rot in the package during 2+ months of shipping so in a desperate attempt to salvage the genetics I made a bunch of large aerole grafts. I hope I didn't wait too long, I usually have poor success grafting things that have already begun to rot There's 6 grafts so hopefully luck and statistics pull through and I end up with at least one success I was also checking on my Echinopsis subdenudata last night trying to get some flower pictures and I spotted this little guy, I wanted to catch him but decided to let him do his own thing. Hopefully he survives once it gets warmer, already 90+ days. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hostilis Posted June 1, 2014 Found 4 more 12" T. pachanoi at a different home depot today. I talked them down from $40 to $20 by using a bunch of confusing cactus lingo and making them think they were faulty cacti. Lol. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted June 1, 2014 sowed a bunch of zelidus seeds 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snowfella Posted June 1, 2014 Hostilis: sure those are rubrispinus? Look so much paler in colour to mine and more in line with "regular" rigidissimus.Got my fingers crossed for some flowers on the Trich's in that bed come spring, peru and bridgesii are still way to small but the pach and scoup could possibly flower this year.Main stem on the pach is a good 5 to 6 foot now so it's big enough for sure, just the scoup that's borderline but it doubled in size over summer. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mushroomman Posted June 1, 2014 hostilis those kosmic kaktus are the most terrible thing, I think I posted earlier in this thread with a few pictures when I first saw them nice scores btw, it's always nice to rescue some plants from the big box stores. Put some of my large cuttings outside in turface to root, here's a picture of the group. I still have a few indoors waiting for room outside IMG_20140531_191946.jpg I also chopped up my Rosei because it wasn't getting better after starting to rot in the package during 2+ months of shipping so in a desperate attempt to salvage the genetics I made a bunch of large aerole grafts. I hope I didn't wait too long, I usually have poor success grafting things that have already begun to rot There's 6 grafts so hopefully luck and statistics pull through and I end up with at least one success IMG_20140531_135210.jpg I was also checking on my Echinopsis subdenudata last night trying to get some flower pictures and I spotted this little guy, I wanted to catch him but decided to let him do his own thing. Hopefully he survives once it gets warmer, already 90+ days. IMG_20140531_024236.jpg IMG_20140531_020543.jpg Hey mate, if you want any chance of success with those areole grafts id put them inside in the dark for a week or so and with that much flesh left on them I dont think you will have much luck but hopefully you get at least one to work 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted June 1, 2014 (edited) finally hit 32C / 90f again .. half potted up a few peruvianus - a huancabamba duo and gave up for the day early since it's El scorchio mailed an ebayer to tell them their, particularly "white fluffed" terscheckii; might actually be a spachianus and hopefully made a friend in them. they seemed grateful I'll resume mission repotnaissance when its cooled down a bit and add some more pics then... gone up to 35C / 95F now -------- Tarma bridgesii flowerer only just fit the pot still can't get over having 2 pure schicken' ... I was calling them shicks before I found out about the hybrids Edited June 1, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
djmattz0r Posted June 1, 2014 Hey mate, if you want any chance of success with those areole grafts id put them inside in the dark for a week or so and with that much flesh left on them I dont think you will have much luck but hopefully you get at least one to work Thanks for the suggestion. I was originally trying to graft onto the inner flesh of the vascular core and make horizontal grafts but some pieces were definitely more along the lines of aerole grafts. I would bring them inside except I worry that my cat will mess with them like she always does. I also think they would dry more rapidly inside possibly causing more to fail? I don't have high hopes already because of the state of decomposition the cutting was in when I started making grafts but <fingers crossed> I will bring a couple inside and see if they do any better 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
