What did you do to your cacti today?

[BillyThKid]

cool , I am of saami dna also ...

and decendant of the last pagan king of Ireland

no shit? im almost full blooded Irish though i live in america. Celtic Shamanism holds a personal interest to me as well as most of the other pagan religions of Ireland.

It is thought that Lucifer got his name from the Celtic god Lu/Lugh when the romans invaded Ireland and forced Roman Catholicism on everyone. They made their pagan gods out to be the devil especially Lugh so eventually his name was put into the bible and changed some. A lot of the Irish Catholic Saints are Pagan gods as well. its very interesting,

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

lol aye that

 

 

ive a lot of family over there , mainly chicago - argentina

theres some fantastic info sites to spend years reading through

and giggle ...

 

 

but , off topic , - seeing as its now tomorrow here (by 10 mins) and to celebrate

today I bought a big ole fat fukkin terscheckii so happy wednesday everybody!

x] *excited* so then i had to buy a nice sturdy pot and figured what good is one , when i can have 10

and while i was at it , got some coco coir to try blending and more substrate experimentation

also printed off 3 seed order forms for SS ... hoping theyll be my best shot at a 1st time guaranteed peruvianus

finger's x'd

i was kinda hoping to get a large terscheckii for an outdoor experiment, maybe growing it to about 4-5 foot and then trying outside

but FK THAT! i aint riskn shii , that sorta cactus would be far too awesome a creature to subject to the odd minus 16C winter

and an eyesore to cover ... unless a really nice looking outdoor sheltered raised dry bed .. but i might as well build that into a conservatory

and bam... im already sat in one , so it looks like thats scuppered that plan

Edited June 11, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[BillyThKid]

lol aye that

ive a lot of family over there , mainly chicago

theres some fantastic info sites to spend years reading through

but , off topic , - seeing as its now tomorrow here (by 10 mins) and to celebrate

today I bought a big ole fat fukkin terscheckii so happy wednesday everybody!

x] *excited* so then i had to buy a nice sturdy pot and figured what good is one , when i can have 10

and while i was at it , got some coco coir to try blending and more substrate experimentation

also printed off 3 seed order forms for SS ... hoping theyll be my best shot at a 1st time guaranteed peruvianus

finger's x'd

i was kinda hoping to get a large terscheckii for an outdoor experiment, maybe growing it to about 4-5 foot and then trying outside

but FK THAT! i aint riskn shii , that sorta cactus would be far too awesome a creature to subject to the odd minus 16C winter

and an eyesore to cover ... unless a really nice looking outdoor sheltered raised dry bed .. but i might as well build that into a conservatory

and bam... im already sat in one , so it looks like thats scuppered that plan

Terscheckii is the slowest growing species of trichocereus if i remember right. It is also nick named the bolivian saguaro. i have two at the moment, one 4 inches tall and the other is like 1 inch maybe. the four inch tall one i have had for 2 years haha and its only grown an inch.

[djmattz0r]

Checked cuttings again for roots and this time about half had rootlets so I put them into soil to root over the weekend while I'm away before I put them in the ground.

This made extra room so I added my Kimnach and Colossus to the turface to root

I also went back to the ethnobotanical garden and snapped a picture of the Terscheckii I got my pup from, it has seen better days but still a beauty.

Found a walking stick hanging out among the spines

[hostilis]

Organized the back porch crew. Lots of grafting stock. I will be grafting lots of cool stuff to these dudes.

Also I have a question for someone experienced with trich cuttings. Does new growth necessarily mean that a cutting has rooted and is ready for watering? This cutting has been sitting around for 9 months and i finally decided to just plant it a month ago, now it's growing. You think it's rooted?

[zelly]

Does new growth necessarily mean that a cutting has rooted and is ready for watering?

generally speaking, yes.

'Rooted' to mean even partially rooted, minimally rooted, etc.

[BillyThKid]

generally speaking, yes.

'Rooted' to mean even partially rooted, minimally rooted, etc.

I dont know. i have a PC san pedro and a more "regular" san pedro and both have been in soil for months with no roots. The PC pedro is 5 months old and no roots, the more regular pedro is 2 months into rooting and both have no roots yet.

This is the PC pachanoi, it threw a pup a few weeks back, the pup is at the tp of the cactus and just threw a root......

However, i would say in more cacti rooting happens from 2 weeks-2 months. pereskiopsis will root in a week sometimes.

Though that SS02 cutting i have took 3 months to root.

[zelly]

Length of time is a variable in the process of growing roots.

Watch that variable decrease dramatically when you provide all the required conditions for rapid root growth, most notably ........soil TEMPS.

SIZE of cut also makes a huge difference also in the length of time variable.

as with most things, its a YMMV situation.

[BillyThKid]

Length of time is a variable in the process of growing roots.

Watch that variable decrease dramatically when you provide all the required conditions for rapid root growth, most notably ........soil TEMPS.

SIZE of cut also makes a huge difference also in the length of time variable.

as with most things, its a YMMV situation.

Foot long section, and the soil is at least 80 in the daytime, just a slow rooter

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

Terscheckii is the slowest growing species of trichocereus if i remember right. It is also nick named the bolivian saguaro. i have two at the moment, one 4 inches tall and the other is like 1 inch maybe. the four inch tall one i have had for 2 years haha and its only grown an inch.

over here we get told its the Argentine saguaro , they name it cardon also ... (which i thought was pachycereus pringlei)

seems its not just here after a quick goog... everyone i can goog in the last half hour seems to say its Argentina..

but I notice some collection data validus seeds from Argentina - usually a Bolivian species as far as I can research... but obviously they like to share eachothers borders

however, im still yet to stumble over location data terscheckii saying Bolivia ... I will be hunting them down though so it's only a matter of time

I like Bolivia the best of all of S America so fingers x'd

but all my location data terscheckii say Argentina on the label also

maybe the lime is slowing it? , perhaps try one in the lime and the other in diatomaceous earth for a further year and see if one grows faster?

Edited June 11, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

whaddya mean ive reached my quota of positive votes for the day? positivity has a limit?!!!

boo!

*clicks like on lots of things but gets nowhere*

today I introduced someone very special to the magickal world of Horsia

they told me about a botanical garden within 40 miles from here that has a madly-in-love-with-cacti.. peep working there

and that she had seen many of these cacti I have there... I kinda recall faintly one time when some very different cacti, to me; looked the same

hopefully she does not share this terrible affliction of cactaceal noobility that I once had an extra fat helping of

Im gna have to go visit it...

finally!!!!; something as an outing thats possibly worth the money - .. and parting company with my prescious plants for a few hours - how rare is that!

- made sure to air-out the cacti all day after their generous helping of grub yesterday

Edited June 4, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[BillyThKid]

over here we get told its the Argentine saguaro , they name it cardon also ... (which i thought was pachycereus pringlei)

seems its not just here after a quick goog... everyone i can goog in the last half hour seems to say its Argentina..

but I notice some collection data validus seeds from Argentina - usually a Bolivian species as far as I can research... but obviously they like to share eachothers borders

however, im still yet to stumble over location data terscheckii saying Bolivia ... I will be hunting them down though so it's only a matter of time

I like Bolivia the best of all of S America so fingers x'd

but all my location data terscheckii say Argentina on the label also

maybe the lime is slowing it? , perhaps try one in the lime and the other in diatimaceous earth for a further year and see if one grows faster?

I actually may have misspoken. I said bolivian but i was probably meaning Argentine. However i think TT's grow mostly in the desert areas unlike most trichocereus.

I have never seen a range of where it has been found growing either.

Speaking of: tell me this. Are there Bridgesii in Peru and Peruvianus in bolivia? I was sure there was natural or man made.

At one time they had to have been closer together as all trichocereus share a common evolution. How do we know when species X ends and species Bridgesii starts on the evolution time line. HOw many natural hybrids were made that became hybrids with others and even more cacti around. we know so little about where trichocereus came from, i know less than most of you for sure, but at one point the species were all closer together in both evolution and where they grew.

Its not like Bridgesii randomly sprouted in bolivia and torches randomly came from Peru they both got there threw evolution, time, and spreading out.

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

as far as i learned in the last 2 years... bridgesii seems to originate from la paz , bolivia ...

still learning about peruvianus

after finding out mine are cuzcoensis .... which im still happy as fk about since i was beginning to think they were rarer than rocking horse shit

and that id never get a true cuzco lol

what a turn up for the books tho

PLEASE DELETE ME (the post not me)

this post ... was supposed to be a quote , not a reply

Edited June 4, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

I actually may have misspoken. I said bolivian but i was probably meaning Argentine. However i think TT's grow mostly in the desert areas unlike most trichocereus.

I have never seen a range of where it has been found growing either.

Speaking of: tell me this. Are there Bridgesii in Peru and Peruvianus in bolivia? I was sure there was natural or man made.

At one time they had to have been closer together as all trichocereus share a common evolution. How do we know when species X ends and species Bridgesii starts on the evolution time line. HOw many natural hybrids were made that became hybrids with others and even more cacti around. we know so little about where trichocereus came from, i know less than most of you for sure, but at one point the species were all closer together in both evolution and where they grew.

Its not like Bridgesii randomly sprouted in bolivia and torches randomly came from Peru they both got there threw evolution, time, and spreading out.

i might have also misinterpreted it... the argentine validus might end up being terscheckii after a few years

and the bolivian terscheckii im yet to find may have a sweet surprise of being validus , just wishes and guesses for now tho

at least the more time i spend gazing at validus pics, the more i can see how blatant some of the differences are ...

fun hobby is cacti huh?, im starting to wonder now... if knowledge on the subject in completion is going to be something i can attain in one lifetime

as far as i learned in the last 2 years... bridgesii seems to originate from la paz , bolivia ...

 

 

still learning about peruvianus

after finding out mine are cuzcoensis .... which im still happy as fk about since i was beginning to think they were rarer than rocking horse shit

and that id never get a true cuzco lol

what a turn up for the books tho

-there is however something echoeing in my head that i cant recall where i read it... that said ALL peruvianus are from matucana i thnk ...

shrug*

 

 

-also I'm hoping my nu terscheckii will grow about 10cm per year .. or more if i can encourage it to binge out with the new media that allows you to feed a lot more than normal

- today I told someone special how to screen a pot and pot up a cactus without getting slashed too much

using a "pachanoi" of mine that had rotted at the tip in winter and survived the surgery , and continued the same tip's growth miraculously

heres how they did with no help other than verbal instructions before starting

and gave a pasacana to a neighbour... bought some more media to start potting up the bridgesii and pachanoi tiddlers

just these left now

....

Edited June 11, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[nitrogen]

Made another visit by Zelly's place recently and was delighted to see how well a few of my cacti he is kindly caring for are doing - dude has a serious greenthumb + old-school farming knowledge.. After the "N1" bridgesii flowered and the hybrids with TPM, Psycho0, and TPQC were made I pruned it back to a stump - that is all new growth there..

Here's the N1:

And this is an increasingly massive Super Pedro x J3 seedling

:

Edited June 4, 2014 by nitrogen

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

Made another visit by Zelly's place recently and was delighted to see how well a few of my cacti he is kindly caring for are doing - dude has a serious greenthumb + old-school farming knowledge.. After it flowered and the hybrids with TPM, Psycho0, and TPQC were made I pruned it back to a stump - that is all new growth there..

Here's the "N1" bridgesii:

And this is an increasingly massive Super Pedro x J3 seedling

RAWRZ!!! thank you very kindly for this supreme world class cactaceal porn ...

and the guy's a genius aint he

Edited June 4, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[Brendo]

i might have also misinterpreted it... the argentine validus might end up being terscheckii after a few years

and the bolivian terscheckii im yet to find may have a sweet surprise of being validus , just wishes and guesses for now tho

Yeah from memory the Terscheckii is also called the Argentine Saguaro and Cordon Grande.

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

Yeah from memory the Terscheckii is also called the Argentine Saguaro and Cordon Grande.

Thank you

i wonder if they got those names being sold as hardier northern alternatives to the saguaro and normal cardon

feels familiar (may have read that somewhere and forgotten)

my valle fertil san Juan wr named "frosty saguaro" when I bought them

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

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

today I checked all the cacti for arthropods and other pests , only thing detectable was about 5 species of good ole fashioned regular spider

so I left them alone , maybe theyre guardians of the cacti's health somehow? , the seem to go hand in hand..

potted up those last few small stragglers

uk sourced pachanoi

uk sourced bridgesii

and the fake bridgesii monstruose peperone (T' santiaguensis) from gaia8910 in italy for £35

thank you kindly Sabry for pointing that out about 5 months ago on one of the pics in my albums

those sorts of help are always welcome , and thanks for not relabelling it either tho too

and i found the same cactus for as little as £3.50 in uk ...

and this cant take anything like the battering the real penis can .. or regular bridgesii either

and I waited patiently for some 11litre pots to pot up the fat scop stump and my former "biggest pachanoi" of last year

I looked at the terschalidus mutant ... maybe a 30x30cm 18litre pot was too big afterall

ill stick it in a 24x24cm 11litre pot when they arrive too

watered my large werdermannianus from Germany, so far its had about 7-8 hundred milliletres of triple strength feed in the last week and looks to be fattening at last

took some pics of the macrogonus from the same guy in Germany ...some folk said possibly bridgesii but I cant see it myself

maybe its the camera not doing the plants justice?

heres cutting 1

and cutting 2

and cutting 2 again with a dark backgroundsince a lot of my pics with this camera have a high um exposure, if thats what its called?

a lot of sun we have in my little microclimate , that's for sure

Edited June 11, 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 the yellowing onesvariegated? Needs Nitrogen ASAP. I don't think that´s variegation.

edited pic, lost the yellowing pics for now.. but it has got so much greener since your advice, thank you

the new/old pics show the difference

p.s. sorry for the post turning to shii for a while with external hosted link pics

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

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

Not exactly today, but anyhow, I got the Trichocereus collection outdoors a few days ago. The other shot is a little cactus garden I've had in a bay window in the same pot for a very very long time. I little secret about making these small collections that are for show and not propagation or size, and avoiding them outgrowing the container; use Coryphanta, in this case C. runyonii v. violaceae and C. compacta, as the genus has the ability to inhibit the growth of other genera that grow near. The other plants are Mammillaria heyderii in flower, Turbinicarpus jauernigii, and Echinocereus triglochidiatus.

Collection 1.JPG Cactus Garden.jpg

~Michael~

*moves coryphantha macromeris away from aztekiums in dry tank....

thank you very kindly indeed, again

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

wondered how many cacti in the history of humanity have been used as weapons ...

spesh taquimbo's lol

while i gazed seductively at them all and tried to research the livn shi outta em

would need some serious midstrength and pure muscle on muscle to wield a validus tho x]

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

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

Yeah, I live in a very hot dry place (in the summer) and I have to water the plants i have in terra cotta like crazy. I'm starting to like plastic better in my climate.

Im starting to like plastic better for trichos/water+feed guzzler cacti , and im in a very wet place (all year round )

and they just spent 2 months outside un-sheltered and bounced so hard back into health

it even fixed the recurring spidermites ...

carting that lot about in plastic was hard enough with the weight some are.. it was a nightmare when I had a big "kk242" peruvianus in terracotta

lol but somehow deemed it "sacred" enough to do it for a short while

even 3 terscheckii's that got scorched (the only 3 in about 75 tricho's) seem to be growing on regardless..

Id like to say it's this new media "replacing" the benefits of terracotta in a growing media format; re-enabling maximum efficiency of both materials in one package..

but Ive only been using that for a few weeks ...

I used terracotta all last year and am still (in retrospect) trying to pin the nail on the reason/s that they stopped growing

I thought lime may have been soley responsible...

but maybe them not getting enough water for long enough was an issue with them being smaller terracotta pots and water loving Tricho's..

(I hadnt owned any of the dry chile types b4 at that point)

now they love getting flooded each few days indoors... and drying between waterings faster now... ravenous

also my learning advancement has probably got a lot to do with them growing better and healthier this year too

some good reasons for plastic:

-light weight durability and no shattering ...(till old and sunbeat at least for some)

-No wondering why suddenly ur toe is on fire!! when you didn't let go of the pot since your still holding the same part of terracotta pot but the rest of it and the cacti fkd off south n smashed ya toe in ....and the cactus tip... after a small fissure grew and grew expanding in the sun and contracting at night over some time without being noticed ...

-also square pots rule!..... like a seamless raised bed when all together, fit more growing media in and use space more efficiently

and things seem to be going righter for me since using plastic , though possibly coincidental ...

-if you get the right ones, they look so good... that I wanna say they equal the looks of terracotta , especially black ones ,

specifically some particular German ones for me.

terracotta might be cool for lots of rain in the season, but its not very good for hot and rainless summers. I prefer clay for the extreme slow growers or the astros I keep in my roof the whole year...

I'm definitely with ya on that one, especially now after rotting a super kabuto : / that wasn't mine

i swapped the soil they came in (and the other "dry species") for just stones, perlite and a bit of sand to compensate for the plastic 2" pot and never ever water the astro's , i daren't ....nor the coryphantha .. I imagine they're hydrating themselves like airplants?.. and their survival takes priority since they're the kid's....

they seem fine with this treatment now...

Also I only give 3ml of 3xstrength feed a fortnight to the lophs, arios, pelecyphs and own root azteki

I have some cute tiny little terracotta pots which were hard to find ......-, just wish they were square, and then square terracotta is a funny thing...

but they'll scratch the glass in my daytime/night time, temp and lighting controlled; arrid tank... or I'd probably still use them... despite them not being square ...

The big real-deal-loph gets to stay in a teracotta regardless of scratch factor... no risks taken there

some things really are that sacred I guess

reasons for terracotta:

-its the original baddass

-good for permanantly situated plants that need to drain very well and air out, and plants that would benefit from extra weight

-is like an extension of the soil and can breathe all over

-you have softwater for plant use and no worry of salts build up on the side making them look cack when before that they looked awesome

-can be used as drainage when it expires (toe permitting)

Edited June 9, 2014 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ

[☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ]

Is validus even a real species outside of australia? I never got a straight answer on this.

My validus came from a 10ft specimen that had fallen down and broken into several pieces in a property about to be levelled for development. It was the best find in my cactus career, and I have had many I can assure you...

But i have never found evidence of this plant as a wild species and all i saw in Bolivia were magnificent tersheckiis (in a very localised range) and many atacamensis.

Some of the atacamensis, I might add, were reputed to have pink flowers!

dnno how i missed this ... terscheckii in Bolivia .. AWESOME! thank you!!!

[BillyThKid]

dnno how i missed this ... terscheckii in Bolivia .. AWESOME! thank you!!!

So hell. I guess that means i had it right. i suppose it could also be called to Bolivian saguaro if it does come from the country in some places.

Good to know. i figured it had a nice range of areas where cacti clusters live. there is so much of south america we know nothing about its really guessing about a lot of information in the end. Going by what we know