BBGONE Posted May 15, 2012 Results of growing Lophs. under lights and feeding them with common fertilizer in ordinary doses for leafy plants. After one year and a half, they are 50 - 55 mm in diameter. P.S.- These pictures were taken from one local (my country) forum member grow report. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theuserformallyknownasd00d Posted May 16, 2012 Yeah I've thought about it goldtop, but i think ill just leave then as is for this season/apartment... Working 12hr days, attending to 2 parrots and watering my 50+ varieties of plants and cactus leaves me just wanting a beer at the end of the day! Having to carefully move 6 seedling trays each day and night will end up in disaster at some point! I'm kinda excited to see how my etolated seedlings graft to be honest! I have enough rough wild fuckers taking up my balcony! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zelly Posted May 16, 2012 Results of growing Lophs. under lights and feeding them with common fertilizer in ordinary doses for leafy plants. After one year and a half, they are 50 - 55 mm in diameter. P.S.- These pictures were taken from one local (my country) forum member grow report. Impressive pics BBGONE, however the color balance in the first four pics seems to indicate some other type of lighting other than fluorescent is being used. Do you know what that lighting would be? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evil Genius Posted May 16, 2012 The light looks to me like its coming from some kind of HPS Lamp. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BBGONE Posted May 17, 2012 (edited) Impressive pics BBGONE, however the color balance in the first four pics seems to indicate some other type of lighting other than fluorescent is being used. Do you know what that lighting would be? Sodium high pressure lamp 250 W, 35 cm distance. But, i'm using fluoros. Seems they grow the same under yellow, orange and red and a little blue. I'm using 13 cm distance from a set of 16 mm 54W tubes. If closer, they grow slower and shrivel a little (creases on ribs). P.S. - those, largest Lophs on the pictures, grown in passive hydroponic conditions. the Author did it just for experiment, and the Lophs did not mind:) But as the author says, there is no difference in growth rate, when one fertilize them in common ways. They have tap roots, and this is builtin hydroponic setup. Edited May 17, 2012 by BBGONE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Auxin Posted June 9, 2012 ...you only need one mature Eriocereus to produce seeds because you can produce Eriocereus seeds with Echinopsis pollen as father...Bit of confusion here, I found corroborating reports that doing that cross will induce a selfing of the Eriocereus, not a rare phenomena, the confusing bit is some people say E. jusbertii is just normally self infertile and most clones are the same plant, other people say that even genetically distinct seed grown plants cant fertilize eachother. Any observations on that issue? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
