seba Posted July 24, 2004 information on the named cactus or in another case directions in where to obtain it, also gustaria me whom to me finders recommend. gracias Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M S Smith Posted July 25, 2004 I've never encountered a monstrose T. macrogonus. Often you can find a monstrose T. pachanoi, but usually these are mislabeled plants and are in fact versions of the monstrose short spined T. peruvianus. ~Michael~ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rev Posted July 26, 2004 I think this is interesting www.mushmush.nl http://www.mushmush.nl/?page=homegalleryca...en_zien_vanaf=6 These guys have expanded into cacti from shrooms and have a projecy using micropropagation to generate and multply cristate, vareigated and msostrose T pachanoi and L williamsii http://www.mushmush.nl/?page=homegalleryca...n_zien_vanaf=24 latest news seems that high cytokinin levels can induce cristate in vitro http://www.mushmush.nl/?page=homegallerytissue_culture Another article i read elsewhere says that seedlig grafting cacti to pereskiopsis or other , growing then decapitating to root and allow the base to pup more at growing points (areoles) gives rise to a significantly higher rate of cristates. Quite possibly by the same or similar mechanisms as the in vitro forcing Relying prob on waking many growing points a small proportion of which have some anomaly or mutation that will manifest as an unusual form It also seems mush mush has beat me to my plan of forcing on Trich seedlings using pereskiopsis You can see the multiple shoots here. 7 months old grafted http://www.mushmush.nl/images/gallery/cact...even_months.jpg vs 5 months traditional style http://www.mushmush.nl/images/gallery/cact...onths_thumb.jpg (Unas a great techie but an SOB for linking to...follow the link to see what i mean, you have to wade through the site to find the pics) good to see it works as well as i guessed it might anyway This will certainly lessen the time needed for breeding work and ultimately for releasing favourable crosses [ 26. July 2004, 17:48: Message edited by: reville ] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
