unorthodox bridgesii forms

[Rev]

Melted wax monstrose

Four ribbed variation

[apothecary]

Beautiful Rev.

Almost as mesmerising as CSs avatar.

[ 04. July 2005, 07:21: Message edited by: apothecary ]

[Evil Genius]

The four directions:-)

I actually never saw these brigessii monstrose forms go back to the normal growth again. Looks really cool!

[teonanacatl]

wicked hows propagation going

[Rev]

its not really

these r my only specimens so far

when i get some $$$ ill go back to the source for more materials if they are still available

i have no idea how stable these forms are

the 4 ribs in particular reverts sometimes - see the pup below to the left has 6 ribs

so that more advanced forms of propagation have dubious value - such as areole grafting

[AndyAmine.]

now that melted wax form is kool.. Iiii just gots ta get one!

[planthelper]

the welted wax monstrous is not a real monstrous form, but rather a normal brigesii.

if one takes a cutting from cacti's they sometimes start growing in a monstrous or better say candlelight fashion, i got a specimen which i think is a scop which did the same thing. so sorry but this is not a monstrous form.

real monstrous forms will never revert back to normal, well never say never, but you know what i mean, valvoline,lol...

so that means one cannot probagate a candle cacti, as sooner or later they will start growing normal again.

sorry andyamine, forget your wish...

[ 04. July 2005, 14:10: Message edited by: planthelper ]

[AndyAmine.]

Well Ive got about 150 bridgesii seeds to germinate this spring so hopefully Ill get one out of that eh PH..

[Gunter]

I love that four ribbed one.

Thanks!

[toby]

The 'melted wax' is quite different to the usual shinier skinned bridgesii tho.. tends to grow a bit thicker, I made one cutting from this type, (normal growing section)and it turned monstroe again! Don't know if it's a useful form tho..

[Rev]

AndyAmine.:

Well Ive got about 150 bridgesii seeds to germinate this spring so hopefully Ill get one out of that eh PH..

good luck

i grew out over 1000 seeds and found bridgesii to be suprisingly uniform so far. a bit of variation in spine length and growth artes but thats all

not a single cristate, monstrose or variegated one ina the whole lot

whereas most of my other seed - turbinicarpus, lophs, echinopsis hybrids, astros throw a large percentage of muatnt forms

maybe something to do with being in cultivation longer vs wild collected seeds

and Turps that makes sense

i spoke to the source and it isnt stable

but i think the traits is inbuilt and it fluctuates, reverting back and forth

P/helper i would say its IS "monstrose"

just not in the same way as the dick plant

its def not normal so it must be a kind of monstrose