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 scruffymafia
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 T. bridgesii? 
#8582301 - 07/01/08 12:58 AM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hey, i went to my local version of walmart and found these 3 un-labeled cacti for a few bucks each. I instantly thought T. bridgesii but i am unsure because i have never actually seen a T. bridgesii in real-life. They are in pretty bad shape, 2 of them have massive (and i mean really massive) mealy bug infestations, they are on the body, in the roots, soil, everywhere. Oh btw if anyone has any good cures for that, it would be greatly appreciated 
The cacti have a weird black ring around the base of the spines and black tips on the long spines (the small spines are totally black) which make me wonder if they really are Tricho's - bridgesii's to be precise. The mature spines are quite thick (much thicker than my long spine pedro) and the aeroles a very similar to tricho aeroles.
Any help would be awesome, cheers!!
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Edited by scruffymafia (07/01/08 01:09 AM)
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 plainswalker
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Looks like Myrtillocactus geometrizans to me.
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CptnGarden
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yeah blue myrtle
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scruffymafia
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Oh well. I was gutted but then i started to research the cacti, its a pretty damn cool cacti. Apparently its better for grafting peyote than pereskiopsis's and trichocereus's. And it has edible fruit that resemble bilberrys, which are like blueberrys. It is used in mexico as a food crop.
So im quite happy to keep these guys on. At least it legitimizes my cacti collection now
Cheers guys!!! 
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CptnGarden
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yeah man right on, i used to have quite a few and some animal ate them, only cactus ive lost to an animal, maybe a deer or a dog?
none the less they are VERY hardy and put off an awesome blue color that anyone can approve of 
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royer
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they are good for grafting but not even close to being as good as pereskiopsis's and trichocereus's imo
cpw and myself had had very very VERY SLOOOOOOOOW growth with our grafts
nice to have though
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kadakuda
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 Re: T. bridgesii? [Re: royer]
#8586939 - 07/02/08 09:35 AM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
royer9864 said:
they are good for grafting but not even close to being as good as pereskiopsis's and trichocereus's imo
cpw and myself had had very very VERY SLOOOOOOOOW growth with our grafts
nice to have though
really?
i mean, nothing beats pereskiopsis speed, but i find myrtle much better than trich's. people here often say they need high heat to do well, maybe tis a climate thing? i use myrtle a lot for lophs and they grow pretty fast on them.
they also seem better suited to take harder lasting rains than trichs (which surprised me). i have an outdoor bed i have myrtle, T.pachanoi and T.peruvianus in. during the last rains and typhoon (about 3 weeks of solid rain) half the pedros rotted (some of the nice cuttings you gave me royer, i was crushed!) one peruvianus started to rot from a snail bit area, but all the myrtles are pluggin galogn nicely with not even a brown spot 
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Re: T. bridgesii? [Re: kadakuda]
#8586985 - 07/02/08 10:11 AM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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maybe it is a climate thing because cpw and i are very close location wise.
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