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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: Soloist] 4
#28160763 - 01/28/23 03:33 AM (1 year, 13 hours ago) |
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I think there might be something to letting your lophs go dormant to trigger them to flower, at least for this little guy that is the case.
This plant is very old, and has never once flowered. I never have let any of my cacti go dormant before, ever.
This guy actually got some pretty cold temps outside this fall, which caused it to go dormant on me. Well, it did him some good because now I see a flower bud finally, after all this time!
Too bad that they are self sterile,and that I only have the one 
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: KannaKris] 2
#28161573 - 01/28/23 04:04 PM (1 year, 1 hour ago) |
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6 days (40 or so)
About 3 months
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: Soloist] 2
#28177314 - 02/08/23 08:48 AM (11 months, 13 days ago) |
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Recently moved this one inside when I noticed her first bud forming. Her first flower opened today, with second bud incoming.

Attempted manual pollination with double bloom on neighboring plant (which was selfed yesterday). Iβve completely given up on tracking number of flowers on individual plants. The flowers are too small to tag, so once they dry/shrivel I donβt have a good system for monitoring them or keeping records. Just gonna pollinate when I can; at minimum, every flower gets selfed, and when timing works out, I cross. Beyond that Iβm just letting them do what they do, and admiring their progress. PC pups still rooting for a springtime scion transfer to new rootstock.
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my god thats a beauty!
How do I get mine looking like that ? lol
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: Luminous7] 1
#28178488 - 02/08/23 10:31 PM (11 months, 12 days ago) |
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those lophs are ridiculously beautiful! the way the one is a tower of pups is unreal. i imagine that one is quite mature
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: hazyhorse] 1
#28182215 - 02/11/23 11:36 AM (11 months, 10 days ago) |
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The First one was smaller than the tip of my pinky and all shriveled up didnt expect it to survive, 15 flowers this season!
Second one is grafted to a pachanoi and was about 2cm when I grafted it. Its had about 60 flower this season! the other day I counted 15 blooming at once!
I just degrafted it yesterday 
Both would be coming up 3 years since I got them
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Only 3 years? wow they are huge.
Can you give me some pointers on soil mix? I think this is my main obstacle is I dont have the best soil for em.
I made a mix of Some store bought cactus / succulent mix ( like miracle grow branbd i think)
A bit of Coconut coir , and some fine beach sand . I sterilized it all before using.
Im thinking i need more rocks and minerals / sand and gravel and low nutrients?
again yours are SO beautiful. Good stuff
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: Luminous7]
#28186091 - 02/13/23 07:44 PM (11 months, 7 days ago) |
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Been looking into the βrock eaters dietβ lately. Think Iβm going to try and go more on that route when my seedlings are a bit bigger.
Anyone have experience here?
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: Soloist]
#28188211 - 02/15/23 07:30 AM (11 months, 6 days ago) |
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Bloody Crows ate half of a lw graft, hope they enjoy there afternoon.
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Heart of darkness said: Bloody Crows ate half of a lw graft, hope they enjoy there afternoon.
Dude that fucking sucks

(I am a sucker for crows though..I really hope they found what they were looking for!)
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Edited by Soloist (02/15/23 12:29 PM)
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: Soloist]
#28188587 - 02/15/23 12:28 PM (11 months, 6 days ago) |
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Iβd like to ask you guys what mix you use for your lophs? Thinking my 4 month old seedlings might be ready to make the transition to a more appropriate soil mix.
Iβve been reading This members mix here, which seems simple enough. Though I would probably drop down the organics and go somewhere between that and Stone eaters diet.
Iβd love some insider info!
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: Soloist]
#28188988 - 02/15/23 04:26 PM (11 months, 6 days ago) |
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I just got home and noticed about 4-5 of my sprouts are yellowing from the bottom up and starting to dieβ¦freaking a little.. Whatβs the mortality rate on sprouts?
They have been on a seedling heating pad since day one, could that be the issue? Maybe itβs getting too much for them? Plugged it into my timer so they will have break at night and Iβm setting it lower for now. The older ones are great with it.
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: Soloist]
#28189393 - 02/15/23 09:06 PM (11 months, 5 days ago) |
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Solo, you got pics? My bet would be too much water, these are desert cacti used to high heat.
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: Luminous7]
#28189632 - 02/16/23 12:40 AM (11 months, 5 days ago) |
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Mostly pumice and some dirt I dug up, which is like a fine clay.

I do nute em up though seaweed/bloodnbone
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: Soloist]
#28189709 - 02/16/23 03:02 AM (11 months, 5 days ago) |
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turtle_hermit said: Solo, you got pics? My bet would be too much water, these are desert cacti used to high heat.
They were sprouted in a takeout tek, same as I did on my first attempt. Straight organic soil, high humidity. But, in reading what you said Iβm realizing that my obsessive checking on them when I get home from work everyday, ends up putting that condensation back into the soilβ¦kinda makes sense. That didnβt happen on the first go.

Iβve taken the lid off and turned the heating pad back up, dry them out a little. Wonβt be home for 12 hours so π€π»
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Edited by Soloist (02/16/23 05:07 PM)
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: Soloist]
#28190509 - 02/16/23 05:12 PM (11 months, 4 days ago) |
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Welp, itβs on the universe now. 13 hours later the soil has lost a good amount of moisture. Lid went back on and Iβm leaving the heating pad on the timer under the pretense of mimicking the nighttime temp drops, also-Iβm not fucking touching it.
I know they are tough spirits, though I donβt know how tough at this age. Worst case my other 4 seedlings are strong (their sprouting process was actually a bit different) Time will tell. Hoping for the best.
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HurricaneBreeze said: Mostly pumice and some dirt I dug up, which is like a fine clay.

I do nute em up though seaweed/bloodnbone
What do you use for seaweed? I harvested some local species that I plan to use as a tea for my trichs one they wake up.
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: Soloist] 2
#28197339 - 02/21/23 11:27 AM (11 months, 5 hours ago) |
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Sold as caespitose lw

 Two pics of the same caespitose unlabeled loph

Fricii I grew from seeds from etsy, grafted to myrtillocactus

Little guy I grew from seed and micro-grafted to pere, before a de-graft

Same little guy after re-graft
 I'll get a pic here of its progress, it's been a couple months since the re-graft now.
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: Soloist]
#28197740 - 02/21/23 04:32 PM (11 months, 32 minutes ago) |
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Welp, itβs on the universe now. 13 hours later the soil has lost a good amount of moisture. Lid went back on and Iβm leaving the heating pad on the timer under the pretense of mimicking the nighttime temp drops, also- Iβm not fucking touching it.
3-5 out of 50 seems to have survived. Ouch. Steep learning curve. Just happy for the ones that did. Toughest of the bunch I guess.
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Edited by Soloist (02/21/23 04:34 PM)
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Re: Loph Growers Unite! [Re: Soloist] 1
#28197833 - 02/21/23 05:37 PM (10 months, 30 days ago) |
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All the anthocyanins went away
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