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Big L
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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: karode13] 3
#18840573 - 09/14/13 10:12 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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So I have been watching this guy grow for a little while now. I have no idea where it came from, but it is the best weed I have ever found in my trichs. Since I snuck some spines in the pictures, I figured they would be cool here. It also shows that Trichs don't mind consistant damp soil, as long as it is very well draining.
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psi
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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: Big L]
#18840647 - 09/14/13 10:45 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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A Drosera? Fucking awesome man.
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gopener
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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: Big L]
#18840683 - 09/14/13 10:54 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Big L said: So I have been watching this guy grow for a little while now. I have no idea where it came from, but it is the best weed I have ever found in my trichs. Since I snuck some spines in the pictures, I figured they would be cool here. It also shows that Trichs don't mind consistant damp soil, as long as it is very well draining.

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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: gopener]
#18840792 - 09/14/13 11:28 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Is anyone leave trichocereus in dormancy? I was thinking to introduce them slowly in dormancy, bat i dont really know if its good idea.. We have nice winters here and temperature never drops 10 C, bat i want to hard grow them.. Is it dump idea?..
Also i have them with shade cloth with my other cacti, do i need to introduce them in the full sun slowly to not etiolate, or they will be cool with shade cloth?They have 4 hours direct sun with shade cloth every day.
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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: Big L]
#18841032 - 09/14/13 12:50 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Is that a sundew plant?
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intelligentlife
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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: gopener]
#18841061 - 09/14/13 01:04 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Just stop watering your trichos.. Water only when it's necessary. Small spray of water at winter if necessary is okay.. they can go long time without water.
If possible now in your climate night time are going longer, and days are getting colder. Stop giving water to them and prevent them to get water from rain. Long time without water they don't grow also and without water and cooler air with short day time keep them dry long time so winter etiolation doesn't happen.
However, I don't know your climate and especially cacti cultivation there but using common sense just let them start dehydrating and give water only when necessary with spraying some on their skin or to soil but not so much.. I think cactus will getting used to your climate..
In my climate, many growers dormant their cactus collection indoors at windowsill or basement under low light at room temperature somewhere (+10C basement)+15-20C but they doesn't give any water to them and light amount they got are very poor. Cacti don't etiolate and grow cause they don't get water, even temperatures can be at day somewhere +20C randomly.
Later on when spring sun is starting to show more and plants woke up, at this point collectors start giving water little by little and cactus plants starts to swollen with water again.. They have many kind of plants from cobulars to columnars, no matter of cactus but without water long time they will stop etiolation growth no matter of temperature if it's sometimes goes up to +20C at day..
At least in there cactus collectors do this and sometimes spray water on top of their cactus mid-winter to let them get some moisture trough skin but no more. They keep plants indoors half of the year and 4-6months without any drops of water.. Summers in greenhouse many echinopsis, opuntia, mammillaria and so on will bloom fine.
Some cactus collectors keep their plants all year round indoors at windowsill and success to get cactus flowering, like mammillaria plants are good example from this. They will shrink cause of no water half of the year at winter to very small and loose and sometimes they are at the drift of cold air coming from window, then collectors starts giving water to them when sun is heating enough and at spring and summer they bloom nicely. Some species bloom before winter or at start of winter when they has been without water.. Most famous cactus there is "holiday cactus" and it's relatives.
If your climate are good and temps doesn't drop below +10C at winter, just keep your trichos without water, start giving water when day temperatures are climing up to +25C or something. I have still more experience of indoor cactus growing instead of outdoors so I can say don't trust totally what I say but for me sounds reasonable to start dehydrating your trichos and give water when spring starts to warm up days. Where you keep your plants over winter? Are they size of ~15cm or size of +50cm or what?
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Big L
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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: psi]
#18841184 - 09/14/13 01:55 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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psi said: A Drosera? Fucking awesome man.
Thanks. I am positive that is what it is. I have never grown any Drosera.  The seed probably came in with another plant and got mixed in there. It likes the coir mixture, and is thriving. I am going to transplant it before I put my cacti into dormancy.
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gopener
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Thanks for the reply IntelligentLife!
For now all my cacti are small enough, except one huge aloe vera, witch is exposed to weather from seedling, she is 5 years old and this year i took it from the previous owner, witch i know well.
I have them all, except the aloe, outside in a shelf furniture with shade cloth ,the hours of direct sun (4 hours per day).Now i took some transparent nylon and cover the furniture, to be ready for the rains. I dont know what i will do with aloe..i guess i will figure out.
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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: gopener]
#18843431 - 09/15/13 05:24 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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gopener said: Is anyone leave trichocereus in dormancy? I was thinking to introduce them slowly in dormancy, bat i dont really know if its good idea.. We have nice winters here and temperature never drops 10 C, bat i want to hard grow them.. Is it dump idea?..
Also i have them with shade cloth with my other cacti, do i need to introduce them in the full sun slowly to not etiolate, or they will be cool with shade cloth?They have 4 hours direct sun with shade cloth every day.
As you might already know all of my Trich's live outside all year round and i belive if your weather permits this then do so. The growth that i get through winter is marginal but they are always so healthy looking and they start pupping during winter and spring. I am unsure of your climate but of you are saying your min temps are 10 deg C then you wont have any frost issues. I will post my climate info abit later so you can compare yours to make a decision on what to do.
Cheers Got
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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: GoOnThen]
#18843496 - 09/15/13 06:33 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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So, you say i can keep water them, and just protect them from the rain? I say protect from the rain, to have a more controlled watering schedule.
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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: gopener]
#18843536 - 09/15/13 07:16 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Mine are out in the rain as are most of the growers in Australia I will start watering them once it stops raining. Actually have just started planting mine in the ground today. As long as Trichs are in free draining soil they can handle a lot of water. When i took a big Peruvian out of it pot today it was very root bound and it was very wet in the pot with no sign of any problems. In the 4 to 5 years I have been growing Trichs I have never had one rot and they have been out side in the elements all of the time.
This applies to Trich's only. Although I do have some other cacti out in the elements they need to be assessed one an individual basis.
There are many people all over the world that grow out in the elements it just comes down to the local climate. A lot of the people that bring there Trich's inside and put them into dormancy live in areas that get freezing temps and snow and i believe that because that includes alot of American growers it gets talked about alot on boards like this but if you go to an Australian forum like the corroboree you will find alot of people growing in the ground. I don't know of an Australian grower other than newbies that bring there Trichs in out of the rain.
Cheers Got
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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: GoOnThen]
#18843565 - 09/15/13 07:31 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Great info mate,
Yes here all cacti growers have there cacti in the ground too, bat not only trichs, a lot of varieties, like other cereus species, barrels etc.. I thought that they do it because they don't know..They have them in a mostly compost mix from peat too, so i thought wtf are they doing?..
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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: ferrel_human]
#18843601 - 09/15/13 07:49 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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i started these a year and a half ago, my first. i think i came close to killing them and am so happy i didn't.
now i just have to not kill them over the next decade or so

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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: masspan]
#18853721 - 09/17/13 02:17 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Bought these this year from local nursery. Biggest was 10 cm long . They almoust doubled this year with 6 months. One started to rot and had to be cut.
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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: botha]
#18853780 - 09/17/13 02:33 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Not to brag or anything, but I also bought a bridgesii cluster like yours from a hardware store this spring, the largest one was 15 cm tall, and is now just over 50 cm!!  Yours look great, amazing spination on them!
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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: Tangich]
#18854170 - 09/17/13 03:50 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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I just love the appearance of t. bridgesii 
...jealous... in a good way.. 
I have some bridesii seedlings and log cutting on the way to let 'em grow.. Next summer I show them my greenhouse and keep them there to get nice appearance for them..
Winter is coming, I have to keep them at dormant. My t. bridgesii ain't so big yet that they starts to have their beautiful bluish coloration to skin. Patience is good.
Beautiful indeed! Nice find tho. What are those white spots on the cactus? You sure you have check them in case of mealies? ..Damn I just hate those bugs. Winter is coming and I fear the worst, they will start to colonize my garden again..
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Hi guys first cacti arrived today, a pair of 20mm tall trichocherus hybrids
seller listed them as ((ss01 x ss01) x kimnach) san pedro/peruvian/arioc.
Not 100% sure on what this means in terms of growth rates and alkaloid content or how to upload pictures from my phone....
Either way ill put pics up as soon as i can and update with any interesting developments
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Tangich


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intelligentlife said: What are those white spots on the cactus? You sure you have check them in case of mealies?
Enlarge the photo, those are water droplets.
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intelligentlife
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Re: Trichocereus Growers Unite! [Re: Tangich]
#18856698 - 09/18/13 04:04 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Tangich said:
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intelligentlife said: What are those white spots on the cactus? You sure you have check them in case of mealies?
Enlarge the photo, those are water droplets.
Sorry cannot still see for sure what they are.. I always enlarge the photos when looking them. Probably flashlight has done the trick.
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Tangich


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Have you tried clicking the little square in the bottom right corner? It expands the image to full size. That's what I meant.
Here's a bridgesii from a garden centre, currently 53 cm tall, 37 cm of new growth this summer (from the red arrow up).
Edited by Tangich (09/18/13 04:31 AM)
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