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LSoares
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Zed's cacti pictures 5
#19668326 - 03/08/14 04:20 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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As suggested, here's the thread for the photographs of my plants. Enjoy.
I'll kick off with the most beloved of all the cacti in the Shroomery: the peyote. A few days of sun and a quick splash of water sent my kids into an unexpected flowering frenzy.
My oldest/biggest Lophophora. Not much to brag about, I never liked spending tens of dollars on big plants, I was more into buying them smallish and let them grow.

Another plant I got on a trade, nothing special about it either:

Mi first graft (and re-graft), a plant I grew in 2011 from seed collected from the first one above, grafted to Pereskiopsis weeks after sprouting and regrafted to Myrtillocactus last year. BTW, it's sole surviving sibling is almost as big (and noticeably better looking) than this, growing on it's own roots.

A plant I bought as Lophophora williamsii decipiens. Not sure of what exactly it is, but the pink flowers are pretty.

And lastly, L. williamsii Berna Leche, sown 2008. Since I started seeing my seedlings get into miniatures of the adults and then flowering, plant buying times were over for me: now I only buy seeds. It will take several years to get those beautiful groups I see in pictures, but it will be so much more fun!
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Re: Zed's cacti pictures [Re: LSoares]
#19668420 - 03/08/14 04:45 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Awesome man. Weird how the own root and graft are going at the same pace. I hear ya about the appearance of grafts. My idea is that if I can get some to flowering maturity early I can then produce all the nice own root plants I want from that.
Sweet collection!
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That's good stuff. The first pic is beautiful as are all of them.
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Re: Zed's cacti pictures [Re: verbage]
#19670347 - 03/09/14 01:11 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Corporal Kielbasa said: Awesome man. Weird how the own root and graft are going at the same pace.
Thanks. That's more my fault for letting the grafted one stall on the Peres than skill on growing the other...
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Corporal Kielbasa said: My idea is that if I can get some to flowering maturity early I can then produce all the nice own root plants I want from that.
This is the reason why I plan to graft more plants this year, the ones from rarer varieties. 
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verbage said: That's good stuff. The first pic is beautiful as are all of them.
Thank you, V.
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Re: Zed's cacti pictures [Re: LSoares]
#19670353 - 03/09/14 01:13 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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This thread is going to be a veritable feast for the eyes!
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Awesome
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Re: Zed's cacti pictures [Re: LSoares]
#19672961 - 03/09/14 07:03 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Really glad this thread was made.
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Re: Zed's cacti pictures [Re: karode13]
#19684025 - 03/12/14 02:59 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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A little midweek update with another less common species. Unfortunately, only one seedling made it (out of 10 seeds, if I recall correctly) from this 2009 sowing: Echinomastus intertextus "fa. minima" VZD826. These plants are very prone to root loss and demand a very free draining mineral substrate.
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Re: Zed's cacti pictures [Re: LSoares]
#19684206 - 03/12/14 05:03 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Nice pics!
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LSoares said: And lastly, L. williamsii Berna Leche, sown 2008. Since I started seeing my seedlings get into miniatures of the adults and then flowering, plant buying times were over for me: now I only buy seeds. It will take several years to get those beautiful groups I see in pictures, but it will be so much more fun!

That's good!
Also one good thing about growing plant from seed is actually the fact it grows from seed to adult at same environment, same grower and same soil.. As well as most of us know, lophs especially shock and take bad skin or appearance due to dramatic changes in soil or surrounding environment.
Sudden environmental changes can shock or change appearance of cactus.. When I buy, I buy as young as possible specimens because they seems to adapt to new environment more easier compared to big and old ones.
Anyway, easier to keep plants at shape and looking good when grown from seed to mature and their environment never change(in habitat, they never move anyway)
How long you'r lophs take from seed to flowering in your cultivation? (earliest and latest)
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intelligentlife said: How long you'r lophs take from seed to flowering in your cultivation? (earliest and latest)
Well, I can't tell about the latest because it's down to each individual. One of the populations I sowed in 2008 (Cardona) hasn't flowered yet, but it's probably because I keep the four plants crammed in too small a pot... The soonest for L. williamsii I would say is during their fourth year (own roots), but I suppose you could make it sooner with lots of fertilizer and / or artificial lights. 4-5 years for most of the plants under my conditions (lots of sun and heat). L. koehresii seems to be able to flower when a lot smaller, but I haven't raised any from seed to maturity, yet.
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Re: Zed's cacti pictures [Re: LSoares] 1
#19707611 - 03/17/14 08:13 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Two lousy pics of another classic: Turbinicarpus mandragora subsp. subterraneus P362. It may seem to suffer from gross mishandling, but I assure you that's the way it naturally grows: from a large underground tuber, a thin neck arises and trails along with a small body on the end. This particular plant is the only survivor of its lot, had the growing point damaged very early and so grew with these two heads. Sown 2009, flowering for the first time this year.

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#19717190 - 03/19/14 04:34 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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This genus is sometimes mentioned as being psychoactive. I have no idea if it's true or not.
Epithelantha micromeris subsp. neomexicana, showing that it's actually difficult to keep this species from self-sowing.

Epithelantha micromeris subsp. micromeris, allegedly. It should be self fertile but it's not. I must take some time, one day, to figure out what it is. It should probably be repotted one of this days, but I'm too lazy for that...

(I didn't grow these from seed, BTW)
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Re: Zed's cacti pictures [Re: LSoares]
#19722880 - 03/20/14 09:45 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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LSoares said: Two lousy pics of another classic: Turbinicarpus mandragora subsp. subterraneus P362. It may seem to suffer from gross mishandling, but I assure you that's the way it naturally grows: from a large underground tuber, a thin neck arises and trails along with a small body on the end. This particular plant is the only survivor of its lot, had the growing point damaged very early and so grew with these two heads. Sown 2009, flowering for the first time this year.


Wow that cactus is bad ass
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Re: Zed's cacti pictures [Re: LSoares]
#19725591 - 03/20/14 08:07 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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I somehow missed those rad pipe looking Turbinicarpus. Wow!
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Re: Zed's cacti pictures [Re: karode13]
#19733220 - 03/22/14 05:04 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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I told the tale of this plant elsewhere. Now it has decided to show me two things: that it will not give up easily and that Lophophora diffusa flowers a couple of weeks after L. williamsii starts.
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Re: Zed's cacti pictures [Re: LSoares]
#19733236 - 03/22/14 05:09 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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-------------------- ~Namaste~

Edited by lol98xlol98 (03/22/14 05:13 PM)
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The best news of the weekend: this bud.

I have three plants of this, my favourite species of cactus (Pelecyphora aselliformis), and this is the first time any of them is budding.
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Re: Zed's cacti pictures [Re: LSoares]
#19737893 - 03/23/14 06:48 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wow Z, you've got some seriously awesome cacti man...
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