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    #22502896 - 11/09/15 10:15 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

So in another thread I've shown how my salvias are sick and dying. I've decided to make a new thread about how my other plants aren't sick and dying. So here's some pics. Please feel free to provide advice. The seedlings are in some seed starter mix I forget the brand. The other cacti are in soil I mixed up using limestone, gravel, worm castings and perlite. I water them with pH 6ish water and fertilize them rarely with half strength ferts. The original plan was to grow peres and peyotes but I suck at grafting (I've tried like 4 times now) and hate cutting my babies. I have a lot of bridgesii seedlings and only a few pedro and peruvian torch seedlings but I can't tell which are which because I wrote it down and forget where I wrote it.

That's a woody old pereskiopsis in the foreground. Cacti are pedros and peyotes.


Some cacti seedlings. Some peyotes look healthier than others. Not sure when to transplant. A couple have some white colouration on their tops, almost like powder.










lophophora caespitosa, peruvian torch and pedros but can't remember which trichs are which 







Some bridgesii:







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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22503321 - 11/10/15 01:47 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

those are some nice seedlings man, good job ::thumbup:

how old are those lophs?


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: Rafiikii]
    #22503776 - 11/10/15 07:07 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Jellyfish,
Nice looking seedlings dude! That four ribbed bridgesii(i think its 4 sided , looks like itmwill grow up a beast)
The mix you have them in sounds fine with one exception , I don't think roots do very well penetrating gravel , so if you have rocks at the bottom of the pot I'd suggest removing them because soil can smell and become anaerobic with rocks blocking oxygen at the bottom.

I've found rocks causing more trouble than they're worth having for decorations.

I've also got a low,success rate for grafting , maybe like 3/10 tries have worked. Still have never been able to graft Pereskiposis yet. I think connecting lophs to Peres is more difficult than lophs to trichocereus


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: JayZ Morgan]
    #22504278 - 11/10/15 09:51 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Jellyfish,
Nice looking seedlings dude! That four ribbed bridgesii(i think its 4 sided , looks like itmwill grow up a beast)
The mix you have them in sounds fine with one exception , I don't think roots do very well penetrating gravel , so if you have rocks at the bottom of the pot I'd suggest removing them because soil can smell and become anaerobic with rocks blocking oxygen at the bottom.

I've found rocks causing more trouble than they're worth having for decorations.

I've also got a low,success rate for grafting , maybe like 3/10 tries have worked. Still have never been able to graft Pereskiposis yet. I think connecting lophs to Peres is more difficult than lophs to trichocereus




Get some parafilm.  You use a 3/4" square of that stuff, stretch it out then pull it down over your scion to seal and put some pressure on it and your success rate will shoot to 99%.  Pretty foolproof, so long as you have good sterile technique.  Dirty work will lead to some nasty rot with the extra humidity.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: P.Zappatecorum]
    #22504545 - 11/10/15 10:59 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Those lophs were planted in Feb. I have mad parafilm, never thought to use it but that's a great tip I'll try that. I didn't add gravel for decoration I literally just mixed up the same soil mix as the dude who I get my seeds from because his plants are really nice and healthy. I figured it's just for drainage but I could stop using it and double up on perlite instead.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22504849 - 11/10/15 12:20 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Gravel mixed inside is fine IMO, I think he's talking about a bottom layer of rocks or a topping of straight gravel, both of which can trap moisture.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: P.Zappatecorum]
    #22505061 - 11/10/15 01:19 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Your plants look soo healthy dude. Great job:super:


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: spaceman101]
    #22506174 - 11/10/15 05:22 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

:amusedapplause:
Lookin nice!


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: cowsRmeat]
    #22508863 - 11/11/15 11:08 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Should I transplant those babies into a more adult soil mix. As you can see there's a bit of green shit growing in it and a couple of the cacti have died.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22513056 - 11/12/15 09:07 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I would say, Yes Jellyfish. You are now ready to give them them the first repot to their own containers. There are all kinds of threads on here about cacti soil mixes, but yes. get some pots and cacti soil. Also, you might want some nice rocks to help support the cacti at this stage to an upright position. I find that when they Lean and fall over, you can correct them with a rock or 2 near the base, or sometimes a top layer of gravel.

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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: kizatzhaddarak]
    #22513084 - 11/12/15 09:14 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

In my original post I've outlined what I put into my own cactus mix. I've been waiting to get more worm castings to mix up some more but unless anyone sees a problem with it thats what I will continue to use.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22515026 - 11/12/15 05:35 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Nice seedlings indeed, keep on practicing with the grafting and you will get more used to it.

Cutting up precious baby cacti can be painful especially if you don't even succeed with the graft but its very worth it when you do.

Just start with whatever you have the most of so losing some isn't as big a deal, that has been my plan :lol:


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: musiclover420]
    #22515294 - 11/12/15 07:01 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Aww yea. One of my seedling caespitosa just started pupping. Going to upload a pic now. I have my peres in cactus soil I've mixed up. Limestone, worm castings, gravel and perlite. They always start off nice then lose their leaves and look like shit. Should I keep them in a soil less designed for cacti? Like regular potting soil? I have some promix I bought for my salvias. Just a thought.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22515349 - 11/12/15 07:18 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Forgot to take a pic of this plant last time:



And here's the pup:



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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22515437 - 11/12/15 07:39 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I have a ton of pere in regular potting soil doing quite well. I even re potted one that was in a less rich cactus mix into straight fertile soil.

From what I have seen of pere they appreciate rich soil and pretty much all the water you can give em. Same with most plants though I guess.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: musiclover420]
    #22515492 - 11/12/15 07:48 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Yea alright I'm going to try potting soil for them. And my seedlings I'm going to transplant as soon as I get worm castings to mix up soil. I'm thinking of getting some more seeds for the seedling tray. Maybe 100 caespitosa lophs or something. They're pretty cool.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22515506 - 11/12/15 07:53 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Caespitosa are cool indeed, they go crazy when grafted :eek:


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: musiclover420]
    #22561815 - 11/23/15 12:00 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Don't all peyotes go crazy when grafted? I was thinking there'd be no point to grafting my caespitose ones. I was wondering, how do you get peyotes and trichs to flower? That one san pedro I have is pretty damn big, it's never flowered. Is there a way to trigger it? I know my peyotes are still too small but I would like to start collecting seed asap.

edit: These guys are under fluorescent lights. They are on 16/8. Are they too weak to allow flowering? Do they need a special light schedule or temperature to flower? In the winter the light cycle is the same and temperature is only a tad lower so I don't think they go into dormancy. Is there a way to get them to? Is that necessary for flowering? I guess I'm asking about both peyotes and pedros.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22561958 - 11/23/15 01:09 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Grafting definitely causes some over the top features a lot but with caes they form crazy mass of pups. Its nuts :crazy2:

They big yote cluster I bought on ebay flowered this summer once or twice after I put it outside in the warmest part of the season.

Never had a trich flower yet, I think having them go dormant in the winter helps. That way they store up energy to flower when it warms up.

They may just need a warm sunny climate though :shrug:

I haven't read up much of flowering either so that is all I know really, grafting yotes can speed up their flowering/ seeding age a fuckton though.

Like 30~ years to flower from seed in the wild I have heard and you can get them to flower grafted in around 1 year...

About dormancy, I have some trichs still outside in this 30-40 low weather that seem to have gone dormant. They still get a bit of sun but not much now.

I think temp an water are the biggest factors, stop watering them and put them somewhere cool with less light and they should go dormant.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: musiclover420]
    #22565948 - 11/23/15 10:42 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Grafting definitely causes some over the top features a lot but with caes they form crazy mass of pups. Its nuts :crazy2:

They big yote cluster I bought on ebay flowered this summer once or twice after I put it outside in the warmest part of the season.

Never had a trich flower yet, I think having them go dormant in the winter helps. That way they store up energy to flower when it warms up.

They may just need a warm sunny climate though :shrug:

I haven't read up much of flowering either so that is all I know really, grafting yotes can speed up their flowering/ seeding age a fuckton though.

Like 30~ years to flower from seed in the wild I have heard and you can get them to flower grafted in around 1 year...

About dormancy, I have some trichs still outside in this 30-40 low weather that seem to have gone dormant. They still get a bit of sun but not much now.

I think temp an water are the biggest factors, stop watering them and put them somewhere cool with less light and they should go dormant.



I believe that trichs are short day, late summer bloomers, so you need hot temps and shorter days, not something that really happens very often in the PNW.  A nursery owner I know said his big pedros bloomed a year or two ago when we had a really warm summer that lasted well into late August/Early September.  The other thing is that most trichocereus need to be pretty large before they will flower.  Anyway, it's hard to get any of the warm weather late season bloomers to go around here.  Astros and lophophora bloom easily once they're mature though, if you want cactus flowers and your falls are cool and wet it's best to focus on spring blooming species.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: P.Zappatecorum]
    #22566234 - 11/24/15 12:32 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Do you think indoor flowering of trichs would be possible in the PNW and other less suitable climates using supplemental light?

I have a dream of driving down south with a GPS and trying to establish "wild" patches of trichs using plants I have grown.

Then I can just gps all the locations to check up on them when I can.

Would be even cooler to own some southern property...

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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: musiclover420]
    #22567163 - 11/24/15 09:37 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

What. . Like southern Oregon?. . oh hell yeah. . that sounds great. the climate would be like Peru.

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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: kizatzhaddarak]
    #22567219 - 11/24/15 09:54 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I was thinking cali since it is even warmer but southern Or would be sweet too.

I am not sure how far south would be best for them go grow optimally though.
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Fantastic Idea. :laugh:




Thanks :cool: I would love to do it with peyote too to help make up for its over harvesting.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: musiclover420]
    #22570718 - 11/24/15 10:02 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Dude I'm soooo Jelly:smirk:


Your plants look wonderful "especially your hard grown lophs" for their age:super:


I can't wait to see how these turn out in the next 3 years or so:wink:



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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: musiclover420]
    #22570754 - 11/24/15 10:12 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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I was thinking cali since it is even warmer but southern Or would be sweet too.

I am not sure how far south would be best for them go grow optimally though.
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Fantastic Idea. :laugh:




Thanks :cool: I would love to do it with peyote too to help make up for its over harvesting.



Yeah, it would be cool to buy a tract of cheap ass desert in eastern Cali and take up cactus farming.  Some day.  :oldman:

I'm not sure what it would take to get trichs reliably flowering in the PNW.  Probably a heated greenhouse with supplemental lights.  It would be awesome to have a big enough greenhouse to put them in the ground, think they flower a lot better (and grow larger) with a lot of root space.  I'm not sure, all I know is that the pedros in San Diego where I grew up flowered profusely towards the end of summer.  They seem to need to be pretty big though. :shrug:


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: P.Zappatecorum]
    #22570917 - 11/24/15 11:12 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Yea I'm really happy about my caespitose lophs especially. Not sure what I meant by hard grown. Guess I meant not grafted.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22570940 - 11/24/15 11:21 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Yeah, seed grown or hard grown means they have their original roots and all growth is natural/non accelerated.  The plants have an overall flatter and more natural looking shape that way and tend to get mature areoles at a smaller size.  I like to have a few grafts of every species I grow just to have plants to enjoy looking at right away and hopefully get them flowering and producing more seeds, then letting the rest grow on their own.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: P.Zappatecorum]
    #22570964 - 11/24/15 11:28 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Had a feeling I didn't make that up but spaceman putting it in quotations tripped me up. I really need to replant those lophs just waiting to get worm castings. They are looking good but there's a few turning kinda white that I find hard to capture on my camera and I feel they need faster drying soil and more frequent waterings.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22571804 - 11/25/15 08:32 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Mmm - there is some rather odd stuff being said in this thread.  Drainage is important to all cacti - it has been recognized for a long time that mixes containing a good % of grit and/or coarse sand drain well, and cacti thrive in them.  Gardeners have been putting coarse gravel in the bottom of their pots to further help drainage for all sorts of plants, for centuries.  This is no barrier whatever to roots, which have no trouble penetrating virtually any medium including tarmac.  In fact one symptom that a plant needs repotting is the roots finding their way out through the drain hole.

I would ask if the plants have enough light - bearing in mind there is no substitute for daylight for adult cactus plants.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: Spanishfly]
    #22571903 - 11/25/15 09:00 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I have made custom cacti soil mixes for most of my cacti using as much minerals and other well draining additives as I can.

But I honestly think some cacti grow better in rich soil, I have grown some from seed using both mineral heavy cacti mix and straight rich soil and I can tell the extra nutrients are appreciated as they tend to grow much bigger and quicker. However the best results I have had were using a combo of the two, basically a two layer method. One bottom layer of rich soil and one top layer of mineral heavy cacti mix topped with sand.

I have most of my cacti under a light in a shed for the winter and while a few are definitely stretching a bit many are growing pretty nice too. I intend to graft the tips of my etiolated bridgesii come spring so I am not too worried. My plants could definitely use more light but I a giving them as much as I can for now, I let my bigger trichs go dormant outside though.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: musiclover420]
    #22572048 - 11/25/15 09:35 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I always mix my own growing media - my standard mix for Mexican desert cacti (which most of mine are)contains a high proportion of grit and limestone, with a little nutrition - similar to conditions in habitat for most of them.  I do vary things a little for other cacti.

As they do in habitat, my cacti get daylight all year round, which I consider to be a most important aspect of cultivation.  And they are kept dry for the coldest 3 months.  Growth then slows, and the last season´s new growth ripens and matures.  But they are never dormant - I still get the odd flower in January - usually from a L. williamsii.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: Spanishfly]
    #22572195 - 11/25/15 10:12 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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As they do in habitat, my cacti get daylight all year round.




Must be nice living in a climate like that, for most of the fall here it is overcast usually :lol: I enjoy the rain and thunder though.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: musiclover420]
    #22575780 - 11/25/15 10:34 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Chihuahuan globular rock lovers have different needs than trichocereus.  Not every plant is a lophophora.  Trichocereus can handle way more moisture, and do well with a more nutrient rich soil.  You don't want to be excessive on the vitamin, N but they do a lot better in rich more organic soils than lophophora and appreciated a lot of leg room.  Discocactus and frailea also like higher organic, nutritious soil and more frequent waterings.


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    #22575906 - 11/25/15 10:57 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Like I said, for my trichs and lophs I use worm castings mixed with gravel limestone and perlite. I could try giving the trichs more worm castings compared to the lophs but I fertilize them. Not sure what I should change. I am worried about my seedlings because they are in normal seed starter soil which is starting to harbour some sort of green fungus or algae or something so I want to move them to my regular soil mix. I definitely want to move my peres to typical potting soil because the cactus soil I mix up doesn't seem to do them much good.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22576645 - 11/26/15 01:58 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Like I said, for my trichs and lophs I use worm castings mixed with gravel limestone and perlite. I could try giving the trichs more worm castings compared to the lophs but I fertilize them. Not sure what I should change. I am worried about my seedlings because they are in normal seed starter soil which is starting to harbour some sort of green fungus or algae or something so I want to move them to my regular soil mix. I definitely want to move my peres to typical potting soil because the cactus soil I mix up doesn't seem to do them much good.



I may be wrong on this, but I avoid limestone on my south-american cacti: they rely on the fertilizer I give them to provide for the little calcium they need. As far as I know (never cared to check it, though) the Trichocereus species you people care more about come from calcium poor soils.


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    #22577138 - 11/26/15 07:47 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Pere really appreciate rich soils I have noticed.

Also I have had moss form on cacti soil mixes over time that has sand covering the surface, I doubt it is harmful. Not sure about green bacteria though.


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    #22582361 - 11/27/15 01:18 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Some new pics!

A couple of my peyotes have some white powdery stuff going on. Not sure what it is but it's making me sad.



My caespitose lophs. On the left and right of them are peruvian torch and san pedro but I don't remember which are which. Can anyone identify them?



My bridgesii



Lophs



Other plants. Can anyone tell me why my peres always start off nice and then lose their leaves and become all woody and shitty and start to die. At this point I always just take a cutting and start them over. I am going to start putting them in potting soil as opposed to nutrient poor high drainage cactus soil to see if that helps. Any tips?







My pedro cuttings



Again not sure if these are peruvian torch or pedros



Same with these.



I wrote it down somewhere....

Also my salvia cutting has grown roots.



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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22582406 - 11/27/15 01:29 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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I would say peru on the left and pach on the right but that could be wrong :shrug:

Also I would get those lophs into a much more dessert like soil mix, they really don't need much water at all and those look like they are retaining a lot.

They all look nice n healthy though besides that first one :super:


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    #22582422 - 11/27/15 01:32 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

yea they are in some random seed starter soil. I have been holding out on getting them into cactus soil because I can't find anyone selling worm castings in my area and that's what I use for the organic portion of my cactus soil.


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    #22582647 - 11/27/15 02:32 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Just use any organic soil mix you can find really.

Here is my favorite for all around use:


Foxfarms "ocean forest"

I usually just buy cacti soil mix then add some organic soil then perlite and other things to aerate the soil out as much as necessary.

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    #22582674 - 11/27/15 02:38 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Like I said the guy I get my seeds from is a wonderful grower with amazing plants so I try to mimic what he does and I make the same soil mix as he does. While I'm not opposed to trying new things, I think if I could find that fox farm stuff I would be able to find worm castings. All the hydroshops close by closed down except one that's in a headshop and is catered towards gunjah and is super expensive. I shall go on a hunt tomorrow and depending on what I find first I will either get some organic worm castings and mix up my own soil or I will just get something nice like that fox farm stuff. Thanks for the suggestions! I would not have such nice little babies if I didn't have a place like shroomery where there are so many friendly people willing to help.


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    #22582750 - 11/27/15 02:55 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

All your cacti definitely look healthy so I am sure you have been taking good care of em, just wanted to make sure you knew lophs take much less water than trichs.

I have some trichs in similiar soil heavy mixes that are doing great, I think they even prefer it over more dessert like mixes with less nutrients.

Lophs like to stay pretty dry for long periods though, I have noticed younger ones prefer more regular moisture than established plants.

Have you checked ebay for worm castings? I was going to buy some awhile back and looked around online and saw some pretty good deals I believe.

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I would not have such nice little babies if I didn't have a place like shroomery where there are so many friendly people willing to help.




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    #22582834 - 11/27/15 03:13 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Found a store in my area with fox farm products and worm castings so I'll be heading there tomorrow.


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    #22582920 - 11/27/15 03:33 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

:greenthumb:

Local stuff is always nice, I don't have a car so I have to stick with stuff super close by or find it online usually :lol:


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    #22584728 - 11/28/15 01:33 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Some new pics!

A couple of my peyotes have some white powdery stuff going on. Not sure what it is but it's making me sad.






That looks suspiciously like red spider mite damage. Acti quickly or it will take over your collection.


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    #22585691 - 11/28/15 10:16 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Some new pics!

A couple of my peyotes have some white powdery stuff going on. Not sure what it is but it's making me sad.






That looks suspiciously like red spider mite damage. Acti quickly or it will take over your collection.




To compare here is a pic when posted recently showing past spidermite damage:

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This little old guy less than 1 3/4" wide, growing out old rsm scars owning a "fuck you spidermites" attitude
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Does look very similar.

Separate those lophs from all the other seedlings and spray everything.


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    #22589595 - 11/29/15 09:45 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

How far would I separate them by I dunno how I'd quarantine them beside putting them outside and watching them die of frost. Also what to spray with? I hear soap based insecticide fucks cacti up by removing the layer of wax they have that prevents them from losing water through evaporation. I have some pyrethrin shit. How small are spider mites. Will I be able to see them with a magnifying glass? I had a really big loph once that was like 4 inches in diameter and mites ate it to death. I don't remember if I could visibly see them though.


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    #22589670 - 11/29/15 10:19 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Maybe look into neem oil, not positive but that could help.

One easy way to "isolate" it could be making a makeshift humidity chamber. I have some from plastic jugs I cut the tops off of and covered with cling wrap :lol:

Or if you have any old aquariums or similiar glass objects they can make great chambers as well.

Could work decently, I use them for grafts mainly but I imagine they could isolate plants fairly well.


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    #22589945 - 11/29/15 11:36 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Don't bother trying to separate them, the mites are already everywhere. They are dust speck sized and red, possibly orangey or yellowish. You could see them with a magnifying glass, but probably not good enough to see the mitey features (8 legs, sucker proboscis, etc.).

Neem oil or rosemary oil are good choices, but just spraying the plants heavily (at the time of watering, for example) will greatly reduce the mite population until you find a way to kill them. Mites thrive in hot and dry conditions.


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    #22591809 - 11/29/15 06:42 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I just got done with a round of amber-colored mite infestation, that ONLY attacked my plumerias (thank god), But got them under control. I ended up using Tobacco-tea to do it. Granted, it was not on cacti. .but It worked. the tobacco I used, was some of my own homegorwn Nicotinia Rustica. It took a few weeks. but they are gone. . and have not traveled to other plants. I have only ever had a Red spider mite problem once and it was an attack on cannabis plant. It was so bad, I lost the girlscout cookies strain I had :frown:

Maybe some year I will get a good cannabis grow. I dream of some day growing some Shiva Shanti strain. I was fortunate enough to try that strain, and have been trying to get it.

Anyway, I am getting away from my point, which is that for some plants Nicotinia can be a good tool in your pesticide tool box. This next season I am going to be growing the red flowered and white flowered Pyrethrum Chrysanthemums for pest control as well. I wish you luck with the mites. Kill them.. Kill them ALL. . Show them No mercy, because they will not show your plants any.


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    #22594214 - 11/30/15 11:18 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Could that be what's fucking up my peres too? Also isn't it weird that only a couple of the plants have scarring?


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    #22594969 - 11/30/15 02:31 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I've never had Peres attacked by RSM, but I see no reason for it not to happen. And having some plants completely overrun by the little f*****s while the ones next to them are left untouched is just the way it is...


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    #22596735 - 11/30/15 09:55 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

Mites are malicious.. and cut-throat. They will travel. They will get in soil. That's why I use nicotine to get rid of them. I see no reason why they wouldn't attack a Peres. I agree with L' , there totally on that one. They will go after everything. They can lay dormant inside a house for months. Or, when cold weather happens they come inside looking for leafy or green foods and a nice place that's warm for the winter. They come inside on pots that have been outside for overwintering. Many people just create their own mite issues by bringing their plants inside, themselves not knowing it. It can't be helped at times. Dealing with them is tricky. We all have different ways in that respect. I like anti-bug herb tea sprays and pot-waterings. Hot Chili pepper, Mace, Garlic  was one recipe , Skoal - or snuff tobacco or cigar is another. And then there is Pyrethrum.
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    #22597028 - 11/30/15 11:02 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

How do you use your nicotine?  I've been thinking of soaking a shitty cigar in water for a while then spraying that shit on some of my plants.  Or do you use it as a systemic?  I've gone heavy with neem and pyrethrins both topically and systemically and gotten the mites down to only attacking a few of my weaker plants, but it's a battle of attrition that's just costing me too much time and energy.  I'd like to kill the bastards off at least until next year when the plants go outside again and catch crabs all over again. 
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Seems like mites are only are a problem in my heated growroom in fall and spring.  All my dormant plants are fine.  Guess they don't like the cold.  :shrug:


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    #22597656 - 12/01/15 02:49 AM (8 years, 1 month ago)

Yes, mites have definite "seasons". It is, I believe, unlikely that we can get rid of them altogether because they can and will survive in places we cannot get to. Spraying chemicals, even safe and harmless oils and nicotine infusions, is time-consuming and mildly guilt-inducing. I am currently looking into predatory mites to resort to right now (we have mild winters) and when spring comes. Like P.Zap, I find early spring and late summer / early autumn to be the critical times, and by getting my timing right I believe I can cut their numbers down enough so they don't have these surges. I will keep you posted on this, but on the meantime you can try looking into biological control. Here in Europe Syngenta has some solutions, I don't know if they operate in the US.


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    #22598170 - 12/01/15 08:47 AM (8 years, 1 month ago)

I do topical sprays of a basic tea. of cigar, and or snuff/dipping tobbaco. Yeah// break the cigar in half and simmer it in water. strain it. etc.  I also go the Systemic route for tea for (watering the infected pots, drowning the mites in nicotine water, to get the ones in soil and roots).

As you say it is a war of attrition. You can even Bug bomb your house, and they STILL will F-ing come back.. My husband and I had to do that a while ago then the neighborhood squirrels brought fleas to my dog. We bug bombed the whole house. and then moved plants back in, etc.. and sure enough mites came back. (maybe from attic, who knows). you can try to get rid of them.. but yeah.

It can be costly to deal with them but if you have the space, try growing your own tobacco and or chrysanthemums.

I do want to urge caution when using tobacco-tea. especially if you use commercial tobaccos. Commercial tobaccos can sometimes be infected with the tobacco mosaic virus. This virus can pass to other plants in the Solanaceae family. I'd be very careful using it on Brugmansia, tomato, potato, naranjillo, pepino-melon.. etc.


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    #22618833 - 12/05/15 09:04 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

Still haven't dealt with the issue. Going to spend time with them tomorrow. Still only got pyrethrin. Thing that's weird is the peyote that's gone the whitest also has white on the soil, which is why I originally thought it was mould. Going to move or throw out the scarred ones and then keep a close eye on the garden. They're so small and kept indoors I can't really spray them down. I also see no web material. Does anyone know if pyrethrin is safe on peyote? I have heard soap based insecticides are bad but I dunno about this stuff.


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    #22652325 - 12/13/15 10:55 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

So I have some new salvia plants:



My peyote seedlings aren't looking any worse. No additional scarring. I am going to try some grafts tomorrow. Any last minute advice you guys can provide? Both the pereskiopsis and the peyotes are due for a watering. Should I water them now? Or should I do the grafts with them a bit thirsty? I'm going to use parafilm to try to hold the grafts down. If you've seen the pics of my pere plants and peyote seedlings, you know what I'm dealing with. I have a scalpel handle with a razor blade on the end to make nice clean cuts. Should they be put in a humidity dome after? Every time I take cuttings it doesn't work and I get really sad about cutting up my babies.

Do the san pedro plants I have look too thick to have one of my peyote babies grafted to them?

I am just going to cut the peres top off and cut the top off a peyote and try to sort of overlap the vascular rings and then stretch some parafilm over the graft to apply pressure. Then I will or will not place them in some sort of humidity chamber or put a bag over them and mist it or something depending on what you say.


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    #22652483 - 12/14/15 12:03 AM (8 years, 1 month ago)

I would water then wait a few days before grafting. You'll often get a bit of push out "or hill" on the tip of the peres if cut dry then watered plus the more moisture abundant in the scion the better :super:


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    #22654222 - 12/14/15 02:36 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

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I tried the parafilm route myself and didn't have much success with it for seedlings. Many people seem to though. I found what works best for me was just putting them into a large plastic 'humidity bin'.


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    #22654730 - 12/14/15 04:43 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

:whathesaid:

Old big water jugs can work good as well just have to cut the top off and use some saran wrap like plastic to trap humidity inside.

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    #22657905 - 12/15/15 09:21 AM (8 years, 1 month ago)

produce bags from groccery store. :wink:

They work the best for me as a humidity tent. they only take up as much space as the pot the graft is in. and you can place them anywhere. I always save my produce bags and I wash out and re-use yoghurt cups for starting seeds and as small pots.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: kizatzhaddarak]
    #22659347 - 12/15/15 05:05 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

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produce bags from groccery store. :wink:

They work the best for me as a humidity tent. they only take up as much space as the pot the graft is in. and you can place them anywhere. I always save my produce bags and I wash out and re-use yoghurt cups for starting seeds and as small pots.




Both good ideas. I especially like the produce bags idea! The main reason I don't bag my plants for humidity is because I don't like the idea of buying bags and just using them for humidity domes, but couldn't really find a good source of free baggies the appropriate size to re purpose for  the application.

When I was reading your post, I was thinking how good this would be in the 'Gardening Hacks' thread from a couple months ago.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: cowsRmeat]
    #22661656 - 12/16/15 01:48 AM (8 years, 1 month ago)

My humidity dome is a plastic "critter cage" lying on its side with the opening sealed with a clear plastic bag held in place by the snap-on lid.


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    #22671764 - 12/18/15 12:33 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

I decided to hold off on grafting because I hadn't watered my plants in a while and while some people say not to water the root stock right before because pressure can push the scion off, other people are telling me that the scion and root stock should have had a drink before I begin. So I figured I would graft them a day after they've been watered. In the meantime I took a bunch of pere cuttings and they all rooted so I'm moving them to some normal potting soil. Does it matter if their root systems are small at the time of grafting? They will continue to grow anyways right? I will have about 6 peres, most of which will be only have had their roots for a couple of weeks. I have parafilm but no humidity chamber. I could use a 2 L bottle with some perlite I guess. Sorry my thoughts are all scattered. I just really want to finally have a successful graft. I am going to move my seedlings out of their tray and into my normal worm castings/limestone/perlite/gravel mixture and then plant another couple hundred seeds.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22673508 - 12/18/15 07:58 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

As a general rule, it's good for the peres to have a good root system when you graft. However, I won't say that hasn't stopped me from bending that rule a little bit. I've done a few on peres that haven't been rooted too long before and they turned out fine.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: cowsRmeat]
    #22673855 - 12/18/15 09:30 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

Dude I graft as soon as peres has a decent width on it's newer growth. I have no clue how large a root system it has or even how long the peres I use has even been rooting.


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