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zerozero
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Re: So I just bought a huge San Pedro cactus... [Re: MOTH]
#3725278 - 02/03/05 03:47 PM (19 years, 16 days ago) |
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wow,, nice cactus. wierd top, cool though. that means it will be extra funky 
that thing doesn't need fert., yet, it looks about perfect.
may i ask what you paid for her.?
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MOTH
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Re: So I just bought a huge San Pedro cactus... [Re: zerozero]
#3725856 - 02/03/05 05:33 PM (19 years, 16 days ago) |
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I paid about $70
The larger ones in the greenhouse went all the way up to $125 dollars but I'm on a budget.
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bluethumb
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Re: So I just bought a huge San Pedro cactus... [Re: MOTH]
#3725890 - 02/03/05 05:39 PM (19 years, 16 days ago) |
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beautiful san pedro cacti. you should be proud, she will make a fine mother plant. blue
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zerozero
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Re: So I just bought a huge San Pedro cactus... [Re: MOTH]
#3726051 - 02/03/05 06:07 PM (19 years, 16 days ago) |
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70$ isn't all that bad i paid 30$ for three ten inch rooted cuttings, so by that scale you got a killer deal, plus yours looks nicer than mine. you got to figure a 300% mark up by the greenhouse, that's standard. just need to find the San Pedro wholesale, the one who sold your greenhouse their cactus. that would be keen. peace
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Gr0wer
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Re: So I just bought a huge San Pedro cactus... [Re: zerozero]
#3727725 - 02/03/05 10:18 PM (19 years, 16 days ago) |
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Thats a nice mother for $70. Give it 2 years and some loving in the sun and you should have a few choice cuttings and still plenty on her. Once it gets warm out you can start ferting, water when the soil goes dry, but not bone dry.
Also look into a unglazed clay pot. Those nursery pots are good for nurserys because they dont need to water them as often. With clay pots they breathe and water evaps through the clay. This makes it wet/dry cycle more often and thats good because plants love getting wet, absorbing the nutes and water then getting some oxygen to the roots. When you repot put a 1-2" layer of rocks at the bottom to allow good air exchange from the bottom.
Come growth season get some miracle grow 15-30-15 and mix it full strength (1 tsp per gal) and use this solution for 3 waterings then flush with fresh water and repeat.
But dont suddenly load up on the ferts come growth season. Wean it onto the nutes over a few weeks or so. Then come fall wean them off again, finally finishing the season with flushing with water and throw it back into dormancy.
Also a kelp dressing and some kelp mixed into the repot soil introduces many helpful minerals. Bone meal is a good slow release Phosphorous source so that's a key organic nute. A lime dressing should also be given to keep the ph neutral. Coir/pearlite is a good repot mix with some lime, bone meal, and the kelp. Or just good potting soil with added lime, bone meal, and kelp.
And get some nice crushed white quartz rocks to throw on top as a mulch layer. It helps keep the top layer from drying out quick from the sun and when you water the soil isnt disturbed by the water being poured into the pot. I also bleach my top rocks to get them nice and pearl white.
This is an old pic of my current garden but you can see how the bleached white rocks reflect tons of light back and some bounces back onto the cactus' too so you get a bit of extra growth. http://www.shroomery.org/forums/files/04-45/952696773-CIAMPO_OCT_041.jpg
-Gr0
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felixhigh
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Re: So I just bought a huge San Pedro cactus... [Re: MOTH]
#3728025 - 02/03/05 11:04 PM (19 years, 16 days ago) |
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the pedro looks nice! is your cat a maine koon?
FH
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MOTH
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Re: So I just bought a huge San Pedro cactus... [Re: felixhigh]
#3728482 - 02/04/05 12:24 AM (19 years, 16 days ago) |
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Nope...at least, I don't think so. We got him from a shelter when he was just an itty bitty kitty...he was bottlefed and everything with his sister. They love checking out my new cactus.
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KaptKid
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Re: So I just bought a huge San Pedro cactus... [Re: MOTH]
#3728584 - 02/04/05 12:54 AM (19 years, 16 days ago) |
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About another month of cold weather here in Texas.Then you can put that sweet thing in the sun.GL
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butterflydawn
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Re: So I just bought a huge San Pedro cactus... [Re: KaptKid]
#3733890 - 02/05/05 02:26 AM (19 years, 15 days ago) |
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awsome!
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mjshroomer
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Re: So I just bought a huge San Pedro cactus... [Re: MOTH]
#3734630 - 02/05/05 09:20 AM (19 years, 15 days ago) |
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very, very nice.
mj
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Maverik
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Re: So I just bought a huge San Pedro cactus... [Re: AnyColor]
#3744032 - 02/07/05 01:56 AM (19 years, 13 days ago) |
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RE: Chemical doping... there have been NO reports ever that have conclusively proven that stressing of ANY kind does anything other than stress the plant. If there were, all of us who have large collections would be doing it and they wouldn't just be some ideas in Adam Gottleibs book. This includes doping, a member at the Nook tried doping last year using DMSO and l-dopa as well as injecting l-dopa sub-cutaneously. His tests produced a sicker cactus. Love your cacti, spoil them with good watering, ferts , soil and sun and they will love you back.
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Maverik
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Re: So I just bought a huge San Pedro cactus... [Re: Maverik]
#3744054 - 02/07/05 02:05 AM (19 years, 13 days ago) |
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That's an excellent mother there. Within two years she can be giving you a few cuttings each year. Nice find. 
Grower gives some great advice, I just wanted to touch on one thing.
"Come growth season get some miracle grow 15-30-15 and mix it full strength (1 tsp per gal) and use this solution for 3 waterings then flush with fresh water and repeat." This is exactly the schedule that I watered with last year and it was a bit too high. I got good growth, but I got a tad bit of nute burn too. There isn't really any difference if you use MG at half strength. Except you'll use less Miracle-Gro. That's what my schedule will be this year. The flush with plain water is important to leach any excess salts out. They will withstand temps as low as 20f so light frosts/freezes are ok. But if its supposed to be anywhere close to 20 bring em in, better safe you know.
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