Any Cacti Cultivators?

[SkunK]

Do y'all think 50° is too cold for San Pedro seeds to germinate?

Gets like 50-60°f at night here rightnow, is this going to stop them from growing?

I feel that's quite low in Temps for seeds to germinate, I like to keep my seeds being sown at around 24-30°C (70-85 °F) while they are being sown. I usually give them 24Hours of light and heat during the germination period (Just my personal preference)and one they have sprouted and start growing switch then to a 18/6 light schedule and let the night time Temps drop a few degrees. This can be achieved with a Thermostat on the hest mat, I keep high humidity for the first 3 months then slowly start to decrease humidity. Do keep an eye out for alge growth with the high humidity though

Share some photos of your cacti grow, I'll be sowing a wack load of Lophophora Williamsii and Diffusa seeds soon. Been trading/Sharing all my seeds the last while but the next little bit I'll be sowing then all.

 

[modern]

Do y'all think 50° is too cold for San Pedro seeds to germinate?

Gets like 50-60°f at night here rightnow, is this going to stop them from growing?

Those night time temps are fine as long as day temps are in the 70-80F

 

[JungleGhost]

Finally got sum. Althea x serpent pups.

 

[Transform]

Finally got sum. Althea x serpent pups.

Got pics?

 

[psychonuaghty]

Cultivating cactus is therapeutic. Here are mine back in December, tucked in for the winter.

 

[Transform]

Here's my loph-to-bridge-to-PCpach double graft. Only just took between the two trichs, hopefully only because of mechanical disturbance. I may yet try redoing it for better trich-trich contact.



The loph-to-PC single graft is still going swimmingly. The growth acceleration is quite staggering - there's pups ready to graft onto new stock, besides the one that went onto the experimental bridge, er, bridge…



Side-by-side comparison ^

 

[Transform]

Cultivating cactus is therapeutic. Here are mine back in December, tucked in for the winter.

That's fabulous, btw! Is it 60°F in there, or is it 60% rh and some illegible single-figure °C?

 

[Transform]

Cultivation

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Enjoy!

Let's not forget the proper thread for this:

Thread 'How does your cactus garden grow? (Cactus pic thread)'

Jul 11, 2021

Cooler than average temperatures have helped my cacti this year. The white powder on the top of some is diatomaceous earth for to thwart little nibbling critters. Here's a few pics:

Pic 1 is, left to right a pot of Lumberjack, a pot with a Crested Monstrosa Pachanoi (along with some Domino cacti and a small Mammilaria), and to the right in the foreground is some type of hybrid Wakinyan sent me (I lost the label, just remember it ended in "ensis" )

Pic 2 is Peruvianus, Terscheckii, Scopulicola and one that was sold to me as "Scopulicola x Juuls Giant". That one is about 5 feet tall now...

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[psychonuaghty]

Hi @Transform,

Thank you!

Awesome Grafts! I "inherited" a couple of grafts but haven't yet mustered the courage to try one myself.

>Is it 60°F in there, or is it 60% rh and some illegible single-figure °C?

Good eyes! That thermometer was reading 60°F and some illegible RH. I have since set the thermometer to °C so I can practice the metric system .

I am in Zone 8b/9a. It can get warm in the greenhouse in December, yet the threat of freeze exists as well. I also use a Govee WiFi thermometer to monitor the greenhouse temps. The trend reporting and alarms are helpful.

Let's not forget the proper thread for this:

Thanks for the link to the proper thread. I couldn't find it when I looked earlier.

 

[Transform]

Hi @Transform,

Thank you!

Awesome Grafts! I "inherited" a couple of grafts but haven't yet mustered the courage to try one myself.

>Is it 60°F in there, or is it 60% rh and some illegible single-figure °C?

Good eyes! That thermometer was reading 60°F and some illegible RH. I have since set the thermometer to °C so I can practice the metric system .

I am in Zone 8b/9a. It can get warm in the greenhouse in December, yet the threat of freeze exists as well. I also use a Govee WiFi thermometer to monitor the greenhouse temps. The trend reporting and alarms are helpful.



Thanks for the link to the proper thread. I couldn't find it when I looked earlier.

Great thermometer set up - mine only reads out to a base station so I have to use my built-in optical monitoring system a.k.a. eyes and decide what to do about it partly in advance from the weather forecast.

It would be funky to get some nice graph readouts like yours one day

The next few days are looking good for transferring most of my plants outside for the forthcoming summer - and it should be cloudy enough for them to acclimate such that sunburn can be avoided. Then the tomatoes get to take over