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My TBM has been growing a half inch a week in the new pups. I'm pretty surprised by it. This one is pretty huge though. My smaller one hasn't budged in months. I think it grows to a point in each section then stops and waits till it pups. Then that pup will grow.

The first picture is the pup about 3 weeks ago. The second is the pup now and another one that popped out.
 

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hostilis, that is a nice growth. How do you go about if you want to harvest it? Is it enough to cut out maybe 3 grown pups for a good dose?
 
nice!! do u keep your cacti in shadow or full sun? a guy said me they prefer filtered sun..not full sun
 
That guy goes out in sun for 8 hours a day and if it's not sunny it's under light from 9am to 1 am. It seems to love the intense full sun i get out here and is less susceptible to burns than my other trichocereus. I wont eat any of it for a while. I've been grafting the pups though an i'll probably just keep propagating it till i have a bunch. Then I may eat some.

I haven't eaten any of my cacti yet.
 
i had to recut a lil achuma that had some black rot in it..i've cut it too close to the black spot and the rot has continued to grow :thumb_dow

i hope to have fixed the problem now, cutting it at the base. the 'supposed' macrogonus are growing very fast,the blue peruvian is in shadow atm couse it hasn't any root yet. the probably 'cuzco' hasn't show any sign of groth atm..are cuzcos slow to grow?
 
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i had to recut a lil achuma that had some black rot in it..i've cut it too close to the black spot and the rot has continued to grow :thumb_dow

i hope to have fixed the problem now, cutting it at the base. the 'supposed' macrogonus are growing very fast,the blue peruvian is in shadow atm couse it hasn't any root yet. the probably 'cuzco' hasn't show any sign of groth atm..are cuzcos slow to grow?
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Was it just a little black spot. Cause that kept happening to me and i'd try to cut it out. Then it'd spread. I ended up jsut leaving it alone and nothing bad happened to the plants and it stopped growing.
 
nope it was cobvering half pot of the cactus..i cut it but i probably need to spread some sulphur or it too. as fungicide
 
new guys! :lol: :thumb_up:
 

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How funny is that?! I got my new cacti too today and i bet it is the same supplier as yours :)

note the bigger thorns inclined downside.. I ordered a pachanoi but am very suspicious of what it is, it's not even bitter :? I cut it to make some experiments for grafting stock
 

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yeah it seems some kind of peruvianus to me..so there's no bitterness?:? strange..
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One on the left looks like a bridgesii to me, (last two cuttings you obtained).

I got three bridesii cuttings i planted last fall, out of the four i purchased, i made tea out of one, and the bottom half of the other three. All but one was bitter when i tasted the freshly cut bottom half.

So idk if that one is less potent, or what, it could be a # of factors. But the two others were bitter when i licked the cut i just made.

And your tbms look nice!!

Mine went on a pupping rampage starting last summer when i started giving them shultz liquid fertilizer. Since then they've thrown off tons of pups. One vertically, and the other more horizontally. But Nice growth none the less. ~8-10 new pups between the two tbm's i have, one type a, the other type b i assume since they grow so differently, one branching upwards, the other outwards horizontally.

Also gave me a ton of pups on my 18-22" bridgesii's i grew from seedlings when i started the nutes. A few have 3-4 pups that are ~3-5" in length right now. Will be nice come time to harvest the mother for tea/extraction.
 
bitterness can be a useful indicator, but i think it is far from conclusive.

as far as the pachanoi confusion goes, i know multiple species are referred to as san pedro, so it is possible the vendor was told it was san pedro and assumed it was pachanoi?
that's my best guess
 
thank you daily tipper! seems that yout tbms are going mad..hehe i'd like to see a pic if u have!:)

yep parshvik.. much people said me that about potency..it's weird since mesc is very bitter so one guess..more bitter more mesc..but probably due to the variability of alkaloid's profile that bitterness could be from hordenine or less potent alkaloids :roll:
 
Well this was take back at the end of may. They've grown a bit since then...........:thumb_up:

Ill try and get a pic tomorrow when i go get them and bring them to their new home.

The second pic is of the whole family. :d

All bridgesii to my knowledge if anyone's wondering.
 

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My guess would be bridgesii, as thats what i bought them as, and their spines were all over the place (& some 3" long) before i clipped them last fall, and potted the cuttings.

Afaik, theyre all bridgesii 😁
 
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