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Grow your own cactii!

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Eluna

Eluna

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Cactii are really rewarding to grow.

I find the experience much more satisfying if you grow your own rather then going from dried chips or what not, it's alot more.. personal.

Bridgesii, pachanoi and peruvianus can grow around 1-3 doses per year without hardly any maintenance. So my little garden here will grow about 40 doses a year!! And its very cheap to get going, plastic pots, perlite and soil. Then you just need the cactus which is pretty cheap too!!

Also, im sure in time chips will become illegal, so why not get a head start and make yourself sustainable?

It's become a bit of a hobby of mine and i love it! I source out various cactii from ebay/other growers and then you can chop off a dose, see how it goes, and it will just grow more from where you chopped it off, so you can suss out which ones you really like etc.

I also have some caapi growing

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wow such beautiful looking cactii you got there! mmmmm a very pretty and nice collection of strains:d also love the baby peyote and caapi<3
 
You don't need too much space, a small pot to get started while its young, then upgrade to a big pot.

Probobly just soil + a climber is all you need really.

It needs warmth and humidity to really grow fast though, and frost will kill a non-established plant during winter.
I have mine located near my aircons water dripper thing outside so it gets no direct sunlight, lots of humidity and warmth during summer.. i think its perfect :D
 
I love your garden :) here is a pic of some of my trichs. I grow caapi and some various apocynaceae as well as many medicinal and edible plants. have you tried growing kanna? they are super easy and fast.
 

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Nice little collection! It seems alot of the time people start growing plants because of a spiritual experience they had, and then they start growing non psychoactive plants and edibles because they like gardening :)

I'll try find some kanna to grow, it looks interesting! thanks
 
In my dig, if it can't be smoalked, it doesn't groaw. That's only space considerations however. If I had a big garden....

I have 100 San Pedro seeds in the germination stage right now, I may post a grow log once I have some pictures of the little babies :)

Pro-sustainability is the right attitude. Give em to your sons and daughters and friends when you pass over. Keep seeds and spores and cuttings. Green must never die. I fear all of this will gone from any kind of available market in years to come. It's happening very quickly and I'm only beginning my journey. Typical.

GROAW MOAR.

I'm also inspired to grow some caapi now. Any good thing I can get my mitts on....
 
nice gardens! im with eluna, have the fealing soon it will get harder to get dryed chips.here is half of my garden, to the left a mix of torchs and bridgs and to the right pedros all from kohres (german seeds).this week im receiving seeds from Peru of what is belived to be torch called green icaro...
most plants are one year old and have been always under a 250 cfl cold lamp, this spring they are going to be placed under the sun, i will build some kind of translucid protection roof for the first year outside.keep growing em guys!
 

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I'm not sure if i'm doing something wrong but my bridgesii seedlings are only about 1 cm tall after a year. They have a couple nodes of spines but they are tiny little guys and gals. I still keep them warm and humid in a home-made plastic bag humidity dome. The bag is cracked so they can breathe a little bit and then I will open the bag and let them air out for a few minutes once a day or so.

Am I over-parenting my little cacti? I let them hang out with out the bag for a couple days and they did fine but the soil dries out really quickly without the bag over the pot. They did fine but then I used some tweezers to spread them out in the pot and give them all equal space. Since then i've had them back in the bag for a little while to let them re-adjust to their new spots. From what I could tell none of them had any sort of substantial root structure visible to the naked eye. I'm betting the roots are pretty microscopic at this point.

But still, looking at your pictures blue reindeer makes me wonder if I'm babying these little cacti too much. Maybe I should just let them face the elements and thrive. Interesting note, they've continued to grow throughout the winter into the spring; no dormancy period.
 
Trichos can be successfully hardened off at about 3 - 6 months and this has worked well for me, others may certainly disagree. This caused the soil to dry out more frequently, and I speculate that the drier soil forced more rapid root development & overall growth. My bridgesii and peruvianus were grown in little tupperware containers which at 3 months or so were cracked and gradually opened for 1 hr per day for a week. After a week of that the lids were placed on sideways allowing a couple cm on each side to ventilate for another week or two before finally removing the lid. One could also pop a few holes 1cm in diameter in the lid each week until its pretty holy 😉 What is your light source? Mine did well under a few CFL bulbs the fastest growing about 10 cm in 15 months and the slower ones about 6 cm.
 
many good EU sources, i'm in the US, but have traded with many folks across the pond
bridgesii strains hardly ever fail
 
Kohres (check online sales) in Germany is probably one of the the best cactus seed supplier in Europe if not in the world.After one year blue reindeer can see the differences in his specimens and they do respond to what they are sold as, specially Bridgs. and Torchs are awesome (Pedros have slower growing patterns.. and are in general more fragile) But i have not harvested them so i dont know for sure about mescalin.
About humidity,light and care... Yesterday swim built a small wooden frame as a structure to hold a plastic roof and my babies are outside now! In the first six months growing is pretty slow in general but I would not keep all that humidity after 3 months, swim waters them every 3-4 days with little water, its healthy to leave the soil dry and prevents mold.As for lights, during the first year (specially winter) swim used a window with no direct light (the best he could do ) and one of those big growing CFL rated 250, that thing provides enough light if combined with a window and some foil, and heat also, heat keeps em growing... Now on (spring and winter) watering will be done every 2 days.There is a very nice text from erowid about care, hardiness and potency, please let the blue reindeer now what you think about it:

Cacti - Trichocereus spp. - Erowid Exp - 'T. peruvianus and T. pachanoi Comparisons'

An Experience with Cacti - Trichocereus spp.. 'T. peruvianus and T. pachanoi Comparisons' by Mr. Inapplicable
www.erowid.org
 
Kohres (check online sales) in Germany is probably one of the the best cactus seed supplier in Europe if not in the world.After one year blue reindeer can see the differences in his specimens and they do respond to what they are sold as, specially Bridgs. and Torchs are awesome (Pedros have slower growing patterns.. and are in general more fragile) But i have not harvested them so i dont know for sure about mescalin.
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Agreed. Grafted seedlings from this vendor have been very hearty, grown quickly, and t. bridgesii and t. peruvianus clearly bear the distinguishing characteristics of their species. The peruvianus have done exceptionally well in their first year, and are highly recommended.
 
How tall/thick/old should I grow my san pedros(Trichocereus pachanoi) to ensure they survive cutting and repotting?
I started from seeds bout 2-3 years ago. Tallest are 15cm tall and 2cm thick.
I will post a picture later.
 
Here they are. I'm not too keen to proceed from here without an experts advice. These are maybe 2-3 years old(cannot remember) and I guess they should be bigger by now even though they grow in a windowsill the whole year without any artificial lights. Summer lasts app. 3 months here.

Should I just cut them and let the section dry before repotting and what kind of soil should I use. IS it a good idea to get new underwatering pots as pictured? What kind of pot is best for these cacti?

Here's the porn.
 

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