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

[Jamie01]

This is what I’m always fighting. Just found this one. God damn slugs.

 

[SkunK]

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You are going to fit in around here perfectly @Trichocereus.Rex . your cacti collection is outstanding and that flower

Love seeing them directly planted in soil and with the snow is awesome! mine have encountered snow almost yearly around may long weekend and it didn't seem to faze Trichos or the Lophophora Williamsii! Do your cacti stay year round outdoors, and if you don't mind me asking your grow zone?

Well after an entire winter outdoors in the Canadian PNW on my deck covered only from rain this is seeming to be my only loss. It’s been like this for months unchanging. Definitely going to cut it. I think sideways rain still got in over winter and caused it. Next year I’m going to enclose the deck with poly on that side I think.

That sounds pretty good for Canadian Winters! Lovely Collection you have there! A little of a derailment/side quest are you mushroom hunting in the Canadian PNW, and if so what kinds are you finding? I have heard Panaeolus cyanescens being found out there as well?

 

[Jamie01]

We have Psilocybe cyanescens here, azures(rarely), baeocystis, libs and a ton more actives yes. Only pans in the PNW that I know of being active are cinctulus.

Mostly I have just find Psilocybe cyanescens. It’s easy to find them around here in stratas/apartments and parks.

 

[SkunK]

We have Psilocybe cyanescens here, azures(rarely), baeocystis, libs and a ton more actives yes. Only pans in the PNW that I know of being active are cinctulus.

Mostly I have just find Psilocybe cyanescens. It’s easy to find them around here in stratas/apartments and parks.

Interesting, I'm not too far away from the area, well its quite the ways but I'm close in the Canada Sence. I was looking at coming up that way this year, but it never happened so I'm hoping next year it will be on the books.

Whens the best time of year to expect to find Cyanscens & Azures? I'd have to be poking around developed places with mulch beds i'm assuming. would we be still concidering these wild or just man made in the sence they are not native to the area only introduced

I'd like to get up that area and do some wheeling with a local club on a few trails to some mine sites and explore a little around the Island as I hear the FSR systems are pretty impressive. then wanna work my way back through the Okanogan during the hottest days of summer.

I'll leave it like this and won't take this sidequest any further..

 

[Jamie01]

Im on the island so our season might extend a bit past the mainlands but generally October through November and into December is the season for cyans.

Okanagan is great as long as the whole valley is not full of wildfire smoke…but I suggest if you can fit it see the kootenays as well and hit some hot springs.

 

[SkunK]

Im on the island so our season might extend a bit past the mainlands but generally October through November and into December is the season for cyans.

Okanagan is great as long as the whole valley is not full of wildfire smoke…but I suggest if you can fit it see the kootenays as well and hit some hot springs.

I was not expecting those months to be the season, I'm shocked I was assuming April-May. My planned timeline was during those months and being able to hit up med summer down in the Okanagan Valley!

I live closer to the Kootenays and love the area! Spent a lot of time up off White Swan Lake FSR, we hit up trails all over there. One of our friends have a trailer kinda near Primer Lake. Super Nice spot.

 

[SkunK]

Been getting rained out here the last couple weeks but still have flowers popping up\

 

[Trichocereus.Rex]

Trichocereus peruvianus ("Serra Blue") x Trichocereus bridgesii ("SS02")
- Had moved this one out from the grow room and she's still adjusting to outdoor life, and started getting a little too much sun, so she back under the patio table umbrella to harden off a little longer, hopefully its not burnt too badly.

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Dem wrinkle is fiya! Gorgeous

 

[Trichocereus.Rex]

You are going to fit in around here perfectly @Trichocereus.Rex . your cacti collection is outstanding and that flower

Love seeing them directly planted in soil and with the snow is awesome! mine have encountered snow almost yearly around may long weekend and it didn't seem to faze Trichos or the Lophophora Williamsii! Do your cacti stay year round outdoors, and if you don't mind me asking your grow zone?

Thank you! They are pretty much all overwintered in unheated greenhouses. I've been slowly putting some in the ground that have grandifloris genetics in them, which should lower the mesc percentage but bring colored flowers and cold tolerance.
I have a Hz x Zelly22 from end that made in the ground, and noid Zelly from a local friend and they made it as well as the HZ X Vrg.
I've added some Icaros x Zelly22 and Dr Greenthumb Scop x Zelly33 I did from seed into the ground around my house and they're getting life figured out with endless rooting area. We shall see how they handle the cold...

It should be said, for every plant that made it thru the winters, there were probably 5-10 that froze and melted.

I don't intend to scare anyone outta experimenting but I do warn that loss happens.

For example this GIANT Nibiru x Awful that was my first mutant completely died after an early fall freeze. It was still drinking the last watering even though it'd bee weeks, there was enough water to expand and freeze the thing solid. I don't have picture of it dying i couldnt bring myself to document it
The blue pot that it's in is about two feet wide for reference

 

[Jamie01]

Hey what grandiflorus crosses would you recommend growing as actives? I don’t mind low potency I have so many other potent clones. I just want to grow more actives in general that do well outside in PNW zone 8b into 9a.

 

[Trichocereus.Rex]

Hey what grandiflorus crosses would you recommend growing as actives? I don’t mind low potency I have so many other potent clones. I just want to grow more actives in general that do well outside in PNW zone 8b into 9a.

I'd recommend growing a lot of em. Ime Hz is a good for medicine so any Hz x Grandi hybrid would be worth checking out.
Are you familiar with zellys? Misplants pride and joy, but it's a hybrid of Scop and Grandi. I've noticed that scops seem to tolerate the cold well.
So "high potency clone" crosses with any zelly is probably a good bet.
Lumberjack, Hz, Eileen, are all good places to start.
I've got some landfill x zelly that's are match head size in hopeful for

 

[Trichocereus.Rex]

After a brief afternoon rain. Mullein is about 32" wide from it's largest tip to the opposite largest tip and either five or three gallon pots pictured for scale... It's huge

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Those two thicc blue one on the left are making me feel things
Some healthy looking trichos!