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

[DetritusTheEgo]

Not really any reasonable resemblance but those unopened Stapelia hirsuta flowers made me think of Little Shop of Horrors.

 

[c.a.c.t.u.s]

Heavenly

 

[c.a.c.t.u.s]

nibiru x Awful
Nibiru is a unique Peruvinoid that Josh Norseworthy found at an estate sale in florida.
Awful is a TPM type pach but supposed to be a different pheno from TPM. There's TPM, skip, campground and awful. All are very similar looking slightly mutated Pachs. Their offspring is prone to weirdos.
The mom of this is the first mutant I ever had and was my favorite until the momma froze solid in a early freeze two ish years ago.
I'd sent a piece back to Josh and was able to require it from him.
This piece was about the size of three stacked quarters five months ago

 

[c.a.c.t.u.s]

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.

I was always told you have to wait for the soil temp to hit 40-45ish f for them to fruit

 

[Transform]

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

This is why I put my specimens on a table - as I found out last year when I didn't use it

 

[DetritusTheEgo]

A few photos after moving everything this week.

 

[Jamie01]

moved the seedlings off the ground to beat the slugs, weeded all the other cacti pots and fertilized them. Now I have huge spine wounds on my hand so I ate 2 grams of the cacti in retaliation. Then I planted 114 more seeds.

 

[ysignal]

Just got this TBM

 

[DetritusTheEgo]

Grats on the new TBM!

Speaking of TBM, has anyone successfully gotten one to pup from a cutting with no aeriolas?

I acquired a six inch long by about two inch wide TBM mid cutting that a friend cut over three years ago and it's not done anything.

I've had the conversation with him about I don't think it'll do anything and may be one that we scrap to recoup a bit of space. My reasoning has been due to the lack of aeriola, which is where all my trichocereus pup from. Wanted to see if anyone had a differing experience.

 

[ysignal]

Grats on the new TBM!

Speaking of TBM, has anyone successfully gotten one to pup from a cutting with no aeriolas?

I acquired a six inch long by about two inch wide TBM mid cutting that a friend cut over three years ago and it's not done anything.

I've had the conversation with him about I don't think it'll do anything and may be one that we scrap to recoup a bit of space. My reasoning has been due to the lack of aeriola, which is where all my trichocereus pup from. Wanted to see if anyone had a differing experience.

If it wont pup maybe you could graft a pup with aeriolas to it.

 

[brokedownpalace10]

Grats on the new TBM!

Speaking of TBM, has anyone successfully gotten one to pup from a cutting with no aeriolas?

I acquired a six inch long by about two inch wide TBM mid cutting that a friend cut over three years ago and it's not done anything.

I've had the conversation with him about I don't think it'll do anything and may be one that we scrap to recoup a bit of space. My reasoning has been due to the lack of aeriola, which is where all my trichocereus pup from. Wanted to see if anyone had a differing experience.

When I was new to TBM I got a pup with no areolas , or else there was maybe one and I planted it underground not knowing. It sat there growing very slowly for well over a year. I thought it just grew that slowly. Then, finally, it pupped from under the soil.
I really think it had no areolas and that I lucked out in having it finally pup from under the soil.
Anyway, I think it's best to take a cutting that already has a pup, or at least one with areolas you can keep above ground.

Urea stimulates pupping. Urea decomposes into ammonium (thus its also a source of N) carbonate, and carbonate is utilized by trichocereus as a pupping hormone. If your cactus is outside you could pee on it for a while. But urea will have less tendency to burn roots if overdone.