Mitakuye Oyasin
Titanium Teammate
Very nice. Its funny how misshapen grafts look sometimes. Like something with an abnormally giant head and thin body. Keep up the great work. Cacti are wonderful house plants.
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I built a growing cabinet for my cacti seedlings
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This is awesome. I recently built one for my new seed sowing. Going to start 130 species. About 2500 seeds all together. My grafts go under a different set up though.
The first two pictures are of my seedling cabinet and then the other is my graft set up.
The first two pictures are of my seedling cabinet and then the other is my graft set up.
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Funky Monkey said:
What's your "turn-on" temperature for the fan? In other words, what temp do you keep your cabinet at?
Thank you,
wap
p.s. nice cabinet hostilis
Funky Monkey
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@hostilis: Looking good :thumb_up: I love your graft setup too. I have a while to go before I have that many Pereskiopsis growing. Do you have many issues with fungus gnats? I have to conduct a small genocide every few days to keep them from taking over 
I have it set to turn on at 29°C when the light is on, and it keeps the temp around 28°C. It switches on quite regularly. At night it gets down to about 18-20°C without the fan.
wearepeople said:Funky Monkey said:
What's your "turn-on" temperature for the fan? In other words, what temp do you keep your cabinet at?
Thank you,
wap
p.s. nice cabinet hostilis
I have it set to turn on at 29°C when the light is on, and it keeps the temp around 28°C. It switches on quite regularly. At night it gets down to about 18-20°C without the fan.
Funky Monkey said:
Is that soil temperature or ambient air temperature inside the cabinet?
~wap~
Funky Monkey
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wearepeople said:
It's the air temperature inside the cabinet.
Funky Monkey,
This thread has been such an inspiration. I'm building a similar cabinet setup today.
wap
This thread has been such an inspiration. I'm building a similar cabinet setup today.
wap
Spanishfly
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A lovely bit of kit - well done. But almost all the plants you have in there are WELL past the size that I would be acclimatising them to the sun.
Spanishfly
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wearepeople said:
Inside the cabinet there may be some hysteresis, but that will be essentially the same thing.
Funky Monkey
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Hi everyone, I thought I'd post an update of my seedlings. They've had some sun this summer but will return to my cabinet this week. I've repotted some and grafted a few. I also acquired some new seeds that I'm going to start. I've expanded my Pereskiopsis forest this summer and am going to take cuttings for grafting. Pictures of the Pereskiopsis will follow shortly.
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WOW! Funky Monkey, this is very inspirational!
Thank you for sharing,
wap
Thank you for sharing,
wap
Funky Monkey
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wearepeople said:
Hi wap, did you end up building your growing cabinet?
Seeing this thread rele makes me want to make a cabinet like this so that I have something to hobby about this winter and grow my cacti collection. I actually have a half built sorta one of these in my basement that I could finish to be like this with a hinged front door and everything!!!
Funky Monkey said:
Yes I did. It's pretty awesome. I used an old entertainment center that has doors. Picked it up pretty cheap from a Good Will. Still need to get arduino, thermo-sensor, and fans hooked up. Oh, I also need to spend some time organizing the various wires. Once I get it all tidied up I'll send ya a photo
Again, thank you for the inspiration
wap
Funky Monkey
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D.REYx420 said:
Awesome! I say go for it!
It's what keeps me sane during winters in Europe
Funky Monkey
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wearepeople said:Funky Monkey said:
Yes I did. It's pretty awesome. I used an old entertainment center that has doors. Picked it up pretty cheap from a Good Will. Still need to get arduino, thermo-sensor, and fans hooked up. Oh, I also need to spend some time organizing the various wires. Once I get it all tidied up I'll send ya a photo
Again, thank you for the inspiration
wap
Good things!
I look forward to seeing pictures.
Funky Monkey
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Hi guys,
I thought I'd do a quick update on my cacti growing as spring has officially come round and things are growing again.
I started some new seeds a while back, and grafted some of them.
I now have several grafts of T. Peruvianus var. Matucana and 2 grafted t. Peruvianus var. Serra Blue x SS02 Bridgesii.
I also grafted three different types of cacti to my old cactus stump. The peruvianus has really exploded.
I'm a bit dissapointed by my pachanoi though.
I'm still looking for good pachanoi seed (or cuttings) because I have loads of peruvianus. Anyone have good pachanoi seed?
I got mine from Koehres Kakteen in Germany.
PS! Sorry for the rotated pictures, my phone is not cooperating.
More pics will follow.
I thought I'd do a quick update on my cacti growing as spring has officially come round
and things are growing again.I started some new seeds a while back, and grafted some of them.
I now have several grafts of T. Peruvianus var. Matucana and 2 grafted t. Peruvianus var. Serra Blue x SS02 Bridgesii.
I also grafted three different types of cacti to my old cactus stump. The peruvianus has really exploded.
I'm a bit dissapointed by my pachanoi though.
I'm still looking for good pachanoi seed (or cuttings) because I have loads of peruvianus. Anyone have good pachanoi seed?
I got mine from Koehres Kakteen in Germany.
PS! Sorry for the rotated pictures, my phone is not cooperating.
More pics will follow.
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