Hey everybody, how’s it going? Just wanna take this time to introduce myself and say I really like the site. Seems very informative with a lot of people willing to help. I am considering getting into growing my own cactus for experimental reasons. I grow my own mushrooms and have had very good results with that. Wondering what’s the best way to get started with seeds or ceilings, which types of cactus, really justwhatever info you guys and girls can give up would be greatly appreciated. I’m 62 years old so the faster they produce the better lol. Thanks a lot.
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Hello, @Stevereno,
Welcome to the Nexus! I'm happy to hear you're finding our community informative and helpful! And also very glad to have another senior member, along with @bezevo and a few others. It's awesome knowing we have members with so much life experience.
In terms of what type of cactus, you really can't go wrong with Trichocereus (bridgesii, terschekii, etc). Lophophora are also amazing but they grow very slow, unlike most Trich cultivars. You should check out our cactus cultivation subforum, I'm sure you'll find plenty of good info there.
Once again, welcome. Glad to have you
Welcome to the Nexus! I'm happy to hear you're finding our community informative and helpful! And also very glad to have another senior member, along with @bezevo and a few others. It's awesome knowing we have members with so much life experience.
In terms of what type of cactus, you really can't go wrong with Trichocereus (bridgesii, terschekii, etc). Lophophora are also amazing but they grow very slow, unlike most Trich cultivars. You should check out our cactus cultivation subforum, I'm sure you'll find plenty of good info there.
Once again, welcome. Glad to have you
Welcome to the nexus
As for cacti, i found mutant forms of bridgesii so grow decently fast and are very potent. The ones that grow segments.
As for cacti, i found mutant forms of bridgesii so grow decently fast and are very potent. The ones that grow segments.
Hello and welcome to the forum! It's great to see another putative cactus fan in the making. If you can get hold of a reliable trichocereus clone, that might be your best bet. There area few in circulation, so I'd wish you the best of luck with that. I've managed to get hold of several different potent clones over here in Europe.
One button has produced fourteen pups here, in just a few months. The mother plant has made four, much smaller pups:
Lophophora may grow slowly on their own roots, but grafting them onto a trichocereus stock increases both the growth rate and the amount of pupping almost exponentially:
One button has produced fourteen pups here, in just a few months. The mother plant has made four, much smaller pups:
Good call. These are known as Trichocereus bridgesii monstrose, or TBM for short. There's a short variant and a long variant. Mine are all short, the lumpy things in the middle of the pic:Welcome to the nexus
As for cacti, i found mutant forms of bridgesii so grow decently fast and are very potent. The ones that grow segments.
Steverno,
Welcome to the Nexus. Great to have another experienced head join our little found family. More and more of us over 50 types seem to be registering here and I welcome it.
It looks like the guys have given you some good cactus info.
I don't know much about it but if you live in the right climate area you should be able to get significant growth within just a couple/few years.
I hope you find what you seek and I am so glad you signed up.
Welcome to the Nexus. Great to have another experienced head join our little found family. More and more of us over 50 types seem to be registering here and I welcome it.
It looks like the guys have given you some good cactus info.
I don't know much about it but if you live in the right climate area you should be able to get significant growth within just a couple/few years.
I hope you find what you seek and I am so glad you signed up.
Hi! I agree with the others on Trichocereus/Echinopsis. I don't know where you live but in Italy for example San Pedros (E. pachanoi) are commonly sold as garden plants. It's easier than starting from seed. Where I live they grow more than 5 cm per year (they grow only in the spring and summer). Consider that for a mescaline trip you would need 20 cm of San Pedro even if they are very variable. They are nice to grow even for ornamental purposes.
doubledog
Titanium Teammate
Some practical advices:
- start big, reserve as much space as you can (and then double it), 20 cacti is a good starting number of plants
- inform your wife (or any close person) in advance. Lophophora could help with this, it flowers very nicely and is quite ornamental, which helps with objections that you have reserved too much space for your hobby
- start big, reserve as much space as you can (and then double it), 20 cacti is a good starting number of plants
- inform your wife (or any close person) in advance. Lophophora could help with this, it flowers very nicely and is quite ornamental, which helps with objections that you have reserved too much space for your hobby
