Show us your cacti

When you said you had a few buried I did not know what to think .............. just a couple lol

That is great you have your own little nursery going there.

I will have to show my friends how you get the pups growing from the one you have laying down, it looks like you have them in the ground a little???

Is it raining down your way some of the cacti are wet, send it up north if you can

Some more Tricho pics for you

Pics # 1234 Various.
Pic # 5, T. bridgesii "Gardenworld" on left and T. bridgesii "Lil skinny" on right
Pic # 6, T. pachanoi "PC"
Pic # 7, T. bridgesii "Psycho0"
Pic # 8, T. bridgesii "Bruce"
Pic # 9, Trichocereus "J1"
Pic #10, T. pachanoi "Yowie"
Pic #11, Various
Pic #12, Trichocereus "J1"
Pic #13, T. bridgesii "Eileen"
Pic #14, T. pachanoi "Super pedro"
Pic #15, T. bridgesii "Psycho0"


Am about to start work on a new garden for my larger Tricho plants, will be more of a well set out "display" garden rather than the rows and rows of stock plants. I will get pics as i progess.

Hey PD what area of Vic. ? do you get frost there.

PD,
what a great looking collection - and all in the ground. Must ghave saved a fortune on pots and soil. Enjoyed having a look at them all.

PD,
wow the pics just keep coming. Was good to get a look at so many different types - thanks for labelling them.

The logs that are laying down are just starting to really throw the pups out now and yes they are buried just a little. I have seen another grower dothis with alot of his trichos and well, the results are fantastic IMO, that is if you have enough material and space to do it with. They seem to pup right along the length of the log and at both ends once they send their roots down. The bridgesii in question is a VERY fast grower, prolly the fastest growing tricho i have in the garden hands down.

Jeez, i really need to do some weeding in there, stinging nettle soup anyone?

North east vic Gracie, right on the border,plenty frost here. Well, we havent really had any big frosts this year (yet) at all but last year we got down to -12c on more than a few occasions, didnt seem to bother the trichos any

PD, what is your soil like - sandy with good drainage, or at the other end and all clay? Did you mix anything into it. Might hunt down some logs now that my interest has piqued and try a garden planting.

Did I say it before about your garden - WOW!!

PD wrote:

North east vic Gracie, right on the border,plenty frost here. Well, we havent really had any big frosts this year (yet) at all but last year we got down to -12c on more than a few occasions, didnt seem to bother the trichos any

And I grizzle at -3C but -12C brrrrrrrrrrrrrr that's cold or is that a typo?

The soil where i have planted in one garden was where an old childrens pool was so it was all sand, it had also had alot of compost and wood ash mixed in over the years since the pool was moved. The other lot small cuttings were placed on pretty much the same sort of soil but with more ash and less sand. I have planted directly into the poorer red soil around the place though, right before winter to no ill effect. I think once the trichos have roots down there isnt much that can bother them in this climate. Its the humidity that can do more damage to the trichos imo.

Haha, no typo Betty, It was freeeeezing. I was a little worried about my trichos when the first one hit but now i dont worry at all. Im sure one day frost will take a bite out of something i treasure.

Thanks PD,

gives me more courage to plant something in "the wild" away from my greenhouse.

cheers

Its a wonder it didn't snow lol

I had a couple touched by the minus 3 last winter but not enough to cause too much damage, just added a bit of character

Im new to cacti pretty much and know nothing about them really, just ask Betty or Lewis But here are a couple quick ones i uploaded, dont have any good shots of cacti

Echinopsis Oxygona? - Variegated


Astrophytum Myriostigma Hakuun


Sorry about the size and quality of the photos, im no good with photography.

Damn why is the 1st one so big?

nice variegated echinopsis.
cool hakuun. very good specimen
in fact it looks healthier than mine, which has some marks but 7 ribs, well its back to 5 now since it grew them then dropped them. now it looks somewhat distorted/monstrose.
i do have 2 proper A. myriostigma cv 'Multicostatum' (many ribs), one with 7 ribs and one double header with 8 each.

Hahaha so i have heard, and am quite jelous of Lewis

I want to goto CC, but dad wont drive me :mad:

i plan to get another hakuun (or my existing one) and try de graft it next spring so i have an own roots specimen. the grafted one isn't rare.. its probably the commonest astro cultivar in melb...its always offered grafted...own roots one is near impossible to find for sale. a pretty cool cv though, name means 'cloudy sky'.
another alternative is to cut the hylo a few cms below the union of the stock and scion, then root the hylo and bury it so it at least looks like a self rooted plant.

Yeh we had talked about degrafting them, but i didnt think you would go through with yours.
If theyre so common in Melb, why dont i have more Id happily buy some more

Nice variegated echinopsis there. I have 2 of the same, one very large and one about 10cms. Now all they gotta do is produce a few pups with the same trait, i have noticed one so far but i want more dammit Still, doesnt beat the variegated T. pachanoi i ALMOST had in my hot lil hands the other day, im still kickin myself.

Cool, myne came from a little pup i grabbed off a plant a few years ago, now mynes pupping up, i knocked 2 of the bigger ones off by accident, gotta plant em now. Altho id rather let it grow in one big singular plant.
You should have dived onto it, prickles are nothing once you got it:P