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Good to know. That might happen soon. I have a lot of stuff sitting around, like tips cut off for grafting etc.

@@SkillCult well please let me know when you decide, thanks Hunter Trail!

I have had some freezing damage I'm in 9a. We get hard freezes winter before this last one was pretty rough but I only lost a couple of plants and had to cut off some tips on others. There are definitely significant differences in hardiness that were apparent. A lot of pachs like tammy, huancabamba, tpm and others were more susceptible. Scopish stuff seemed more tolerant

I wouldn't know about the miracle grow. If cuttings are new, I'd wait til they have a some roots under them. Otherwise, anytime is fine, even young seedlings like food. don't overdo it, but they like quite a bit if you want them to grow fast. I mostly just pee on them and then sometimes other liquid organic ferts and some kelp extract.

@@SkillCult lol! I'll R. Kelly those little cacti! Thanks dude!

You mean the spineless mutant bridges? I didn't know they flowered.

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I"m at 1800 feet. last year was pretty rough, but mostly tip damage and only lost a few small ones. I did move most to high spots with good air drainage. Do you know what your elevation was in Mendo? I'm in the coast ranges out of Ukiah. I'm looking for property that is a little lower in elevation and not in a cold sink.

@SkillCult without looking it up I couldn't tell you where I was at in mendo. I was 8 miles west of Boonville inside the fog belt. I live in salt lake these days. 4300 feet elevation. I gotta grow everything inside here.

At this point I would go for Pyganic, a pyrethum extract with omri approval. It seems to be effective and proably cheaper in the long run if you have to treat a lot of cactus. If you have a large collection that is infested, it might be really hard to use enough to kill them all though. I was not able to finish them off in the end. what did finish them off was last winter. Apparently they don't like freezing over and over. I did damage and lose some cactus too, but hey, no mealies! Onle a few managed to survive that I brought into the greenouse in the fall. but I hope to be meallie free by the end of this winter. I think tobacco works, it will just take a lot to treat a lot of soil. treating the cactus is no problem. saturating a bunch of big pots tho...

Thanks. I have rarely seen square pots that are very close to what I have in mind. Most have a pretty sharp taper that makes them unstable for heavy cactus. I'd like very little taper, which also means more soil for the roots per footprint of the pot. There are some problems to grapple with though around handles, grips of some kind or to have a rim or not. If the cactus are packed in together very close, it could be hard to pull one up and out of the block.

Yeah, basically ha ha. When I first got into cactus I thought I'd be working with mostly pachanoi, but now it looks like scop hybrids mostly. They seem relatively hardy too, which is important where I live. We'll see. If you got some good ones lets trade :D

I wouldn't know. I have not used tammy yet. But given its vigor, I imagine it will be great. I don't know if there are any compatibility issues among trichs, but I doubt it is much of an issue. Otherwise you'd think it would be down to vigor as with rootstocks used with other plants. If you want a dwarf apple, you pick a low vigor, weak growing stock and vice versa. I like the idea of using seedlings the best, as they would not have any accumulated viral diseases, but I already have all these cacti established, so I'll use those til they run out. Obviously a well established plant will push more growth than a new, small seedling.

I really hardly have any perus, except probably some hybrids. If you like red spines, I grew some seeds open pollinated pach from Matucana peru that tend larely toward medium sized red spines, super fat and many ribbed. They are very pretty. I'm assuming a lot are pach/peru hybrids. Some show out more like a pretty standard pach, but the majority are more along those lines. I saved out a few and a friend that came over took only a few cactus, but he grabbed the last two of those lol. I should have a new batch this next season. I saved a couple, just because they look so cool.

I'll keep an eye out, thanks for the heads up! Definitely growing an appreciation of the chunkier spineless. I've got a heynes x zed scop that is slowly becoming a favorite. Hope to buy a clone of one of your favorites some day.

Yeah, maybe an old school reggae series. I don't do reggae very much, but when I do, it's stricktly old school, mighty diamonds, LKJ, Rankin Ann and those old dub artists.

Yes, but I'm not inclined to do it myself. I have had offers from people to do it for new daffodil and apple varieties, but I'm not sure how cost effective it would be.

I don't see why it would not work. The more I root cactus cuttings now, there more I'm inclined to just callous them reasonably well, stick in them in a pot of soil and start watering semi-normally. but my mixes are usually pretty well aerated with large amounts of char and other aggregate.

@TeamWachuma I was reading a scholarly article from I think the 30s that used charcoal to root cuttings in.

I haven't had any luck with that. I think the problem is actually not the algae, possibly some kind of slime surface dwelling bacteria. I was told might be similar to the natural desert crust in peyote country cyanobacter or something like that.

Yea, just the usual stuff you use on cuts.

Seems to work fine for me. Try a different browser?

I do have some and use them occasionally on super gnarly stuff. they are pretty clunky for any fine work though. the thorn armor are good for picking up small stuff etc. they just need a redesign I think. The thorn resistant part is great, stuff just sneaks in between and they don't protedt the back of you hands at all.