Show us your cacti

Subject: Re: Show us your cacti Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:36 pm

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 Very Happy

Moderator Joined : 06 Apr 2008 Posts : 357 Location : oz

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!!

Subject: Re: Show us your cacti Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:54 pm

Subject: Re: Show us your cacti Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:05 pm

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.

Subject: Re: Show us your cacti Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:07 pm

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.

Moderator Joined : 06 Apr 2008 Posts : 357 Location : oz

Thanks PD,

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

cheers

Subject: Re: Show us your cacti Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:09 pm

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
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Joined : 24 Jun 2008 Posts : 131 Location : Bendigo

Im new to cacti pretty much and know nothing about them really, just ask Betty or Lewis Razz

But here are a couple quick ones i uploaded, dont have any good shots of cacti Sad

Echinopsis Oxygona? - Variegated

Astrophytum Myriostigma Hakuun

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

Joined : 24 Jun 2008 Posts : 131 Location : Bendigo

Damn why is the 1st one so big?

Joined : 07 May 2008 Posts : 377 Location : Melbourne

nice variegated echinopsis.
cool hakuun. Smile

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.

Joined : 24 Jun 2008 Posts : 131 Location : Bendigo

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

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

Joined : 07 May 2008 Posts : 377 Location : Melbourne

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.

Joined : 24 Jun 2008 Posts : 131 Location : Bendigo

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 Razz

Id happily buy some more Smile

Subject: Re: Show us your cacti Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:36 pm

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 Razz

Still, doesnt beat the variegated T. pachanoi i ALMOST had in my hot lil hands the other day, im still kickin myself.

Joined : 24 Jun 2008 Posts : 131 Location : Bendigo

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