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is your climate suited to growing them outside? or will they stay under the HPS lamp?
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From late spring to early autumn they'll do fine here outside. I also have a greenhouse to house them. In winter I have to bring them indoors. Some of my tichocereus peruvianus cacti survived the winter in the greenhouse though with temperatures below minus 3 C for some days straight. Day temperatures were mostly around freezing point (in the greenhouse). So I'll try to do this with some of the lophophora's next winter. Actually it is still winter here... it doesn't seem to end this year.
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t.peru is very hardy compared to LW dont treat them the same or you'll be sorry
in my climate most peruvianus type plants are ok in the greenhouse- but you will see some frost killed tips pictures a few posts back in this thread. our temps never dipped below 15*f- and were rarely below 20*f for more than a few hours. (3500' in north central California)
i wouldn't risk my lophs below freezing for more than a few hours
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Thanks for the tips dg, much appreciated. I won't put them all in a greenhouse but I really want to try it with some because I read a lot of different opinions about this on the net and know there is a guy here in the Netherlands who keeps his peyotes in the greenhouse during the whole winter. Maybe it'll be disaster for those lophs but sometimes I have to find things out the hard way to convince myself. Also my tricho's didn't get frozen tips so there have to be more factors than frost in the black-tip-in-freezing-conditions problem like humidity or something. Winters here have very low humidity when freezing.
BTW I really like your collection. That nice greenhouse and those grafts, very inspirational. I'm preparing something like that this spring as well as we just bought a rather large plot of land with a small house on it. I already passed over my allot (which housed the greenhouse) to friends. I'm thinking of building a double glass greenhouse on our plot with heat absorbing materials in it and some small petroleum heaters to keep the temps up so I can grow more tropical plants (flowers and entheogens). I saw some really nice geodesic dome designs on the net.
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T.G.I. Friday's I just received my african grown mature flowering stagepeyote grown from seed. They are all > 4cm and some even near 6. All seeds from previous flowering still in the buds I also got some san pedro's which are among the fattest I ever saw for this height. The all have good root systems and are not grafted. Hereby the friday afternoon Cacti porn: Poekus attached the following image(s): IMG_2547.JPG (616kb) downloaded 496 time(s). IMG_2549.JPG (728kb) downloaded 493 time(s). IMG_2551.JPG (447kb) downloaded 494 time(s).
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Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang So many peyotes.......I wish I had one! Be an adult only when necessary.
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I want one of those yotes. Here are my little babies. Just started my cacti garden. hostilis attached the following image(s): Photo0092.jpg (183kb) downloaded 450 time(s). Photo0093.jpg (309kb) downloaded 447 time(s). Photo0094.jpg (221kb) downloaded 449 time(s). Photo0096.jpg (252kb) downloaded 447 time(s).3... 2... 1... BLAST OFF!!!!FFO TSALB ...1 ...2 ...3 My grafting guide
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Nice babies. Are those bridgesii? Nagdeo
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nicechrisman wrote:Nice babies. Are those bridgesii? Yes, they are little bridgesii cacti. 13 of them. I am going to plant some torches and peyote's soon as well. 3... 2... 1... BLAST OFF!!!!FFO TSALB ...1 ...2 ...3 My grafting guide
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^is that a CFL? if so move it much closer to the cacti (nice start for your collection )
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New Set up @ dg: It just said "Plant light" My new set up for the bridgesii is a 135 watt T5 Florescent Bulb with reflectors in a greenhouse. I have it with a temperature gaige so I can keep track. I put that other light over my pereskiopsis and my penis plant. hostilis attached the following image(s): Photo0129.jpg (217kb) downloaded 406 time(s). Photo0131.jpg (225kb) downloaded 404 time(s). Photo0130.jpg (226kb) downloaded 405 time(s).3... 2... 1... BLAST OFF!!!!FFO TSALB ...1 ...2 ...3 My grafting guide
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check BecometheOther attached the following image(s): Photo 168.jpg (80kb) downloaded 400 time(s). Photo 169.jpg (79kb) downloaded 400 time(s). Photo 170.jpg (79kb) downloaded 392 time(s).You have never been apart from me. You can never depart and never return, for we are continuous, indistinguishable. We are eternal forever
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Nice pups hostillis, and nice adults BecometheOther . That second photo is a big one, it almost defeated time there.
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updates had to thin the herd to fit into the new GH bed while i hate to lose cacti, i'm very happy to get the babes into a year round climate where they can thrive. i've had good luck in the past growing in raised beds- even if the plants are pretty close together (as they will be here) space is limited, even in the 35x70' climate controlled triple wall poly carbonate monster life is not all peaches and cream, but there is alot to celebrate. please note: no cacti were completely killed in the making of this post. they all live on. dg attached the following image(s): hair cut.jpg (263kb) downloaded 347 time(s). hair cut 2.jpg (218kb) downloaded 344 time(s). greenhouse.jpg (234kb) downloaded 346 time(s). greenhouse bed.jpg (194kb) downloaded 345 time(s).
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a couple gratuitous shots for fun see anything odd with the last picture? dg attached the following image(s): hair cut 5.jpg (244kb) downloaded 344 time(s). hair cut 3.jpg (205kb) downloaded 338 time(s). hair cut 4.jpg (253kb) downloaded 340 time(s).
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Some pron for your eyes. hostilis attached the following image(s): Photo0314.jpg (282kb) downloaded 323 time(s). Photo0583.jpg (270kb) downloaded 316 time(s). Photo0456.jpg (261kb) downloaded 317 time(s). Photo0459.jpg (227kb) downloaded 317 time(s). flower opening 3.jpg (181kb) downloaded 317 time(s). 10-5.jpg (204kb) downloaded 317 time(s). $(KGrHqV,!k8FIf2CDoQFBSNTLTmFOg~~60_3.JPG (62kb) downloaded 317 time(s). Photo0625.jpg (147kb) downloaded 315 time(s). Photo0605.jpg (313kb) downloaded 317 time(s).3... 2... 1... BLAST OFF!!!!FFO TSALB ...1 ...2 ...3 My grafting guide
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very nice Hostilis!
watch them lophs for mite/thrip damage (they are very easy targets)
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D.Rey i'm not sure why but I cant see your pictures?? just a small icon...
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What would be the best course of action if one got thripes? Here is some more pron for y'all. hostilis attached the following image(s): Day (1) 10-9.jpg (137kb) downloaded 299 time(s). Day 1 (2) 10-9.jpg (136kb) downloaded 298 time(s). Day 1 10-9.jpg (146kb) downloaded 300 time(s).3... 2... 1... BLAST OFF!!!!FFO TSALB ...1 ...2 ...3 My grafting guide
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