My cactus garden

[Hanky]

Here's my new cactus garden that i made a week or so ago.

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This is my Trichocereus scopulicolis

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Here's some new spring growth on two pedro (Trichocereus pachanoi) cuttings.

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[Pure]

nice looking cacti hanky

[Hanky]

They look great,taste terrible!!!!!

 

I've got some fat cuttings of Trichocereus peruvians that i'll cook up soon.

 

Ahhhhhhh,.....Mescaline!

[Pure]

ha ha ha ha only a few things more satifying than mesciline ( apparantly ) cough

 

Hypotheticly speaking ofcourse a great way to avoid the taste is cooking it to crystal forum, for buttons of certain cacti jello works well to mask that initial taste unfourtunatly it won't stop the enveitable spew that comes from lophs

 

 

 

DO you mind me asking what you feed em, I grow mine indoors in winter under MH and out in summer and although they look great and healthy the largest is only about 6 inches or 6and a half in diameter would love them to be as fat as your is that simply because of the fact I am usign pots ?

[Hanky]

Trichs love water,food and space to grow. They do a lot better in the ground rather than pots,also the bigger they get the faster they grow. Alkaline soil is helpfull too.

I feed mine good old fish emulsion,and a cacti specific slow release for the trace elements.

Once they are established in the ground you can literaly throw food and water at them all the time thru the growing season. Naturaly they need nothing during winter.

 

In regards to cooking cactus,i like to use a double boiler at the end of the process and reduce the goop to a thick snot. Then i scrape up little blobs and roll them in flour. leave them awhile and they go hard. You can then swallow them like pills......no taste.

 

Better still is an A/B extraction but that means so much more time.

[Pure]

Yeah I don't have the luxury of a yard anymore which is the ultimate pain for any sort of plant enthusiest especialy with the numbers I have ha ha everything I have are in large pots or in a trough like garden I have built around the edges of my balcony , fortunatly there is a fair bit of space out there but nothing like the achers of land I would love to have, My cacti always do great groing upward and look healthy but never get quite that fat hell I would settle to have a small backyard I go around to my folks place all the time and see my plants I had to leave behind flurishing, Fourtunatly my folks are aware and understanding abotu my hobes and interests so they don't mind baby sitting

 

Owe well lease is up next month so hopefull I won't be putting up with it for much longer

 

 

hmmm process sounds intersting may have to find out bout that one

[Hanky]

Well here's hoping you have a garden soon.

[Pure]

Indeed gotta get out of the big smoke which will happen soon hopefully , or at least this particular big smoke it's turning into little America and cause of prices there isn't a chance of having a nice yard without being some sort of drug lord or without living remotly

[Hanky]

Here's two more recent additions.

 

Trichocereus peruvians...

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Cereus peruvians 'monstrose' Christated form...

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[Spurious]

Nice looking scop Hanky. I've got a couple similar in stature, though mine are nearly spineless. One has started pupping too, so the family grows.

 

Do you only process the thin layer of green flesh directly under the skin, discarding the white? I've been led to believe that it is this white flesh that contains little of the good stuff, and has more of the unwanted compounds that lead to purging. (chucking) So far, in my testing of peruvs, it appears to hold some element of truth. But as in all scientific testing, more and more tests need to be performed to establish certainty. I will have to volunteer myself yet again for this testing. ;-)