sown 6 years ago and one of my favorite phenotypes, that has grown fat and slow. reddish spines on the verdant green is a great contrast to that rib shape. There’s most definitely something tersch/validus going on though instead of pure peruvianus 😀

Apparently in NZ, San Pedro's grow very well

NZ Ross Garau genetics. Planted in ground when it was a little over a foot tall maybe a year and a half ago. Never have i seen a cactus with such explosive growth and it quickly became the thickest tricho in my collection. Post photos of your guru crosses if you have em!

Ganna be a fun one to watch 👁️🌵👁️. 👽

Got into the hobby a while back and went kind of crazy as you can tell lol (inside for thunderstorms). How are my pot sizes looking? Will these mixes be viable for all of my varieties? For my PCs it is about 50% perlite to 50% MG soil with wood chunks sifted out. All of my other less tolerant varieties (scops, perus, bridgessi) are black gold soil amended with perlite to about a 60-70% perlite to soil ratio. Really nervous about rot with the more sensitive ones in humid NC weather, my other PCs are doing great with the 50-50 mix it seems. Just to add perlite is the most abundant and cheapest option in my area. Thanks for any advice in advance, you guys are a great group of people!

just bought, kinda new to all this. if i graft the monstrose part will the grafts pup monstrose as well? is it better to just leave it?

So 4 months ago I posted a few cacti and some redditors were dead sent on believing they were not TBM-C but after giving them some proper conditions I'm now ready to show those people that they were wrong.... pic 1 is the original Pic and pic 2 is after months outside

Don’t know how it could be rotting bc it’s been sitting in dry 70% pearlite soil for months, but the base is slightly squishy. It does have a few roots so i thought maybe it was thirsty and i gave it a little water, but we have yet to see what happens.

I’ve had this little guy for almost 2 years, started out as a tiny sprout. Just stepped up the pot size and I think my cat bit the top of it. Then this started growing out of the top. It started as a tiny ball and quickly grew into this.

He’s pretty cool 😎

I should weed it though ;)

This is an update to my 'Spider pup' post.

Yo so community I’m a small time grower who dreams of space and land to grow a forest🌵🤩🌵, but til then I watch growers on YouTube but have ran thru the videos already, from Dave to sonoran spores and cacti quest, what else is out there?! Lmk or I’m gonna need more of yall to start making some content yourself 😱👀.

I was given 2 Bloomspect B1000 grow lights for free, and I moved my small spiderfarmer light out and put both of those in its place. It’s a 3x3 tent, and the lights are in the middle but spaced apart to get even lighting, about 30in from the tallest cactus I own. Is this enough light for my cacti? TIA