r/Trichocereus

Hey yall I’m brand new to cacti, just got released from prison May 1st for weed trafficking and had a beautiful San Pedro trip before I went in so I have been focused on doing this for several years while I was stuck in limbo. That being said I have been gardening since I was like ten helping my parents with their weed plants and I grew up on a regular farm as well. Just wanted to introduce myself and show off what little bit of a collection I have accumulated so far. It’s not a lot just yet but got robbed while incarcerated of course cause that always happens, and rebuilding everything from zero again and starting a new hobby at the same time slows progress to say the least lol. So far the people I have met in the cactus community have been awesome and the mutual respect and energy has been super dope fr! I appreciate all your beautiful cacti and reading all the comments and posts from you super knowledgeable people, I look forward to learning more, growing my collection, and continuing to meet more of yall! Also looking forward to some super spicy tea lol only had one cactus trip so far but I love all things psychedelic and that cactus tea was the most beautiful psychedelic experience I’ve had to date and I’ve tripped a thousand times or more on various substances over the years! Anyway I’ll stop rambling thanks for your time, energy, and advice in advance! Much love yall!

Started using mega crop fertilizer and I'm not disappointed. I chopped this noID and started the new fertilizer in the same week, and it's already putting out pups!

Hope this translates to my other cacs soon.

I picked up a Bruce's Dragon graft today, I'm unsure of the rootstock as it wasn't labeled. I'd like to give this Bruce it's own pot but I've never de-grafted, or even grafted (yet)! It looks like this was grown from a single areole graft, if that makes a difference? Do y'all have any tips for a beginner? Is it even that complicated? Am I overthinking this? Thank you in advance 🙏🌵❤️

my cactus flower photos so far this season

I feel like these are the adult version of those Grow Animals/Sea Creatures I used to play with as a kid, I loved them. These things show growth just about as fast as those and when you forget about it for a few days and come back the growth is very noticeable. I am not sure if my love for collecting things I get super into or my love for those grow capsules out ways one or the other but definitely both have helped with the passion. And my love for nature in general. I used to travel around a lot and never could keep plants or animals but now that I am more of a home body I am able to get after it and care for things more. I move these around daily chasing the sun but I definitely want to get these into the ground in a safe spot all year round. Moving everything multiple times a day is a lot of work. How many others do the same or started off moving them daily and chasing the sun?

Hey everyone, I would like to hear your opinions or insights regarding an uncommon growth point split of Trichocereus macrogonus. The original main top died off after staying outside in below-zero temperatures this winter. It bounced back with puping right at the top and another aureole nearby, yet the top left stalk is pushing a clean apical split right at the tip.

What do you think happens next? My thought are as follows:
Y-Shape: Clean, symmetrical dichotomous split?
Monstrose: A funky, sustained weird growth phase? Or reverting back.
Dominance: One tip steal all the energy and stall the other?
Other options?

So a buddy of mine who is quite the prolific grower in his own right who I’ve gotten several cactuses off before , I purchased a cutting from but have been unable to confirm its identity. I was told it’s called San Pedro Island shift. I was not able to find that specific strain I did find the San Pedro Island website and contacted them to ask them if they had one called shift. They said they never heard of that before. The grower I got it from said it’s called shift because it shifts and smooth out in some places and then goes back to being ribbed again. This grower is very knowledgeable and I’ve gotten confirmed types from him before so I have no reason to doubt him, I just can’t confirm the name he told me exists.
Does anybody have any ideas of what it could be?
The last pic is where the cutting came from it’s the tall, smooth cactus in the middle

Made me chuckle like an insane person making this. Took a long time. Hope you enjoy.

Proud of my very first slab graft 🤩

A few years back I had COVID and some bodily injuries at the same time. I couldn't even get out of the bed for a week. It just so happens that week was what we in Texas call the plantpocalypse, a super bad freeze that we don't often see here.

Wiped out every single plant I had outside which was 99%. I didn't even know the freeze was happening. I was so out of it and nobody brought it to my attention (I blame me I am just saying).

When I walked out and saw what happened I cried, and became super depressed and quit growing plants. I didn't even grow food or anything I was so beaten down emotionally by it. Plants were my favorite thing aside from my family too, it was just really bad.

I started using reddit here pretty recently after a long hiatus and slowly but surely all the dope pics started to rekindle my love for growing plants. This sub in particular really helped bring me out of my funk. Ive been growing food again, buying and starting cacti from seed, and growing other fun plants from seed.

I just want to say thanks for everything you all post. Seeing other people lose plants and not trip over it helped my plant PTSD or something lol. I am so appreciative because I now remember how fulfilling this is. I also missed the community aspect of trading and stuff. I can't wait til I have some stuff propagated and can share with you all.

The pics are of a baby Bruce's dragon I got from East Austin Succulents. Such a banger I can't wait for it to get big. If anyone has some cool phenotypical (I know this is clone only but I mean the expression based on environmental factors) expressions of this clone please post in comments, it is one of my favorite trichs. Thanks for your time and attention and have a great day.

Good afternoon! My name is Birdie, I'm from Texas, and I freaking love plants. Cacti constantly amaze me and I'm a bit of a tricho head.

I hope you are all doing well. I am stoked to see all the neat stuff everyone has. I'm sort of new to this hobby so I'm sure I'll be asking a lot of questions, sorry in advance.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read and I am going to go scroll endlessly through these trich subs. 💙

Pic 1: Jacob
Pic 2: Huarimayo
Pic 3: Chavin
Pic 4: San Marcos

I received far more seeds than I will ever need from our buddy Aynor and would like to make them available since I know others have had trouble receiving them. All varieties have germinated well for me and I’ve only just planted them one week ago.

I have attached the pictures that were sent to me of each stand the seeds were collected from. Being wild they will be open pollinated. Unfortunately mine are just little green blobs right now.

30 pks for $15 shipped. Or 1 of each for $40. Shipped US only.

I am looking for a good deal on some bulk rooted pc, I have some cacti that are in pretty bad shape and I think the only way to save them is to graft the tips

If you have some nice plump stock ready to graft onto, or can point me at who does, I'm highly interested. I guess they don't have to be pc, as long as is good stock. Thanks so much and I posted a flower for fun. :)