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Username: Afraidofamerica
Post Number: 140
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 05:52 pm: | 
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This guy KNOWS his stuff, nicely illustrated. I found this site while looking for some fresh cuttings on eBay.
http://www.pearyhenson.org
ROOTING A TIP, GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
Cut & heal
Cut the piece you want to root from the cactus with a clean, alcohol sterilized knife. Place it in a moderately cool, dry shady location to allow the base to form a scab. This will take 2-3 weeks. An electric fan can help dehydrate the end in 24 hours, then let it rest for a couple of weeks.
Fresh Cut
Healed Cut
Sterile rooting medium vs soil mix
Why a sterile medium? If you have problems with rot, then use sand or vermiculite as a rooting medium. The use of soil can cause rot since it contains bacteria. Commercial nurseries avoid these problems with sterilized soil, or sterile media such as perlite, vermiculite, etc. In cool weather vermiculite (or rock wool) is the best choice. Cuttings may root during the winter using vermiculite, provided they’re placed in a warm, sunny place. During hot weather use sand because it will help keep the cuttings cool.
• Place cutting in a container of pure sand or vermiculite. Logs can be half buried horizontally. Moisten the media with small amounts of water. Wait until it has dried back to about 1/8” from the base of the cutting before watering again. After four weeks, gently lift the cactus see if it has roots yet. If rooting has not occurred, check again in two weeks.
• It can take weeks or months to root a cutting. Variables such as the time of year, local temperature and duration of sunlight, etc. are all factors.
• Keep the cutting warm during the entire process. Warmth always stimulates rooting.
• Maintain low exposure to direct sunlight; or use shade netting (shade cloth) to make a shade nursery for your cuttings.
• Cuttings will often root in a couple of weeks in spring and summer.
Rooted Cutting (notice how the ribs thinned due to water loss while waiting to take root. They will fatten again once the roots begin taking up water)
When the cutting has roots (congratulations!) gently transplant it into a container with a compost rich, well draining soil mix. Sand, perlite and vermiculite contain no plant nutrients. They are only used for rooting. Now your roots want to feed. So give them rich soil—what gardeners call “sandy loam.”
Download These Two PDF files on "Set and Forget" and "Rooting Hormone"
Garden Soil and Potting Soil
Start with garden soil
Garden soil is enriched dirt used to grow vegetables. You first have to understand organic gardening to accomplish this. Best books are by Eliot Coleman. Once you have healthy garden soil, with lots of humus from organic compost, you have what is called "sandy loam." Again, refer to an Eliot Coleman book to learn about these terms and concepts. The point is that soil is comprised of minerals (dirt), humus (decayed organic matter) and sand. The mineral portion is often in the form of clay that has to be balanced with sand. Without sand clay soil will compact, closing off drainage, aeration, and making root growth difficult. Humus is essential for roots to feed on nutrients. It "mediates ion exchange."
Growing in containers is different than growing in the earth
The soil at right, in the wheelbarrow, is sandy garden soil. But if you are going to grow in containers you need potting soil that has a lighter texture with much more drainage. Perlite is mixed in 50/50 for this reason.
Screen/mix soil & Perlite
The wheelbarrow of garden soil is already screened to 1/2". Then it is screened to 1/4" in a 50—50 mix with Perlite. You may buy Perlite in 8 cubic foot bags at a garden store for about $11. More about Perlite: http://www.perlite.org/bfacts.htm
Shade Nursery
Never direct sun!
While rooting there are no roots. The poor little puppy is vulnerable to overheat, cannot drink water.
Protect your rooting specimens. Give them a warm shady place to rest while roots develop.
This space is made from tyvek row cover, 2 layers stapled over a 2x4 frame.
Make a shade nursery
White bed sheets can also be used, or buy 70% shade net fabric from a garden store
Warm and bright, but not direct sunlight. Rooting needs a warm environment.
(above) Logs were found in field with sprouted branches.
Cut and placed in perlite mix in shade nursery to grow into new specimens.
(below) The 3 pots at right have tips that are 2 to 3 feet tall.
Vertical Log Buds
Vertical log propagation
Whenever a section of Trichocereus is cut it will bud to form a new growing tip.
One month later
Buds
One, two, or three tips may grow from a cut section.
Here you can see that three bubs had previously been harvested as new plants. Yet another bud is forming. This section is from a large diameter, very old and mature limb.
One month later.
Also a very old, mature limb.
Because it is budding the end is being rooted. It will make an interesting specimen as the section is so large.
Of course these little buds can be allowed to grow larger (or even grafted) and then cut off and rooted as a new plant.
Hope this helps out future cactus growers!!
Peace
-AoA
"First they ignore you; then they mock you; then they punish you; then you win."
--Mahatma Ghandi
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges
(The more corrupt a republic, the more laws)
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Afraid of America (Afraidofamerica)
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Username: Afraidofamerica
Post Number: 142
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 05:58 pm: |
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ADMIN can you please change Thread title to read "San Pedro: Illustrated Rooting Guide"
Thanks
-AoA
"First they ignore you; then they mock you; then they punish you; then you win."
--Mahatma Ghandi
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges
(The more corrupt a republic, the more laws)
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Joe Millionaire (Rotterdam_y2k)
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Username: Rotterdam_y2k
Post Number: 1146
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 07:16 pm: |
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we're really starting to gather some cacti information here at mycotopia. very nice aoa. now we won't ever have to go to that other site. (i won't even mention the name...)
"Ekam Sat Vipras Bahudda Vidante"
The One Truth is named by the wise in many ways.
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Hidra303 (Hidra303)
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Username: Hidra303
Post Number: 577
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 08:14 pm: |
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awesome info there
music is the answer.....
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NewDude (Newdude1)
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Username: Newdude1
Post Number: 86
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 08:20 pm: |
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Great find, thats really usefull info , AoA (check your pm) |
harry m stevens (Rockawayrooms)
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Username: Rockawayrooms
Post Number: 726
Registered: 08-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 08:31 pm: |
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very useful info thanks fer sharing
bright light almost blindin'
black night still keep shinin'
i can't stop, keep on climbin'
looking for what i knew!!!l.zeppelin
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Bubblegum Salvia (Bubblegumsalvia)
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Username: Bubblegumsalvia
Post Number: 306
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 11:28 pm: |
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Good info and pics
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal.
All this pain is an illusion.
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Hippie3 (Admin)
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Username: Admin
Post Number: 17172
Registered: 02-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 12:29 am: |
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quote:ADMIN can you please change Thread title to read "San Pedro: Illustrated Rooting Guide"
yep.
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Hippie3 (Admin)
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Post Number: 17173
Registered: 02-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 12:29 am: |
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archive material
great post & pix,
thx for bring it here
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Afraid of America (Afraidofamerica)
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Username: Afraidofamerica
Post Number: 147
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 04:02 am: |
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Thanks for changing the title Hippie.
Glad you all like the info. I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw this today. I believe he also sells a lil 15 page booklet on ebay that has more information than he posts on his site.
Happy Growing
-AoA
(Message edited by afraidofamerica on April 17, 2004)
"First they ignore you; then they mock you; then they punish you; then you win."
--Mahatma Ghandi
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges
(The more corrupt a republic, the more laws)
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