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by NiklasTyreso
Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:22 am
Forum: Cacti Identification
Topic: P. Pecten-aboriginum?
Replies: 8
Views: 3195

Re: P. Pecten-aboriginum?

I do not think it is a wild species of Trichocereus but it might be a nice flowering tricho hybrid.

Maybe Patrik Knoll (Cactus Jerk) can tell what it is: https://youtu.be/JERq_-WK_0g?feature=shared
by NiklasTyreso
Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:45 am
Forum: Cacti Identification
Topic: San pedro - pc or not
Replies: 4
Views: 4670

Re: San pedro - pc or not

I think it is a pachanoi.

Your picture isn't that sharp on my phone but the areoles don't seem to be pointing up, so I don't think it's a pc (predominant US clone).

This video explains what a PC is and its characteristics:
https://youtu.be/C6P6SEw4aG0?feature=shared
by NiklasTyreso
Tue Jul 13, 2021 3:54 pm
Forum: Cacti Identification
Topic: Presentation, and columnar ID
Replies: 1
Views: 856

Re: Presentation, and columnar ID

The blue one in the midle is a Browningia hertlingiana.
by NiklasTyreso
Tue Jul 13, 2021 3:46 pm
Forum: Outdoor Cacti
Topic: Growing outdoors in Sweden
Replies: 31
Views: 21991

Re: Growing outdoors in Sweden

This paperback book by John Spain is the product of his life's study growing winter hardy cacti in cold and wet winter areas. I've met the author personally at a cactus club. He is in his 90's now and no longer gardening. He is an extremely knowledgeable person. Our Forum owner sells it on his site...
by NiklasTyreso
Tue Jul 13, 2021 3:22 pm
Forum: Outdoor Cacti
Topic: Growing outdoors in Sweden
Replies: 31
Views: 21991

Re: Growing outdoors in Sweden

Thanks for that great slide and book, Jerry! It is a hot summer -21, so most cactuses grow well, like Stetsonia and P. pringeli. But my small T. passacana that is adapted for living on extreme high and cold altitudes, is unhappy, so i keep it in the fridge in the nights to give it some rest in lower...
by NiklasTyreso
Fri Jun 11, 2021 7:41 am
Forum: General
Topic: Cactus prices higher than ever
Replies: 48
Views: 9788

Re: Cactus prices higher than ever

During corona people have been working from home, att least in my country. Away from office they started renovate their homes and buy garden plants. It has been a boom in buying pets too. Maybe even cactuses. After Corona, when people go back to work in office they probably lose interest in their ne...
by NiklasTyreso
Tue May 11, 2021 11:37 am
Forum: Outdoor Cacti
Topic: Growing outdoors in Sweden
Replies: 31
Views: 21991

Re: Growing outdoors in Sweden

O. Humifusa, known as 'Eastern Prickly Pear', will live outside in Sweden. I get a lot of rain in New England in the spring, and they survive. We also get very cold winters. You är right👍 Humifusa is in of the best cold hardy cactuses. I hade one many years ago outside all cold winter in my balkony...
by NiklasTyreso
Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Overwinter watering
Replies: 12
Views: 2147

Re: Overwinter watering

Ok. Good that it worked out for you.
Do you meassure temperatures inside the greenhouse day and night? If not, it might be good.

We have had a very sunny winter, warming my open balcony, with roof, nice in daytime, but nights are cold. Right now when writing the temperatur is -11 degr C.
by NiklasTyreso
Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Cacti for sale in Europe/Scandinavia- were do they come from?
Replies: 16
Views: 3337

Re: Cacti for sale in Europe/Scandinavia- were do they come from?

I don’t have any specialist dealers near by, in fact the only one I know of is in the other end of the country. So my suppliers of cacti are the grocerystores, a couple of florists and the already mentioned Plantagen ( which is a huge garden chainstore) . You probably could order from Wermland Dese...
by NiklasTyreso
Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Cacti in cultivation- are they really what we think they are?
Replies: 9
Views: 1937

Re: Cacti in cultivation- are they really what we think they are?

There are some very beautiful hybrid blooming cactuses, but some religions do not like hybrids.

Environmental conservation do not work very well when we let man made hybrids invade nature. Keep them at your home.
by NiklasTyreso
Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Overwinter watering
Replies: 12
Views: 2147

Re: Overwinter watering

I do not think any cactus can handle temperatures below freezing 24 h a day for a week or two. We just finished a freezing week of eight days between -14C on some nights and 0C at the highest. They were dry, but had to stay in an unheated greenhouse. A greenhouse without two glass panes missing, as...
by NiklasTyreso
Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Overwinter watering
Replies: 12
Views: 2147

Re: Overwinter watering

I had a Opuntia humifusa outdoor on balcony dry under roof but with sunlight for a whole hard scandinavian winter and it flowered the next summer. Coldest temperatures were below -20 degr C. That is an extremly hardy species and not a good example. I have killed some loved Oreocereus trolli, as I be...
by NiklasTyreso
Mon Feb 15, 2021 10:36 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Overwinter watering
Replies: 12
Views: 2147

Re: Overwinter watering

Many species can stand freezing if they're dry - in your climate, a lot of cacti could be left out all winter barring an unusual cold spell, some could take anything your winter could throw at them. People often write that many cactuses can stand temperatures below freezing, but they do not tell fo...
by NiklasTyreso
Thu Feb 04, 2021 3:33 pm
Forum: Outdoor Cacti
Topic: Growing outdoors in Sweden
Replies: 31
Views: 21991

Re: Growing outdoors in Sweden

I grow my cactuses outdoors every day of the year that have temperatures över freezing and do not have windy blows of rain entering my balcony. Ca 3 months of the year they are indors with electric light. Today I brought my Trichocereus passacana out for 15 minuter in sunshine, even thue temp was 9 ...
by NiklasTyreso
Thu Feb 04, 2021 3:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Keeping Cacti Gnarly and Stunted
Replies: 44
Views: 5590

Re: Keeping Cacti Gnarly and Stunted

100% mineral substrate keeps most cactuses healthy, but if you add fertilizer to the water or substrate they still grow plump.