Cacti Guides' Lophophora Guide

[Lewis_cacti]

thanks loph,
i don't know about age seeing as ive only had it about 1 year. obviously the main head would not be so big if i allowed it to clump, it would probably look something like your pictured specimens of v. caespitosa.

[Mike]

Great post and pictures, I never realized there were so many kinds. Thanks, Mike

[cactusbutt]

Thats great Loph,thanks for putting them all in one place.
Bob

[MichaelCactus]

This is great Loph! Im gonna try very hard to get myself a reasonably good price Loph, just gotta find somewhere selling them.

[nachtkrabb]

May I join the chorus? Incredible, splendid, awful!!!
Especially the crest... I never had imagined something like that might exist.
Thank you for sharing
Ruth

[Peyote Pete]

Those pictures bring a tear to my eye. Beautiful!

[daiv]

Those pictures bring a tear to my eye. Beautiful!

Well if you keep at it, you might have a collection like that too!

[firelab]

Loph,

both of the tripod sites are now "banned".

http://3kingdom.tripod.com and
http://kadasgarden.tripod.com/Lophophorachart.html

they come back with "The page you are attempting to access has been removed because it violated Tripod's..."

do you have a new site?

thanks,
mjg

[Loph]

sorry yes, i decided to get my own .com and seeing that cacti guide got hsoted on cactus-mall, i thouhgt i should too

my new site is http://www.kadasgarden.com

i am also putting together a new sub-site (is that the word?) that deals with cultivating cacti rather than selling them

http://www.kadasgarden.com/Cindex.html

sorry about that

you can see the Lophophora guide here: http://kadasgarden.com/Lophophorachart.html

Peace

[daiv]

Hey cool, you went with Cactus-mall - Pretty good setup I must say.

So is the 3kingdoms site now on it's own domain too?

[stormer88]

I like your caespitosa especially. I'm getting a single l. williamsii var. caespitosa specimen. If I wan't to collect seeds from it will it self pollinate? If I only have one specimen is there any way to polinate like with a regular L. Williamsii if it is self sterile? Or maybe even by rooting some of the pups that will form and waiting for them to flower? What would you say would be the best way to pollinate a single caespitosa?

Thanks

[Loph]

ya, i like the setup too 3 kingdoms is offline for a while. too expensive to host it, for me anyway

option 1) host a website
option 2) buy more plants
option 3) save the money (the wife suggested that one)

i went with option 2

Stormer, it will probably self pollinate ok, but you will get very few seeds. if you pinch off the newly forming offsets the main heads will get bigger and flwoer more, as mentioned by someone here.

[stormer88]

I've just read that seeds from self pollinated specimens tend not to germ as well as seeds that have been pollinated by other specimens. I'm thinking of grafting it to one of my T. Panchanoi's or T. Peruvianus specimens then when I'm ready to de-graft and root on it's own I can root some of the pups by themselves, and have more specimens to flower.

What would happen if you tried to use a regular L. Williamsii to pollinate a L. caespitosa flower? Would you get hybrids? Or would they not mix?

I'm sure I'm looking at years down the road, but it helps to be ready.



Thanks

[Loph]

you wouldn't get a hybrid because they are the same specie. like mixing your black cat with your white cat, you will likely get an inbetween cat....but i have never tried this so i can say what it till look like for certain....but i would assume it would look like aregular willy with pups.

[stormer88]

I would think that people would try that more often since L. caespitosa seeds seem to be such less common.

Thanks for the info.