Cacti of Eastern Brazil - cultivation notes & photos
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Cacti of Eastern Brazil - cultivation notes & photos
I have received several requests to resurrect this website and so I have recovered it from my archives and installed it at ..........
http://jp29.org/brdir.htm
Species covered:
Tacinga inamoena subsp. subcylindrica
Arrojadoa dinae
Arrojadoa multiflora
Arrojadoa penicillata
Arrojadoa rhodantha
Arrojadoa horstiana
Stephanocreus luetzelburgii
Coleocephalocereus purpureus
Micranthocereus flaviflorus subsp. densiflorus
Micranthocereus polyanthus
Micranthocereus streckeri
Micranthocereus purpureus
Micranthocereus dolichospermaticus
Micranthocereus estevesii
Discocactus buenekeri
Discocactus horstii
Discocactus placentiformis
Melocactus azureus
Melocactus glaucescens
Melocactus violaceus
Uebelmannia buiningii
Uebelmannia pectinifera
The pages are in need of updating to include additional species plus revised information and more photographs. I will be doing this over the next several days.
http://jp29.org/brdir.htm
Species covered:
Tacinga inamoena subsp. subcylindrica
Arrojadoa dinae
Arrojadoa multiflora
Arrojadoa penicillata
Arrojadoa rhodantha
Arrojadoa horstiana
Stephanocreus luetzelburgii
Coleocephalocereus purpureus
Micranthocereus flaviflorus subsp. densiflorus
Micranthocereus polyanthus
Micranthocereus streckeri
Micranthocereus purpureus
Micranthocereus dolichospermaticus
Micranthocereus estevesii
Discocactus buenekeri
Discocactus horstii
Discocactus placentiformis
Melocactus azureus
Melocactus glaucescens
Melocactus violaceus
Uebelmannia buiningii
Uebelmannia pectinifera
The pages are in need of updating to include additional species plus revised information and more photographs. I will be doing this over the next several days.
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Re: Cacti of Eastern Brazil - cultivation notes & photos
Great James,
If only my greenhouse was heated I could grow them as well as you do! No wonder you moved to the USA from cold old UK.
If only my greenhouse was heated I could grow them as well as you do! No wonder you moved to the USA from cold old UK.
Nottingham Branch BCSS. Joined the then NCSS in 1961, Membership number 11944. Cactus only collection.
- James Pickering
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Re: Cacti of Eastern Brazil - cultivation notes & photos
Added a page relating to Coleocephalocereus aureus (hyperlink) - a beautiful truncated columnar species that is well suited to container cultivation and that bears numerous flowers in a striking golden lateral cephalium followed by large red fruit.
..... and so on.
..... and so on.
Last edited by James Pickering on Sat Mar 24, 2018 6:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.
- James Pickering
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Re: Cacti of Eastern Brazil - cultivation notes & photos
Added a page depicting a miscellany of Discocactus - species well suited to container cultivation.
Discocactus subviridigriseus
Discocactus latispinus
Discocactus bahiensis
.......... and so on.
Discocactus subviridigriseus
Discocactus latispinus
Discocactus bahiensis
.......... and so on.
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Re: Cacti of Eastern Brazil - cultivation notes & photos
Some beautiful plants here James, that Coleocephalocereus is stunning. Thanks for sharing.
Croydon Branch member, growing mainly cacti and Echeverias
- James Pickering
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Re: Cacti of Eastern Brazil - cultivation notes & photos
Added a page depicting a miscellany of Melocactus - species well suited to container cultivation.
Melocactus azureus
Melocactus borhidii (syn. harlowii)
Melocactus violaceus
.......... and so on.
Melocactus azureus
Melocactus borhidii (syn. harlowii)
Melocactus violaceus
.......... and so on.
- James Pickering
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Re: Cacti of Eastern Brazil - cultivation notes & photos
Thank you.juster wrote:Some beautiful plants here James, that Coleocephalocereus is stunning. Thanks for sharing.
- James Pickering
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Re: Cacti of Eastern Brazil - cultivation notes & photos
Added a page relating to Micanthrocereus flaviflorus subsp. alvinii (hyperlink) - a beautiful new listing via J. Lode
..... and so on.
..... and so on.
- James Pickering
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Re: Cacti of Eastern Brazil - cultivation notes & photos
Added a page relating to Pilosocereus piauhyensis (sensu lato) (hyperlink) - a tentative listing.
plants grown from seed in 10” plastic pots
old stems are often greenish
new growth stems are mostly blue
..... and so on.
plants grown from seed in 10” plastic pots
old stems are often greenish
new growth stems are mostly blue
..... and so on.
- James Pickering
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Re: Cacti of Eastern Brazil - cultivation notes & photos
The Soil Mix I use:
I have always experimented with soil mixes -- I think I have used about every one that has been devised during my growing lifetime -- and I have found all those that were of coarse and gritty texture, thus providing excellent drainage and root aeration, consistently produced healthy and robust plants.
My current soil mix consists of 60% Bach's Cactus Nursery mix plus 40% raw pumice (+/- ¼"/6.35mm).
Dan Bach's Cactus Nursery mix:
60% screened coarse and uniform (3/8"/9.53mm) horticultural pumice
20% high quality Canadian sphagnum peat moss
20% well composted shredded pine tree forest bark
Note: presently, approx. 50% of my collection is in the above mix; approx. 30% in a mineral (inorganic) medium that consists of "raw" pumice - and grown semi-hydroponically (drain to waste); approx. 20% in my "Sonoran Desert Cactus soil mix" which consists of 5 parts coarse pumice, 3 parts desert top soil and 2 parts natural organic material (plant debris) from Tucson area cactus habitat.
I think any commercial high quality bagged potting soil (very low in peat) mixed equal parts with a porous ceramic (fired clay) soil conditioner such as Turface - or coarse perlite - will work just fine.
I have always experimented with soil mixes -- I think I have used about every one that has been devised during my growing lifetime -- and I have found all those that were of coarse and gritty texture, thus providing excellent drainage and root aeration, consistently produced healthy and robust plants.
My current soil mix consists of 60% Bach's Cactus Nursery mix plus 40% raw pumice (+/- ¼"/6.35mm).
Dan Bach's Cactus Nursery mix:
60% screened coarse and uniform (3/8"/9.53mm) horticultural pumice
20% high quality Canadian sphagnum peat moss
20% well composted shredded pine tree forest bark
Note: presently, approx. 50% of my collection is in the above mix; approx. 30% in a mineral (inorganic) medium that consists of "raw" pumice - and grown semi-hydroponically (drain to waste); approx. 20% in my "Sonoran Desert Cactus soil mix" which consists of 5 parts coarse pumice, 3 parts desert top soil and 2 parts natural organic material (plant debris) from Tucson area cactus habitat.
I think any commercial high quality bagged potting soil (very low in peat) mixed equal parts with a porous ceramic (fired clay) soil conditioner such as Turface - or coarse perlite - will work just fine.
Last edited by James Pickering on Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.