How to grow your own mutant cacti

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Ай бұрын

Mutant cacti - monstrosities and crested plants - are some of the most desirable plants in any cactus aficionado's collection. In this tutorial, I explain how you can easily obtain a whole set of weird and wonderful cactus mutants, by recognising which hybrids have a tendency to produce the most bizarre offspring and then the process needed to grow them from seed.

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@k.jespersen6145 Ай бұрын

Ah. Very cool. Was watching this out of curiosity about mutant cacti, but you also illuminated what I did wrong with sowing my dragonfruit cactus seeds. Thanks for the excellent video!

@AridZine Ай бұрын

Glad I could shed some light on cacti from seeds in general! Happy growing.

@houseofintent Ай бұрын

I just got Euphorbia Lactea Cristata. I'm a bonsai guy but when I saw the Cristata, I had to get it. It looked weird af that I had to get it. Now I'm into Cacti and Succulents

@AridZine Ай бұрын

You’ve been sucked into the rabbit hole now… there’s no escape! 😂 thanks for watching.

@dozydog9874 Ай бұрын

You have a new subscriber..!!

@AridZine Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@mil0thebird Ай бұрын

Great content, happy to see your channel growing. Keep it up!

@AridZine Ай бұрын

Appreciate it!

@goldenpotato925 Ай бұрын

I have an idea of pacing a drop of water that has auxin and cytokinin, on the Myrtillocactus geometrizans growing tip 2-3 times a day. In theory it should be able to absorb those hormones trough skin.

@AridZine Ай бұрын

I’d be interested to know the results - and if any resulting monstrosity is stable.

@hairlesscactus Ай бұрын

I love to grow Freds (m. bocasana monstrose). They rarely produce flowers and I have never gotten a seed pod, so I grow from cuttings. They sometimes spontaneously self destruct. Those are cute little seedlings you have started.

@AridZine Ай бұрын

Fred was my introduction to monstrose cacti - I absolutely love them. Youre right - they need to be reproduced by cutting since their flowers are sterile.

@grannyplants1764 Ай бұрын

Oh boy more learning…I looked up Mammiliaria bocasana monstrose and found out you did not just name your cacti, I had never heard about the “Fred’s”! As Joey Santore says, let’s go down the rabbit hole about them…maybe a video about them? Thanks hairlesscactus! ( another video?!) 😁

@vincerodriguez5741 Ай бұрын

I got a plant from a nursery, the tag says it's a tpm bridgessii crossed with a super Pachanoi

@AridZine Ай бұрын

Could be a (TPM x bridgesii) x Super Pedro? TPM as the grandparent rather than parent.

@nickward998 Ай бұрын

tpm is actually a pachanoi you may be confusing it with cereus peruvianus monstrose

@AridZine Ай бұрын

Hi mate, appreciate the feedback but have a read of this: trichocereus.net/nitrogen-tpm-trichocereus-peruvianus-monstrose/ Lays out the history of the strain pretty well and points out it’s incorrectly referred to as a pachanoi

@nickward998 Ай бұрын

@@AridZine i stand corrected

@javisantiago6424 Ай бұрын

Those are some nice seedlings!

@AridZine Ай бұрын

Cheers!

@grannyplants1764 Ай бұрын

Yes I did learn something new, thank you! can you propagate a monstrose cacti from a cutting or offset? 🌵

@AridZine Ай бұрын

Thanks! Yes you can take a cutting and they’ll usually maintain their monstrose form.

@AridZine Ай бұрын

Thanks! If you’ve got any questions, hit me up - always happy to help.

@grannyplants1764 Ай бұрын

@@AridZine 😊👍🏻🌵

@markiglesias2078 15 күн бұрын

Hi not trying to be a smart ass by any means but just wanted to say tpm can be a pachanoi or perruvianus . I know the link listed shows it as a peruvianus but I believe the author was more talking about that particular nitrogen clone because commonly in the San Pedro community tpm is referring to pachanoi and they would typically specify if it’s peruvianus

@AridZine 15 күн бұрын

Hi mate, it’s fair feedback, I know there are different TPM clones about but the overwhelming majority of seeds out and about on the market are derived from Nitrogen TPM - basically, the big seed vendors like Misplant are using Nitrogen’s clone as one of the parent plants, hence why I’m talking about peruvianus here. I know I talk plenty about all sorts of random plants here, but Trichos (and mutant Trichos) are among my first plant loves, so I’m pretty well versed in them. Happy to drill down further - love talking plants, even if there’s differences of perspective! Cheers and thanks for watching too 🙏

@markiglesias2078 14 күн бұрын

Thanks for the clarification . That makes a lot more sense and I apreaciate the new knowledge

@markiglesias2078 14 күн бұрын

@@AridZine mutant trichos are also my first love and I’ve slowly been entering the rest of cactus game now

@AridZine 14 күн бұрын

They’re a great place to start, pretty easy to grow and such wild variation even within the same seed batch.