How to grow your own mutant cacti

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  • Опубликовано: 29 май 2024
  • 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
    @k.jespersen6145 Месяц назад +1

    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
      @AridZine  Месяц назад +1

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

  • @dozydog9874
    @dozydog9874 2 месяца назад +1

    You have a new subscriber..!!

  • @houseofintent
    @houseofintent Месяц назад +1

    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
      @AridZine  Месяц назад +2

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

    • @risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302
      @risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302 5 дней назад

      Just remember..... if youre wondering whether you need to water or not, DONT. You will never kill cacti and succulents by not watering them, but you most certainly will kill them by watering them.

  • @goldenpotato925
    @goldenpotato925 Месяц назад +1

    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
      @AridZine  Месяц назад

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

  • @mil0thebird
    @mil0thebird 2 месяца назад +1

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

    • @AridZine
      @AridZine  2 месяца назад +1

      Appreciate it!

  • @hairlesscactus
    @hairlesscactus 2 месяца назад +1

    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
      @AridZine  2 месяца назад

      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
      @grannyplants1764 2 месяца назад +1

      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?!) 😁

  • @javisantiago6424
    @javisantiago6424 2 месяца назад +1

    Those are some nice seedlings!

    • @AridZine
      @AridZine  2 месяца назад

      Cheers!

    • @grannyplants1764
      @grannyplants1764 2 месяца назад

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

    • @AridZine
      @AridZine  2 месяца назад

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

    • @AridZine
      @AridZine  2 месяца назад

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

    • @grannyplants1764
      @grannyplants1764 2 месяца назад +1

      @@AridZine 😊👍🏻🌵

  • @nickward998
    @nickward998 Месяц назад +1

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

    • @AridZine
      @AridZine  Месяц назад +1

      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
      @nickward998 Месяц назад

      @@AridZine i stand corrected

  • @markiglesias2078
    @markiglesias2078 23 дня назад +1

    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
      @AridZine  23 дня назад +1

      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
      @markiglesias2078 22 дня назад

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

    • @markiglesias2078
      @markiglesias2078 22 дня назад +1

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

    • @AridZine
      @AridZine  22 дня назад

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

  • @vincerodriguez5741
    @vincerodriguez5741 2 месяца назад +1

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

    • @AridZine
      @AridZine  2 месяца назад

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

  • @Bunny_costume_man
    @Bunny_costume_man 2 месяца назад

    Bro i want to suggest ideas for your channel but my comment keeps getting deleted.

    • @AridZine
      @AridZine  2 месяца назад +1

      Weird! Maybe replying here will work? If not, flick me a DM on Insta - @bayou.brothers

    • @Bunny_costume_man
      @Bunny_costume_man 2 месяца назад

      @@AridZine ok