Trichocereus Peruvians

[edric]

Unlike the long spine variety, until it starts getting a little older it doesn't produce long spines at first, or on new growth, commonly called Peruvian Torch, After seven years of raising them, I have yet to see one of them bloom, I must admit that in the past, I have always cut them to sell on the lucrative market for them on e-bay, but I have had them this large before, and had, year wise, older ones than this one, they are all cuttings from the original mother plant, that finally, succumbed to a fungus, as they are notorious for here in FL, even though this short spinned variety is very fungal resistant, it does better in partial sun, but if gets rainy, after a good rain, you've got to move them out in the sun, I'm sure, if I repotted them more often it would help, the way I came about acquiring, this cactus, was kind of by chance, a nurseryman, I think it was in Penn., 2003, I was talking to, had just been on a, I guess you would call it a plant safari, to Peru, after buying a cutting from him, I realized it's value, and asked him would he part with the whole thing, he said, for a price, and the rest is history, Ed

[Gonzer]

Edric, that

lucrative market for them on e-bay

you speak of is nothing more than uninformed and misguided yay-hoos hoping to cash in on the reputed "high" they can get from ingesting this species of cactus. It's funny to see folks pedaling cuttings and powder on flea bay. You have to ask yourself what someone's plans are for a pound of pulverized cactus. Unless they know the recipe (which is centuries old) for the cactus bread that Mexicans bake, what else are they gonna use it for ?

BTW, the flowers look just like any other Trichcereus.

[edric]

I've tried just about everything in my day, being 55 now, I've had some of the best organic mescaline ever produced, as well as synthetic mescaline, and MDA, and Peyote buttons more than once, ( thirty years ago ), so I decided that just to see how this stuff staked up with what I had experienced in the past, so when it first got here from Peru, I took a cutting and despinned it and consumed it, next to the chocolate tab mescaline in 1969, and the other types as well, it was one of the best experiences of my life, however I decided a couple of years later to try it again, and the experience was only minimal by comparison, I tried it again a year or so after that, and the results were minimal once more, it must be something in the soil there, I guess, Ed