cereus peruvianus monstrose petra'(?)

trichocereus grandiflorus hybrid

Mammillaria Celsiana
Rnodantha
Pringlei
Spinosissima
elegans

I agree,especially starting with the Cereus. The grandiflora Trich I actually bought,because,well, it was flowering,beautiful red blossom. The Cereus I have too,from H.D. About 6 months ago the hanging basket broke,and the cereus survived a nasty fall. Messed up some SSO2`s also that way,answer of course is to use chain. Chain should be used anyway,but they sure got cheap with the rope. When I was first buying hanging baskets from these stores,it was true rope. It has degraded into twine,and I would never recromend a hanging basket now without a immediatte retrofit.

But I have bought two beautiful Short spined Peruvians,one at another 'chain' hardware store 2 years ago,the other recently5-6 months ago) at a nursery. So nice Trichs are there to be had,either cloumnar or semi/clumping. The Peruvian Monstrous seems favoured

Incidentally,I also bought two other "trich" species at this nursery,turned out misidentification. I could tell,though they were only 3 or so inches at the time,something did not match. They go beautifully with a slow growing but, pupping ,Trich Peruvian ,I obtained from a comp that went bye bye years back.

Cool CJ. you actually found a couple peruvians at a chain store aye? Impressive. I've seen a few that looked sorta like em at Homies and Freds, but they were too green and rounded more around the middle than the slightly fatter bottoms I've seen on true peruvians.

Yeah as for mislabled cactus, I'm not so sure the cereus peruvianus monstrose's I saw are what they claim they are, but I bought em both anyways (definetly some form of monstrosa.) And the trich was actually the first one I'd come across commercially to date...... (at least, it's the first one I've come across that I was sure was a trich.) And they had an unusual collumar cactus there that had classic long spined pedro features but it had hair growing out of the spine clumps........... I need to go back and take a digital pic of that one. Get MS's opinion.

I actually put some of my trich varietys for sale down at the local herb store a couple of months back just to see if anybody would notice, not for any desire to get rid of any of em. Have had a few people drooling, but only a few. Sold one so far, it was a T, peruvianus. I gave the kid a good deal on it, but it was still spendy.

I have found many cacti at chain stores, hence the name "T Lumberjackious". I'm pretty sure I am the guy that started that one.

The Target near here had some beautiful pedros. I bought some peruvoids from the flower dept of a local grocery store.

I can certainly vouch for JRL's cactus radar. Yes sirr Eeee....

JRL, didn't you get some cacti from me? How they doing?

~Michael~

I've gotten quite a few from you, Michael. They are all fine.

That is too much, I do gotta get one from Target.

I know they are out there,jus gotta see them, expand my horizons... wouldn`t have found the ones I did otherwise.

Over the years I've found exactly 1 pedro in local stores. They get so much for cactuses anyway that even if some of the ones I looked at had been pedros or even perus, it would be more expensive than other sources I have.

I was at a nursery yesterday and I saw they had this very healthy Pedro cutting in a 6 inch pot, maybe 9".

Guess what the price was: $24.95

I`m suprised, that much. I think I paid much less for my short spined monstrous. Of course,we could simply be talking about the same cacti,especially by the strong hint somebody at a nusery gave to me,that nursery nonenclature is perhaps different at times than what is 'correct'by Smith`s standards,lets say.

Or,you simply saw a Pedro, And a Pedro only,and skip the BS.

Anyway,I paid in the teens,(around 15.00) late summer, and the cacti is 17" high.

On the other hand,I rarly see them,and Pedro or otherwise, and i`d know. But then, I go to only a couple of places(no target for years) so I am limited by that

Give and take. Mabe involves ones locale,where they shop,etc. I even have heard that home Depot won`t sell Trich.,and 'heard' is someone elses post long ago.

They come and go.

5 or so years ago they were loaded with Trichos.
The next or 2 later, they were loaded with Myrtillocactus.
At least in my part of the country.
I think they purchase from growers who start with seeds or root some big cuttings.

Either way, if the growers are rotating what they plant (less varieties to keep up with) then the availability rotates also.

But I wouldn't expect the growers or the chains give a lick about what they sell or why, just as long as they sell.

One of my favorie finds was a pot with 2 T. peruvianus short spine at Home Depot a couple yrs ago. There are a few Backeburg clones at Lowes here but I have too many already.

The Cereus peruvianus monstrose is a rather common cacti at garden centers and big box stores that carry cacti, but it is not the same as Trichocereus peruvianus monstrose. The Cereus peruvianus looks a bit like a Trichocereus but it's not. Still, that C. peru. monstrose is a nice cacti with an appearance of melting in super slow motion.