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@jameswheatley9883 17 сағат бұрын

I appreciate the video, great info, good music, very well done sir thank you! Stoked for all the new cacti headed my way from you as well🌵💚😁

@martinwhitehurst9893 4 күн бұрын

Hi, so do you just use charcoal straight out of the bag and crush it up ? Or do you make your own biochar and then crush it up?

@SkillCult 4 күн бұрын

I will use any old charcoal made any way, or salvaged from burnpiles, firepits the woodstove etc. as long as it is not made with painted or treated wood. also, any kiind of wood or woody material. I make most of it in open piles and a trench method, which you can see in the biochar playlist linke din the description. I have never bought any, but hardwood charocal sold for BBQ (not briquettes) is fine. If you can burn stuff where you are, it is very easy to make in quantity if you've got wood and in many areas wood is easy to get, including pallets.

@SkillCult 4 күн бұрын

i'm replying from my other account :)

@martinwhitehurst9893 3 күн бұрын

@@SkillCultGreat! Thank you so much for your help. Keep up the great work

@martinwhitehurst9893 3 күн бұрын

@@SkillCulthey I forgot to ask…. Do you use this method on all plants ?

@SkillCult 3 күн бұрын

@@martinwhitehurst9893 No. I have noticed that very high amounts of char in both soils and pots seem to dry out more quickly. that could be addressed with consistent watering, but in general I don't think there is any reason to use nearly this much charcoal in a potting mix or regular garden soil. I think more experimentation is in order, like adding other things like clay maybe, or using a higher proportion of finely ground char, but I'm not too interested in pursuing that and most plants do fine with smaller amounts of charocal. My minimum for garden soil here, with the soft open burned charcoal I use, is 10% but that should be tested by people in their own gardens by making long beds with several different percentages, then planting them to the same crops in long rows and treating the whole bed the same otherwise. For cactus, fast draining and drying is generally a benefit it would seem, so high amounts of char work.,

@williamyates4256 4 күн бұрын

Goddamn it. This ending is a perfect conclusion to another great video. I just had a good beer to boot. Thank you Team Wachuma/Steven Edholme.

@Shaun.Stephens 4 күн бұрын

Thanks for the video Steven, I appreciate it. A day with a new Team Wachuma video is a good day - especially if it's about media.

@PlantFun1 5 күн бұрын

I think the pH discussion can depend on peoples' sources of water. Some people acidify the soil or water they're using because their local tap water is very alkaline and will over time make the pots overly alkaline. Some people acidify their water to avoid having to repot as frequently due to mineral buildup and pH change. Particularly in the desert southwest where a lot of cactus growers are the water tends to be hard and alkaline. Rainwater tends to be a neutral to slightly acidic pH.

@PocketFullaShrooms 5 күн бұрын

I can't wait till this King tubbies are ready 🎉

@PocketFullaShrooms 5 күн бұрын

And please keep the videos coming I will watch them over and over again just to get your views up 💯 ☝️ 👍

@SkillCult 3 күн бұрын

thanks :)

@PocketFullaShrooms 5 күн бұрын

Just wanted to show some love man me and all my friends on my discord love you one of my friends bought some definitely last night and I got that crusty off of you right as I was shopping I was trying to buy another one and somebody got it out from under me lol

@PocketFullaShrooms 5 күн бұрын

Man I love your information on videos they're helping me a whole lot

@manuelsza7064 5 күн бұрын

Seeing your first videos I started using charcoal on a regular basis for fast growing cacti, about 30-40%. In Europe i must admit I am finding coco coir not great since it gets attacked from not so friendly mushrooms in here. I am using 50-60% really mature wormcompost and so far it works really nice. I fertilize regularly with 20-20-20 about 5 times a year.

@cactuscapacity 5 күн бұрын

I put one fat lump of charcoal (4"x4") in one of my pots, and the roots attacked it and went right through it. I wouldn't use fine powder either, but from my experience the size does not matter when it comes to absorption but it does matter when it comes to aeration.

@TeamWachuma 5 күн бұрын

Cool. I find that over time they will colonize it more, but I"m not sure with harder char how deep or thorough they can get in there in bigger pieces. Maybe I"ll dissect an older one sometime.. They certainly can get something out of it. In old pots, the chunks can be well coated with roots.

@calebbingham8783 5 күн бұрын

Im using Coco coir and I'm running in to the problem of the soil not drying out it's been months with no rain water or water. Im thinking my 60 inorganic to 40 organic isn't good for Kansas weather. Will be lowering my organic. I will say I've only had one or two rot and they were more in the shade.

@TeamWachuma 5 күн бұрын

Try charcoal. I find that it dries quickly. someone said it is because of the extremely high capillarity. Makes sense. I think about 70/30 is my ideal with char and coco, but even 80/20 is probalby fine eventually you run into anchorage issues though. I want to do some experiments with very low or no significant organic matter, but those will probably have some clay or maybe clay loam as a substitute. What aggregates are you using? My friend used to put stuff in just sand and crushed oyster shell, but it doesn't drain or dry well. It just fills the spaces with water and sits there.

@lizflores4142 5 күн бұрын

Love the music recommendation!

@TeamWachuma 5 күн бұрын

Blackbraid is awesome. I listened to that this morning watching the sunrise and meditating. Maybe not what most people do, but it works for me :)

@fouroakfarm 5 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing all the deets! Great deal on coco coir at Harmony Farm Supply if you're ever down in Sonoma County. They have 12kg bricks for around $22 (with an account, $26 without)

@TeamWachuma 5 күн бұрын

thanks. I think I'm paying about 10 for 5k blocks now.

@jimduchow1580 5 күн бұрын

not that consensus is worth much (probably more like a road paved with good intentions), but I have also come across the alkaline soil being more akin to native soils for tichocereus. Would suspect however that this flows from a few sources regardless of where one came across the info. I too have heard other reports of acidic soil. Can't help but wonder if that is a misapplication of approaches for desert cacti or possibly a concern about nutrient availability. You mentioned egg shells and I seem to recall instructions for using them for plant calcium involving using acetic acid to 'liberate' the calcium in a plant available form. That said I believe some amount of acetic acid is a natural occurrence in a 'living' soil. Would think that the bio char would provide all sorts of nooks and crannies for such organizes to be happy in so imagine that the production would be enough to provide calcium in suitable amounts. Just my .02 and probably somewhat erroneous in spots that I will figure out in time. In closing would just add that find whenever I have even bothered trying to hit certain pH spots with soil someone seem to only make failing soils and when I don't bother, much like you, things seem to go much smoother. Also feel that 'soils' should be build around one's environment as well as their idiosyncrasies with watering. Find that in WI it would seem that my summer climate temp and humidity along with my watering habits seems to encourage me to focus on faster draining soils otherwise I struggle with rot. Anyway loving your vids always feel my time is well spent.

@TeamWachuma 5 күн бұрын

it has long been a thing among organic farmers that soil ph is less important when using high organic matter soils and organic fertilizers. Lime too can often be used in quantity without seeming ill effects. I think that soil ph is probably way over simplified. I'm happy going by results and I have stupid amounts of alkalizing elements and high calcium in my mixes and garden soils. While it may always be true that we could possibly dial in for ever better results, that can be an endless game. Understanding soil, really, is hopeless. It is incredibly complex and constantly changing. It is very hard to study too. the myopic nature of careful scientific inquiry, where factos are tightly controlled, yields tiny windows of information. Often that small amount of information is exrapolated by people into broad beliefs. that is a problem in biochar studies, where pot trials are often used and then extrapolated by people into real life dogmas, when they may not have so much relevance to varied soils, climates, crops and farming styles. If it seems to work, I'm usually good with that and I fuckiing hate reading scientific papers. I'd rather have my teeth cleaned lol.

@jimduchow1580 5 күн бұрын

@@TeamWachuma AMEN. On another note I can't help but wonder if you have used charcoal ash as an ammendent? From what I understand it is somewhat different than wood ash. If you haven't or for that matter don't have to time feel free to disregard.

@TeamWachuma 5 күн бұрын

@@jimduchow1580 No, I'm not familiar. I'll look into it.

@guifercon 5 күн бұрын

I use charcoal water (powered) to water and stimulate flowering. And also as substrate ❤. Broken ceramic(from tiles) is also a great substrate that I have learned from bonsai growers. This combo is the components from "terra preta de índio", a ancestral soil found on some places of the Amazon Jungle (also it has oyster/clam shells)

@TeamWachuma 5 күн бұрын

Love the stuff. there isn't really any comparison when it comes to cactus mix ingredients. I think it will be used a potting mix base much more in the future, hopefully as a standard.

@kerriefearby9542 9 күн бұрын

Absolutely facinating, thank you from Australia

@Prickly-Brew 12 күн бұрын

I’m digging this idea so much I am doing it to one of mine soon as video is over.

@cactuscapacity 16 күн бұрын

I let my seedlings etilate or stretch from slightly low light and then when it falls over, I graft the top onto PC and the laid down part makes a shizzz ton of pups... Its only worked with Bridgesii in my collection, but I have not tried it with Pachanoi... I have tried some of the techniques which you apply here and have had decent luck... but my numbers have been coming from etilated seedlings that fell over and then were put in plenty of light at the same time the tips were cut. Getting the extra light and the injury really seems to make the pups pop!

@rsa420 17 күн бұрын

Awesome thank you for sharing very interesting

@tedgunderson67 18 күн бұрын

I’ve noticed more unique gene expressions when I hard/rough grow them vs creating immaculate perfectly balanced cacti like you have. Something to experiment with perhaps if you haven’t already. If you ever want to swap some cuttings I’d be interested.

@SkillCult 18 күн бұрын

Do you mean when initially growing out seedlings?

@SkillCult 18 күн бұрын

As in allowing them to express those traits permanently v.s. just temporarily I mean

@tedgunderson67 17 күн бұрын

@@SkillCult From seed. Overcrowding, uneven light, no root trim, underfed. The character develops and if I take the top cut from the choice cactus the trait continues. If I take a pup and treat it like gold it will become more homogenized and less expressive. But I was surprised by the character stress could bring out. It’s slow and stupid but if you’re like me a cool looking cactus is worth the time. Probably cuts growing speed by 85 percent or so. Arduous torturous slow growth, etoliation can get bad obviously but that’s just where I make the cut. I make sure they are healthy though just far from ideal conditions for fast perfect growth. You definitely have more genetics to play around with than I do.

@robertrosicrucion 18 күн бұрын

What kind of lighting situation would you recommend for winter dormancy? I want to encourage fatter cacti that flower.

@SkillCult 18 күн бұрын

I just leave them where they are. I dont' use any kind of artifical light. I wish I knew how to get cactus to flower sooner. I've heard to leave them in small pots, which i have kind of observed to maybe work. graft to already flowering stock and shift fertilization toward phosphorous.

@grunge-mb9sb 19 күн бұрын

I have planted the chip style pieces with my bridges and they have pups, took a piece of Mid and it can be cut into 4 + pieces depending on size you could get more.

@RSJ-Texas 20 күн бұрын

Very interesting !!!

@b1izz79 20 күн бұрын

Don't waste your time with cinnamon your much better off using nothing and a fan than cinnamon and Sulphur is cheaper than the fake supermarket cinnamon and proven to work well and never mind the cost of real ceylon cinnamon with no fillers.

@credz911 20 күн бұрын

Is it not possible to modify an apple splitter for the same purpose?

@SkillCult 20 күн бұрын

not sure that would really work. it would have to have the right number of blades and they have a coring circle in the middle. I kind of want the cor in thre. It might look something like that though. I think it might be more like knives coming to the same point in the center and just stoppping, rather than all being welded together. Or maybe a single knife with a depth guide set to the center of the cactus that guides it exactly down the groove. I havne't actually thought about it a lot, but there is something that could be made which would be better than just a plain knife.if one were doing it over and over again.

@credz911 13 күн бұрын

@@SkillCult Yes indeed, I should've mentioned that the modification required removal of the core ring. Hmm.. It would also need to take into consideration that these babies have multiple rib formations, so the outer ring would have to be like a pipe clamp with fixed vertical slots running around for multiple blades to slot into. Heavy duty stanley cutters might be able to solve the blade length situation. Will require a little more thought on how to fix the blades to the pipe clamp. I'm here for the ride haha

@SkillCult 13 күн бұрын

@@credz911 It is an interesting problem, but we probably should worry about whether the techniqure actuallyt really works well or not first lol.

@kevinjames4405 20 күн бұрын

interesting project man! i feel like i remember people applying gibberellic acid to areoles and getting good results on a forum, may be remembering the hormone wrong. possibly just cutting notches above the areole you want to force will increase your chances also after topping. my accidental experiment was i went too hard on a flowering fert high in P-K and basal pups were out of control haha

@ModernGrower 20 күн бұрын

Sounds like BAP-6... you only apply a tiny amount usually dissolved in warm vaseline to dilute and handle. Only apply to a few areole if too many are induced to pup it'll just stall the growth for a long time. Coconut water it a great natural one for growth and pup and also pee-pee tek is gaining popularity.

@SkillCult 20 күн бұрын

One of the next things I want to do is cutting along the column somehow. I've seen cactus pup out after heavy slug damage mid column, so there is something there. I've also used notching on fruit tree buds a lot. I've actually got a system of fruit tree training I promote that uses notching very effectively. I've done some shallow cuts here and there. but the next video might be along those lines. Like taking these standing ribs and making a cut between each aereol, or making a significant cut every three aereols or something like that. I've got some other ideas too. Interesting on the fertilizer. I would have thought more nitrogen would be the thing, or maybe strong in N and K. I know we can hack this (maybe literally lol), somehow to get extremely large numbers quickly without having a crap ton of grafting stock., Another one I might try is taking the ribs, cutting between every aereol pretty deeply and then planting long sections of rib. So many fun experiments to try! thanks for the comment, cool stuff. I think Fertilizer may end up being key.

@kevinjames4405 9 күн бұрын

@@SkillCult just got around to looking at the fert i used and its 10-52-10 and for the life of me i cant remember why i thought it was a good idea haha. no harm no foul tho just a ton of the old nitrogen tricho crosses with plenty of pups now

@Shaun.Stephens 20 күн бұрын

Interesting video, thanks for sharing Steven.

@DJK4Love 20 күн бұрын

I pot my cuts the very next day and I have success. Root them in dry river sand I have roots in 3 weeks

@CarbonConscious 20 күн бұрын

Are you using a heat mat?

@TeamWachuma 20 күн бұрын

I'll try it. I usually heal for 4 weeks, then stick and start watering right away. I've not seen cuttings root fast very often without some water, but I never tried sticking them fresh or using sand. It makes sense if they are inclined to root in the medium, 3 weeks seems about right.

@robertrosicrucion 20 күн бұрын

@@TeamWachumaI take and put a little soil in a pot and then use perlite or pumice to secure the plant on top of the soil and 3 weeks usually works

@DG-iw3yw 18 күн бұрын

I agree, using non organic mediums is key, even silica gel pearls makes an excellent rooting and even germination medium for succulents! I prefer pure sand though, as it is fantastic to add to my other soils, unlike the silica, perlite,and other things, sand is the best hands down

@ModernGrower 21 күн бұрын

Cool love seeing different experiments. I have done a few but only had young seedlings so was limited in results. Look forward to updates :)

@TheAverageDanMan 24 күн бұрын

Instead of using sulphur try cinnamon power…I use that on my cactus cuts and it’s organic

@SkillCult 23 күн бұрын

thanks. I keep forgetting to try that.

@victorb145 25 күн бұрын

Question, why do you use sulfur over cinnamon?

@garygilliam1890 26 күн бұрын

I am interested in a starter pack

@SkillCult 25 күн бұрын

Oh, sorry, i thought you were talking about seedlings. I may actually have cuttings listed soon, including some scrappy collections of stuff...

@garygilliam1890 27 күн бұрын

How do I order from you were is your sight located

@LarsLarsen77 Ай бұрын

Ripping the roots is fine. Cacti benefit from root pruning during transplants.

@ericnyamu9981 Ай бұрын

looks like the cactus spikes have worked hard on the back of your hands! always wear gloves.

@SkillCult Ай бұрын

not really. they are just trashed from years of sun . And freckly because I'm part ginger.

@Willyama Ай бұрын

Love it, my seedlings are doing great, really excited for the ss02xrs0004 to bulk up, thank you! What’s the blue one you said was gorgeous at 6:42?

@disgrace69600 Ай бұрын

My new babies are tucked away. Thanks again for your foster care. 😂

@MrGrombie Ай бұрын

Where do you get your seeds from? I feel like half the seeds I order online are fake or BS.

@SkillCult Ай бұрын

A lot are from Misplant, who I receommend. I think he is very legit. A friend gives me a lot of seed, then a few other random sources. Misplant has a lot of variety and always new stuff every year.

@FullPowerChakra Ай бұрын

Go team wachuma!!🎉🎉🎉 This is a solid dude guys keep cactusing guys!

@FullPowerChakra Ай бұрын

Got my order in5 days days next growing season gonna order more mine about to go into dormancy had a ? About ur shulgin juuls cross whats it crossed w a pachanoi?

@robertrosicrucion Ай бұрын

If you look/pause at about 00:03:39 then look at the 2 containers closest to you on the left(the spiney ones with the empty ziploc and those one your gloved hand is over), I would like to know those names to associate with them.

@SkillCult Ай бұрын

I'm not sure I'll be able to track those down since I've consolidated the flats and moved stuff around. the ones actually under the bag are probably drg x olivia or mb scop x olivia, but they are not spiney. the spiny ones in that flat are likely some sso2 cross.

@robertrosicrucion Ай бұрын

@@SkillCult Thanks !!!!

@trubizDD54 Ай бұрын

Do you use foliar sprays for growth regulation too??

@SkillCult Ай бұрын

No. It seems like they would not be very good candidates for foliar feeding, because they are so stingy about keeping in moisture. I think foliar sprays work primarily through stomata. I haven't researched it though, maybe cactus have them too, or the stuff could get through anyway. I don't feel like researching it and it doesn't seem like a very good gamble, so I just don't do it.

@trubizDD54 Ай бұрын

@@SkillCult In fact foliar applications for cacti are EXTREMELY beneficial. However, they use C.A.M. unlike typical stomata and only open when it is night cycle. Most open in the middle of the night. Therefore, spraying at the wee hours with something like kelp, hormones, garden phos., etc. is EXTREMELY beneficial! I have had incredible success with this method especially during dormancy months.

@SkillCult Ай бұрын

@@trubizDD54 Great. I'm not sure where I would use that much. I seem to do great with liquid ferts. maybe bringing back a really malnourished cactus. I do spray my seedlings overhead with liquid fert, so maybe they are benefiting. good to know either way.

@trubizDD54 Ай бұрын

@@SkillCult Only if you are spraying them at night... During the day the CAM is closed tight!

@trubizDD54 Ай бұрын

What and where did you find your flats?? Has holes??

@TeamWachuma Ай бұрын

I use clear acrylic food servide tubs. You buy clear flat lids for them. I drill holes in the corners and a couple along the outside edge of each long side. I like them, but they are not necessary, especially if you had something like 10 or fewer flats. most people can easily get away with 10/20 flats, just buy the rigid ones. You can get clear domes for them. they are a lot cheaper. for larger numbers of flats, it becomes convenient to stack them on top of each other to transport and for long term growth, they tubs are deeper.

@trubizDD54 Ай бұрын

@@TeamWachuma I sincerely appreciate the response!!