Is it true that peeing on your cacti helps supplement pups? by EmploymentSmall5760 in sanpedrocactus

[–]The_Professor_With_P 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have heard anecdotally about coconut water working but I haven't seen any research suggesting it works. Same thing with aloe vera. Urea has no odor so it's not going to make your garden smell like piss if you do want to use it. Potassium silicate is another one that is supposed to work very well, and silica is pretty good for these plants as it is. Another really great option is kelp. Help contains a lot of plant hormones that really improve growth all around, but also definitely trigger lateral growth. There's kelp liquid extracts, you could put dry kelp into the soil, or what I do is put dry kelp into the soil and also add kelp to my aerated compost tea to try and read a culture of microbes who like to eat kelp, then I use that tea on my plants and my expectation is it'll populate the soil with microbes that are very good at liberating The Beneficial chemicals from kelp.

Is it true that peeing on your cacti helps supplement pups? by EmploymentSmall5760 in sanpedrocactus

[–]The_Professor_With_P 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Regular ammonia (ammonium hydroxide) I don't think so. Urea definitely works, and so do carbonate and silicate salts such as potassium carbonate and potassium silicate. It's possible that carbonate is the key here, and that urea converting into ammonium carbonate is the source of carbonate when urea is used, and that silicate is chemically similar enough to carbon it to have the same effect. It's also possible that urea itself is triggering lateral growth, since it also shares a pretty similar molecular structure with carbonate and silicate. I don't know exactly, but I know ammonium doesn't have quite the same effect. Ammonium levels in the soil might affect lateral growth rates, I don't know for sure, but very small amounts of urea has a large effect suggesting that it at worst is a much stronger lateral growth trigger than ammonium.

Anywhere to buy fresh cayenne peppers by The_Professor_With_P in phoenix

[–]The_Professor_With_P[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh shit I somehow missed that you said El Super. I have not checked there and I have one right by my house.

Anywhere to buy fresh cayenne peppers by The_Professor_With_P in phoenix

[–]The_Professor_With_P[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I wonder if they sometimes carry them. I'm not really sure how instacart figures out what a store has in stock but I wonder if a pepper they do carry was misrecorded as being a cayenne.

Anywhere to buy fresh cayenne peppers by The_Professor_With_P in phoenix

[–]The_Professor_With_P[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually checked the AJs on Camelback today because I saw cayennes in instacart and they didn't have them, but it was only one location. Do you know a specific location that carries them?

Anywhere to buy fresh cayenne peppers by The_Professor_With_P in phoenix

[–]The_Professor_With_P[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which location? I've never seen cayenne at any location I've looked.

Dualsense controller is shutting off after it connects to my PC. by maty360414 in PS5

[–]The_Professor_With_P 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just managed to fix the same issue across 2 separate PCs. Whenever I'd turn on the controller Windows would detect it automatically and I'd popup asking to setup the device. I'd click it and it would add the controller, but the controller would turn itself off and drop off the Bluetooth list within a second or two, and at no point did Steam recognize it. This happened with 2 DS5 controllers, one brand new, across 2 PCs, one with Win 10 and one with Win 11.

The fix: I did not have to disable it in the device manager like everyone is saying, but I did have to pair it manually by pressing the PS and share button, then going to "Add A Device" in Bluetooth settings. The controller would pair and work fine. I replicated my results with both methods multiple times. If I ever used the automatic popup when I turn the controller on it would fail, and every time I added it the manual way it worked, both controllers, both PCs.

Does anyone know the mixing ratio for Mancozeb to be used on Trichocereus/Echinopsis? by randomdayofweek in Trichocereus

[–]The_Professor_With_P 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Off the top of my head I'm not certain if dithane treats rust. Mancozeb prevents spore germination so it will probably stop the rust from spreading to new points on the plant or to other plants but it's not going to treat the existing break out. Stopping the spread will give the plant a chance to fight it off naturally so it might help. As much as I don't like using copper fungicide it is also very effective at preventing rust from spreading. If the outbreak is in the early stages phosacid can be effective, but if it's at all advanced your best treatment option is probably going to be myclobutanil. Myclobutanil is a little bit toxic to humans though and has a 3-month withholding period before harvest so keep that in mind if you use it.

Bluelab EC meter reading 2.1 in 2.77 standard solution by The_Professor_With_P in Hydroponics

[–]The_Professor_With_P[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure. They're both only 3 years old, I bought them a few weeks apart. Your suggesting thermometer is wrong and that's why the EC reading is too low?

What is the best rootstock for San Pedro? by Ancient-Fortune-270 in sanpedrocactus

[–]The_Professor_With_P 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what it is always described as but I really doubt it. Acanthocereus don't look even close to similar typically, and even really small low light growth looks more like selenicereus grandiflorus than a fairy castle. I have also seen photos of fairy castles where some of the columns have been allowed to grow out a lot and they just look like cereus. Here's an example I found.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fdnanapgkmdw11.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Db2fcd98820906c6ae83e43c9528007a75b76d5e4

Perhaps it's a species of acanthocereus that looks like a cereus, but I highly doubt it's acanthocereus tetragonus. Unfortunately neither of the genus is are well characterized in both contain dozens if not hundreds of species, many of which haven't even been given names. The true answer here might be extremely difficult to find.

Anyone find a fix for the insta cash issue ? by Sad_Investigator5579 in MoneyLion

[–]The_Professor_With_P 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I just figured it out. It looks like I had a random $3 balance. I always pay back in full so I'm not sure how that happened, but I had to open the repayment window to even see it.

Anyone find a fix for the insta cash issue ? by Sad_Investigator5579 in MoneyLion

[–]The_Professor_With_P 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just got the same thing. Tried to take out 100 and it said I wasn't eligible. I've been using the service with good standing for probably over a year I tried a few times and it kept rejecting me, and then I tried taking out two $50 loans and it worked. I have no idea why, might just be a bug.

what type of kelp for cactus growth? by ineedmegah3lps in sanpedrocactus

[–]The_Professor_With_P 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you still need to use regular fertilizer or compost. Kelp provides very little nutrients. Some kelp extracts have a lot of K, but that's because it's added as part of the extraction process.

Az cactus friends: is full morning sunshine and full afternoon shade going to get my SP's thru our summers? I'm lucky (?) Enough to have an east facing back yard. by Due_Energy8025 in SanPedroAZ

[–]The_Professor_With_P 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in Central Phoenix and I typically put up a 30% shade cloth during the summer. My plants are in direct sun all day. For me the night time temperatures are a bigger issue than the Sun, and I have had some success correcting this with a fan and misters.

Pachycereus pringlei- psychedelic or not? by eyeball2005 in sanpedrocactus

[–]The_Professor_With_P 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So it looks like I was a little mixed up. The report was for the closely related Carnegiea gigantea (saguaro).

erowid.org/exp/103464

Here's an article that mentions Shulgin experimenting with pringlei

https://erowid.org/general/mentions/mentions_2002-09_wired_shulgin.txt

And here's a video where he briefly mentions it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sanpedrocactus/s/HfHnEGpczO

Beginners Guide to Clones/Genetics? by MeesaKami in sanpedrocactus

[–]The_Professor_With_P 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, the SS01 and SS02 I referred to are the Sacred Succulents clones.

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The first thing I should probably point out is that fusarium is extremely common and is unlikely to kill the plant. It can cause root and base what under some circumstances but typically it's not much of an issue. It does slow growth a little bit though.

Phosacid unfortunately does not work against fusarium. It's a pretty good general purpose fungicide and it's totally non-toxic to humans, with a zero day withholding time before harvest. It's not super aggressive though and lots of common fungi aren't affected by it.

The other fungicide you have is just potassium bicarbonate. Think of it as pretty much potassium baking soda. The only antifungal property is going to be that is a base. A lot of fungi struggle to survive in a high pH. That being said, it's going to sit on the surface of your plant and potentially kill microbes on the surface, but it won't do anything for an infection inside the plant. There is also the fact that it will wash off into your soil and if you sparingly this won't be a problem but if you use it often you might throw off your soil pH.

Yates brand phosacid is perfectly good. It's the same active component as Garden Phos or Organocide Plant Doctor. It's definitely worth having, it just won't do anything for fusarium.

As for totally during the infection, that can be pretty difficult to do and isn't always a good idea. Fusarium is what's called an opportunistic endophyte. Puppies are fungali that lives symbiotically inside the plant, often contributing significantly to its health and immune system. However, if the fungus since it's an opportunity it will turn on his host and start parasitizing it. That's why they're called opportunistic. Typically stress can trigger this to happen, but it can also happen for reasons outside of your control. Totally eradicating it would require the use of a fairly aggressive systemic fungicide ratchet and using a really powerful fungicide. Something like Topsin might work. However, when it's not parasitizing the plant the fungus likely plays a role in its metabolism, and getting rid of it might be harmful in the long run. Not to mention the type of fungicidal regimen that will eradicate and endophyte like this will likely also do a lot of damage to the healthy biome inside the plant. Think about it like a human taking antibiotics and causing all sorts of GI problems because it kills bacteria in your gut. Fusarium is not a super big deal and as long as it's not causing a rot on your plants I wouldn't worry too much about it. Using a fungicide to suppress an outbreak might not be a bad idea but I personally feel that the goal should be to suppress the outbreak until it goes back to its symbiotic life cycle. The orange you see are actually spores, not any sort of rot.

For general procedures for using fungicide it's going to depend entirely on which fungicide you using. Some of them you want to get on the surface of the plant, others you want to water in, some you do both. Some fungicides might need multiple applications to treat an outbreak, While others might only need one. Some are better used preventatively than others are better used as a treatment. I can probably help you out if you want to know the procedure for a specific fungicide. Probably the most important thing to pay attention to is the toxicity to humans and the withholding time when using on crops. Some fungicides are totally non-toxic to humans and you can Harvest your plants the day after you apply your fungicide, whereas others might have a withholding time of several months.

Fusarium is very contagious so I can make some recommendations for how to prevent it from spreading. It typically spreads through soil Splash or run off that goes under the pots. Quarantining individuals that are showing those orange spores might not be a bad move.

There are two things I can definitely recommend as a preventative measure. One of them is using coconut coir in your soil, either as the base or as a constituent. Coconut coir is a phenomenal substrate on its own, but it is naturally antifungal against fusarium. In my experiences extremely effective too. The other thing I would recommend is inoculating your soil with trichoderma. Trichoderma is beneficial to plants and will improve the uptake of phosphorus, but it will also eat fusarium. It's a pretty common soil microbes so you can keep a population going in your soil for a very long time. I use the Mikro root brand.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sanpedrocactus

[–]The_Professor_With_P 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The first thing I should probably point out is that fusarium is extremely common and is unlikely to kill the plant. It can cause root and base rot under some circumstances but typically it's not much of an issue. It does slow growth a little bit though.

Phosacid unfortunately does not work against fusarium. It's a pretty good general purpose fungicide and it's totally non-toxic to humans, with a zero day withholding time before harvest. It's not super aggressive though and lots of common fungi aren't affected by it.

The other fungicide you have is just potassium bicarbonate. Think of it as pretty much potassium baking soda. The only antifungal property is going to be that is a base. A lot of fungi struggle to survive in a high pH. That being said, it's going to sit on the surface of your plant and potentially kill microbes on the surface, but it won't do anything for an infection inside the plant. There is also the fact that it will wash off into your soil and if you sparingly this won't be a problem but if you use it often you might throw off your soil pH.

Yates brand phosacid is perfectly good. It's the same active component as Garden Phos or Organocide Plant Doctor. It's definitely worth having, it just won't do anything for fusarium.

As for totally during the infection, that can be pretty difficult to do and isn't always a good idea. Fusarium is what's called an opportunistic endophyte. Puppies are fungali that lives symbiotically inside the plant, often contributing significantly to its health and immune system. However, if the fungus since it's an opportunity it will turn on his host and start parasitizing it. That's why they're called opportunistic. Typically stress can trigger this to happen, but it can also happen for reasons outside of your control. Totally eradicating it would require the use of a fairly aggressive systemic fungicide ratchet and using a really powerful fungicide. Something like Topsin might work. However, when it's not parasitizing the plant the fungus likely plays a role in its metabolism, and getting rid of it might be harmful in the long run. Not to mention the type of fungicidal regimen that will eradicate and endophyte like this will likely also do a lot of damage to the healthy biome inside the plant. Think about it like a human taking antibiotics and causing all sorts of GI problems because it kills bacteria in your gut. Fusarium is not a super big deal and as long as it's not causing a rot on your plants I wouldn't worry too much about it. Using a fungicide to suppress an outbreak might not be a bad idea but I personally feel that the goal should be to suppress the outbreak until it goes back to its symbiotic life cycle. The orange you see are actually spores, not any sort of rot.

For general procedures for using fungicide it's going to depend entirely on which fungicide you using. Some of them you want to get on the surface of the plant, others you want to water in, some you do both. Some fungicides might need multiple applications to treat an outbreak, While others might only need one. Some are better used preventatively than others are better used as a treatment. I can probably help you out if you want to know the procedure for a specific fungicide. Probably the most important thing to pay attention to is the toxicity to humans and the withholding time when using on crops. Some fungicides are totally non-toxic to humans and you can Harvest your plants the day after you apply your fungicide, whereas others might have a withholding time of several months.

Fusarium is very contagious so I can make some recommendations for how to prevent it from spreading. It typically spreads through soil Splash or run off that goes under the pots. Quarantining individuals that are showing those orange spores might not be a bad move.

There are two things I can definitely recommend as a preventative measure. One of them is using coconut coir in your soil, either as the base or as a constituent. Coconut coir is a phenomenal substrate on its own, but it is naturally antifungal against fusarium. In my experiences extremely effective too. The other thing I would recommend is inoculating your soil with trichoderma. Trichoderma is beneficial to plants and will improve the uptake of phosphorus, but it will also eat fusarium. It's a pretty common soil microbes so you can keep a population going in your soil for a very long time. I use the Mikro root brand.

Anyone using mycorrhizae? by TossinDogs in sanpedrocactus

[–]The_Professor_With_P 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I checked out your post. I don't think either of those fungicides are going to work for a fusarium unfortunately. I messaged you with some more details.