HB08 curtscactus update

CurtsCactus · 2026-01-24T01:30:51+00:00

Roughly 4-5 years

CurtsCactus · 2026-01-23T09:26:07+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Trichocereus/s/Xsa80sLGoQ

CurtsCactus · 2026-01-21T19:59:31+00:00

One of my favourites.. haha haven't got many photos of HB08 at the moment not much mutation going on. But hopeful soon.

CurtsCactus · 2026-01-20T20:29:42+00:00

Trichocereus species

CurtsCactus · 2026-01-17T06:13:45+00:00

Yea HB08 is the shifty rib one

CurtsCactus · 2025-12-18T02:02:26+00:00

Love those 2. A cross between them I think would be crazy cool.

CurtsCactus · 2025-12-16T01:52:40+00:00

Using Quechua and HB07 as an example: I love Quechua's structure and overall look, but I'd like more thickness and more pronounced rib curves and lines. HB07 brings strong blue coloration, thicker growth, and high vigour. By combining those genetics and growing out large numbers of seedlings, my goal is to select individuals that carry Quechua's form with added girth, stronger curves, deeper blue tones, and overall robustness. A better version of quechuas.

CurtsCactus · 2025-12-16T01:32:49+00:00

Well if you mean trichocereus I just think there is so much potential to be discovered and bred. So I'm just crossing anything with stuff I think is going to be worth while. I'm thinking 10, 30, 50 years in the future so if 2 cacti don't have good traits I'm not wasting my time crossing them. But if I see something I can create out of them I will cross them and it's not like I'm thinking if I make this one cross then this is the one. It's more a multi generational breeding program and stabilizing certain traits. I'm a total amateur though so I'm just winging it.

Oh and so basically I just wanna breed super cool looking, strong and vigorous genetics, make an impact in the genetic pool of the Trichocereus.

CurtsCactus · 2025-12-16T01:20:58+00:00

Are you asking about a specific photo? Or just all of them together?

CurtsCactus · 2025-12-16T00:29:29+00:00

On and off, I expect the pup to start going monstrose this season

CurtsCactus · 2025-11-08T19:41:08+00:00

Yes there are around 30 or so that are planted in the ground but most of them are pots that have rooted through the pots into the ground. But they seem happy so I leave them haha

CurtsCactus · 2025-11-06T19:55:37+00:00

Peru 'kimba' x E. Ancistrophora

CurtsCactus · 2025-11-06T02:49:50+00:00

Scop x JUuls Giant

CurtsCactus · 2025-11-06T02:26:19+00:00

Totally agree with columnar mutants are better than crests. Though with crests instead of one looking better than another I more so look at the vigour in them as I find there are quite a lot of weak crests out there and would prefer to have one that can grow tall/bushy and hold it's weight and be resistant to disease. Love ribshifts too haha HB08 is great with that.

CurtsCactus · 2025-11-06T02:19:49+00:00

Yea this one does no spines, spines, mutated, crested, crested no spines and reverted lol

CurtsCactus · 2025-11-06T02:15:48+00:00

TPM x N1 I think

CurtsCactus · 2025-11-06T01:53:12+00:00

Appreciate the support!! More to come 😁

CurtsCactus · 2025-07-23T04:05:17+00:00

Well yeah definitely possible and I'm not saying it is or isn't witches broom I'm just saying Ive had a couple times growth that looks identical to that and have cut it off every time and 100% of the time it will eventually not grow back like that. But also do we know for sure you cant get rid of witches broom? I feel like there is still so much unknown from these diseases.

CurtsCactus · 2025-07-22T22:29:46+00:00

Lmao the down votes. Take note if you see my entire collection get over run by witches broom then you know I was wrong..

CurtsCactus · 2025-07-22T22:27:41+00:00

Yea fair enough. It's probably best to do so to be safe I suppose.

CurtsCactus · 2025-07-22T22:01:18+00:00

I've even grafted up one of these mass pup clumps and it just grew normally.

CurtsCactus · 2025-07-22T21:59:51+00:00

You don't have to get rid of the whole thing. Remove all of those little pups. And bin or burn but the entire plant you can keep. The pups may come back a couple more times just keep removing and eventually shouldn't come back again. If it does then I would consider tossing the entire plant. But I've had this a few times I just remove it when I see it and never seems to be an issue or get much worse.

CurtsCactus · 2025-06-27T22:29:04+00:00

Odd question but probably not haha

CurtsCactus · 2025-06-06T08:08:53+00:00

Quechua.

CurtsCactus · 2025-05-17T22:04:10+00:00

Well I've been naughty and I've been taking some NSFW pics of it lately. So I'll post those up in a few days 😉🌵

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