BONE_WURMZ

So glad I discovered this lil shit underneath my brother’s car ~2 years ago. His mom split when I came outside but it was like 110-112°F outside that day and his eyes weren’t even open yet. Mom never returned so I took him in.

Best decision ever. Cat distribution system knows what they are doing. They don’t send you the cat you WANT they send you the kitty cat you NEED.

Trichocereus Bridgesii/Pachanoi (Yowie X Wowie) hybrid San Pedro cactus grafted onto a BIG Cereus Peru (aka “Peruvian Apple Cactus”) planted in the ground in my backyard with pretty nutrient rich soil and there’s an irrigation ditch that also runs behind my house that brings the snow melt down from the mountains in spring/early summer.

Anyways the Cereus Peru being like… ~6ish+ years old now clearly has a really deep root system now because anything grafted onto it grows extremely quickly BUT (this is the interesting part) it seems to cause any Trichocereus/Echinopsis grafted to it to also grow *absurdly* long spines for some reason I’m unsure of.

Cereus Peru itself have extremely short spines by comparison but Wowie X Yowie is definitely not supposed to have spines anywhere near that long, and the effect has been observed with several other different grafts.