Trading for Fruiting Cacti (Dragon Fruit, others), Tropical Root Crops & more

[MassSpectrum]

I'm looking for every cultivar of Dragon Fruit and other proper fruiting cacti (tuna fruits, etc) I dont have. I have a lot to offer for trade from various fruiting & edible perennial seeds & plants (root crops, hot/super-hot peppers, medicinal and so on) to an impressive list of various plant growth hormones and related plant biostimulants.

Before I mentioned I have secured 'Yellow Dragon Fruit', from a local guy, but apparently I still need supply for that....

Fruiting Cacti that I have enough of for trading:
dragon fruit Bloody Mary (cuttings)
dragon fruit Halley's Comet (including rooted plants)
dragon fruit Physical Graffiti (cuttings)
dragon fruit Seminole (cuttings)
dragon fruit Vietnamese Jaina (white) (including rooted plants)
dragon fruit 'generic' 'white', and 'purple' (cuttings)
opuntia Xoconostle (seeds)
Queen of the Night (Selenicereus grandiflorus) (cuttings)
Peruvian Apple Cactus (Cereus repandus) (cuttings)
Sword Pear Cactus (Acanthocereus tetragonus) (all sizes)

Newer Cacti I have secured but cant trade with yet (don't need):
dragon fruit American Beauty
dragon fruit Arizona Purple
dragon fruit Bien Hoa Red
dragon fruit Cosmic Charlie
dragon fruit Dark Star
dragon fruit Delight
dragon fruit Giant Viet
dragon fruit Natural Mystic
dragon fruit Maria Rosa
dragon fruit Phoenix Red
dragon fruit Thai Red
dragon fruit Yellow (always open to more)
dragon fruit Zamorano
Hylocereus bronxensis
opuntia PARL 246
opuntia PARL 256
opuntia PARL 262
opuntia Jeronimo M.V.
Selenicereus setaceus Pineapple Cactus

Tropical Root Crops:
Sweet Potatoes:
All Purple/Purple Delight
Allgold
Amish Bush Porto Rico
Barberman
Beauregard
Becca's Purple
Boniato
Bugtussle
Bunch Porto Rico
Carolina Nugget
Carolina Ruby
Cook's Family Heirloom
Dingess White with Pink Eye
Envy
Ginseng Orange
Georgia Jet
Georgia Red
Hatki
Hernandez
Ivis White Cream
Jersey White
Korean Purple
Mahan/Bradshaw
Marguerite / Margarita (Ornamental)
Memphis Pride
Midnight Lace (Ornamental)
Mirasaki
Oklahoma Nugget
Porto Rico
Razorback
Red Wine Velvet
Ringley's Porto Rico
Satsuma-imo
Travis
Wakenda
White Triumph
and a few yet ID'ed types

Other Root Crops:
various gingers, malangas / taros and more (list under construction...)

Fruit:
list under construction...

Super Hot Peppers
7 Pot / Brain Strain Red & Yellow
7 Pot Primo
Butch T
Carolina Reaper
Dorset Naga
Ghost Bhut Jalokia Chocolate
Ghost Bhut Jalokia Red
Trinidad Moruga Red
Trinidad Moruga Yellow
Trinidad Scorpion Chocolate
Trinidad Scorpion Red
plus over 100 other 'normal' peppers:
http://thehotpepper.com/user/2818-drpeppar/ (trade list)

I'll be working at this effort from now on so please check back in every so often to see if I now have anything you wanted, but didn't before.

Other fruiting cacti I'm wittingly interested in:
Burbank's Opuntia
Cereus jamacaru
Consolea corallicola
Corryocactus brevistylus
Corryocactus melanotrichus
Cylindropuntia arbuscula
Eulychnia acida
Haageocereus pseudoversicolor
Harrisia fragrans
Hylocereus Bronxensis
Hylocereus megalanthus
Hylocereus Ocamponis
Hylocereus spp.
Jasminocereus thoursii
Mammillaria sp.
Myrtillocactus geometrizans
Opuntia dillenii
Opuntia engelmannii var. linguiformis
Opuntia ficus-indica cultivars
Polaskia chichipe
Selenicereus boeckmannii
Selenicereus pteranthus
Selenicereus validus
Stenocereus griseus
Stenocereus pruinosis
Stenocereus gummosus
Stenocereus queretaroensis
Stenocereus stellatus
Stenocereus thurberi
Stenocereus treleasei
Trichocereus validus

With Dragon Fruit I'm not interested in any more generic colors such as 'pink'. Cultivars only please, thanks.

I'm also looking for Piper genus plants, and Vanilla orchid cuttings:
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=11157.0

I can also offer for trade various exotic Plant Growth Hormones (PGR's) and related Plant Biostimulants. I can speak from experiences cacti & succulents commonly produce acutely dramatic results in growth boosting enhancements. Everyone's heard of rooting hormones, and nobody disputes their overall effectiveness. It turns out there's plenty of other interesting effects that can be 'dictated'. Some people might be put off by this 'new' angle of horticulture, but if you've eaten broccoli or seedless grapes you've already eaten the chems I'm referring to, while you can't eat any piece of any plant without eating plant phytohormones in general, while all of industrial agriculture / horticulture uses them extensively (both pre & post harvest with produce). With these stigmas averted, especially if you have smaller plants you're trying to bulk up, PGR's assuredly are the certain way to achieve the maximum growth rates scientifically possible in a season. Some even only influence natural health and vigor mechanisms that might be weakened otherwise by the stresses they've endured.  Understand that nutrients don't DRIVE growth, but PGR's do. Likewise, nutrients & water are but mere fuel, so when you stomp on the (PGR) GAS PEDAL, to harness all of the potential you need to boost the fuel tank & octane.
PGR's & Biostimulants I can offer:
Atonik [natural based antioxidant precursor good for everything from rooting cuttings but especially overall vigor]
6-Benzylaminopurine (6BA)  [the most popular / widely useful "Cytokinin" 'branching hormone' in the world]
Brassinolide (BL) [interesting nature based 'brassinosteroid' first derived from Rapeseed flowers, gives broad growth boosting effects usually only done via several others PGR classes combined)
Chitosan [another interesting vigor booster; shellfish extract commonly used as a food additive; good for germinating seeds & increased yield with overall vigor boosting being the main effect. has actual human medical uses]
Fulvic Acid [choice chelating agent; highly bioabsorbable sometimes touted as helping effects of other chem effects]
6-Furfurylaminopurine (Kinetin)[natural analog to 6BAP; has been detected in virtually every living biological cell on all of planet earth]
Forchlorfenuron (CPPU) [a more exotic Cytokinin. mainly used for making seedless grapes & kiwi; not sure yet how it would influence cacti]
Gibberellic Acid (GA3) [earths ultimate 'seed sprouting hormone'; has many other uses but alone to drive realistic intense growth needs be mixed with the likes of 6BAP & IAA to balance out the effects (prevent raw stretching)]
Indole-3-Acetic Acid (IAA) [primary Auxin PGR produced by all plants; plays role in all stages of growth but best known for driving 'straight up' meristem growth]
Indole-3-Butyric Acid (IBA) [the most effective & widely used Auxin rooting hormone in the world]
Indole-3-Butyric Acid-K (K-IBA) [water soluble, changes the pH of the solution though]
Kinetin (6FA) (natural analog of 6BAP; said to be a natural component of virtually every living cell on earth]
Mepiquat Chloride [a Gibberellin Inhibitor. similar to the now semi-infamous Paclobutrazol but without of the health threats]
Naphthalene Acetic Acid (NAA) [2nd most important Auxin rooting hormone; main ingredient in Superthrive]
Salicylic Acid (SA) [related to Aspirin, this the proper form for plants (boosts natural health mechanisms. main component in willow leaves]
Triacontanol [extracted from beeswax. good all around yield booster on paper similar to Brassinolide. real safe, but difficult to use]


You can follow my profile to see the rest of what I have to offer.  Majority of everything listed as live plants / cuttings I now maintain a steady supply of specimens ready to go year round.  Also open to all sorts of other trades, for pretty much any seeds or 'plants of a useful nature' that I don't already have. Very interested in root crops outside of the 'potato' species. Thanks for reading.

[TREESNMORE]

I have three that you don't have listed Cosmic Charlie, Zamorano, and Yellow Dragon (selenicereus megalanthus). The only one you have that I need is Bloody Mary.

[MassSpectrum]

I think I have secured Dark Star, Voodoo Child and Zamorana.

I have lots of other stuff too you might be interested in.

[TREESNMORE]

Do you have Bloody Mary to trade for Cosmic Charlie or  Yellow Dragon

[MassSpectrum]

Yeah, I'll trade for Yellow.

[Coconut]

Thanks for the educAtion on the plants hormones, natural & unnatural uses; hmm maybe a seedless jaboticaba is in order or a surinam cherry to say the least.  Let us know if you can produce a seedless dragonfruit; be great fruit foe denture wearers.

[nullzero]

Here is what I have from this list we can talk later, I am hoping to have a future source of mainly cuttings and seeds;

Burbank's Opuntia  (Don't have, I have never tasted fruit from the Burbank selection. I think it has more historic appeal)
Cereus jamacaru    (have other Cereus sp.; Cereus fernambucensis, (f1) Cereus peruvianus monstrose x Cereus aethiops, Cereus peruvianus monstrose, Cereus peruvianus (obtained from CRFG sale)
Consolea corallicola
Corryocactus brevistylus (2 seedlings small atm, may take a while)
Corryocactus melanotrichus (1 rooted cutting, about a year or so if it branches out)
Cylindropuntia arbuscula (Rooted cutting plant)
Eulychnia acida  (Had seeds did not germinate for me, try mesa gardens for seeds)
Haageocereus pseudoversicolor  (1 seedling, may be a while until I have cuttings available)
Harrisia fragrans
Hylocereus Bronxensis
Hylocereus Ocamponis
Mammillaria sp.
Myrtillocactus geometrizans   (1 rooted cutting from original Baja CA selection, fruits multiple times a year if its happy)
Opuntia ficus-indica cultivars (8 PARLs, and 8 other selections including Jereonimo M.V., Torrance PCH#1, PV Spineless #1,2,3, Visalia Yellow, and some others.)
Polaskia chichipe   (1 seedling, still growing no cuttings available for a while)
Stenocereus griseus (fast growing for me, hoping it puts out some side shoots for future cuttings)
Stenocereus pruinosis
Stenocereus gummosus  (Stenocereus gummosus, 1 cutting and 1 seedling)
Stenocereus queretaroensis
Stenocereus stellatus  (1 rooted cutting, this is a faster growing cactus... loves the heat and humidity. Will have cuttings perhaps in a year)
Stenocereus thurberi
Stenocereus treleasei
Trichocereus validus (1 seedling, small atm may be a few years for cuttings)

Here are some other good ones for fruit you did not mention yet;

Cipocereus bradei  (blue sweet fruit reportedly)
Maihuenia poeppigii  (reported to be sweet papaya tasting fruit, similar in size of Prickly Pears)
Echinocereus stramineus  (sweet strawberry tasting fruit)
Echinocereus fendleri × dasyacanthus  (this is an experimental one for fruit, I read literature that the cross parents produced sweet fruit that was used by Native Americans.)
Cleistocactus sp. ‘Yotala’  (no idea on the fruit quality, it was sourced from Sacredsucuclents. I am assuming the quality of the fruit is on par with the above cacti fruit)
Trichocereus pasacana, Echinopsis atacamensis subsp. pascana (I had this one, had to give it away because it was getting to large and had no room when I moved, reported to have large tasty fruit)
Browningia candelaris (fruit covered in spineless scales, fleshy fruits 2.5 inch long)

I really want to try the wide crosses like Cereus sp. x Hylocereus sp. in the future. I am also very interested in using plant hormones to experiment on increased grow (this is a topic I have no experience in besides using rooting hormone gels etc.)

[fyliu]

I can send you some other kinds. But right now is flowering season and it may be hard to find branches that can be cut. Winter would have been a better time to ask for cuttings since people are pruning and wanting to get rid of them.

[MassSpectrum]

-Looking forward to your first box, Nullz.

-Yeah my budget was totally screwed during the winter just finally can afford to do some shipping back and forth. Let me know whatever you can do or whatever. Appreciate your response!

[TREESNMORE]

Did you ship the Bloody Mary.

[MassSpectrum]

Got yours, more than expected thanks! I could only send that one piece. I'm strapped for Bloody Mary right now.

[Tao2]

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Is Trichocereus validus a good eating fruit?

I posted this earlier, to fast tract hybridising.
http://phys.org/news/2014-06-species-sex.html

    youtube.com/watch?v=fVPXmuygHY4

[MassSpectrum]

argh didnt mean to post this in this thread

[thao]

I have 1 Selenicerus setaceus rooted plant that has two section and can be cut into two pieces. So 2 people interested in getting them can have it. Also have a well rooted pad with a small, but good size new leaf pad of Nullzero's Opuntia ficus-indica selection "Jereonimo M.V.".

selenicerus setaceus http://postimg.org/image/qnujkvcf5/

I'm sad, because I'm relocating out of state to the Midwest and won't be able to grow many things anymore. So, I need to sell them ASAP this week(leaving on the July 1st  )

Pm if interested ASAP!

[nullzero]

I have 1 Selenicerus setaceus rooted plant that has two section and can be cut into two pieces. So 2 people interested in getting them can have it. Also have a well rooted pad with a small, but good size new leaf pad of Nullzero's Opuntia ficus-indica selection "Jereonimo M.V.".

selenicerus setaceus http://postimg.org/image/qnujkvcf5/

I'm sad, because I'm relocating out of state to the Midwest and won't be able to grow many things anymore. So, I need to sell them ASAP this week(leaving on the July 1st  )

Pm if interested ASAP!

Thao,

Sorry to hear about the move (I know its tough parting with lots of plants and figuring out what to do), good luck with everything.

[thao]

I have 1 Selenicerus setaceus rooted plant that has two section and can be cut into two pieces. So 2 people interested in getting them can have it. Also have a well rooted pad with a small, but good size new leaf pad of Nullzero's Opuntia ficus-indica selection "Jereonimo M.V.".

selenicerus setaceus http://postimg.org/image/qnujkvcf5/

I'm sad, because I'm relocating out of state to the Midwest and won't be able to grow many things anymore. So, I need to sell them ASAP this week(leaving on the July 1st  )

Pm if interested ASAP!

Thao,

Sorry to hear about the move (I know its tough parting with lots of plants and figuring out what to do), good luck with everything.

Thanks Null,

Really appreciate your well wish and good luck with your bamboo farm if you are still planing to do one at your FL location.

[MassSpectrum]

I now have a couple-few more pieces of Bloody Mary available for trading. Tonight I went and checked one of my several 'guerrilla farming' locations I set to task over the winter, and it was clear the pieces were better off in my care here.

[MassSpectrum]

Summer got really intense for me to hold the live op semi-operational. Brutal dry ordeal. Plants in my newish containment array tended t either get smoked, or grow rabidly beyond the typical 10" heights I prefer for shipping. Argh.

Anyways I can finally turn on my trading sub-routines again. I'll have to update the gene list up top later, did get some good trades/deals here before the scorch set in, several probably not in the list. But for stuff I only have a little so far I'd probably still want to trade to get more.

My offers updates are Bloody Mary is all moving fine again no problems in offering that. Also have overstocks on American Beauty after a few trades/acquisitions over past year so that is now officially part of my DF for offer stocks.

[monknaround]

I'm new to dragon fruit.  I'm interested in learning.  I have some cactus plants I have collected some of them fruit but don't really taste all that great.   I love my cactus plants though.  I would like to maybe buy some starter plants from someone with a lot of knowledge like the guys from this post.  If anyone wants a student  and can help someone on a budget please look me up.  Todd.....my email is monknaround@gmail.com