My newly bought San Pedro

[Guest]

Hello everyone !

Just came back from Amsterdam where I've bought a San Pedro.

It is about 23 cm tall (from the "earth" to the top), and I'm wondering how I should take care of it, I've read alot of different informations about watering, winter rest, fertilizer, and I'm kinda lost...

Any help would be greatly appreciated !

 

[amoak]

hi,

It s very easy all you need is little quantite of water and put him in a place not directly to sun , a shade place is the best make him grow fastest and with better color(more green) because they become yellow with the sun and less potent.
Last weekend I had the better mescaline trip of my live with peruvian torch , i had 20 hours hard trip. Fantastic

 

[scamie]

how much did yoy take and how!!!! 20 hours man... that's long... total ego loss i presume

 

[amoak]

Hi,

I eat 50 grams of dry tissue peruvian torch(only green skin ) , and you presume very well the ego loss and i can tell that is not easy to control ,but is amazing and colorful and when I say 20 hours trip I talk about full effects becuase the effects had a total duration of 30 hours only after i was ready to sleep.
So attention when you try a trip like that , normally with 20 grams(only green skin) is enough to get 8 to 10 hours trip with fantastic visions but depend of the quality of the cacti .
I can have a better trip with 30 grams of peruvian torch than with 30 grams peyote( 3-5 years old) so when we can t have peyote older is best a peruvian torch because with young peyote i get only nausea.

 

[Meduzz]

you can also use a little bit of fertilizer once a month. i use a fertilizer with NPK 5-7-5 wich is very good for cacti and other suculents, my cactus has about 10h of direct sunlight a day and he looks very good
i noticed that the cactus you bought is very thin, so don't let it grow too tall or it will fall to the ground, that's how they reproduce themselves.
remember, treat the holy cactus with respect and you will be rewarded :wink:

 

[tryptonaut]

My experience is they need as much direct sunlight as they can get or they start to grow thin. Happened to one of mine last winter - that's why you shouldn't give them water more than once every two weeks in winter (at least in middle Europe where the skey is dark grey all winter long...)
I guess in Europe you can't give them too much sun (right now it sucks because it's been cloudy for weeks and the growing stopped pretty much - I was hoping to have two big cacti at the end of fall for my first mescaline trip)

 

[amoak]

I think is not good idea to put him in direct sunlight for more information you can see www.sacredcactus.com have lot information to San Pedro growers .

 

[scamie]

It can grow faster, but will make the cactus more "slim" en light of collour...
Also it is said that the mescaline concentration goes down down down

 

[forest]

so, are you saying there are shadow-cactusses?

do they live in nature in shadow or sunlight?
i would think sunlight. but if you are right, the nature-cactusses would contain less mescaline than the homegrown-ones.

 

[amoak]

we are talking about san pedro cactus they aren t shadows cactus but they don t need direct sunlight but also not totaly shadows in some sorces they say to filtre 30% 40% of the sun light but i don t know i m not a cactus grower i am a indoor cannabis grower .

 

[tryptonaut]

What you're saying is that the weather in Europe is just fine for San Pedro (sunny sometimes but mostly cloudy...). That makes me hope for some really strong cacti from my window bench

 

[Guest]

Thanks for all the replies

Well, actually I'm watering it a bit every 10-14 days, and I putted it in the hottest part of my house ("glassroom", under direct sunlight, temperature usually reach 40 degree celsius if sunny)...

 

[tryptonaut]

From what I just read on http://www.sacredcactus.com/ it seems that direct sunlight in middle Europe should be more than ok if the cactus is already rooted and is getting enough water.
The guys who say they need to shade their cacti by about 30% all live in Arizona or some place alike where the sun is more intense with a lot more sunny days per year.

Too much sun is supposed to show as sunburns (cactus turning yellow). So far this hasn't happened to my two babies, so I guess my windowbench is just fine for them! Hallelujah!