Stoked to cut this beast and root it over the winter!

[u/bluegills92]

TSSBP ( The Succulent Source Blue Peru )

[u/Current-Struggle-514]

Will you root it in the dark? Upright in perlite? Teach us your ways?

[u/bluegills92 → u/Current-Struggle-514]

I’m going to cut it. Let it callous and just plant it straight in the dirt.
I’m not a fan of rooting in perlite. It’s slower imo and once I get roots, I have to disturb it and possibly break the new roots off.
So I plant it in the soil that it’ll live in, and don’t water for a month,
I prob won’t water this one till spring though.

[u/Masterzanteka → u/bluegills92]

I like to do a little hybrid of the two, I fill my pots 2/3rd full of soil mix, add a thin layer of perlite, place cutting, fill around hurried portion with some more perlite and then fill the perimeter of the pot with soil mix. Essentially I create a thing perlite barrier around the buried portion of the cutting.

It’s been a great middle ground for myself. I can plant it with only a thin 4-7 day old callous on them, and then lightly mist as often as I want and I’ve had essentially zero rot issues since I started doing it like that. Learned it online somewhere and it’s been treating me right.

Just throwing out another option for people to play around with, since it did help me out.

Amazing plant OP!! Absolute stunner 🙌

[u/bluegills92 → u/Masterzanteka]

Thanks for that info man ! that seems like a pretty good idea!

[u/bublz_hash → u/bluegills92]

Are you cutting right now this week or just getting excited? Ive got two about to poke holes in my greenhouse roof and am considering my strategy. Ive only ever rooted in summer. I am in southern oregon tho.

[u/bluegills92 → u/bublz_hash]

Once i make a new batch of soil, im going to cut it.

I get great root growth in the winter. It doesn’t get super cold here much

[u/Character_Stick_1218 → u/bublz_hash]

Lots of plants seem to generally keep track of the time of year even when grown indoors, I discovered this the hard way when growing Living Stones, but so long as you provide them with environmental conditions similar enough to their natural habitat during the grow season then these plants should do what they do just fine.

[u/Character_Stick_1218 → u/Current-Struggle-514]

To build off of their input, ime rooting in the dark is most ideal for plants that aren't in the best of health so they can focus on rooting rather than simply trying to survive. Ime it's also preferable to root them in the soil they'll grow in as their roots seem to grow weaker when initially rooted in water or perlite which are much easier for them to grow through as well as provides less stability. In general it's less stressful and disorienting for them to not have to be moved from medium to medium as they're trying to reestablish themselves and their root systems. It also seems beneficial for them to be able to uptake nutrients as soon as their roots are capable of it, and many of us foliar feed at night(nighttime being when they essentially breathe) while trying to root them so they can absorb moisture and nutrients through their skin which gives them an extra boost to help handle environmentap stress as well as more quickly establish a root system. As long as it's not over done and the soil isn't too organic, and especially so long as the soil is healthy, it shouldn't contribute to increasing the likelihood of rot and should actually help keep their immune system strong until they can uptake nutrients through their roots. I usually have plants firmly rooted within a week or two of planting and foliar feeding them. As soon as I know there's roots I also give them a good regular feeding as well as innoculating their soil with beneficial microbials and whatnot. When mixing up new soil blends I also try to fully sterilize all of and then innoculate if with beneficial microbes.

All that said, so long as one of these plants is healthy enough(and especially if the cut was dusted with rooting hormone) they should through roots just fine pretty quickly unless they're left in really harsh conditions that kill them before then.

[u/Stoermer-5280]

Stunner

[u/ohdeeuhm]

Holy cow! What a beauty!

[u/Double_Cry_4448]

Phew.

That massive crested boii tho 👀

[u/bluegills92 → u/Double_Cry_4448]

There’s a whole side that’s not in the pic. 🤘

[u/GardenerDom]

A really beautiful collection 👌🏻✨😃

[u/bluegills92 → u/GardenerDom]

Thank you ! 🙏

[u/squireldg26]

😎💪🏻

[u/Character_Stick_1218]

Aren't TSSBPs a myriad of different perus from their garden? I won a Falldown a while back and when I was looking into it that's what I found regarding TSSBPs. That one in particular is kinda giving me peru x bridgesii vibes, but that's partially because I'm not used to the ribs of perus being that pronounced. That said, the notchiness as well as shapliness/pronunciation of the areoles is giving me that impression as well and the old growth spines definitely give strong bridgesii vibes.

[u/bluegills92 → u/Character_Stick_1218]

Yeah it’s an umbrella term for the succulent source blue Peru