Plant Haul + Convergent Evolution Chat | Cacti, Euphorbia, Thylacines, & Wolves
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- čas přidán 1. 04. 2023
- G'day, guys! In today's video, I do a plant haul reveal, chat, thingo whilst also chatting to you about convergent evolution, what it is, and why it's so freaking cool! So, open your evolutionary biology textbooks and turn to page 33 (the one that covers Thylacines and wolves).
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Species list:
The Blue Torch Cactus - Myrtillocactus geometrizans
The Golden Torch Cactus - The Trichocereus spachianus (now - Soehrensia spachiana)
Donkey's Tail / Burro's Tail - Sedum morganianum
Euphorbia cylindrifolia
The Resin Spurge - Euphorbia resinifera
The Peruvian Torch Cactus - Trichocereus peruvianus (now - Echinopsis peruviana)
The Petal Leaf Succulent - Portulaca molokiniensis
The Bishop's Cap Cactus - Astrophytum ornatum
“Pupped off” too good!! 😝🥰
That one euphorbia looks like an octopus,cool.Loved the video nice plants and your humor matches mine.😅HI peaches you cutie pie!!!
I started my pothos last year around the top of my plant room ceiling along with a purple passion fruit vine.,so far-i love the look.
Great work :D
The Bishops Caps are gorgeous especially the one with variegation.
Check out drywall wire hooks. They are virtually invisible and the hole in the wall is about a millimeter.
The hooks would accommodate stems nicely.
Oh nice, thanks. Will do :D
I love your comment about the cactus name containing the ending anus ! That was so funny whatever you do don’t change !!! Luv your videos!!
Haha thanks Colyn :D
Lol, every birthday and xmas for the kids, we always threaten the family with buying their kids a drumkit 🤣🤣I have a jungle cactus called a Selenicereus anthonyanus, chuckle chuckle. I love the Euphorbia genus, literally just for the diverstity of them. What a great haul, and I sure do learn cool stuff watching your channel. Love it.
lol do it haha and thanks mate :) I appreciate the support and kind words!
I always buy the weird looking plants. Same reason, l want to see what they're going to do.
Those sticky hooks : you don't have to push them down real hard for lighter things or if you're not 100% on where they're going yet. If the vine doesn't fit in those little gaps they've got and you don't have string coloured to match your wall, cut a rubber band up, (clearish ones, if you have a few) and tie the vines up loosely with them.
It's worked for me in the past and the plants still got room to move around and grow.
Hope this all makes sense. I'm a bit wiped out.
Stay safe and much love to you and your family. Keep up the good work ! 👍🇦🇺
Oh nice one. Do you get a nice bit of movement too with the rubber bands?
The euphorbia cylindrifloria is amazing! Bunnings is so random sometimes. We recently found a melocactus azures there all on its lonesome and picked it up before anyone else did.
Haha yep... I've seen them there a few times. It's from Paradisia. Sometimes they get in variety packs of their rare stuff.
Your American cowboy impression was spot on, Mate! How’s my Australian? Haha, also love that you take the time to research the little facts you put on screen. Very fun to watch. 😁
Hehe thanks a lot Jacob :D
There are also euphorbia as hardy garden plants that arent succulent at all and an annual that grows like a weed in my garden but also scrubs like the poinsettia. They all have white milky sap if you cut them and similar flowers with a weird structure.
Yeah, it's just nuts how diverse the genus is... mind-blowing
It seems like your mind just absorbs knowledge,I love when you share it.
:D I forget much more than I remember haha
Nice haul 💚 the Dycarii is so cute 💚
:D
Haha I leave a paper towel on the floor. I see all the stickers on your floor. It looks like my son entertainment center with stickers all over the door.
I know... my kids and stickers. Jeeez they're just everywhere. Windows, walls, floor. But such a good time waster haha
Just a word of caution on the donkey tail succulent.....they can be buggers when they get longer. If you just bump them the little "beads" fall off and leave the stem bare
On the up side....you can technically propagate new plants from each one.
Yeah noticed that... very annoying
Your Echinopsis peruviana is very interesting! I had a little one and it grew quite fast and tall but never crested. I had to get it a good home because we had a cat that became obsessed with it and I couldn't keep him from messing with it. I later learned that this cacti actually has mescaline properties and I'm wondering if my cat was getting high from it, lol! Nice haul and laughed at all the funny bits😄
Lol I think you'd probably have to consume a foot of the cactus raw to get high. Though, apparently they can get messed up of spider plants haha
Got a tip. I did the same thing with the porch lights. Go to a hardware and get a dimmer switch, it’ll install between the outlet and light cord. It’s way easier than plugging unplugging the power cord and you can mood light your cacti
Hehe good one mate :D
Go Peach, you tell him!
Your such a wealth of knowledge Pete love listening to ya mate.
Think with the sticky things for the wall if you use a hair dryer on them if they are well stuck on, it should help unstick them. Don’t quote me on that just a suggestion personally not tried so don’t actually know 😜. 🌱💚
Oh good tip, mate! Thank you :D
I definitely would’ve bought the baby’s fist cactus. Great decision. I recently also bought an E. resinifera. Cool plants!
I just have to say that this is one of the best plant haul videos I’ve seen!! However, you never disappoint me with your amazing plants and educational content!! Beautiful plants man! Thanks 🙏 for all you do!! Ginger
Hehe you're way too kind, thanks Ginger :D
I love when you’re coffee’d up!!! 😃😃😃. Such cool succulents!!! I got the bug too. 🌱🌱🌱. Always look forward to your vids!!! 👍🏼🤪
Hehe thanks Paul!
Great video! Loved seeing your cactus haul. I've never had a cactus myself. I had a bad experience with one in third grade... never got over it. It was cool to see what's out there, and I'm a sucker for genetics. That is a really cool example of convergence. Also, I wanna say the added bits of editing that it seems you've added are really nice!
Thanks a lot mate :) Glad you're enjoying the content!
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Fascinating topic! (and a great haul!)
From what I can remember Euphorbia is the only genus that uses all the different types of photosynthesis across it's species 🤯
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I'm sorry Pete. I have no clue about those things but it sounds pterrible 😛
hehe
On the burrows tail. When they fall off just stick back in. They will grow
Nice! Will try that if I knock more off hehe
Your enthusiasm is contagious. ❤❤❤
Hehe cheers, Ben!
Beautiful finds! Recently visited Roraima Nursery in Lara and they had an awesome selection of cacti!
Yeah, they leave every other nursery nearby with the heads hung haha
I’ve been eying that “cresting” plant since you started the video; was waiting for you to talk about it. I’d definitely buy it! Don’t cut it; let’s see what it will do. Also, love the intro with Peaches…not stuttering🤣
Hehe yeah it's a weird one. Can't wait to see what happens.
First again! Love a good bit of cacti content Pete! 👍
Hehe cheers, Josh :D I'll keep bringing it!
Evolutionary knowledge - not sure I'm ready for that. I just getting use to semi hydro and want to keep my plants alive
Haha hopefully I can introduce you more and more to it then :D
Which astros do you have growing from seed Pete? Thanks for mentioning Star Astrophytum btw in another video, I'd never heard of them. Just ordered 500 asterias seeds from there and sowed them on Sunday :) To add to my other 1000 seedlings lol Do you have a video of your cacti collection in the greenhouse? I've love to see what you have going on in there atm!
You crack me up mate I wanna see you in those sparkly shoes. Thank dog my kids latched onto stuff I found entertaining like how to train your dragon. I can still listen to that theme music all day 🤣 Also evolutionary biology FTW and how freaking cool would it be to see them bring back the Thylacine? I mean frankly if it weren't for the fact DNA degrades and is unviable after a thousand years or whatever I'd be totally keen for a real life Jurassic park.
You have a real point on the price of plants that take decades to get to a mature stage, real labour of love there because no one is getting rich off that!
Can't wait to see how your jungle goes I may.... kinda... have blu-tacked a pothos to the wall at work and discovered a few months later it's totally ruined the paintjob.... but the hell with it I enjoy painting and right now it's making the work environment more bearable.
Hehehe blu-tacked a pothos. That's gold. How long did it last for? haha
@@petevsplants7516 it's still there 🤣
lol!
Lol 😂!!
Poinsettia are euphorbia too🤔
Yeah, that's how large and all-inclusive the genus is lol
@@petevsplants7516 Also, poinsettias really don’t have blooms, they are bracts. 💚
wow, crazy
My lady and I had a good laugh about the “floor towel”. We have similar conversations about ‘why do you do that’ about random stuff.
Silly cactus question. Do the round cacti stay round and grow like a big ball, or do they turn into columns?
Haha yeah, it's funny how those convos go with your better halves. I have them so often with Kel because she's Brazilian and will do, eat, or say the most random shit (from my point of view) and it'll turn out to be something that's really common back home for her haha.
Re: cacti and growth, it depends. Typically, columnar cacti grow as columns and globular cacti grow as balls, but... there can be variation within genera, the standard San Pedro cacti are actually in a genus with other globular cacti (go figure) called Echinopsis. 'Trichocereus' is an incorrect biological name given to the columnar forms, but they're often just Echinopsis (or sometimes a completely different genus that just looks the same). Some species can be a bit weird like Astrophytum myriostigma where they're slow growing and usually globular in appearance, but you can get columnar growing individuals (for some weird reason). So, I imagine there's some interesting mutation that occurs in some individuals (on a frequent basis) or which is heritably passed down (probably recessive as it's not dominant in the population) and you get columnar forms. I'll have to look more into the selection pressures on each, but I imagine it's a trade off between lowest surface area to volume (sphere) so you can hold as much water as possible with the least amount of mass and highest photosynthetic surface area (column) where you're more worried about growing up and getting more sunlight as opposed to water retention.
You are such a GUY🤣🤣🤣🤣. Cracks me up when you’re inappropriate, like a frog in a sock. 🤣
lol I apologise for nothing haha
Ps why don’t you cut the crested cactus in two places ie at the bottom and at the crested part and graft the top onto the bottom ! Pss my wife has had to re-educate me in the use of tea towels and towels and what I can wash them with ! So different from my bachelor days !
Hehe I'm afraid to cut it I think. At least, until I see what it'll do shortly. Hoping it turns into some weird freaky plant haha and I feel you re: being house domesticated by your wife hahaha
I'm from Melb all my life and we would chuck a tea towel on the ground before it goes out to be washed. Like once it's no longer clean enough to clean benches but to clean the floor it's still fine.
Question for you though, did you make it down to the Melb international flower and garden show that was on the weekend (and days prior)
I'm a hour and a half east of you and we've never done that with the tea towel. Although living on a farm may have something to do with that.
Yeah it's interesting how I guess each household might behave differently, though it seems in Aus it hasn't occurred enough for there to be a product sold solely for that purpose. Nah I didn't make it unfortunately. I wanted to go and asked a few friends, but no one would go with :(
You kinda like a Dr.Jeckyl crossing cacti not people😂
haha
I chopped my monsters today 🥹 will the mother plant reproduce leaves still?
Assuming there're unactivated nodes on it :) Yep.
I'm thinking about training my pothos up a wall but what about the pot ? I won't be able to move it from its position to water, re pot etc ?
Yeah, that's it. It'll be in the one place, so you'll just have to be comfortable watering it where it is
@@petevsplants7516 maybe a self watering pot would be better ?
Thats olso a mescaline cacti rigth? The crested one?
I think so yeah, though they have very little in them compared to Lophophora apparently.
@@petevsplants7516 yeah bro i think so 2 cause whas lookin it up and saw it on a growshop page here in holland, and i bought reccently a peruvianus, and a pachanoi trichcereus, and both contain mescalin and love 2 learn more about it 2 and indeed bougth a few williamsiis the look sooo coooll, love olso to watch your keep the good work up♡♡
Is peaches pregnant?
Lol I hope not... she's just a pig when it comes to food.
check your cholestrol????? so silly
lol