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Tbmb, bridgesii cutting, grown in the yard. Spines a specialist reference says the spines show even on a small plant, which is one of the ways this form is told from the long one.
Tbmb, bridgesii cutting, grown in the yard. Spines a specialist reference says the spines show even on a small plant, which is one of the ways this form is told from the long one.
Tbmb, bridgesii cutting, grown in the yard. Spines a specialist reference says the spines show even on a small plant, which is one of the ways this form is told from the long one.
Tbmb, bridgesii cutting, grown in the yard. Spines a specialist reference says the spines show even on a small plant, which is one of the ways this form is told from the long one.
Tbmb, bridgesii cutting, grown in the yard. Spines a specialist reference says the spines show even on a small plant, which is one of the ways this form is told from the long one.
Tbmb, bridgesii cutting, grown in the yard. Spines a specialist reference says the spines show even on a small plant, which is one of the ways this form is told from the long one.
Tbmb, bridgesii cutting, grown in the yard. Spines a specialist reference says the spines show even on a small plant, which is one of the ways this form is told from the long one.
Tbmb, bridgesii cutting, grown in the yard. Spines a specialist reference says the spines show even on a small plant, which is one of the ways this form is told from the long one.
Tbmb, bridgesii cutting, grown in the yard. Spines a specialist reference says the spines show even on a small plant, which is one of the ways this form is told from the long one.
Tbmb, bridgesii cutting, grown in the yard. Spines a specialist reference says the spines show even on a small plant, which is one of the ways this form is told from the long one.
Tbmb, bridgesii cutting, grown in the yard. Spines a specialist reference says the spines show even on a small plant, which is one of the ways this form is told from the long one.

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Tbmb

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Cutting

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About this plant

These are the exact Tbmb cuttings in the photographs.

Around 13 segments hard grown in ground in California

Care

Full care notes

Unpack right away. Take the plant out of the box, brush off packing material, and let it sit somewhere bright, dry and out of direct sun for a few days. A cutting that arrives cool, wrinkled or light is fine — it is just thirsty. Soft is a different thing: soft flesh means rot, and that is what the 48-hour guarantee is for.

Check the callus — cuttings only. The cut face should already be hard, dry and shiny, like a fingernail rather than like flesh. If it is not, stand the piece upright somewhere shaded with good airflow until it is. An ordinary cutting takes one to two weeks, longer when the air is very humid; a slim pup is quicker and a really fat column slower. The face is what tells you it is done, and you will never be early. Do not put a fresh wet cut into soil. A rooted plant has no cut face and skips this step.

Pot it up. Use a fast-draining mix — roughly two parts gritty mineral to one part cactus soil. Pumice is the best of the mineral part and perlite works. Pot into dry or barely damp mix, never wet. Set a cutting one to two inches deep, just enough to stand it up: deeper is not safer, it is the commonest way to lose a cutting. If it wobbles, stake it, and never solve a balance problem by burying more of the plant.

Watering a cutting. Nothing on planting day. About a week later, a splash — just enough to darken the top inch of the mix, and no further down than that. A second small sip a week after that. The first proper soak only once you can see roots. There is no full soak before roots appear, and watering a cutting because it looks thirsty is the commonest way to lose one: it has no roots to drink with yet. Roots usually take about two months, and longer in winter, which is fine. Around week six it looks its worst, and that is normally the point just before roots.

Light. Bright light, but ease into full sun. It has just spent a few days in a dark box, so give it shade with plenty of ambient light for a few days, then half sun, then full. Going from shade to hard sun in the space of a week is enough to scar a plant permanently. New growth is what tells you a cutting has rooted.

A longer walk-through is in Learn: Rooting a cutting, step by step.

In the collection

TBMB

Also written TBM-B

TBMB (Trichocereus bridgesii monstrose 'B') grows in knobby, stacked segments, and no two plants take the same shape.

Species group
Bridgesii
Spines
A specialist reference says the spines show even on a small plant, which is one of the ways this form is told from the long one.
  • Monstrose & crested
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More of it in the yard

More photographs of TBMB from the yard, the plant this cutting came off. None of them is the piece that ships.

6 photographs of this clone in the collection, plus how it grows here.

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