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Christmas with Amanitas is fun indeed. Black and red paper for spore prints as otherwise the white spores are hard to seeAnd one picture of them in their natural habitat. Found these old photo's of mine floating and thought I would share them here with you guys and gals. Spore prints either laid out under pine trees in the forest or mixed with water and sprayed around pine forests. Mother nature takes care of the rest.

I may have imagined this but haven't they already passed laws along these lines ? I'm sure I saw cops at a Melbourne rally dragging protesters out of the crowd and arresting them because they had head coverings - balaclavas, bandannas and t shirts etc. All this shit will become ubiquitous and there won't be many sanctuaries from it. We already have cops driving through carparks doing automated number plate scans, add the facial recognition and it will start to become like a broad scale military control mechanism. Maybe this type of big brother tech has the potential to help create more rouges like malcom naden and the stockos who use their bush smarts to drop off the grid and lurk in the shadows.

Where am I at now? Day 4: Less restful sleep last night, with a lot of dreams about inadequacy and frustration. Not quite sure what to make of these ones, or what action needs to be taken. I guess sometimes you just have to be patient. Still very clear dreams though. That's something I have noticed in the last few days. Dreaming is enhanced a lot. My dreams are usually chaotic jumbles of day to day life, which are not clearly recalled afterwards. Now I am really dreaming and I can remember every detail. I cut out the coffee this morning. Much better. No headaches or withdrawals, as I said I only have the one double espresso in the morning and that's it so I wasnt particularly concerned about leaving it out. I didnt feel like I was lacking energy or wakefulness because of it so I'll leave it out for the rest of this week until I finish. I was very stressed this morning, but I put my trust and faith in my ability to cope, and with you guys and the medicine on my team, who could stand in my way? I think I might up my dose again tomorrow to the original 60ml and see how I go. Now that I have a feel for integrating the feelings into my day, I dont feel so apprehensive about having them at work, but I do need to be careful just the same. I dont have the kind of job that I can just go and avoid people and situations, I'm on the frontline. Not too much else to report, I think that's a good thing though. Life seems to be pretty normal, but the good kind of normal, not the normal where I have a longneck as soon as I walk in the front door upon getting home. I'm not making any progress on my art project this week so far, but my days have been long. By the time I get the essentials done, and get a chance to actually sit down, it's around 10pm, and I'm exhausted so I have been going to bed instead. I appreciate all your messages, if I can help anyone out, please let me know. It's eye opening to see how many of us are suffering the same conditions in silence. Let's help each other and be supportive. Even here, where we are like minded, we dont always treat each other as well as we should. I think we can all heal ourselves if we have the right tools, it's not up to anyone or anything else to do it for us. Sometimes we just need the path to be illuminated so we can see it, and that's where the plants can assist us, but at the end of the day, we need to do the work ourselves. Jeez, listen to me, like I have the answers all of sudden! Words come easy, good actions are what's needed and I have a long way to go.

Yeah, much easier. Sorry. Basically Fenton has collected and reviewed the work (from the forward of the book) "...of the most esteemed scientists in the fields of evolutionary biology and paleoanthropology. Where ever possible we focus on peer reviewed scientific papers based on research guided by solid protocols, in almost all cases the scientific sources I have used can be considered mainstream authorities" The blurb for the book describes it better than I can at the mo: 70,000 years ago, two new haplogroups appeared in East Africa, the L3 mtDNA lineage and the CT Y-chromosomal lineage. Almost all non-Africans can trace their maternal and paternal ancestry from these two lines. This understanding establishes the earliest possible dating for an African migration event populating Eurasia and America. Archaeological evidence places modern humans in Australasia earlier than 70,000 years ago. Genetic research confirms that Australasian Aboriginal populations are descended from the HgL3 and HgCT lineages and stem from the same founding population as do modern Asians and Europeans. One theory that attempted to explain this all away by involving multiple waves of migrants has recently collapsed under the weight of the contrary evidence. Archaeological sites in the Levant, Middle East, China and India all offer evidence of a previous colonisation of the Eurasian continent by modern humans long before the children of HgL3 and HgCT took possession of the world. What happened to these first people? Why don’t we carry their genes today? Modern humans as we know them today carry traces of extinct relatives in their genome. We are left to wonder what brought about the end of the world for Neanderthals, Denisovans, Floresiensis and other yet to be named hominins. Why did our ancestors encounter an almost empty continent as they moved through Eurasia? During the last few years, a series of incredible discoveries have finally provided the evidence required to answer these and other profoundly important questions of our mysterious human origins. It is now possible to pinpoint the precise moment that doom fell upon the first modern humans of Eurasia in the form of a natural cataclysm that equally devastating for the Neanderthals and Denisovans. The myth of the aggressive conquering migrants from Africa killing their cousins is at last exposed for what it is, a sham, a wild guess with no scientific basis. Perhaps the first wave of modern humans entering Europe and Asia began their journey in Africa 200,000 - 150,000 years ago, but the recolonisation of Eurasia 70,000 – 60,000 years ago started from Australasia. This book calls for a paradigm displacement, but such a bold request requires detailed evidence. The only question remaining now is, whether you are ready to explore the evidence for yourself and follow the Forgotten Exodus? I was a bit skeptical before I read it, but he presents a very convincing argument. I haven't been able to find any rebuttals from any of the proponents of the out of Africa theory, so I've got nothing to balance any argument between the two theories. His presentation of the genetic data in particular, seems to me to de-legitimize the OOA theory and the currently accepted timeline and sequence of hominid evolution. Whilst he's not an anthropologist, he is a respected scientific researcher who is a member of the Paleoanthropological Society and the Scientific and Medical Network.

Here is my fishing rod

Wow, i'm pumped that there've been so many responses to this. Do we realise the subtle development of this headline is to have 'real time' connectivity of the nationwide camera system applied to those databases? It's not just to use photo's on file. It's to apply real time identification technology via it. They'll know who you are..where you..what you're doing, and where you're going next. Even IF the mass of camera's remained technically 'closed circuit', most of 'em are wireless!!!!!! The real worry is in the trend. It's in joining the dots. In connecting each headlien to the next. Understanding the progressive lullaby as its amped upward. Time to unjoin some dots!

I agree, I like em big phat and juicy. I like em chunky. I like em big. I like em plumpy. I like em chunky, chunky, chunky. I like em big. I like em blue. Plump that funky chunky! On that note, one of my baby phat girls gets an update today. Her picture for you all to admire. She has a little validus and peruvian in her step.

I'm guessing you meant 'can'? Lol. to be honest I find those who don't know what change is needed apart of the mass sleepers. I'm not having a go at anyone but such a simple concept seems to be beyond what the masses can comprehend. And how would it benefit society as a whole..... well... i won't reck the surprise. but for those who need a helping hand:- love, don't hate teach, don't indoctrinate share, don't keep smile, don't weep truth, not lie all, not I rise, don't bow lets tear down this hell. its simple - yet the most difficult thing we may face as a whole. The creature has enslaved our town, but no one thinks to bring it down. Provided with so much distraction, the people can't be called to action.

Are you kidding? It's so hard to tell, via text... No, there aren't. The rules, and I'm paraphrasing here, but essentially don't they just say "play nice"? Wasn't there even a supreme court ruling a couple years back to the effect that cussing was part of Australia's cultural heritage, and the language used was less important than the spirit in which it was used? Or to put it another way: you can say "cunt", just don't be one.

Nice grafts Ethnotramp That HuariMayo in the middle looks interesting Do you removed the leaves from pere? And also thanks and to everyone making this possible, ofcourse EG for the seeds, Kinich Ahau for the light, Anne Halonium for inspiration, All mite and pest patrol..Mr. Salticidae, the guy living next door in the Coryphanta who has been putting up webbings, and ofcourse the never tired predatory mites you guys all rock. I will contact you EG about the info's, that book will make me very happy Heres my the latest pictures of em 2 scops and 3 santa's and this big ass scop (it's on the biggest pere i had)

Here are Bertha x Helen and revers.sowed 16 days ago.

Found it!!! Its a loph areole graft using a hole punch, not sure if I am allowed to link or not.

That sounds so cool!

......Waddya talkin abeet

they could outlast the current financial system *shrugs*

Hola Amigos Today I am going to show how to make cuttings of B.Caapi. B.Caapi is as easy as P.V to propagate. This is a good thing Being a large liana vine B.Caapi in its normal habitat has no problems "multiplying" Most of its runner vines put down roots and even larger sections of vine put out aerial roots. Here is a picture of a caapi putting out aerial roots. Because of the nature of this liana propagating it is a very simple process if we stick to simple techniques. I am going to use a heap of red caapi that came down when the tree it was loving fell over. Ideally the best pieces to propagate are woody sections. The thicker the better. However I can understand and emphasize if you want to keep the really thick sections to admire on their own! While you can use "green" sections the thin green parts they are much more hit and miss and lack the vigor of woody sections. In the tropics I can take any woody section, put it vertically in soil and within a couple weeks it will out roots and new growth tips, The piece doesnt even need any nodes. I mostly get 99% strike rate. I know we don't have me tropical growers here so I have adapted it slightly for people who are in less ideal conditions. Take a piece of vine and cut it into "T" sections like so: Simply place these cuttings in your prefered potting medium, In my case I use coco peat but any moisture retaining medium will work. I dont use any rooting hormones however they might help your rates, This again totally depends on your location. Place the cuttings somewhere shady with filtered light and be patient. It can be anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple of months until you see progress. If you do this correctly and depending on the temp and humidity of your location you should achieve at least 80% strike rate. My favorite place to put them is under a larger caapi plant and use it for shade. Air layering is also very successful but more work and slower results. Most experienced caapi growers are probably are aware of all this, However I think this information will be help for most Saludos

Excellent post. I've grown B. cappi from cuttings as well in Florida. What I've noticed is that in St. Augustine it can take a few months before noticeable growth is seen from pencil sized hardwood cuttings. I've also noticed that if there is a green node buried beneath the surface that is encouraged to grow up through the surface that growth is generally much faster and vigorous than any hardwood portion with green attached above the surface. That node buried beneath the surface will also tend to grow thicker faster than a hardwood portion. For an area such as St. Augustine, Florida where it sometimes freezes I would frequently bury very large sections of fresh green vine still attached to the mother vine in long sections 15 ft long just a few inches below the surface of the ground. I did this as we sometimes had freezes which would knock out the above ground vine, but would leave the longer buried pieces of vine alone. Thus, when a light freeze hit that took out our vine... we would be left with a very large root system and a very large thin vine from which many new vines could spring up out of the ground after danger of frost was gone. Admittedly, this is a lot of work and time consuming to do each year, but it ensured the vines grew rapidly and reached the tops of the trees very quickly each year in an area that was not ideal to grow B. cappi in. I've received cuttings shipped and rooted them as well when I was getting started with B. cappi. You don't need anything other than a straight piece the diameter of a pencil works fine. I'm sure the added "T" at the bottom helps, but for many they may not have access to such a cutting and while it may help... B. cappi can root without that as well. Nor does it need to be cut in an "L" shape with a heal. All B. cappi needs is a long slender cutting and things will be fine. That has been my experience. I am sure that the added area for root growth does help however. I hope this information adds to rather than detracts from your already great post.

Bridgesii 'Anna' X Rosie2 Bridgesii 'Ben' X Terscheckii 'Fields' Sharxx X Rosei 1 Terscheckii 'Long Spine' X Open Macro 'Fields' X Rosei 2 Bridgesii 'Ben' X Sharxx

bridgesii 'Ben' X terscheckii hybrid 'Fields' terscheckii 'Long Spine' X OPEN bridgesii 'Ben' X terscheckii 'Dawsons" bridgesii 'Ben' X Sharxx Blue Iv got a few more grafted. Will post em when they have grown a bit

Just started growing some of Interbeings seed this year. Also very new to grafting but excited to see iv had some success. I will take more pics and keep you updated. just a couple of pics so far Cuzcoensis 'CC" x Terscheckii hybrid 'Fields'- looks like this may be variegated or albino? Bridgesii 'Ben' x Terscheckii hybrid 'Fields' - have a few of these growing real quick.

A few of my favourite hybrids from the glorious garden of Interbeing. Fields macro x scop... Rosei#1 x scop... Validus x rosei#1... Loving ya work mate! Can't wait to see what this seasons crosses come out like. Edit: Oops, nearly forgot about this guy! Sharks blue x rod...

My Interbeing hybrids are starting to look nice. Think I might leave them on till the start of spring. Ben x Huascha (red) Super Pedro x Huascha (red) John x Huascha (red) Yowie X Roseii 2 Yowie x John

Pachanoi 'Fields' X pasacana. One of my absolute favourites. Got another one of these variegated. Pachanoi 'Fields' X Roseii #1. Another beauty. I have another one of Interbeing's crosses that I love, bridgesii 'Ben' X macrogonus 'Fields, blue, spiny and absolutely beautiful, but it's in another location, I'll take a photo of it when I get the chance.

Here's the result of my communication with Koehres.. Koehres answer: hello they are wild collected Bettina Besuchen Sie unsere Webseite: www.koehres-kaktus.de Am 02.12.2014 09:48, schrieb MYSUBTLEASCENTION MYSUBTLEASCENTION: My question: Good morning to you Bettina.. It is important for me to know if those seeds were collected from open pollinated spineless scopulicola plant .. or if they're the result of hand made pollination between two spineless scopulicola parrents.. Thanks for the help ..

if bap forces new growth at the aeroles, then it's not really wise to force more than one at a time unless the overall size & mass of the plant would support new growth at 2 or more bapped aeroles simultaneously. You risk considerably stalling growth for a long time. Dont forget about the tip of the main plant, you may want that to continue to grow as well if you want big fat healthy bapped pups, you'll wait until the plants root system is fully developed before bapping

Have you found that BAP is more effective when used on a single aerole zelly? I guess it makes sense now that I think about it, as most of my cacti with multiple BAP'd aeroles have not pupped from them....

let the plant fully re-establish itself & then bap only 1

My plant:

hi, mp! Casuarius, is not active, as far as i know, just to let you know. Casuarius, managed to get salvia divnorum, to seed!! and he grew this seed, sucessfully, incredible grower!!!

Thanks for interesting posts Casuarius, are you a healer in PNG? I think Yagé only grows really well when the planter is in harmony with himself, has non-materialistic intentions and is susceptible for its soul. It has one of the highest developed spirits of the plant world, together with Iboga.

1, have your mother plant well watered, befor taking cuttings. 2, take cuttings, and store them in a container of water, whils't doing it....again, cuttings are stored in water, till further preparation. 3, above cutting goes into the soil, minutes after cutting them, well, callousing, is bad for plants, but good for cacti. 4, you plant plant cuttings without callousing, 41/2, but cacti need callouse.

make them look like this, it's called a heeled cutting. and you always store the cuttings in a bucket of water, whilst you process them.

It's fast! mine has doubled it's size in 6 weeks!! Filtered light, humidity and it should be fine. You repot it from the little seedling pot that it came in??

i was told the T methode and always planted as you said, but not once (in hundresds of cuttings) i saw roots comming out of the (semi)hardwood above the green, so now i prefer L shapes... there are only a few plants which will throw roots above a node, salvia div is one of them, maybe caapi can do it in the extreem tropics. when i did cut T sections, the wood above the green shoot would always just rot away. my green parts never go dormant during probagation.

often a vine will root if you put a potted plant on top of a node and water occasionally. t s t .

another cool little tek is to pull down a low section of vine and pin down each node in the soil or mix and when the majority have taken cut them away from the main vine.

The aerial roots are are a humidity + moisture creation. Age can play a small part to i noticed. I think an arm thickness cutting would be a bit of a waste my friend I don't really know if that would work, May be it could and I cant see why not but its much more practical to use the smaller thickness. I think 10mm would be the ideal size and i would only go up to about 25mm anything larger isnt really needed and would be more a waste than anything. The T section cutting roots the fastest, Ideally most cuttings will root from the node and if your in a colder climate the nodes will make it easier. The T section uses the center node and doesnt need another one. In the Papua i have had offcuts before without nodes that i just put in the soil vertically and i have them put out roots without any effort. After the roots grow you get a shoot spring out from between the roots and the stem and off it goes. Its a bit of a weedy behavior I think. Saludos