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Dude if they fix it how will you.ever learn??!! ;-) I can prob do tje 18th- would have my kids with me tho as my wife has prebooked saturday i think

Good Morning cacti enthusiasts. I know the topic of soils and mediums has probably been done to death here, but I was hoping to get a little information, not on composition but on suppliers of particular minerals in australia. I used the search engine and cannot find similar topics, please post a link if I have missed it...... I have recently been putting a lot of time into moving to an all mineral medium for some of my collection. I am having the best time and am truly stepping up into obsessive territory.... I am now seeing rocks when I close my eyes... love it!! ;-) I am sure others can relate lols anyways I have been concocting brews, potting up, writing down recipes etc using ideas from reading and a splash of intuition, one thing I can't get a handle on is where to obtain all of the ingredients from in australia..... It would great if there was a horticultural warehouse where I could order bagged products and have them delivered- but... there doesn't seem to be an online store that will stock more than one item I am looking for... So far I am looking for the following (but please add any reccomendations!!): Zeolite - I am currently using pool filter ZEO-Clor- I am hoping to obtain horticultural or similar product > 2mm. I see the zeo-clor reccommended a fair bit, but it seems too fine to me..? Bentonite Clay - I am using a kitty litter that, when at the shop I read 'made of 100% australian Bentonite', I saw that and grabbed it, only to find out when I got it home that it is fucking MINTY fresh... so I had to wash it and then dry it and recrumble it..... a step I'd like to do without..... the grain size seemed nice though in the kitty litter... would have been nice if I didnt have to wash it, maybe other brands??? I bought mistys.... Diatomite - I am happy with the mt sylvia calcined diatomaceous earth sold as kleensorb- bought 35 ltr bag for around 18$ i think which isnt too bad, but would like a better price if I continue to use it............... Vermiculite - love to buy in 100ltr bags..??? perlite - love to buy in 100ltr bags..??? Things I'd like to get but havent come across yet............ pummice limestone chips Akadama andesite dacite mica/mica shist etc............................................ Also, I am getting expanded clay and coir from the hydro shop which I am cool with because I am not using it alot atm, can anyone can direct me to cheap sources for future reference???? Looking forward to any input, thanks :-)

Throw some dates around man... get something happening!

shouldnt be a drama i reckon

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Lets not fuck around here!! $80 and dont get any ideas off the dood, id be taking the plant!! ;-)

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Thanks all for the interest, I have $15 sized tucunaca left

Love fresh seed!! M. hostillis @ 4 days (well 5 including.the over night soak) :-)

THIS IS TAKEN FROM FACEBOOK PAGE, FYI THE NEXT TUESDAY = tomorrow 10/01/2017. Thought I'd post here for non facebookers interest Goodluck Greg!!! " Next Tuesday Greg Kašarik will be once more appearing in front of the Melbourne Magistrate's Court, as he attempts to put Victoria's drugs policies on trial. This is a special hearing to determine whether the matter of his charge for the possession of LSD for spiritual and religous purposes should be forwarded to the Supreme Court of Victoria, under sections 7 and 14 of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act (2006). You are invited to attend and in doing so to demonstrate your support for sensible drugs policy. All going well, the Magistrate will make the Supreme Court referral, but if not it is Greg's intention to be re-arrested for LSD possession at the earliest opportunity, because the first step in forcing change to our drugs policies has to be forcing the Government to acknowledge that their laws regarding LSD and other Transcendent Compounds are based on ignorance and bigotry, rather than the scientifically demonstrated facts of the reality based universe. http://kasarik.com/on-being-arrested-for-lsd/ "

I was advised to use about 700ppm when I used it on loph seeds, it worked to get them to germinate when they wouldn't ordinarily, but they were all fucked up and didn't survive anyways..

I suggest you try some in deep pots, they seem to throw a deep root and stand up a bit before sprouting from the too, I feel mine are too shallow, I think I will transplant a few to their own tall containers. I've got quite a few popping now- Look like a frill neck lizard!

Have fun guys I won't be coming unfortunately

After several attempts with different methods I found sitting the leaves in a glass of water is best for me.... Simply put leaves in a glass of water half filled in a warm spot out of direct light, misting every couple daya... after a few weeks roots are developed Enough to pot up and have no issues acclimatising etc... Just need to make sure the water doesn't evaporate.... Different strains seem.to root more readily than others

13/10/2016 ^^^^ almost 2 months since sowing and I have one sprout :-) - hoping this is the first of many to germinate :-) for a few weeks I had these guys on the floor getting ambient room light and moved to them to get filtered t9 for a month or so(light shade cloth on top of container) light on a 12/12 cycle, closed container & venting and misting every so often, like once a weekish..... quite warm when the lights are on... i originally misted a couple times with dilute peroxide (~1.5%), and have had no moulds or anything which I am happy with being that it is a closed hot humid container for ~2 mnths :-) Any others who've received this last lot have any luck yet??

looks like you probably have zelly/misplant hybrids @sagiXsagi - as for your PS... I have thought maybe the birdgesii is mother, however who am I to question the growers label..? There can be crazy things happen with hybrids i think, check out this fields pachanoi x pasacana (interbeing seed) that berengar grew.... would you call this pachanoi??? or this one... nrivers grew this interbeing hybrid super pedro x huacsha... looks fucking sick!!! Thanks for your reply @Evil Genius, I appreciate the time! I have a lot more questions though.... ;-) Are all your colleagues growing t. scop/cordo hybrids etc or are you talking about Echinopsis hybrids?? I dont disagree with your comments about hybridising, but surely every genus in Cactaceae isnt the same case??? For eg in my eyes a heap of seed raised spachianus would look identical to me, but my eyes see alot of variation in bridgesii. Maybe very stable phenotypes exist where similar types cross pollinate, but when different species are mixed surely all sorts of dominant and recessive alleles combinations could give interesting results (and also clues about heredity?? like red haired maori people???).. I just think that these examples arent as small a percentage as you suggest.. I am certainly unsure about the photos that arent mine, but in my experience- i select a random seedling to graft, one that looks identical to the others, I cannot tell if the graft is unique or not untl the others grow up, but selecting at random and seeing variation makes me think less chance of it being a small percentage.... I am not talking flower morpholpogy here either I guess.... I just think that every case is unique and produces different results and with growers like zelly, interbeing, masterB producing hundreds and hundreds of fruits, we are starting to (and will continue) see some very interesting, strange and unexpected plants.... and I guess "in almost all the cases the F1 looks exactly like the mother plant" might be not be true in all cases- I do realise I am not experienced enough to weigh in on this discussion legitimately, I am just very interested in the topic and am trying to understand as much as I can.... it is very exciting and i like to hear myself talk :-)

looks sick dude! nice choice

I'm not trying to argue @Evil Genius but i've read you say this a few times with F1's looking identical to mother... Would you mind explaining a bit more because I have seen otherwise in my experience, not that I am very well travelled on the topic, but the scops i've seen crossed with bridgesii tend to take on some pollen donor characteristics, below is a photo zed240 posted of his SCOP x TIG (bridgesii) sourced from SAB, spines are looking amazing and i'd expect them to get bigger and here is a graft i did of seed from incognito, LANCE x FUNKOID I think there are many more examples, i.e. these are not isolated cases... what do you think????

SAB has a SCOP x tig which I reckon looks like super Pedro a bit in my spot, but saw a piccy of toasts recently and it seems to get a nice long spine wonce fattened up... I think its just the SCOP dominance... (The Sab SCOP x tig is probably many plants though, not a single clone.) I would say that super Pedro is a typical SCOP x pachanoi, probably a vigorous seedling from a SCOP x pach fruit- I reckon there will be a lot of plants to look like this come through as thousands of people growing out SCOP x pachanoi seed. Some seed growns I have going have the s.p. vibe for sure

Thanks for the reply, I havent let my nothinks get this big yet, looks great!

This is beautiful @nrivers - is it Lesters Tacaquiriensis by any chance ????

i can bring some out next week, or the week after mate :-) chat to you about it later, but will be about the same size as those tucunaca, if that will suffice

If you miss that auction I have these two melty ones available for trade @Matt1208, from two different plants.

Sooner or later he will realise they have boats down there