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That is a great idea, thank you! I'll definitely try it. So the plant can grow normally with blu-tak on it's tip? Does it remain in the center even when the growth starts to push it out? But it's no problem even if I have to go there every week to readjust the blu-tak, anything to enable them to just grow finally.

No need to be so rude towards our Ozzie friends, zelly is actually American. ;) And with the best will in the world, their attitude towards other cultures and languages is... unique. Through my interest in mycology I've often been completely baffled with American amateurs, and even more 'scientists' attitude towards Latin. Their pronunciation is quite frankly horrific, they pronounce everything as if it's written in English, and the argument is alwys 'oh well, it's a dead language, why should I know how to pronounce it, it's dead and it doesn't matter to me'. Interesting how the British don't have the same problem, even tough they speak pretty much the same language, and can learn proper Latin...

Yeah, that's true, and it's a bummer. Still, seems I accidentally grafted a pretty good specimen, looks unique and different than most peruvianus/cuzcoensis. But I think it'll grow into another non-descript Tricho... Oh well...

Hello all, long time no read! So the little plants survived their first winter without a single scratch. For the last 5 days we've had night temperatures going down to -6 degrees celsius!! The whole continent has been experiencing a pretty severe winter. But luckily, it's been pretty dry here for now. But I have a bigger problem, and I'm really desperate for your help and ideas. The two growing seasons they have been in the ground had gone pretty much the same. They start growing beautifully in april, continue through to may, only for their growing tips to be eaten by grasshoppers in june. And they stall from then on. Some throw pups, which also get eaten by grasshoppers. The little bastards only eat the soft, young tips, which is enough to prevent the plants from growing for the rest of the year. So what can I do to prevent that? I'm not close to their location so I can't go there every hour to kill the monsters. I have been thinking of some king of netting that would protect the tip but still allow the plant to grow freely, but can't really think of anything that would prevent the bugs from climbing underneath it. Does anyone have any proven methods or suggestions? It would be very much appreciated!

Got them today, thank you very much, Zed! Soo many baggies!!

Wow, very beautiful cuzco! That's interesting, so it would seem that the name is a marketing gimmick after all, and the supplier probably just collected a bunch of random trich seeds and placed a fancy name on them. Oh well, doesn't matter, those are still some beautiful plants!

Not as much progress with other SG hybrids as I'd had hoped, but this werdermannianus is starting to look nice!

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Wow, awesome! Many thanks, Zed!!

Awesome, Zed! Thank you! No. 5...

Tubaria furfuracea.

Xerula of some kind.

Psilocybe subaeruginosa.

I'm trying to find an old nature/survival documentary series, it was about a guy in olive drab clothes, thin, dark haired iirc, who traveled around the bush and showed what to eat and drink and how to survive, often accompanied by native people. We had it in Europe in the early 90s, don't know when it was recorded. Does anybody remember what it was called? Thanks!

This shows really puts in perspective how much society has changed in the past 30 years. How much more bored and jaded we've become. Today general audience cares about nature/survival shows only when there's someone like Bear Grylls running around with his thousand of dollars worth of equipment, jumping out of a helicopter, drinking his own piss, eating apples out of bear shit and pulling all kinds of sensationalist stunts. Nobody cares about this great man in simple clothes, a jeep and with just a few simple tools. Even animal documentaries must have some kind of anthropomorphic and drama element to them to be 'acceptable'. Really makes me feel nostalgic for the old days, at least when television is concerned. This show was awesome, and still is!

There are several non-toxic Agaricus species that stain yellow. A. xanthordemus smells really bad, very strong chemical or 'ink' smell, and it becomes more prominent when cooking. If it smells nice, 'mushroomy' or like almonds, it's probably fine.

Finally some growth! Watered and fed them all, and took some pictures. This is my bluest (and favorite) clone I decided to name 'Adriatic'.

No, but Malcom Douglas wiki page had a link to Les Hiddins, The bush tucker man, and that's the guy! Thank you very much!

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Amazing crosses as always! Can you please provide some details on a few clones? Is the T. terscheckii hybrid ‘Fields’ the short spined one? And do you have some pictures of the T. terscheckii ‘Long Spine’ and ‘Orange Spine’? Thanks!

You should separate them, chilis don't usually mind being transplanted. And they need a lot of root space.

Thanks, that's actually much better! Yeah, definitelly A. phalloides.

What makes you think that's A. phalloides?

I would do some seriously depraved things for a dozen of those valida seeds...

Neither. It's Trichocereus cuzcoensis. Back in the day it was commonly mislabeled as peruvianus and sometimes as pachanoi, so you could have bought it as either.