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Ok, I've seen several impressive pics of Trichocereus spp. that had been grafted onto Pereskiopsis and got a years worth of intense growth. Naturally the problem is a little pereskiopsis can only supply the water/nutrient needs of a Trich for so long, but before it reaches that size limit the peres seems to help greatly with the growth. So I had a frikkin idea, I call it a 'pereskiopsis power cord' basically side-graft a pereskiopsis plant onto a trich that has its own roots, the peres would inject raw growing power into the side of little pedro. Somethin like that. Whatcha think? (Thank you CS for loaning me the cinder block)

Fascinating, I hadnt heard of that cd4/8 inversion from vaccines. I remember some clinical studies where 'prolonged' (just 5-8 days) absolute fasts (only water) brought cd4/8 ratios back to youthful levels in older patients and rejuvenated the functioning of those cells, the tactic was combined with chemo and after the chemo when the fast was broken the immune system came back in full strength, unlike the folks who had chemo with no fast. I wonder if fasting kids around vaccine time would have any benefit. [but if you do it, dont tell anyone. Fasting is still a taboo in western nations.]

Its actually neither. They are not self fertile and you can pollinate them with trichs, echinopsis, gymnocalyciums, etc. and they will take it as a cue to set apomict seed, seed-form clones of the mother. Apparently only one Harrisia jusbertii exists and all specimens are clones. To date its the only columnar I've got to flower up here. I pollinated it with Echinopsis chamaecereus and it set fruit, but the unripe fruit was ripped off by an unexpected sand storm, lol A question EG may be able to answer: If a trich is pollinated with H. jusbertii pollen will the Trich set apomict seed?

That was my assumption just based on the thread title ;) Over here recently we had a 'whooping cough' micro-epidemic and people got all into a disproportionate froth screaming at the anti-vaxxers, calling them murderers and such. Two months later when someone fucking bothered to test the sick kids it turned out they didnt have whooping cough to begin with, and no vaccine would have protected them. That bit never made its way into mainstream news. Well I'm baffled, befuddled, and bewildered. Are you implying that in Oz doctors dont get identical training? Fuck sake, I may move over there after all

I vote for a Anakie X Scop cross. In the F2 you could search for the ones with scop radials and anakie centrals ;)

That should make one impressive plant in a few years Good to know they can handle a chill, occasionally my 'first frost' can be in the teens. [This year it was 24° F, the KG X SS02 and SS02 X KG groups were totally unaffected]

HA! I thought to search facebook. Tricho Nest posted these shots in the Trichocereus & Echinopsis Growers Worldwide group.

Yeah, you can see why I want pics Putting their description in my brain I can just as easily see what I would call a really honkin' fat true pachanoi. The areoles would make the difference. One thing I noticed, on the net there seems to be some confusion if 'Kimuras Giant' is just a shortened name and the same as 'Kimuras Spiny Giant'. I checked my old emails and a 2015 sacred succulents price list had both. So thats that, they are different so dont get the names mixed up folks Their description of Kimura’s Spiny Giant is "...6–7" thick stems, abundant spines up to 2", possibly a T. peruvianus/T. terscheckii hybrid"

Did anyone ever find a pic of kimura's giant itself? Trout said he would take one at one point, but apparently never did, and beyond that I can only find pics of hybrids. The kimura's giant X SS02 and reverse both grow like mad if treated like tomato plants, I'd like to see the parent.

Welcome aboard, kizatzhaddarak. If you get shamanic columnars to flower in the PNW let me know how you do it! The difficulty of flowering them so far north is why I just watch this thread

Apigenin is close to naringenin/hesperitin (dihydroapigenin is naringenin) so, by their hypothesis, it could be suspected at increasing organic cation (drug) uptake. The quercetin bit interested me, I wonder if this is why I tend to have an inexplicable craving for apples after consuming anorexigenic dopamine analogs. Like my neurons saying 'yes, please'

Chicories Mustard greens (tho you'd want to limit its consumption raw) Spring radish and storage radish greens are rarely bothered for me, but the one variety of storage radish I have doesnt taste all that great raw and eating raw spring radish greens feels like french kissing a cat. Maca greens but I've never actually eaten the greens myself, either. I just know theyre edible. Young squash leaves, tho I always cook them. Rutabaga greens dont get too troubled here, I eat them raw in cooler weather My turnip greens dont get bothered at all, but they taste like a dead mules arse in the heat of summer I've yet to see anything eat my lettuces but I dont grow them a whole lot. Some varieties, like Oak Leaf and Jericho, can handle more heat than others. Its encouraging to see sweet potato listed, I've toyed with the idea of growing it but my little 260 square meter garden never seems big enough for everything, lol

I dont mind the genitalia being unpixilated, but I would like if they would finally start pixilating the octopus.

Six days. I water my cacti daily in the summer, with 1/20th to 1/10th strength low salt piss 3 times a week. But in the case of that MSG test I skipped watering on the in-between days. 1 mM of a great many things will effect plant growth. Some of the iodide and iodate papers I read were working at concentrations around 100 parts per billion, and plant hormones are used in the µM range. Hell, just look what 100 µg of LSD can do to a 60 kilo man!

I ferment in quart to half gallon glass jars covered by glass petri dishes so I can watch it bubble from the top as well. I'm easily amused. Inverted lids work too. Uncovered would promote contam. Fermenting for 3 weeks at 25° C seems to reduce the heat by half or just above that. Hard to judge, really, since I otherwise only eat those peppers diced rather than as unfermented paste. I also cleaned up a 4 cm diameter 18 cm rod of stainless steel to use as a 'pickle hammer' to pack the stuff down in the jars. Since I dont wear gloves in the kitchen it reduces how much my hands burn when I take a hot shower after. Doesnt have to be stainless. I've seen people use all sorts of things as pickle hammers, even baseball bats, although I've never seen someone use a bong, but then again I didnt watch anyone make pickles in college.

Keep in mind I'm primarily attempting immature -> mature phase change in meter+ fat scops in pots rather than flowering induction in already mature specimens. I also throw some stuff at PCs that have yet to flower for me... I tried it at pot drenching doses of 0.1, 1, and 10 mM, 3 doses at 2 day intervals in scops. Nothing. I didnt try dumping pure MSG in the pot because those are big honking plants I dont want to kill. I dosed both scops and a PC with 20 mg megestrol suspended in 500 ml water each, twice per plant. Nothing. What dose/application method? After reading some papers on the nifty ways plant growth can be fucked around with via iodine/iodide/iodate I tossed some potassium iodide at scops at 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 ppm. Nothing. That was the normal range used in published studies, next may I may throw 10 and 50 ppm at a pair of plants.

I'm still getting pictures of japanese girls with pixilated genitals when I search for images of obscure organic compound structures. Whoever this 'trustworthy' guy is, he must be a pervert

I completely misread that for a minute Fermented chili paste is great anywhere you need salty-sour spicy. Fish if thats your go, cheese, on fried eggplant, in curries. I made just over 1 liter of habanero-esque fermented paste and put it on boiled potatoes, the next day I started a second batch of paste. I prefer to dice the chillies and ferment them in 5% brine for 3+ weeks, I hold them down with a cabbage leaf and marbles and the leaf inoculates it. Drain the liquid off and make it paste when it stops bubbling. The developed brine 'waste' can be used as an interesting alternative to soy sauce or you can use it to pickle okra or something.

It depends on the application. Mildly spicy spice paprikas have a nice meaty rich flavor when ripened to blood red that goes great on chilli Fruity C. chinense varieties are great with curries and hoppin' john Lemony C. chinense varieties are great with gumbo This year I grew out 10 F2 plants of a hybrid I made between a wild vitamin A rich C. chinense and a extra large habanero type (Congo Trinidad) and the group gave me a sample of everything. Yellow, orange, red, blood red, lemony, lemon with peach, fruity, smokey fruity, fruity with flowers, ranging from 75% to 150% habanero heat. I think my favorite isnt a pepper, its a unique variety of peppers to set the themes for that year, lol

The answer: have no moisture in the container ;) Load the pollen into a 0.5 or 1.5 ml centrifuge tube or a simple small 3 or 4 mil thick zip bag. Desiccate in a jar with silica [found in hobby stores with the flower drying gear]. When dry reach in and quickly close the container. Store those pollen packets in a jar with desiccant in the freezer. To hold open the zip bag while the pollens drying I use plant tags I cut from pop cans bent into a wedge shape. A bent paper clip, etc. will also work. The zip bags are good enough, but the tubes give you the opportunity to look like you have an amateur sperm bank in your freezer.

Fuck sake, seeing the thread title I thought incognito was dead. Glad your not dead, incognito I hope wherever life takes you, you find happiness and continue to remain not-dead

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I'm american, it would cost me my left nipple just to find out its not repairable. But, hey, if I start smoking I'll at least always have some place to snuff out my cigarette!

Good job getting it done without being stabbed, last october I was moving too many at once on a board, tripped, and let a bridgesii roll down my arm just so I wouldnt drop the lot. Bastard poked a nerve in my arm and made a patch of skin on my hand go numb. Almost time to move them again and its still numb! What man doesnt value his root.