nothinghead

I think just the outer green part. From the paper: "A fresh sample of chlorenchyma from the green outer cortex of the stem of each Echinopsis species to be assayed..."

Chavin Herbalists collect and distribute seed. I think they've got a facebook page.

Hi EG thanks for your help! What I mean is that the actual fruiting body is so big compared to the pinhead-sized seedlings that I'm afraid once it reaches the surface it will uproot lots of little seedlings and they will dehydrate and die. So I want to try to eradicate the fruiting body before it reaches the surface. It looks as though the mycelium has colonised the whole surface of the organic material. I'm not too worried about that per se, but if there are lots of fruiting bodies I'll lose most of my young plants!

A few weeks ago I planted some cactus seeds in a takeaway container with a mix of organic material, coarse sand, scoria etc, with a 1cm layer of sand on the top. The seeds have taken off, but I can see through the wall of the container that there is a fairly sizable mushroom growing up from the organic material through the sand. Soon it will erupt through the soil and I suppose kill a fair few seedlings. Should I sprinkle some bicarbonate soda, or what is a gentle solution to rid the fungus without harming the seedlings? thanks!

You could also put Herbalistics' offering on your wishlist to get updated once it is in: https://herbalistics.com.au/product/trichocereus-pachanoi-san-pedro-kk339-cactus/

I'm after a decent amount of rooted sceletium, doesn't really matter which type but tortuosum preferred. I'm going to try to get it started as a groundcover in a bed that's about 1x2m, so several well rooted pieces should do the trick. Also a few trich cuts: seedgrown Chavin genetics, Yeti, Nimbin bridge, Greedo, Len, Jeans, Glenrowan, Rod. Open to other stuff too Can trade cacti/succulents, few ethno plants, or pay cash.

PM'ed

This is a pretty useful primer to get the basics from from one of the mods here To prevent unwanted pollination you can use some microfine netting (like the stuff you can use as a headnet to keep midges or other tiny pests from biting you so much), or bags that protect fruit from birds.

Recommend trying

I'm not into nitrous. Don't "get" it, personally. But I see a lot of people have fun on it. I used to live in a country where it was legal. At freetek parties/doofs we would legally obtain tanks and distribute balloons. Usually at the parties I did jobs like cooking food, selling beer, security, or just set up and break down. One night I found myself on nangs duty. At first I had fun learning how to fill the balloons to capacity without popping them. But then I realised that the adults were drinking, or using other substances, and I was selling balloons mostly to teenagers who would buy a handful, walk away, and come back 5 minutes later for more. They were more fucked up than adults on the piss (which, to be fair, is an awful drug too). I couldn't bear facilitating those increasingly pasty faced younguns for more than an hour or so, and handed my duties over to go and do something else. Nangs. I feel like if other drugs were legal/accessible, they'd be less popular. But what do I know, I don't even like them

Hi, I was just trying to get a contact for @MoonUnitBotanica who I had a delayed order from, but it looks to be all sorted now thanx to EG. Cheers!

Yep. Rosei 1x scop. Doesn't look much like a rosei to me.

Went out to try to figure out which one was my favourite and snap a pic, and found this guy guarding my macro.

sweet cheers naja. enjoyed your cactus pics, btw, but couldn't see the ones in the most recent post at a decent size... in your unearthed from kikuyu post, it looks like an eileen on the left, then a tpm, then a tbm, and what's the fourth cactus from the left?

Moved some plants from pot to pot to try to optimise space, since dropping by Bunnings apparently carries the risk of a 1k fine these days. Even without the fine, why does a plastic bucket with holes in the bottom cost up to about 15 bucks for the cheapest type? Seems a bit rich. Then noticed that this pach has some pale spots developing. Hoping it is not a virus: