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what is the growth rate like?? how does it compare to sinica and equisetina? me and thunderhorsey got some of WB seeds a while back, but none sprouted. bridgesii crest/melted wax

currently having both female and male distachya with their strobili and cones open. So I should propably get seed. I also hope that my other, smaller seedgrown sinica which was throwing new growth will be female (transplanted that today, they love big pots), hopefully flowering this year (my other 2 flowering ones are male) I am also seeing both my minima mother and one of the very recent tufts I took for propagation are flowering. The minima is a female plant, but last year it went hermie (~3 male flowers) and produced seed. Still looking for gerardiana seed or seed source, PM me if you know any

I admit I didnt get it (laughing only because I assume its a friendly tease) - but, really, tomato is the shit!

What species ??

absinth has thujone? isnt that a chemical found in Salvia officinalis?

I have thought about it as well. I dont want to be rude, but with such a nickname, the arguement is not really convincing. Also, traditional chinese (and asian) medicine has not such a good name.. For example various endangered animals are killed for their husks for the 'traditional medicine' market .. Ephedra the genus has real medicinal properties (coughs, bronchitis-related conditions, and, I think pneumonias) but that didnt stop them from banning it, essentially using a stupid reasoning. My point being, there's no logic in the prohibitionist laws, and australia law is not one of the most open-minded ones. PS: It doesnt help that the recipees in the links have ephedra among a dozen other incredients.

yep, I too was going to add "set + setting", as maybe the most essential term, as the sitter is part of it. Also maybe "fruit" (to eat, also tomato and peppers) and "level" , "baseline" , "breakthrough", "threshold", and of course "afterglow"

taquimbalensis is still the most beautifull tricho IMO. and its quite fast, especially compared to pasacana and terscheckii, but not as fat as those two. And also, should we add that validus is generally considered to be a form of terscheckii??

fucking scales.. most people suggest spraying the with the right chemical, repeat after 10-15 days, and then wash.. I have been trying the washing, but I dont think the washing alone does it.. at least not permanently. But I guess if they scales are many ,one could first wash away the most, then spray (twice) and then wash again... It also depends on the cactus, I dont think I have ever got it on trichos.

as temps are pretty warm here, doing transplants, sowing ferobergia seed (next: stenocactus + ferocactus hybrids) and , exterminating snails, with which I still have a problem. A particular 'nest' did some damage to some psych0 specimens, but thankfully they didnt eat the tips.

I got a grandiflorus x scop, which has made buds recently, which is strange as its pretty small (grafted to briggesii). Its been in a small pot, but I aim to up-pot it this year. It also went through a small variegata phase ~ years ago. Photos in my next posting

I wonder how many days it takes for seed harvest, assuming there are pollinators to help. They are self pollinated, right?

EPHEDRA LOOKALIKE - Equisetum sp. Usualy in wet or shady places.

^^^^ thats a pretty good idea! c. edulis wide leaf doing great in the semi-wild new location and also budding . how long does it take for it to produce seeds? and the other good news are that the acacia acuminatas made the winter and they look pretty fine little treelets

my outside project is going well as well, I think I have prevented past mistakes from repeating with my visit today (weeding, marking the spots and contacting the local man that cleans the weeds of the property once or twice a year) . All plants are awoke and starting to grow or waking up. One distachya is budding. Big- more establuished plants definately seem to be doing better, especially distachya .. whatever the case, this plot is full of a veriety of weeds (many edible ones too) and I consider it essential to de-weed regularly arround the plants for the first couple years. 2 x distachya , side to side major/nebrodensis/fragilis stressed but pretty active, chiloensis.

Yep, its from you.. its a very characteristic piece in my collection, and I think it grows in the vain of sinica but slower ... I was thinking of up-potting it since every species reacts very good to large pots.. I think that this year it will surrender to my efforts, its waking up, I am seeing new growth ' buds'

Last pic is the chilensis next to the nebrodensis/major/fragilis. I have grown north american plants - nevadensis and viridis , but I eventually lost them, its seems they need something more in terms of perhaps .. soil?? I dont know.. yet... I have some good nevadensis seeds waiting to be sown... Then there's equisetina, a super stressed plant I received as gift/trade, and honestly hasnt done much since.. and I intend to transplant it a bigger pot to see what will happen this year, as it seems it too is waking up.. .. ANd there's the strange thinny but fast growing altissima, which is so different from , say foeminea . Lots of stuff to figure out.. As always if you have access to some rare ephedra species seed, PM me

EPHEDRA CHILOENSIS A very beautiful species, tends to be erect with some help, if grown without something to lean on , it can grow untidy. The base eventually woodifies. In the pictures, the biggest one, which I tried to tidy up by tieing it up, lol!

EPHEDRA MINIMA I only wanted to pull the weeds of this one, so I took it off the pot, but then I saw this so I took 2 very good tufts to make 2 new plants.. this species is slower, but once established in a larger pot and throwas suckers its more easy going , it seems. Its small size and crawling/creeping habit gives it a distinctive look. weeding can be a bit of a problem. not the most handsome species. Its worth mentioning that this plant went hermaphrodite last year with 3 male cones in an otherwise female plant, and it produced fruits and seeds.

EPHEDRA DISTACHYA Propably the easiest to grow. throws suckers constantly. never started one from seed. I have both males and females distachya so perhaps this year I might see some seed from my plants!

EPHEDRA SINICA Did some more work as all species are now awoke are waking up. Like I have said in earlier posts, sinica is more straight forward than I initially think. The bigger one is budding (it flowered last year too) but I havent got a sinica male yet. The big one also through some impressive growth last year, I expect it to explode even more this year, and I think it already shows. Its also interesting that the one I bought from ebay as a rooted cutting is willing to grow new suckers, thus me being able to produce clones of it, but the seed growns still havent thrown a sucker.

is it the wide variety?? it seems the wide variety is more likely to go untidy than the narrow leaf vars. Any updates??

long time no see. came to leave some pictures nebrodensis base, this plant loves my climate and is an erect one. I have pruned this plant back to make it bushy, today I tied it up a bit.. playing with its shape sinica moment.. my seed growns have not yet made suckers, but the one I bought from ebay is doing them from the begining. Hoping for sinica seed this year. and last pic... down left = sinica, up left = altissima (sp from morocco) , up right = equisetina, down right = minima. Hope everyone's fine..

I am reading that the film Sunstruck was made in response to the bleaker contemporaries (walkabout, wake in fright) . What's your take on it??

Thanks all for recommendations, I am watching several ozzie films these days, including some of those you suggested (I watched two hands , f.e.) Snowtown was suggested some years ago in a thread here about the most disturbing films of all time. I watched it back then. It deserves the hype, so be warned. keep the (goof film) recommendations coming ! thanks a lot!