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okay thanks mate, will do, have some PMs which i can't see unless i post

hope your right thats sounds like a great welcoming/understanding. just this last few weeks with the warmth and the plants coming back to life again, i have felt various feelings of communication, or rather instructions in ordinary awareness in regards to them (which the dream amplifies). Whether they come from something dwelling inside the plant or the spirit of the plant encompasses the physical plant as a fraction of it, or another unknown source is not at all clear. i sometimes on such occasions have wondered if one could successfully use these plants as guides without actually ingesting them. My garden pixie is a bit in awe of them and suggests they are better used on rare circumstances when one senses that the plant calls one to it. thats his piece of the puzzle at this point

hi guys :D had an interesting dream last nite where i was shown some 5 to 6ft peyote plants. it was outside a white cottage in the country and the peyotes were grafts on another huge plant with a girth of about 8ft and they were in combination about 30ft high. And yet i had the sense from their colour that they were not yet fully matured. i was being shown these plants by a quite normal looking guy who was acting as a guide. He then showed me one of the peyotes cut off and laying on its side and it was about at the top of his shoulders. He looked at me and clearly said "I am God". For me it was quite interesting and the first time i felt like i had met the spirit of the plant(s) in a dream. Although i did get the sense that it referred to a potential or something embryonic because of the fact that it was a graft and because of the colour.

thanks for those great tips hopefully there not to far gone to revive i have the yahoo widgets weather thing on my computer and it gives its readings in farenheit which i am familiar with having lived in the US for many years after metric came in Australia (they still got miles, gallons, etc). Currently the widget is saying 72F and the Weather channel is saying 22.3C for this area, so give or take a degree C, actually have a little conversion utility on my pocketPC, lets see... 85F = 29.444C 70F = 21.111C = 299 Kelvin = 529.670 Rankin (for any scientist types :D)

Hi guys, hoping someone can help me as i cannot seem to find information on growing conditions for viridis, carthagenensis and caapi. I have recently finished some other ethno projects and want to turn my attention to these valuable plants which i recieved about six weeks ago. I have one each about 8" on my balcony and they do not look very happy, they appear to be struggling (leaves are somewhat withered and browned on the edges). How often should they be watered? Are they very fussy about potting mixes (ive got them in some cheapo generic mix). I cannot figure out if i am watering them too much or not enough. They still have plenty of (saggy) leaves, but if i don't work it out i can't see them lasting. Temperature range is from 85f to 70f they are mostly in shade with probably an hour of direct sun. They are supposed to be related to Coffee plants i wonder if i could just find the guidelines for growing a coffee plant in a pot and follow that? kind regards tbird

FOAF recently did two BRF cake grows side by side. One the water content was eyeballed, until just a little runoff was left in the verm. The other was exactly by the PF Tek (equal verm water). FOAF was shocked at how much 'wetter' the mix was using the exact PF tek specs. But if you look closely it is done this wet as the optimium fruiting environment. Meaning this will give better fruits but the dryer mix runs a lot less risk of contamination, so FOAF believes.

eskies help with insulation. FOAF has heard of adding tupaware with ice into ones terranium, can lower about 10F. Air exchange and water content are more likely to stop myc growth unless your out west and its hitting 100F. FOAFs grow ran at 90F at times and had no noticeable impact.

FOAF is currently first grow. What seems to happen is that the first flush often throws up a lot more small groups of shrooms on cake/casing. Second flush is throwing much larger shrooms but less of them. Weight across the flush seems relativily the same. Apparently later flushes are used for getting prints (bigger prints) for this reason as it appears to be the norm. Another thing FOAF has heard is later flushes are allegedly more potent leading one to suspect larger mushrooms = more potent.

Hi, (this might have belonged on one of the other forums but since it straddles several topics ). On Australia Wide this evening the showed some new research professor in Swinburne Univeristy of technology who is growing fungi on Audio CDs. The fungi create remixes when as it starts to colonize the surface of the disc and the laser reads the growth as audio data. Because of the patterning of the fungi growth the sound changes are not merely random and are considered musical. The also have been growing fungi on DVDs with images. They showed one of a furniture catalog and the when the laser reads the data back in you get images like a kitchen chair legs with a full lounge sitting on top and a lot of pasted bits of furniture. Someone into mycology might get a hoot out of it and they might find it even more interesting exploring the potential of the warm weather shitake.

in the US they used to always send out huge glossy mail order catalogs and one that had a lot of high tech gizmos in it was by a company called the sharper image. http://www.sharperimage.com/ they had some great cool high tech toys.

if anyone is interested this is the product here http://www.brunnings.com.au/products/facts...roPeatBrick.pdf Nitrogen seems to be what they have put in it (wonder if it is acidic or alkaline?). they have a non fertilized product but wasn't any in the store where i went, there is a hydro store about 10k might end up going there in the end.

Thanks sobriquet, shall do. It was only a couple of bucks at the local supermarket so i would have tossed it if necessary. I also have a bag of lime for the cacti so thats not a problem.

Hi guys, Picked up a coir-peat brick which had fertilizing agents in it from Franklins for a couple of bucks. Has anyone used a fertilized coir brick as part of a casing material? They had two brands of bricks and both had fertilizers added which i wasn't really expecting to encounter.

i lived in the states for a number of years and once we worked on building a Yoga Centre in upstate NY (Catskills). One of the guys on the construction crew had at one point been a research scientist at Harvard and did a number of pioneering experiments turning aluminium into sapphires with lasers so i was told (it was suppose to be true).

hi, i really liked the second group. The horror style, sort of look a bit tattooish to my taste although the colour work is good.