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It's been an awfully slow week as aussie post has been a bit slack about getting a package to me and I haven't been able to buy any other cacti due to a lack of funds. I've got the urge to constantly expand my collection though so today I attacked the garden to get the fix I need. Unknown blue bridgesii from SAB that I grafted the tip to a bit of PC and kept a mid for later planting, True Blue Peru and @Halcyon Daze's pachanoi. Sorry mate, I couldn't help myself, I obviously need help with my addiction lol The aftermath on the original plants. Bunnings fucked me again by not replacing the pots they run out of so I've had to move to the next size up which has about double the volume of the smaller ones. I also bought some Eileen in case my big one died from the attack (it's still powering on, yay) and a couple of super pedros from herbalistics. God those cuts are tiny.... I also bought around 30 peres from a guy off facebook and have him working on getting 100 more for me over the next few months so I can start grafting my seedlings. It's going to be a pretty so week but the guy who runs trichocereus.com.au is having a plant sale which is going to result in me smashing out a considerable amount of my wish list in about a fortnight. I can't wait

I believe that at our cores we are little more than perception and will. We perceive reality and have the will to change it. Now if someone were to obtain the means of perception such as education, tv, the newspapers, movies, stockmarkets, etc. they could make us believe anything we wanted effectively shaping our reality. If a certain group of people were supremely effective in obtaining this power over the masses it would result in the majority of us being little more than sheep to them making tests like what you took make complete sense to the end user as it would be obvious what the results would be to those in power. To them it would be little more than a numbers game where 1 +1 = 2 and you'd be floored at getting the correct answer. So the question then is how do you set yourself free of this programming? Truth be told many a person has gone down that path and hated not only what they found but themselves as a result. Sometimes it's easier just being a sheep and accepting your reality at face value because a happy lie is often perceived to be better than a harsh truth especially when you follow it to it's logical conclusion. Have fun going down the rabbit hole if you seek it but don't say I didn't warn you that like tripping you're not going to get what you want but what you need and it's entirely unpleasant.

I hope your losses weren't too extreme.

Yeah the error was on a cloudfare page.

That sucks. I was still logged in from before the down time and the site has been working much faster for me since it came back up too. I don't know if anyone else saw it but there was a 521 error code during the down time too.

While the forum was down lots happened in my garden both good and bad. I'll start with the bad. Some dirty fucker attacked the Eileen that got sunburned or tmv a while back massively hurting it. The same cunt hit one of my legendary matucana pachanoi seedlings too. I fenced it off straight away but as the peeps on facebook think it was a parrot attack my efforts were probably futile. To cheer up this post a little here's a Rosei#1 with a smiley face, a decent pic of my largest sausage cactus and my loph jourdaniana that's continuing it's push to bloom. The really good news is I've again added more cacti including the legendary foolsbreath In order those cuts are booya, cuzco, foolsbreath, kai, peru, pyscho0, ss02 x juul's giant and urban tribes. I also managed to convince a seller on ebay to supply me with a few cuts off my wish list so plant attacks aside it's been a great week

If I had the money I would have bought that. Oh well, someone's gonna get a great deal and I've got you saved as a seller now so I can beat others to the punch in the future

It's a bit rich for my tastes but here's a lumberjack cut. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Trichocereus-Lumberjack-Cactus-Clone-Cutting-Collectors-plant/233133052007?hash=item3647d01067:g:gvkAAOSwzE5cZS4N:rk:3:pf:1&frcectupt=true

Yesterday was a hectic day so I didn't get a chance to show off all the goodies that arrived so without further ado here's the new plants in my garden except for the grafting stock pachanois because we've all seen pc a million times Ben, Brian, T. Peruvianus 'Cactus Garage', Cornocopia, Eileen, Fields OP, Kai, KK991, T. Knuthianus, Nimbin, Monstrose Pachanoi, Psycho0, Short Spine Bridgesii and Yowie. I also got Chemical Shaman's Dick and to likely no one's surprise had 2/3 grafts fail. They were the tiny slab grafts so while it sucks it wasn't a total loss and I still might be able to save the larger one but the smaller one is definitely a write off as you'll painfully see. I have noticed a fair few pups coming up over the last couple of days including my first ever basal pup which has another one already starting to form right next to it. There's also Jeans and a penis cactus pupping well now too Saving maybe the best of all, or at least the most interesting for me anyway, for last, here's that confused loph doing it's thing again but turning the dial up to 11 I was able to put my rent off for a week to score a Foolsbreath cut from moonunit and some other goodies that will come over the next week or so too. I know, I know, I need to find a cacti addicts anonymous, but thankfully I get paid on Thursday and need to go on a diet anyway lol

This is a really good deal for the lucky person who gets it. psycho0. urban tribes, ss02 x juuls giant and kai for $140 in total. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Trichocereus-Mixed-Bag-Cuttings-120cm-total-San-Pedro/292953401862?hash=item4435622a06:g:G8UAAOSwTOZcXj0d:rk:1:pf:1&frcectupt=true

So much for discretion but you're welcome mate lol

Oh lordy lord, did the postie chick just deliver! I got a few packages way earlier than expected with all manner of herbs, seeds and succulents but to stop myself from derailing my own thread too much here's the cacti, 7x pc tier pachanoi that are going to be mother plants for grafting stock and 2x trich. peruvianus, Cactus Garage and Brian that were also delivered I wish I could pot them up now but as I was expecting them to arrive next week I let myself run out of soil and pots again. Oh well, hopefully they're selling snags out the front of bunnings when I get there later

I was going to let them get bigger before cutting them but he agreed to share them out once they get big enough on his end so to help spread the love faster I figured bugger it, they're getting a chop I've got a couple of cuts with your name on it already. I do kinda owe you for that leg sized monster pach you sent me but unfortunately they will take a lot longer to be ready than the babies I took today and some like the CSD will depend on if the grafts take or not too but either way I will repay your generosity with some really decent cuts

Took some small cuts for a mate today. Here's what he's getting and the aftermath in my garden because it's not very often you get to see a cross section of these cacti. The abused cuts in order are crazy spine, jeans, lance, peru '86, psycho0, roseii#1 and roseii #2.

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I've seen really small seedlings, way smaller than yours, grafted to pereskipsis before so it can be done but if you aren't grafting them I'd probably just let them be. As for your beautiful Eileen you could easily give it a chop and turn it into quite a few plants. The bigger they are the faster they'll root and grow but I've had quite a few very small cuts (under 10cm) that have taken off no problems. Just make sure that you don't put them in a pot upside down after they callous over and you'll be golden.

Today my CSD from the man himself arrived and I had it in my hands for all of 3 minutes before cutting it. I'm a goddamn monster and probably a huge fucking idiot one considering I've only had a single graft work for me so far. It had to be cut due to the angle of the original piece if I wanted to graft it at all though so wish me luck but especially for the two smaller bits I slab grafted as it was the first time I've tried it at all.

Only a single cut came today but it's a good one, Pach x Peru that I got for the unbelievable price of $30

Sorry to hear that mate. I'd die on the inside being forced to give up my cacti. Also sorry to say that I'm broke at the moment but thanks for looking out. If you ever need a hand getting set up again in the future (say 6 months or more) from now I'd be happy to throw some cuts your way to help you back up on your feet. I wouldn't expect payment or anything either, just knowing that I'd be helping someone out in your position of being forced to give up your plants would be payment enough for me

Even though my postie chick is fit as today she got quite the workout Ben, an unnamed bridgessi that I've labeled Blue Cheeze, Gawler, a grafted loph, another Roseii#2, Sausage, Scop, two different TPM x Pach's, Urban Tribes, Vollianus and another Yowie that I got as a gift. Today was a good day The really fucked thing is that this is only about 1/3 of what I blew the last of my money on. It's going to be a great week indeed I said I would take a stacked macro pic of that weird loph bit and now I deliver. I also made a stacked pic of a pup because why not?

Turns out arming the kid with a torch greatly helps with getting a decent night time shot If you're actually interested it's a ad006 pasacana, 2x sharxx blue, peruvianus 'john', LW Caespitosa, the twin towers (true blue peru and an unreleased pachanoi from halcyon daze), Roseii#2 and a technically unknown plant from SAB that I'm like 99% sure is psycho0 as it looks exactly like the other ones I have.