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Outdoor patches of cubes have slowed to nothing, though one did pop up the other day from my limited observations. I am new to SE QLD and was wondering if anyone is finding subs yet? I have been looking in some likely areas, but understand it might be too early. If anyone finds any, let me know and I will double my efforts and visit locations more frequently.
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Great to see this thread is still going. Brings back memories. Best public patch I ever found was in a park between a hospital and a cemetery a couple of blocks from my work in North Sydney. If anyone knows the area they can probably figure it out. It was near the train station, easy access. Always a busy park but no one ever bothered me. Strangely, out of dozens of mulched areas, all seemingly the same, only one produced fruits. As it was near work I could monitor it throughout the season, checking it every day, catching all the flushes, year after year. An absolute gift and a prolific fruiter and extremely potent. I'm positive that the location between the cemetery and hospital gave it extra, extra juju. I was scared of them. I ended up moving away, and no one I shared the location with bothered to check it out with the same dedication. Last I checked that particular patch is now a car park. Quite the bummer. But back in the day I definitely spread mycellium to all of the other mulched areas so who knows what's happening there these autumns and winters.
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I'm pretty keen. Just moved to Brisbane this year. Been up in the NT and haven't been to a SAB meet in about ten years.
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Well just an update... I spoke with the local nursery here and was recommended copper sulfate as an anti fungal treatment. They guy who runs it is pretty knowledgeable about growing acacia so I applied it to the plants - it is hard to say if it helped, certainly the ones that were already droopy did not recover - but they were probably too far gone. Many others are seeming to thrive - but they looked like they were thriving anyway so who knows. I've always ended up losing lots of seedlings out of batches of seed I've planted, so I guess it's just the way it goes.
But here's some pics of previous success stories of acuminata - these ones are around 13 months old and looking pretty good if I do say so myself. Of course, the praying mantis love them. Hopefully this new lot of seedlings can match them one day.Keep growing everyone!
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Thanks Glaukus, we definitely get curly grubs here, found a bunch in the compost the other day, but just checked some of the seedlings pots and nothing in there. Soil wasn't wet either which I thought might be an issue.
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These acacia seedlings are about three months old. Mix of courtii and acuminata. Great germination rates and all looking good until a few of them mysteriously started to wilt and shrivel and have since died off (and removed). I'm used to losing a few throughout the growing process but these were looking great and can't help but think they should have survived if I'd done something different. Also concerned it may happen to the rest of the seedlings. Any ideas? I'm in Central Australia so it's been nice and warm. They get morning sun and are watered a very tiny bit each day and misted a bit in the afternoon if it's particularly hot. Cheers!
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Would love some if you still have them left. Will also send a PM.
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Cappi and acacia didn't make it unfortunately, bit tough for them - everything was pretty much left on its own to survive the whole time as I moved interstate. Cactus were left alone - no special soil or fertilisers, I did manage the occasional pruning here and there and managed to collect seeds the last two years - no idea who pollinated who - but they've been viable and growing into nice little seedlings. Actually, if roughly five or six people wanted a mixed lot of seeds just send a PM and I'll send some out free.
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Not sure why, but I thought I'd go back in time and find this old thread I started. When I read the last post by Shoomey Goodness' I realised I had to make some updates.
On 13/06/2010 at 7:58 PM, Shroomey Goodness said:wow thats a lot of cactus i love it i can picter what that will be like in tens years or some also nice home in the last pic
Well believe it or not, it's nearly been ten years. So, shroomey goodness and everyone else, here's what things look like ten years later (and after two years of drought and no rain). I'd do it all over again if I could. Big thanks to everyone from back in the day who helped a newbie out with a cutting or two. I hope I've given back in some way.P.S Any id's would be appreciated. I lost that info a long time ago.
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Not sure about Darwin, but might know one or two around Central Australia. I'll be in touch.
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Fantastic talk, need more voices like this one. Well done.
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They should be okay, just leave them out to dry a bit before planting. The mold often occurs from the plants perspiring in their postal packaging, making things moist. Leave them somewhere dry with fresh air and they will be fine. I guess if the green flesh turns black and goes soft then you'll probably have to chop the rotting part off, but it looks unlikely that that will happen. It does look like PC as well.
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Hey, great books, I'd take the issues of the Entheogen Review if they are still around. Cheers. PM'd.
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Nice one Alchemica. I'm deeply grateful for the corroboree community I've been a part of. It's been life changing that's for sure. I'm grateful for the friends I've made, the knowledge I've gained and most of all for the sharing and caring spirit that goes on here. Man, the original Oberon camping trip, what a gift that was! When I first started out I had little to give but much to learn, now it's nice to be on the other end and being able to gift things onwards is just as joyous as it is to have things given. There's no other community I know of where the spirit of giving and sharing is so central. I'm also grateful for nature and it's wonders. I love how you can take a cutting of something, share it with someone else and then see the plant you took the cutting from grow even bigger as a result. Cheers.
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If you got the spare cash, I can't recommend the books from http://scarletimprint.com/ enough. Fantastic independent publishers who are doing great work bringing old traditions to light and not afraid to criticise and reevaluate traditions. Here is an excerpt from one of their titles 'Apocalyptic Witchcraft', it's a manifesto of sorts but it really resonates with the times we find ourselves in.
- If the land is poisoned then witchcraft must respond.
- It is not our way of life, it is life itself which is under threat.
- Witchcraft is our intimate connection to the web of life.
- We are Witchcraft.
- Our World has forever changed. The trodden paths no longer correspond. Witchcraft thrives in this liminal, lunar, trackless realm.
- We are storm, fire and flood.
- We will not be denied.
- Witchcraft is the recourse of the dispossessed, the powerless, the hungry and the abused. It gives heart and tongue to stones and tress. It wears the rough skin of beasts. It turns on a civilisation that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- If you have no price you cannot be bought. If you do not want you cannot be bribed. If you are not frightened you cannot be controlled.
- Witchcraft is folk magic, the magic of the people and for the people.
- We call an end to the pretence of respectability.
- We will not disarm ourselves.
- The War is upon us.
- Choose then to become a Mask.
- Those with nothing left to lose will dare all.
- There is one Witchcraft under many names. There is one Grand Sabbat on one mountain. There are many ways to fly. There is no witness present at the Sabbat.
- Witchcraft is a force, not an order. Witchcraft is rhizomatic, not hierarchic. Witchcraft defies organisation, not meaning. We simply bear the marks.
- Witchcraft is power and possesses this in ekstasis, sex and ordeal.
- Witchcraft is unbridled sexuality. In witchcraft it is the woman who initiates. We challenge man to be the equal of this woman.
- Witchcraft is the art of inversion.
- Witchcraft is the beaut which is terror.
- Witchcraft is a myth, which drawing on the past, clothes itself in the symbols of (its) time. Witchcraft does not mistake myths for history, it harnesses them to transform the future. Witchcraft knows the ground upon which it stands.
- Witchcraft honours the spirits. Witchcraft enchants for the lost. Witchcraft will not forget.
- Witchcraft embodies our ancestors and saints, they carry us with them.
- To Her is offered the blood, to use the care of the ask and bones.
- The example we follow is our own.
- The practice of witchcraft is one of revolution and of the power of woman.
- The Goddess who speaks through us is known among men as Babalon.
- Witchcraft concerns itself with mystery. Through the gates of mystery we come to knowledge. Knowledge enters us through the body. The highest form of this knowledge is Love.
- Every drop of blood is sacrificed to the grail. Love cannot be bought with any other coin.
- We seek and drink this wine together.
- Will is finite, passion infinitely renewed.
- Witchcraft is present, its is ensanguined and vivified. Witchcraft is prescient, it gazes on the future. Witchcraft is oracular, it will not hold its tongue. Our time has come.
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just wanted to say that my heart sings this time of year... though I'm up here in the dry, dry desert my thoughts always return to oberon when things cool off. glad to see the annual pilgrimage is still taking place and glad to see many of the forefathers who went on the original camp are still going along. damn, i really, really miss that place. have a great time everyone, look after each other and the land and watch out for the gnomes, goblins and reindeers that pop up from time to time.
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Bit late sorry but happy birthday buddy!
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Just relocated to alice springs and left behind a stressful, corporate job that required me to give most of my time and energy to something I didn't care about one bit. Have been looking at disability support roles here as there seems to be lots of them and even the thought of doing it gets me emotional, so I'd imagine its a very rewarding job. Here's to no longer contributing to the big machine and doing something useful for others!
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Here are some of my all time favourite metal albums. Most of them lean toward spiritual influences which is what I think I like about them. They might take a few listens to sink in but it's worth it.
Absu- Absu - Mythological Occult Metal. Very impressive.
Emperor- In the Nightside Eclipse- A masterpiece. Will take you into icy forests and dark castles. A classic.
Liturgy- Asthethica- A recent album that pushes black metal into some new territory. Very positive and up-lifiting but not cheesy.
Guardian Alien- See The World Given To A One Love Entity - One track album. It's beautiful. The drumming is mind blowing. Perfect for journeys. The drummer is big on psychedelic states, Robert Anton Wilson, Stanislav Grof etc. He apparently received the album title and artwork in a vision he had while meditating!
Tool- Aenima - A classic that brought sensitive, deep thinking spirituality to metal and definitely influenced me to check out Bill Hicks, Crowley and psychedelia etc.
Sleep- Dopesmoker - One track, 54 minutes or so. Hypnotic and trance inducing. Probably the heaviest album on the list, but not aggressive or angry.
Om- God is Good- Just bass and drums and very deep lyrically. Steve Albini produced it. Think Pink Floyd's 'Set The Controls For The Heart of the Sun' set in Egypt.
SunO)))- Altar- Slow and heavy stuff. The last track 'Alice' is stunning, takes you to other worlds.
Mastadon- Crack The Skye- An epic prog and classic rock influenced concept album about out of body journeys.
And then of course there's the classics which are pretty much mandatory:
Black Sabbath- Paranoid, Masters of Reality, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
Slayer- Reign in Blood, Hell AwaitsMetallica- Master of Puppets, Ride The Lightning
Death- Scream Bloody Gore
Also, check out the youtube doco 'One Man Metal' which features Australia's own Striborg. Focuses on three artists who write and record everything themselves in isolation. Very interesting, disturbing characters, especially Striborg who moved to Tasmania to get away from everyone and focus on music.
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very, very cool. thanks for sharing!
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Been a while since I posted on here, but thought that this was definitely worth sharing. I was visiting my folks house in the country a few weeks ago and though I grew up in that town, somehow I never noticed this one house with an epic cactus garden.
I left a note on the door about my interest in cactus plants and asked if I could come around one day and have a look at the garden. I got a phone call and was told I was most welcome. A little old lady and her husband had been collecting cactus plants for the last thirty or forty years. They'd gotten most of their plants from a mail order company in South Australia. They were kind enough to give me a bunch of cuttings of all sorts of different types. I returned the favour the next day with a small box of different trich cuttings, which I have no doubt they'll look after and hopefully will one day be as big as the scops they've got all around their place.
Note- would have been very easy to just break off some branches in the middle of the night, but that's just not the way to do things. In my experience 100% of the people I've approached for cuttings have been very generous and in one case told me I could take the whole thing. It's always better to ask permission, trade some cuttings of your own if you have them and develop a relationship with the owners, who knows, maybe one day they'll say I can have the lot.
Anyway... thought I'd share some pics. I got a cutting of the massive scop, it's already taken root and looks like it will flower soon too. Remind me in a year or two and I'd be happy to send out cuttings or seeds if anyone is interested.
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Bit late, but you know I love you still. Happy Birthday buddy!
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Can't make it to this one unfortunately, have fun though!