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it probably did

you might struggle to keep it alive during summer.. best season to sow, grow, transplant is september IMO for out hemisphere.. be careful if you transplant it, I would wait for 1st real leaves or 2nd I guess to put it in a deep pot, not the final pot

Yeah I remember that crest pic, zelly, would love to taste the berry. Got one over a meter in the ground I hope I can see some flower sometime!

you are gold, give out more awesome practical suggestions like this, will you trooper? and I will try to make crosses of tricho with harissia and selini... lol

zelly was right in something he was saying .. regarding prices and all... which is how some big grower might have sold you the X product , and then you see him selling the same or bigger specimen for half the price in ebay.... or shit like this... becuase he might have decided to both sell-out his stock in ebay, and both take advantage of some dude who buys with the current price for a collective cactus... besides, why the heck are those "rare" strains, crests , rare at all?? they are slow to grow, slow to propagate and root, and not so common... but its already more thatwhat has to be said about this... I dont want to be a merchant, I am a grower and have to be this - a seller - as well... and I have sold pach crest and penis for 'pennies' to friends or good re-occuring customers... but never fucking up the price up on ebay... sellers, people who are involved in this more than hobbistically should not opportunistically fuck up prices in the biggest picture... unless a said market floods with some product and that changes inevitably the price.... that is, if I am really strong on penis or pach crest this year, or some years in a row , I should not fuck up current ebay price and sell 3~5 branched specimens for 5 euros each.,.. and pach crests for 8 euros.... what I could do to a friend, or a regular customer off ebay is another thing... if you get my going... I am trying to sell my shit about at the price I got it it the first place... relatively... I have managed this for some shit I have sold it is also a craft to learn how to propagate cristatas... let alone saying how awesomely interesting it is, now that we have a known enemy , lol.... It is indeed a challenge , whether grafting could get some of these monsters propagation going faster... I am usually prone to trying own roots when dealing with "fast growers" , which , for cacti, every columnar could be such - but... NO! Stetsonia seems to be very slow like the grower told me Pilosocereus/Azuerocereus crest is also very slow growing, but I managed to root a cutting. Eulychnia is EXTRA slow growing... hence so many try to graft Polaskia I already lost a cut I did during cold weather.... dunno If I should attempt another... TBMCs seems to root somewhat later than regular TBMs, but it seems they root easier than I initially thought... Myrtillocacti monsters like really warm weather to root, so take your cuttings in warm weather... otherwise it might take 6 months for a cutting to root. In the past I had awesome results with grafting the mini-mid- crest monster monvillea monstrosa... I wonder how one could speed things up with graftin Eulychnia .. and maybe other slower cresties... . Grafting TBMC works wonders, in my case it was bridgesii stock... we will see how the rooting of the cuttings go, I have already rooted a couple penises off TBMC, incl. a areole-less one, yeah, thats one of my utopian projects, where I still think this creature might make an areole from the root system if needed... or even more impressively sprout from the urethra .... we will see... BIOPROTECTION I am keeping an eye and spraying with bio stuffs for the creatures that would like but will not eat off the wavy crests of my pach-crests and rest of trichs, and possibly a variety of other cacti and plants.... that wont happen like last year ( I thought it was spider mite and shit , stupid me) Old scars cannot heal , at least not completely, but cacti are hard mofos... PS: euro (and whatever) SABers , there are some scarred pachanoi crests for sale, in community prices, if ya like ;) ... all kinds of sizes avail... limited edition offer for sabbers who read the growing section....

As in all specialty cactus sales, it all depends on size and beauty and scarring and rarity of the formation... spiralis and crests are sold more expensive .. this is eacily the most interesting monster cacti of them all... in my humble opinion I havent seen those sold under 30 euros per rooted specimen, and I think I paid 45 euros for my double spiral specimen (well that was indeed a special specimen, too bad it got chopped off during the GH disaster of mine)... anyways I recently got a better deal off ebay for 6 regular monster columns for some 20 euros each... we will see what they can give.... so if you find them cheap , get them mate! In fact this whole thread got my hands and all itching for another attempt of grafting, now that I have a variety of stocks available and the target itself is actively growing.. I do have a regular growing part taking energy off my crest, and was thinking of getting rid of it. now, that how much they cost... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/J47-EULYCHNIA-CASTANEA-SPIRALIS-H-19-5-4-/381301650264?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item58c7597358 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HUGE-Eulychnia-castanea-spiralis-cm25-own-roots-no-aztekium-valdezii-HH6-/311383653130?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item487fe97b0a they are not easily/quickly produced , I suppose, so they're quite rarely offered as well...

wow philocacti my man, this is easily the best looking specimen of melted wax I have seen...

cacti people: a special kind of people, somewhat eccentric, but certainly people that are not afraid of a couple spikings. Fine people. PC is awesome for grafting but not especially handsoce compared to other pachanoids

kk339 pach - euro scop - super pedro (either lance or rob) clearly super pedro (AKA cordobensis, lance, rob) is more on the scop side, if not a genuine scop strain

Echinocereus rubrispinus fruits and Setiechinopsis fruit split... If I leave it there wont be any seeds in 24 hours... we will see.. PM me for limited edition seed giveaway. LONG LIVE SAB

Hey this beauty sure deserves its own thread. And its price I might add. Awesome grafts Philo, very cool you got multiple pups! this cactusart page is also essential http://www.cactus-art.biz/schede/EULYCHNIA/Eulychnia_castanea/Eulychnia_castanea_varispiralis_cristata/Eulychnia_castanea_varispiralis_cristata.htm I have 2 specimens , one bought as crest and one as a double spiralis.. but the latter was in the GH disasters and ...long story short, my cacti now have 3 growing points each, and each seems to be doing its own thing.. regular columns might be grafted to propagate and encourage the growth of more rare formations.. I did 2 grafts, but the upside-down one didn't make it while it had taken.. Also the successful disc-shaped graft I did started to turn to regular after growing on the graft, and eventually terminated (not sure why) and stalled a bit due to pupping from the stock. my spiralis tip today will provide more photos later

Hey Snowfella does that M.geometrizans flower and fruit? Pretty rare to see such a big specimen in a collection Did some cuttings. I cut 3 penis-pups from my own roots TBMCrests and also took cuttings from my two TBMC grafts. I had to slice my weird-shaped big graft (not the one depicted) in more parts so as to maintain an areole in the graft. ALso took cuttings from myrtillocactus crest (non geometrizans) and myrtillocactus breast . Most of the geometrizans crest wax are about to root too... Potted some newly rooted specimens , PsychoO, a pachanoi X (nook/otto) , echinopsis crest and myrti crest, and couple loph's other pic on the right is the previous batch of the lophos that rooted.. They all come from a caespitosa graft on pachanoi which rotted but this time I made it in time and took dozens of pups/cuttings.. Most lophos become more rot prone and more sensitive skined when grafted and especially in caepitosa specimens grafted where the overupping created cavities and overhead watering could cause rot when not in the hot period. I greatly suggest grafting and taking pups off grafts as a means to propagate lophos for pleazure or trading. The rooting time is not bad at all. Also took some other shots but I will post them up in the appropriate threads...

I promised I would get back to deal with earth signs to finish off the first cycle.. well earth signs are not as awesome as the fire signs, but they are pretty awesome .. what they have to offer is a sense of positive stubbornness, the effort, the know-how about doing a job, they're materialist, persistent, hardworking ... they step on earth and they're strong realists, so it not an exaggeration earthy signs are the mechanics and materialisers of ideas and plans. Having venus in capricorn, I find earth women the sexiest. Taurus is stubborn, patient until he bursts into rage, very materialist and said to like gourmet food... he is also prone to high aestheticism and pretty / expensive objects he will never use.. so they're practical, but they also like nice shit. Virgos are more fucked up than the rather straightforward Taurus.. They are prone to phobias including hypochondria-type and are often the very tidy, clean ball-breaking type that needs everything to be at its place, hates dust, mud and anything that makes shit 'untidy' and 'dirty'. They also can be really eccentric and specific, taking time to analyse all kinds of details, for better or worse... Virgo women have awesome big breasts. This is the most hardworking sign of all 3, and is actually the dude that will help many people or groups of people with doing some practical job.. One older joke I made about Virgos is that while the the other signs are drinking beer at the shadow, Virgo is working alone under the sun.. And he is never hasty to finish off early so as to come and drink with us: no my friend, the job has to been done the right way Capricorns are one of the less liked signs.. There are a couple good reasons for this.. They're regarded as hardfisted, carreer bitches, patriarchical and with a controversial sense of humour. They are often regarded as they hardest sign to please, to be happy. They're supposed to be interested in what society thinks of them and their social status/archievements. But they are also the Pans of the world, they carry the animal and the father mammal and the traditional and the link with nature within all of us.. Also, I dont know why I find Capricorn girls the sexiest of them all, even if they , along with virgos, often have some coldness in their face/style/approach.. (I got venus in carpicorn)

thanks for honesty now that's an interesting chart and yeah everyone does it with computers nowdays, not manually .. one would argue there are two different grand trines.. also the chart is very unbalanced, not unlike mine, but this one is even more.. lots of earth and fire in your chart... also an 'easy' chart, lots of positive aspects, and only one or two negative ones.. for what its worth, I dont see egoism as a flaw, but rather as an essential and misunderstood element of the human nature: the fire element... phlosophical hostility towards egoism is common both in hippy/neohippy/neo psychedelic communities as well as left-wing, anarchist, anarchocommunist groups: egoism is regarded not only as a flaw, but also a flaw that capitalist society installed in you. This is serious bollocks IMO, because even though capitalism indeed supports antagonism between individuals, people still have personalities and characters.. Just because I am somewhat leftwing, it doesn't mean I will blame everything to society and capitalism.. lack of air and lack or water , search/google for their astrological importance in a chart... this might be one of the most important problematic parts in your chart.. and not the egoism... PS: i am not really the athletic type, but Tai chi seems pretty awesome for a martial art that is!

also beware of ants: them critters will steal your seed if you dont pick it soon enough

oh yea the dreaminess! it just turns you into a pro dream-0-naut. Like conscious dreaming. It felt like strong and gentle for me... In a way it was strong but was screaming about it... its a dissociative (anesthetic) after all

awesome watch for mealies

no problem... I read up my fair bit back when I was first experimenting... my single breakthrough experience was wonderful... dunno why I didn't try to replicate it since.

I hear you about having major planets including governor of your chart Jupiter residing in 1st house.. makes the aries element in you stronger.. the grand trine probably makes you all the more egoist and firey and me first. so you seem to be strong on earth and fire signs . you probably have exceedingly much fire too... (I do have an exceedingly firey chart myself) an interesting thing to check would be to see if you have a lack of airy signs or lack of watery signs.. you can tell this by counting how many planets you got in water signs and how many planets you have in air signs (MC and ASC count as a planet) . There a formula to tell if you lack some element and if yes, what the interpretation might be.. lack of water might mean lack of empathy and emotional depth/intelligence , lack of air might mean problematic communications/socializing would love to check your chart with my eyes, pm me if youy like

Amanitas have been classed by some as deliriants, but there are few reports to suggest this. Besides, you need a sitter to tell the story of a wild break-through experience, as the tripper will probably remember few stuff. A.muscaria contains traces to little muscarine, which is what is the antidote for tropane poisoning and which is what probably causes oversalivation and stomach pain in some people... It seems the species varies around the globe. Muscarine content probably varies too.. re>> dosing dried material is vague... material from both stems and caps can have as low as half the potency of the same weight of caps material! This is coming from a japanese scientific paper analysizing contents ot ibotenic acid and muscimole in different parts of the mushroom..

^^ lol you're definately a twisted capricorn since you got aries in moon, and sagi ascedant.. (plus mars and venus) you got a grand trine in fire? this is the second time I find such a chart, the other one had a grand trine in fires too! Haven't got to search what exactly it means..

paradox >>> the state of pointlessness is the end of the path, the core of life, the philosophy of all philosophies, the meaning of life, the oneness in everything............................ that or depression... OK since all (most) seem to talk about how we should treat other people (love flowers etc) here's my take on how to treat people 1. avoid to revenge people, but only to the point they dont think you're a pussy and abuse you in whatever way 2. avoid being mean to people, but only if they're good hearted, well-meaning, naive 3. avoid critisizing people by what they say, unless they're plain idiots How's that you hippy bastards?