DarkSpark
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a friend on the gold coast has one that shows this type of elongated groeth, but my TBM never does. Even though his longer ones also exhibit the same stout sections in some cases they also often throw these longer smoother ones. whereas mine pretty much grows long and fat at the same time without fail, and the initia growth has clearly defined ribs until they fully swell out which is always at the same size, just like eggs. People try to say they are the same but in over 25 cuttings i have taken off mine all put into different conditions i can't induce that sort of growth. I guess it COULD be etiollation of some sort i try to give mine fairly strong sunlight though none of my cuttings do until second segment is pretty much fully formed.
edit: the more i look at the main segment the more i think that maybe i could just keep mine in bright enough light that they dont stretch.
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a few mammilarias in there too i think. Sorryi can't be more help.
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I remember the video you shared of the chilli wing eating comp a while back. I could gain much enjoyment from watching people torture themselves. Any word on what sort of chillis are in the sauce and at what strength? Should glaze with choc habanero pureé :D
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Providded they are still in my yard and not washed downsream by the floods i have maybe 10+ spare plants that are 20-40cm in height multiple stems, ideally would need to take and root cuttings to get them ideal for grafts. Id trade a few metres of the shit for any amount of any tricho that i dont have
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A thought for saving costs is that i just upgraded my hosting and only use around 1/4 of my bandwidth. I can provide a few people with FTP access to store files and stuff temporarily for sharing with the rest of the interested parties.
Another thing to consider is contacting michael balderstone and co at the hemp embassy. I am sure they would be able to provide a lot of good solid information on and examples of all the relevant documentation that we would need to provide before becoming a 'legitimate assosciation'. Furthermore i think they woudl be happy to dedicate some time to helping us get this started.
I am very keen to put as much time and resources (Aside from money as that is limited) towards this as is needed.
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help me find a spot on the gold coast, please?
Lamiters crossing, Advancetown hotel (look around these areas you will find secluded paddocks with fruits) Please harvest with a blad dont tear them out. I don't hunt Gold Coast anymore but seriously ANYWHERE just about up towards currumbin, advancetown, canungra that has cow paddocks you will likely find shrooms. a FOAF spread spores through most of tyhe paddocks in the advancetown area over a two year period so there should be an abundance of them around!
whoever said that cowshit close to markets thing, PM ME!
If u are referring to cararra markets DONT go picking there. The crappest most open spot ever. Near robina railway station is a massive open paddock (you are visible but easy enough to escape if trouble arises)
I honestly think that every cow paddock on the gold coast produces fruits eithe P. cyans or cubensis. I have never had a trip where i have fouhnd NOTHING. just other times are better than the rest. Good luck and any SE QLDerts who want some better directions feel free to shout out!
edit: for those wondering why i share this, well simply shrooms are the drug that has opened the mind of many of my firends to the realities in our world. I feel this should be shared with all. Furthermore i dont hunt the spots anymore someone else might as well make use of them. Just be an ethical harvester, if you get more than you need invest in a dehydrator. spread the spores (tap shrooms opr use bigreds tek above)
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help me find a spot on the gold coast, please?
Lamiters crossing, Advancetown hotel (look around these areas you will find secluded paddocks with fruits) Please harvest with a blad dont tear them out. I don't hunt Gold Coast anymore but seriously ANYWHERE just about up towards currumbin, advancetown, canungra that has cow paddocks you will likely find shrooms. a FOAF spread spores through most of tyhe paddocks in the advancetown area over a two year period so there should be an abundance of them around!
whoever said that cowshit close to markets thing, PM ME!
If u are referring to cararra markets DONT go picking there. The crappest most open spot ever. Near robina railway station is a massive open paddock (you are visible but easy enough to escape if trouble arises)
I honestly think that every cow paddock on the gold coast produces fruits eithe P. cyans or cubensis. I have never had a trip where i have fouhnd NOTHING. just other times are better than the rest. Good luck and any SE QLDerts who want some better directions feel free to shout out!
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Don't forget alchohol... amongst other commonly used substances that become analogues. New laws are so frickin funny when you look into just what is covered by this ban. They are going to need to create a "Things that ARE analogues of illegal substances, but we let you have anyway" list. Funny that it will have two things on it "Alchohol and Tobacco" the two that we really need to have controlled...
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Datura becoming scheduled/ banned is a real shame. I am just starting to breed these plants for their amazing flowers and hoped to try my hand at some hybridising. I think your statement is interesting about Brugsmania Torston. Everyone I have ever talked Brug with out side of this forum refers to them as Datura, maybe this is just a Queensland thing? I might just start calling my metels brugmania.... and so the games begin. lol
Just about everyone i talk to calls them datura or tree datura also. I think this come from names being passed down with the plants from quite a while back. The general population don't keep up to date with, or care about, taxonomical changes.
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That wouldn't have been a Bunnings one that fell apart would it... those shelves look familiar. I had one too, and the shelving was the best part of the green house.. I kept all the racks, and it has many uses . (not hanging shit on Bunnings, just some of the crap they sell)
Hehe my bunnings one didnt die by itself though i pulled it apart to move and the plastic all stuck together and i couldnt get it back apart
again like everyone else i still have the shelves. Decent quality shelves. And all the extra bars have become stakes in my garden so it has all gone to use :D For $99 i didnt expect hat much. I purchased a $200 one that is made of much stronger materials (plastic cover more like a tarp strength wise rather than glad wrap. And the solid metal poles are like those on atrampoline. Didnt come with shelves but i prefer to use the old ones i have and custom build some new ones
I have found a heap of real cheap greenhouses on crazysales. They are the same price i paid for my bunnings one but twice the size and stronger materials
3.5 x 2m = 95 + 30 shipping
http://www.crazysales.com.au/large-round-roof-plant-greenhouse-3-5m-x-2-0m-x-2-0m.html
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They came back. So i have removed the lions tail plants, and daturas that they seemed to be breeding on (will re-grow them from seed)
Doing the wettable sulphur thing again. I think the reason i like the wettable sulphur so much is that once the water evaporated there is a nice even coating of sulphur the whole way over the plant, it is pretty much impossible to miss a spot. And it annihilated the bugs.
Never heard to use peppermint oil bbefore but i will be sure to look into it now.I have a peppermint that is goig rampant wonder if i could make the oil myself.
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Its pretty hard to take FB down with a DDODS attack. Its built to take a HUGE number of clicks per second, think about how many EXTRA requests youd need to send to make a difference.
Facebook wont be crashed by DDoS it is very unlikely anyway. They have numerous backup servers and failsafes to make this not the case, I would say it is more likely they are looking to hack the servers and initiate a shutdown on them from internally, though even this is one heck of a feat.
The thing that shits me is that the downturn in profits is due to the lack of newly released games under their banner (in my opinion). people get sick of paying for in game bonuses after a while and they lose their sheen. Likewise people get over the games in generall and advertisers dont get the hits they want. i personally think that once this layoff goes ahead and they buy the new games you will see profits steadily rise again. I think this is why anonymous is threatening. They could spend some of their savings to buy new games and market them but instead they opt to fire a substantial amount of employees to fund this venture. And then outsource the work to the cheapest slave labor country they can find. But i guess this is how pretty much all big business works these days "100% Australian owned but 100% made in china" All of this masked under the guise of their profits being low.
edit: also they are planning to relase TYLER on the 5/11/12
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This little one has decided to start flowereing. The mum and all the pups are getting 5+ flowers each i dont know how it expects to support them all
edit: actually it is quite peculiar it throws flower buds and then pups follow behind them. strange plant
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Not sure if you can attach PDFs to posts here you can always use a site like this to share it, i am eager to read!
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'ermagerd its been 4 hours since i checked my facebook i am going into withdrawals'
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small world, know the winner and the chick on the right in red. @ 6.04
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I've only had spider mites on cacti (guess which type) and pyrethrum was not effective for me. Sulpher dusting was, though.
same, i find the mites don't even get slowed down by it.
I metho'd them hard core.. twice! and trimmed back all the injured / damaged leaves. So will see how that goes. will try a white oil as a preventative with maybe regular fortnight treatment.
EXTREME! but yeah my mistake was not starting on the systemics at the beginning of the season. Foolishly i waited until i noticed them which was way too late
sulphur worked wonders for me tooThe most effective thing I have ever found against mites is petroleum oil. Something like "Ortho Volck Oil spray". It is unique in that it is the only insecticide I'm aware of that kills spider mites AND THEIR EGGS. Other things will kill the mites, while their kids hatch the next day, and you're back to square one. And... it makes your plants real shiny and purrdy :D, I'm unaware if its bad for cactus, should be fine for brugs, do some research though!
yeah petroleum oil(white oil) is a great product. I have used it previously and still have some here i may use as a preventative
thought i would update with my progress.
- wettable sulphur sprays every second day for a week
- neem oil sprays every twice the week after that
- mites are non-existant on my brugs
- now using spinosad semi-regularly and will consider white oil as well as a preventative.
though i have noticed they are pretty bad on my lions tail seedlings next door, i wonder if this might be where they are breeding and spreading from so now iam treating this area the same.
I noticed a significant drop in populations with the sulphur spray, and the neem finished them off though i have ended up with a few pretty severely damaged leaves (curled up and mutated) however these few damaged leaves aer not much compared to the possibility that i was going to miss it flowering!
attached some pics so everyone can share!
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And then there are the plants that cost much more to produce, but didn't sell, so who pays for those?
A very good point. People are quick to jump on how absurd prices are, but don't think about all that goes into getting a plant ready for sale, or all the plants lost in this process. For the hobby gardener it may not be so extreme but to do medium-large scale propagation and growing on requires much planning. and in the case of smaller niche nurseries such as SAB it is even harder as they are offering such a diverse range of stock, much of which requires extremely varied conditions meaning more time must be spent to ensure that moisture levels etc are not to high/low in the varied areas.
----some things to consider----
- Developing a suitable environment(building greenhouse, irrigation, hot house, hydroponic systems etc)
- ensuring you fall within australian codes of practice and OH&S guidelines(creating SOPs, hazard/risk assessments etc)
- Purchasing materials (dirt, pots, trays, tray stands, shelves, pesticides, nutrients etc)
- purchasing/propagation of stock (developing propagation & growing on plans, actually propagating, likely losing a pretty decent percentage and having to dispose of soil/wash pots(all ads time to the task)also any unhealthy looking stock can't go to sale and often gets turfed rather than attempting to save)
- storing the stock in your greenhouse (effectively each section of space on the land is worth at the very least SOME of the rent, as such the plants cost x per week rent, x per week water, x per week nutrients which starts to add up)
- maintenance/wages (staff need to be paid! At the very least nurseries,even small scale ones, need to make enough to pay bills, buy supplies & pay staff)
--assuming you are growing for example 500 trichocereus cacti requiring say 3 years to be at sale size. on average in excess of 2 hours a week will be spent doing assorted tasks with these. be it directly with the plants or maintenance on equipment.
hours a week x weeks in a year x years in growing on plan = total man hours x hourly rate = total labour cost
2 x 52 x 3 = 312 x 20 = $6240
keep in mind there are still many more costs assosciated such as electricity, water, soil, pots, etc. The figure may be slightly high for trichos as it wouldnt take 2 hours a week to care for them but i hope this helps outline how quickly the expenses build up, even if it is just trying to pay oneself and break even. This hasn't even included any of the other costs assosciated, just purely labour. understandably some things are sold far overpriced, but as Torsten has said, who pays for those who dont sell.
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As for the spirits of plants, if they didn't appreciate what we were doing i am sure in some way they would have vocalised this! Well maybe not vocalised, thats a bit extreme, but made it known that they aren't happy.
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if you want some hardcore cacti porn, including several crests of varied origins check out this gorup on facebook! Bloody yanks making me jealous as a mofo with all your awesome mutants!
https://www.facebook...17015961698556/
check the second post. Trichocereus bridgesii cristata
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"can you see the sonic underlation(sp?), can you see it!"
gosh she gets so excited by it!
who knows maybe they are going to attack iran, let the storm hit and release a news feed once everyone is pissed off and looking for someone to blame for all their losses(aside from themselves and their pollution/destruction of the environment)
"Iraninan weather manipulation behind the devastation of hurricane sandy"
the sheep would jump all over that.
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Being recently unemployed relying on my business and things like this to provide for me my wife and two kids, i am looking out for number 1, me and my family.
Am i a bastard, fucking oath, but at least my family are healthy, and evidently the prices aren't that unrealistic as business is growing steadily.
As this happens the prices will drop, but for now fuck yas all!
I view $30 for a b caapi to be obscenely overpriced but that is the common sale price for them. But as i am concerned the value of a product is dictated by what people are prepared to pay!
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well lets all rob and rip everyone off to pay the bills! no wonder i prefer plants to ppl & money!
I am not robbing anyone. I am listing something for sale, people are CHOOSING to buy it.
I used to hate ebay sellers just like you applesnail, after months trying to sell market average price in the hopes of getting the overall price down i realized 'fuck it i am not going to change things, their auctions are still selling, the only difference is that i am making half as much'
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blatantly ripping people off for what is realistically a $2 graft a shitty bit of peres a tiny graft that may most likely die...and as you say the sad thing ppl pay this which makes me wonder is it morally ok to rip ppl off with ridiculously over priced products, for someone(noob) who knows no different and would love to aquire a graft they prob would pay that
I am actually quite generous. Though somewhere i need to make the money to be able to be as such, i have spent most of my life giving away, selling underpriced etc only to end up with no money and very little in the way of even thanks from those who have recieved goods from me, i still do this though i use some avenues to actually make a profit. Now if someone is prepared to pay it then so be it (again i sell the same stuff that is on ebay for far less elsewhere, people just need to RESEARCH)
if they are prepared to pay $50+ for a small graft then odds are their intentions for the plant aren't that great. furthermore If someone is prepared to pay it then obviously it has that value to this person. Not my fault that people are so damn naive. Most of the times i throw free grafts in with my peres purchases etc, i deserve to make some profits somewhere! Particularly this week with the amount of bills on the table hence i have listed this as well as some tricho cllones for sale. I NEED THE MONEY. you can hate me but you dont need to buy from my auctions!
Though as i stated above the start price of the auction is irrelevant and this is more of a test/research of the market buying trends than a consistant pricing schedule. It is tempting to list my research here on values and trends but i would rather keep it to myself ;) Though who are we to say a plant isn't worth that value?
The grafts i sell have been established for over 6 months so if they die it would be the fault of the purchaser.
edit: i have had people offer me $75 for grafts of this size purely because they cant seem to get grafts to stick themselves. If you want people to not get ripped off by me you better start selling some cut price plants on ebay!
edit2: I know for a fact that other members here are behind some of the other overpriced auctions. However i stand forward expecting to cop shit over being a greedy bastard(in relation to this one auction) to explain that the starting bid is irrelevant, the people will usually almost end up paying the same price within $15 whether it starts at $10 or $50 except for a rare few cases where the auction goes un-noticed.
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At least they dont exclude WA and Tas....rofl.
Thats just bullshit as a starting bid..... fair enough if it rolls out there due to bidding (laughing)..
You would think a starting bid of that amount would turn people off, but it doesn't. If someone wants a button bad enough they will pay it. Although from my trials i have found that generally an item started at a lower amount will end up going for more as people get caught up in a bidding war.
i.e. same auction starting at $25 will end up selling for more (on buttons and columnar cacti) whereas pereskiopsis will sell for minimum bid 90% of the time, regardless of price ranging from $15-$30 for approximately 50cms.
also comes with a free red gstring
mmm charlie carp
g-string not included in purchase price sorry. (lace undies do make damn fine ties for grafts though)
Incase you didn't realise this is an auction posted by someone on my behalf (although they added their own profits onto it). The same people have listed similar buttons before and on average a 5 cent piece size button grafted has sold for $64.30.
Starting bids ranging from $10 to $50. For the fact some identical auctions have gone for just over $90 a starting bid of $50 isn't actually that unrealistic (highlights just how overpriced things are in australia). Also the starting bid seems irrelevant just about any trichocereus, peres, button or similar on ebay sells.
Funny thing is that most stuff i sell on ebay for excessive prices can be purchased from the webstore, for usually half of what it is on ebay for, if only the people would look harder.
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Datura metel var fastuosa
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My brugs and metel v.fastuosas are still flowering hard. It has been an 8 month flowering cycle so far. I have a double and a triple outof my batch of fastuosa seeds i tried to cross pollenate them but from hearing they are self fertile we will never know if it woked lol. Gonna try and grow most of the seeds out.