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Is the scop like that from theft?!?

I was given about 30 seeds of Kimuras giant x bridgesii and none came up. Various other hybrids in the same container did cept for the juuls x bridgesii and the above. I guess they were old. They are both clones from the US?

There is LOTS of varigated tbm in Aus?!? When did that happen?

http://www.ebay.com.au/ulk/itm/331721491317 Is it just me or is this an odd/creepy photo and a very average bit of PC?

Sweet, will have to check out some up in Perth.

Upside were they found at a Bunnings on the east coast or west coast?

Somewhere on the Australian cacti forum there is a very knowledgeable member known as hanazono. He has posted about some interesting methods for degrafting for ario and the like from Pereskiopsis. From memory he cuts the stock short, cuts half the outer section from the stock down to the vascular bundle and let's that dry. Then it's planted and I think it roots from the scion eventually?!? I can't remember if it was supposed to thrown more roots from the short Peres stock for a period. There are photos around somewhere. Will see if I can hunt up the pics.

I have been away for nearly a week and on my return I had that magical envelope waiting for me. Nitrogen your a legend, what an amazing thing you have done. The world of trichocereus and trichocereus breeding and growing has forever been effected by what you have done and I take my hat off to you mate!! I like my new alias as well, Sylvester Frankenheimer! I am getting these babies planted today, have never been so excited to sow a seed in my life. I have already been in contact with my people in the states and my people put me in touch with your people and I shall be sending back a little something to your personage in the near future. Thank you dude! I'm off to hunt some Peres down....

Those Astros look incredible!!

They look like uncle Chorns plants, I could NEVER cut plants that looked like that!!!

Yep I posted a link to that on the 27 October for 400 bucks. I feel I should send him 10 bucks for effort.

I have met many fantastic people on the Aus trich page. I only ever saw the one post that was originally to point out a mislabeled plant. It got a bit bitchy and the moderator/boss man who is super fair and does an awesome job put a stop to it fast. It's the only remotely negative thread I've come across in the maybe 3 months I have know of it. What's the FB feeds giving you mushroomy goodness Zed?!? That 500 buck PC sale was originally 400 bucks, it hasn't sold and the price was put up??! I don't know much about economics but if something ain't selling don't you usually drop the price :-/

That's a cool image , I want one on a shirt where did that come from?

Papa smurf

And black arios??!! What have you got going on there dude!!

Shit yeah, is that a Cintia knizei in the background grafted?!!?

Sorry to high jack your thread bro, that fuckin sucks. I posted a thread on cacti theft a few months back. Makes my blood run cold the thought of that shit happening. I rather deal with that up close with my bare hands than a fire arm. A 3ft long piece of Cuzco would make a pretty sweet beating device me thinks!

I was born in Texas it's not so bad... But the, those guys have guns so I better buy a gun logic is why Americans are killing each other in bulk almost weekly. The logic that guns don't kill people , people kill people is true...people kill people really quickly and efficiently when they can grab an ar15 out of the cupboard and 100 rounds of ammo. Australia's gun laws are sane and if I still want to go hunting with a rifle, which I do sometimes I can. It's a whole lot harder to commit mass murder with a bolt action 308. How many more school kids need there brain blasted out just for going to school before some sense is seen in the states.

Some people just got some total bargains on Mexican miniatures. Not seen a strombo or fissuratus go so cheap before!

I have bought some ario hybrids from an international supplier and have had the packages looked at by aquis but sent on no problems. But I now see and am told that Aus eBay is no longer allowing international vendors to send or sell Seed to Aus. This must have occurred very recently. Does anyone know anything about this?

Good work Ghosty!! Thanks for checking that out.

Tried to call AQUIS twice, was on hold for 20 mins the first time before getting cut off. Called back to be told that I should call back in business hours. Was 1415 hrs, forgot the west coast is 3 hrs behind. Will try again tomorrow if I want to waste anymore life span.

I did see a couple of vendors from os, Hong Kong and China but all the interesting stuff from that Italian vendor is not up anymore. I just had a look. Might call aquis and ask.

I still got my seeds and can get more just not from eBay apparently. The vendor was super helpful I really can't see why someone would leave negative feedback. The only one loosing out from what I can tell is eBay which ain't exactly breaking my heart. I only got two problems now and that's getting them up and onto Peres, they are some pretty sweet crosses.

The vendor I was buying seed from in Italy told me a couple of days ago. I asked because I wanted to get some more Ario hybrid seed and noticed in nasty red letters "Item does not ship to Australia" in the postage details box, now I can't even see all the seeds they used to have listed only the ones I marked as watched. I can still buy from this vendor I just contact them through Facebook. ^ that's terrible to loose so much seed. Aquis didn't mention anything in the letter about the labelled ario seed but they did seize a bag of unlabelled mixed cacti seed the vendor put in as a bonus. They seized them on the grounds they could not be identified but sent on all my ario seed which I was pretty happy about!