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nice! thats a brilliant little combo you got there, hope they all take off for you. i would be sparse with the watering though as we found group plantings hold moisture for alot longer. we have just started making our own ceramic pots, it gets really interesting when you start making a custom pot for a particular plant! limitless possibilities

do snails drown easily? i just had a thought of anti snail moats around my plants.

this book might be of interest to some people, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by neurologist Oliver Sacks. Covers many different forms of synesthesia, auditory hallucinations and other related topics. certainly not what i was expecting to find on my partners parent's bookshelf!

i have the following seeds for trade: t. spachianus t. pachanoi (very blue) t. pachanoi (x?) t. validus t. juuls x peruvianus ss01 x ss02 ss02 x bridgesii LW texansis and a few others of limited amounts if you have anything really special to trade i am mostly after loph or mexican minature seed or any interesting trichos or tricho crosses (that aren't on my list) pm if interested at all cheers, kea

hehe i like your dogs they look happy

lol, you ate your shoelace? was it tasty?

i was just having a wee look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu and was wondering if anyone has tried it? i read a small report in the encyclopedia of psychoactive plants, which stated it had strong euphoric and aphrodisiac effects and was best enjoyed with a partner, but I couldn't find any mention of these effects online. would be great to hear if anyone has had a personal experience as it seems to be relatively un-accessible outside of Japan.

hey my plant used to do that and i kept losing leaf after leaf, bigger pot? and rain water? maybe take a cutting if you have any off shoots just to be safe. gud luck!

sure thing!

possibly. i know that alot of special cultivars have come out of japan, through the process of selective breeding, especially astrophytom species. your trichos look like a possible hybrid between pachanoi and peruvianus. my uncle told me about seeing a massive lophophora on display in a mall in japan. if you ever spot anymore you should buy them! they are awesome plants

lol cheers, if i ever make it to oz i have something to travel to adelaide for! i dont know what it is but i have heard of another psychoactive fish found in the south pacific. heres hoping i catch it by chance one day and cook up and fantastic fishy feed

lol not in new zealand mate!

i find they always chase off a cold

i brought some saffron crocus bulbs from trademe and grew them at the bottom of the south island in new zealand. i must admit i didnt have a great harvest, although i think that is mostly due to my cold climate and possibly planting them too late, they are meant to be an autumn flowerer and i put my bulbs down at the end of autumn. NZ has some reasonably cheap saffron (and occasionaly bulbs) available and i would expect a much bigger harvest in a warmer climate. if you can find the bulbs, then why the heck not grow it! even just for novelties sake

skullcap and passionflower are nice for tea before bed, they seem to make me have very complex and elaborate dreams

has anyone seen 'the gods must be crazy'? one guy shoots a big euphorbia tree with an arrow and drips the sap on another guy standing underneath it lol

yup it looks the same as the t. pascana that we have. thats a good find, they are extremely slow growing for a tricho. the grower we brought ours off said they might reach half a metre in ten years!

hey ethnodude, is your dp a salvia divinorum flower?

i cant even think of an adjective good enough to describe those crests zelly! so i will just say wow. your cacti love you.

hey good on your for posting a pic of your graft,i have a few E. chamaecereus leftover from my childhood cacti collection and i never would have thought of trying a graft on them, so thank you! good luck on your cacti endeavors! you are off on a nice start

wow!

i had a wee rot patch like on your rosei on one of my pedros last year, i was a little worried but i shouldnt have been as it fought past the rot even though it was being rained on and frozen every night all winter. dunno bout the seedling tho, that looks much more life threatening

haha you are awesome! ten points for effort

if anyone was interested i have some morning glory seeds but they are a mix of white, red, pink, purple, blue, and bicolors of Ipomoea alba and Ipomoea purpurea. but proabably easiest for people to trade closer to home