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Ymir

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About Ymir

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  • Birthday 11/11/1984

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    South Australia
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    Biochemistry, mycology, mushroom cultivation

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  1. Ymir

    Overcooked agar or liquid culture

    More for interest's sake, but worth adding, you can actually overcook agar. If you heat it up too high or for too long you can hydrolyse the agar and it won't set. Back in the day agar was generally sterilized by successive cycles of heating with steam, then cooling, then heating etc (called Tyndallization). This also eliminates the possibility that any sugars will be caramelized. Autoclave/pressure cooking is much faster though
  2. Ymir

    great southern mushroom id

    I suspect the nice plate shaped ones growing out of the logs are Tapinella panuoides. The gills look like they're forking in the third pic, and they're a little thin fleshed for Omphalotus.
  3. Ymir

    Happy flowering Hoodia

    Grafting these things has always frightened me. If I was really confident of my skills or didn't feel like I would never find one again I might try. Lovely grafting pics BTW Planthelper As for seeds, so far no changes in the hoodia nubbins really. They've continued to be nubbin-oid. You can see where all the flowers were attached, but the structure they came from has just remained like this. I suspect that means no fruit/seeds, considering the length of time since the flowers dropped off, but I'll keep an eye on it anyway. Do you think it's even likely that this would be the site of fruit formation? Would it be more likely that the individual fertilized flowers would form fruits?
  4. Ymir

    Happy flowering Hoodia

    Maybe 7 or 8 years. I traded someone from this forum (I think...) for a few seeds a looong time ago. Two or three of them germinated but where swiftly eaten by mice. I babied the last remaining seedling until I was sure it would survive outside. I've never been brave enough to actually put it in the garden bed with my main collection though. But if I get some seeds, and they germinate AND they survive long enough to be planted outside then I suppose I can get enough courage to properly plant it out and let it go nuts.
  5. My Hoodia got rather wet earlier in 2010, and I was worried that it would rot. You can see a little black patch remaining on one of the branches in a few of the pics. So I moved it under cover, then back into full sun this summer. It went nuts! It's been flowering constantly for over a month month now and shows no signs of slowing. It's making the garden smell a little like an abattoir and there is a permanent cloud of flies around it, as well as a few very happy enterprising spiders. Don't know if I'll get any fruits yet, but from the bases of the oldest flowers (which have since dropped off) there are some pea sized lump-oids that haven't withered away yet. Fingers crossed
  6. Ymir

    A loph to Trich graft

    Thanks! That photo was taken in February, and it fruited up until the beginning of winter. After I went through all the fuzz and picked out all the dried and fresh fruit I ended up with maybe 100 seeds. Each berry has maybe...3 or so seeds in so I guess about 30 berries all in all. I ended up collecting all the fruit and having a bit of a nibble. Quite tasty, surprisingly sweet and very sticky! What I'd love to eventually do, if my stock pups again that is, is source a graft with a different flower colour or at least introduce some genetic diversity into the family and collect the seeds from that.
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    A loph to Trich graft

    The original graft is about 4 years old I think, with the 2 other grafts happening last year and the year before that (2008, 2007). It had flowered once or twice in it's first 3 years of growth but all of last year it flowered and fruited continuously, summer and winter. I don't know if it's made the difference but I'd always been extremely cautious when it came to having it in full sun. I'd been told that our Mexican friends burn terribly if not given any shade, but I took a chance and placed it in progressively sunnier and sunnier spots last year. It seemed to acclimatize well, no burning, and just started to flower like mad. I like to think that she had a bit of a back-log that needed to express itself Has anyone else had that experience? Are they more tolerant to full sun then I had been led to believe?
  8. Ymir

    A loph to Trich graft

    Yeah, no need to worry. I've had a very happy-yote that has split in a few places from time to time. I just make sure that I keep it dry for a week or 2 until the surface is a bit calloused and it seems to pull through. I try to make sure that I don't over-water otherwise it tends to look a little chubby. Not the clearest photo but you can see a split that opened on the left most head and another little one on the big mumma on top.
  9. Ymir

    origin of your name!

    im with Fenris on this one, Ymir is also a norse mythological figure. In Norse mythology Ymir is the first giant and the father of the race of frost giants. He was created by the hot air from Muspell melting the ice of Niflheim. then from Ymir's sleeping body the first giants sprang forth: one of his legs fathered a son on his other leg while from under his armpit a man and women grew out. The frost kept melting and from the drops the divine cow Audumla was created. From her udder flowed four rivers of milk, on which Ymir fed. The cow itself got nourishment by licking hoar frost and salt from the ice. On the evening on the first day the hair of a man appeared, on the second day the whole head and on the third day it became a man, Buri, the first god. His grandchildren are Odin, Ve and Vili. Odin and his brothers had no liking for Ymir, nor for the growing number of giants, and killed him. In the huge amount of blood that flowed from Ymir's wounds all the giants, except two, drowned. From the slain body the brothers created heaven and earth. They used the flesh to fill the Ginnungagap; his blood to create the lakes and the seas; from his unbroken bones they made the mountains; the giant's teeth and the fragments of his shattered bones became rocks and boulders and stones; trees were made from his hair, and the clouds from his brains. Odin and his brothers raised Ymir's skull and made the sky from it and beneath its four corners they placed a dwarf. Finally, from Ymir's eyebrow they shaped Midgard, the realm of man. The maggots which swarmed in Ymir's flesh they gave wits and the shape of men, but they live under the hills and mountains. They are called dwarfs. so there ya go, bit of help from google there, i was feeling lazy and so its a cut and paste job..........but nicely written by a Mr. Micha F. Lindemans i really like this story becuase the frost giants were considered evil, but from their sacrifice come something so important and amazing. Ymir died and in doing so provided the universe with everything it needed to grow. :D
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    Bleeding from snuff use

    Did you snort the telfast....?
  11. Ymir

    JUXTAPOSITIONS

    1. his decrepid overgrown scrotum is always filthied by mice 2. i snuck up a nun biting tree which donated some robust bread
  12. Ymir

    Somewhere High in the Andes

    i quite liked the "One half gram is the medically recognized threshold dose (minimum for a real trip)" bit that is 500mg unless im going nuts right? i wonder how much he considers to be a strong trip then!? 2 grams..3?!
  13. Ymir

    Benzito's Northern tour

    sometimes in adelaide, we've been know to stay up as late as 1:00 AM.
  14. Ymir

    Lophophora Caespitosa on ebay

    hehehe, i just bought 2 of them and then checked the boards here and found this! mmmmmm more grafting is in order i believe
  15. Ymir

    Mucuna care

    how do you harvest the pods without getting covered in the hairs? is there a method?
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