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Coke bottle tek: A terrarium technique
Halcyon Daze replied to Black Rainbow's topic in Sustainable Technologies & Ethical Living
Everyone likes a good update. These... Turned into these... - Last week
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Hey, Large red khat, tricho's in 30 to 50 mml pot, kolanut tree in 40mm plus extras that are beautiful. Northern river, north NSW.
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Normal. It has TPM in mix mix.
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Does anyone recognise this clone? It was gifted to me years ago (by way of compensation for a wayward bulk order) by a grower in SA.
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Recently the undamaged tip of this plant developed a small "pimple" mid-way between aureoles. The next thing I knew, it had thrown a new pup, as pictured. It's a seed-grown TPM hybrid, so I guess eccentricities should be expected. It's unlike T. peruvianus "sausage" where new links emerge from an aureole (as far as I know).
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Read up about them splitting, as did not fully understand, something like if they received to much water in summer they split in winter and yes, once split it stays with them for life.
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I think we are both right.
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Medicinal plants help keep children healthy in South Africa
Ishmael Fleishman replied to fyzygy's topic in Sustainable Technologies & Ethical Living
I grew up in South Africa; my mother was a coloured South African, and my father was a European. I know firsthand the hatred that festers in that culture. The hatred of anything tainted by colour. Everyone aspires to be white and to adopt the white man's ways. It is rare to find South Africans who take pride in being African. Apartheid bred a generation of people who loathed themselves. Like many Australians, South Africans see themselves as Europeans first and foremost and for those who cannot claim to be white have little to nothing else to hold on to. As a child, I was taught to hate Kaffirs and Muslims. I experienced how apartheid ripped people, families, and communities apart. Let me tell you a story from my childhood. I was walking home from school one day; I would have been about 8 years old. It had been raining that day, and I had to walk a distance to get home from the bus stop. As I was walking along the side of the dirt road, I came to a bus stop at which local black workers and servants were waiting for their bus to get them home. For they were not allowed to be on the street after sundown in my white-only neighborhood. As I approached the stop, an elderly black man turned around and, upon seeing me, stepped aside for me. As he did, he stepped into a muddy puddle of water. I remembered he was wearing brown leather dress shoes, probably the only pair of shoes that poor man owned. Looking down at his wet shoes, he apologised for being in my way. I will always remember his words, "Sorry, Boss.". This is what Apartheid did to us all. It broke this man's spirit and my heart. This is why I always fight for the underdog. Things have only gotten worse in the last 35 years. South Africa is a failed state because it never healed from its collective trauma. It could have been a world leader, the equal of Australia or Canada. Instead the rats are fleeing the sinking ship, stealing everything they can in the process. It is this context that South Africa must be understood. -
Medicinal plants help keep children healthy in South Africa
Slocombe replied to fyzygy's topic in Sustainable Technologies & Ethical Living
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I would suggest it's more an extremely low risk tolerance driven by politics and community attitudes.
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Does erowid still add things to their experience vaults? Might be good to document given it's traditional use, even if the experience is "no effect"
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Assorted Cacti Questions
Ishmael Fleishman replied to Ishmael Fleishman's topic in Cacti & Succulents
I tend to water and feed my Trichocereus heavily, however my soil is mostly inorganic and drains quickly. The cuttings had no roots until recently and what it now has now is the bare minimum, so I do not think that it could suck up enough water to split. Therefor I suspect that the cutting had the split in it before I got it - I just never noticed before. -
Sometimes I have had a cactus split by receiving to much water, creating a cavity. It has callused over and had no bearing on the health of the plant.
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What I usually do is wait about a week after the fruit has formed and pluck the fruit from the plant, there should be very little resistance.
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If you cover my cost for postage - I can send you cutting of Sceletium tortuosum Sceletium emarcidum Delosperma bosseranum Delosperma echinatum Trichodiadema stellatum Lampranthus spectabilis (red) Mesembryanthemum (Aptenia) cordifolium (purple) Message me if you are interested.
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No experience with consumption myself either but maybe I need to expel some bad spirits....
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I've been propagating this for a while now, but have no experience with consumption. How does it taste? Grows well from cutting, but not from seed, in my (limited) experience.
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