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During the weekend our friend gave us a scrimshaw tool and some pieces of deer antler to work on, since i am always fiddling around with the tiny little details in my art, i thought i should give it a go. here are my first two pieces, and i was totally hooked from the moment i began! now i'm trying to source some more deer antler, teeth and bone so i can continue my new found love of scrimshaw. i have been constantly daydreaming about all the different cacti, trees and animals i could scrim. first piece, took about 2 hours (beginners luck, this one is much tidyer and nicer than the next) Ariocarpus Fissuratus second piece, took about 3 hours (messy but good practice) Lycopodiaceae (300 million year old giant clubmoss - the image is some scientists carefully created guesswork, as complete fossils of these plants have never been found but the different pieces were found together so often they depicted them as one species) size comparisson:

A few of my Trichs have ether reached flowering age or I have managed to induce flowers. I have only ever had one Trich flower before and it was a big Pach ( 5 foot cutting ) that had flowered before we took the cutting. The first season that it was planted it put on a great show and then the next season ( last year ) no flowers at all. During winter I moved all of my Trich's from one end of the property to the other. They now get a bit more sun but they used to get 6 hours + before I moved them. The only other changes that have been made was to cut some of the roots that had grown out of the bottom of the pots. I have also recently changed to a lower nitrogen fertilizer but the buds had started forming before I started using it. I thought I would use this thread to follow my Trich's from buds to flowers. My big pach has already lost its buds due to someone throwing a rock over my fence and breaking of the top 30cm. Three weeks ago Today Super Pedro three weeks ago Today Bridge x Scop three weeks ago Today Peruvian ( Len ) Today Cheers Got

well the weather has been pretty shocking in my town over the last month, we have literally had about 4 sunny days in the last month, buut my cacti don't seem too concerned and have been pumping out the flowers whenever they get a nice day. flower power! strombocactus disciformis day one day two i cross pollenated these two.. (note the size differece, these plants are both ten years old) 5 ribbed loph (looking very girly) turbinicarpus schmiedickeanus turbinicarpus polaskii turbinicarpus swobodae yesterday i built a new garden bed, which i'll plant out with things like skullcap, valerian, verbena and silene used my own compost for the first time ever, i was very impressed with the size and quantity of worms! sally and silene are enjoying the greenhouse

I suppose if you've tried it & seen no apparent benefits, then this would be a fair enough statement. So out of curiosity, have u tried it yourself gman..?

I really don't think ur going to have much luck with this. People who have bonded with plants/nature don't really need to pay a mambership and be part of an organization. My organization is the soil in my garden, it signed me up as a life member many generations ago.

A Garden Which Belongs To Bog Here is my little Boggy, note the monstrose bunny ears growing out of her head That'l do for now. I'll update this thread over spring and summer with any spectacular new growth or new plants. Happy "spring" everyone.

Thought I would start a thread to document my experiences growing leafy ethnobotanicals. Hopefully some of this will benefit people growing in a colder climate. Leonotis leonurus in snow Physalis peruviana before flowering Psychotria alba Duboisia hopwoodi seedlings. Just noticed these today, has been a couple months since I sowed these. Ugni molinae Will update as soon as I take some more pics.

Thanks! I think I found it: Espostoa blossfeldiorum http://cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus=Espostoa&species=blossfeldiorum no no shots of flowers, didnt make to even see them

Perhaps marinated in palm sugar since apart from the skin its often called a "sweet meat" If they prove to be a worthwhile fruit it would be interesting to see some seeds circulating among the community.

Bit of a dumb and closed minded article. Primal screaming may in fact be a decent sort of therapy however. Best primal screaming I have ever done is on 1000 mics !

a few pics of the herbs flowering lemon bergamot Anise hyssop or bee balm green anise

Oh - PS - Janov agreed it is only the damaged ego that has adverse drug reactions - a well adjusted, balanced individual has nothing to fear, but nothing to gain, in their use. It is just that on the end of 150 mikes of Electric Blue is a bastard of a way to find out if you're free of neurosis - which isn't likely!

I thought superkabutos dont fruit !?! These Adeniums look awesome alright! It looks as if this seed grown and grafted asterias carries variegated genes after all. Seed sourced from a collection with lots of awesome astros. Also got to transplant a possible crest from a tricho sowing

checked my Astros that I had attempted to cross and looks like fruit forming. Some Gymnocalycium crosses setting fruit too.

Kudos for doing the right thing and destroying it in the fireplace

indeed tripsis, also I like how it appears that mature enough crests, when they do eventually throw a monstrose arm seem to be able to flower. Most crests in propagation must not flower I rekon cause they are hacked up too frequently and propagated and not left to mature like these beauties.

my ariocarpi cereus monstrosa from seed EG T. glaucus ^^^^^ got-a love these plants! Stenocacti from seed. these two one headed lophos [my first ones!] touched in their periphery, and one of them even pupped. These are the one headed kind, the non caespitosa form. I know because I grafted one of them back then. after long wait, astro myrio from seed T. pachanoi crest 4 rib astro myrio offspring

some more, even though its summer time, not spring! T.Glaucus 'EG' L.williamsi 'rahli' Monvilea spegazzini monster awesome cresty graft A Ferobergia, cross between Ferocactus and Leuchtenbergia "true blue" ...

this is to expensive to keep, its definately for sale. Thelocactus and what proved to be my fave so far rebutia part of myprojects

what kind of fert would yougive to a such yellowing cactus? low N, high PK ? echinopsis 'ruby visions' supposedly a terschecki X, but not likely I think a seed-grown terscheckii a special '4-wind' bridgesii ..... ..... is turning 2 of its 4 new sprouts into 4-ribbers! 6 to 4 5 to 4

Save urself. Get some help.

Maybe it is different for every one?, but i feel i have had a glimpse of the truth, and I look at life differently to the average Joe on the street .I am not saying i am better than them, but i am thankful for having psychedelic experiences... in my dreams

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