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contact the unfair dismissal mob or the associated union, they have denied you opportunity and at the same time failed to offer equal employment opportunity - stick it to them, so what if you dont get the job, teach them a lesson.edit to say fairwork australia as well

Hi everyone, I just thought I should see if there are many members here that collect Agaves? I have just started collecting few myself & would like some help in working out correct id's for them. If there is someone here who knows about Agave's & can help with id's please post below & I will & take some photos of about 8 different species tomorrow & post them here. Cheers jox

Well after 10 years my beloved Caapi is finally flowering. Pretty little mauve flowers. Yeah,I know I could look up the answers to my questions,but I like the personal touch of asking my planthead bros. So....Tell me its not one of those plants that flowers and dies. Can it pollinate itself or being stand alone will the seed be infertile. At what stage should I collect the seed....what should I look for.... if they fall on the ground I will never find them. How long should I wait till I plant the seed...should they fully dry out or anything like that. General advise please guys. All assistance apreciated.

....And make sure you get Rocksmith too, I'm totally hooked on it at the moment and my fingers are killing me.

Go 200hz if you can afford it for console gaming. I dropped $5000 on the biggest Samsung in the country and have never looked back. Go with Samsung for gaming, TV and Movies IMO.

Why hasnt my other loph exhibited any of these strange properties then? It has exactly the same environment as the pair in question! Why do some people suffer more oftenly from certain diseases than others? Maybe the one that looks normal was healthier and could deal better with the conditions than the others. Or maybe it stopped growing instead of showing distored growth. The exact reason isnt really important as i can guarantee you that this elongated growth comes from lack of light/UV Rays in combination with too warm temperatures. The fact that the "tips" have a pale yellow color instead of a natural green one points out the lack of light as well. Pups that didnt get any light because they were covered from soil look like that too.

Mums got a bit of a bush, got... Time for a Brazilian...

I'm down for a pair of plate mail gloves CBL!! Didn't really do much today bar receive this absolute slab of a Rosie cutting! Thats a coopers longneck bottle for comparison.

Ok the west aussies will save the day again. I will send you a little red but it might take a couple of weeks. This is mum Cheers Got

Beautiful man congratulations

My second and third flowers opened yesterday Cheers Got

Confirming that i'll be there. cant wait to catch up with you all. emule, i know exactly how you feel, i used to be really shy, still am on occassions. But when cathcing up with people of similar interests and mindset, it make it so much easier. i hope to see you there. Not sure what i can bring for trades this time around. all i can probably manage will be a cactus cut for a newbie, and maybe some seeds.

I'd like to try to come along. I'll be held back by time and the fact that I'm EXTREMELY shy around new people. I'll really, really try to make it if I can. I hate to accept anything from anyone without giving at least a little back, so I still have HBRW seeds available to anyone.

^ sorry, couldnt help it.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE

I'm still trying to work out what the reason for the LSD is, but yeh man, go. Fuck em all !

Well, I don't actually see a reason that there can't be two groups formed, if someone wanted to form the complementary group, and then these two groups together, hosted a direct campaign against this particular legislation - then the net of support would be cast a lot wider, as people could choose the organization to their taste, but still support the same campaign.

I think whitewind is on the right track. He has the knowledge and contacts to make an impact. It doesn't take PhD's. It does however take connections. I think ethnobotany is an angle that is honest, but also dififcult. If you use it you must be sure to distinguish it from entheobotany or it will become increasingly difficult to get traction. Ethnobotany is only a loaded word in australia because we are such a scientifically retarded nation. In other countries the term conjurs up images of heroic explorers and the commodities they found that built whole nations. Go to Holland and the Tropen Museum will teach you that Holland was built on coca and sceletium. Go to Kew in the UK and you will learn about the amazing voyages that brought man of the european staple foods to europe. In australia we have neither embraces international ethnobotany nor the ethnobotany of our indigenous population, and that's why it is such a limited term here. But this is changing with ethnobotanical luminaries like Mabberley being head of sydney botanic garden, and more and more research going into native plants for food, medicine and fuel. Australia is also becoming more and more tolerant of ethnic diversity, so while 40 years ago we turned our noses up at wogfood like pizza, we now embrace things like quinoa and purple carrots. It is however difficult to get any mainstream gardening societies to align themselves with your goals if there is even the slightest whiff of drugs associated with what you are doing. So if you are counting on outside help then the term ethobotany won't be the best. if you have the guts to stand on your own feet then it is perfect. if you are goign to spend a lot of time fighting laws like the model schedules then it doesn't matter what name you picked because you will be associated with drugs anyway and hence will immediately lose that support. So might as well be honest and stick with ethnobotany. You don't need an auditor. Save yourself the money. That's really only needed when you deal with bigger funds. Psylo, you've got whitewind all wrong and I guess I should not be surprised about your judgemental nature. He has funding, doesn't need physical premises, and has more than enough experience and aptitude. You speak about people being all talk and no action, yet other than a couple of activities that would have taken you all of an hour I don't see you making any grand contributions. As for the support you have for Greg, that is a questionable position. I have personally stated that I will not undermine his efforts, but I am also not supporting him publically. A similar choice was made by virtually ALL of the active members and groups of the wider ethnobotany community. This is not out of laziness, but out of direct disapproval of his processes, background and methods. My personal view is that he is unlikely to cause wider damage and hence I think it is an interesting and harmless experiment, but I am still not in favour of it. You will also not find prism or EGA or any other such group supporting him. Keeping in mind that many of the members are his friends it should give you some idea just how singular your position is. On the other hand I could see most of these individuals and entities getting behind whitewind's idea. And whitewind does not have dreadlocks nor is he a typical hippie.

Grrrr - So many delay's to my EP..... Soon peoples soon, its already 12 months over due. Heres a quick Tech Step track I been working on the last few when I get a chance. http://soundcloud.com/gearlobe/the-turning Thanks for the support all.

Even if you could get them growing up in a tree you might have a problem with them once they got big and had no roots in the ground to support the plant. Here's a couple shots of T. terscheckii up in a tree in Tucuman, Argentina. ~Michael~

Ah yes very nice thank you. As you can see above there are two very distinct populations, confined to altitude with no range in between. This is very unusual in biological populations. I can assure you that it doesn't occur in the highlands around Mackay (Eungella, Finch Hatton, etc) as I spend some time kidnapped by the enemy tribes of that region some decades ago. (What a time we had too! Grins all round! Beautiful country! I remember sitting on a cliff edge at sunrise, feet dangling over the edge, having the first smoke of the day and watching several hundred Richmond Birdwing butterflies feasting on the opening flowers of an enormous Pararistolochia praevenosa vine that dangled down from the trees above me to near the foot of the cliff. They were so close you could touch them. They were totally oblivious to me and carried on sipping nectar like iridescent green hummingbirds. As I sung chants to them, 3 gorgeous young gins came with my breakfast and to beg me to start their cooking fire for the day, with my manly "thum-pup" - what you people call fire sticks - as only men carry them. I could tell by the food they had prepared me, and the look in their lovely brown eyes, they were very excited to be hosting such a powerful captive as myself. So I sung for them over my breakfast as they massaged my shoulders and weaved little blue and red flowers in my hair and beard - which was very black back then - and were charmed by my voice and beautiful body... Hold on folks = I'm digressing wildly here! Back to the botanics yes?) So presumably the ancient populations were connected in the time of the great Landsborough sandstone's deposition and became separated by the great Pioneer River's erosion to form the Pioneer Valley onto the coast. Hence it is a very old and very powerful species and bears very little relationship with other Pityrodia spp. You see this also expressed in its well drifted genetic sequence in one of those fine scientific papers above. So it was rather an outstanding choice to found the Genus upon. None of the other's are like it at all and have probably evolved from it since. None of the others are poisonous either - which is a good sign for the overall health effects of this plant. I've certainly consumed enough to know it isn't! Afraid I can not say too much about it in pregnancy and lactation as it was a men's magic. It doesn't contain thujone either. Now I'm assured that here as avatars in forum we are like the angels, neither black nor white, neither male nor female, neither given or taken in marriage, and so the normal restrictions of Earth women prying into men's secrets don't apply here. But if there are any women of totem crocodile out there - be ashamed because the moon will take you for your disobedience. You have been warned! That lazy PhaemonsDog should have climbed those mountains by now to gather you people some cuttings, but all the lazy shit has done is make me look at loads of paperwork to identify it to species. Not good enough! He thinks he'll get out of the work - but he won't. All I see is picture of that scraggly red stemmed proper rubbish one and not the one I want him to get. The bum should have kept mine alive when he sampled it twenty years ago now. To completely confirm it I need to see its living aura and not some monitor reproduction! No - there won't be anything much on the internet about it. No more than on any other aspect of australian black culture! Try looking up thum-pup, or even Byellee, or for that matter the whole Goeng-Goeng nation! No they are too busy building megaports, ruining the harbour and treating us like proper rubbish! Hence why I write to this forum, to preserve a little while I can. So thank you for reading this and I shall tell you some more soon. SAB shall have exclusive use of this one! Thank you Mr T! and folk. And all the good people above for their links and maps and things - because I am still learning this computer thing and that dog won't be back for a bit. Respect! and Peace! Most High Spirit bless you.

i can just see my self doing the sound of music

This God of yours is a bad influence on you reptyle, I want you to stop hanging out with him.

Phyllode as soon as an individual "owns" something then we are on shaky moral ground. When a community "owns" something, this is a little better. However, this still does not take into account other species, so it is still morally a little questionable. A community should carefully and sustainable use resources, while trying to give back to the land as much as they take. Mining and logging companies are at the furthest end of the scale; they take as much resources as they can get, and don't even give much back to the community - profits go to a few individuals, and the land gets back nothing. This is not sustainability.