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Here's my examples of this cross - two are similar crest but the the other one has the really closely spaced ribs - and is putting out a very pretty little columnar - I'm curious to see what happens to the columnar section - will it go crested and I'll have a "crest on a stick" or some such thing? The one in the back started out monstrose, then went dichotomous and both columns are normal thus far.

Much respect to the members who made the camping trip such a tripped out tripper of a trip . You guys are true brothers and sisters. Thank-you and a big shout out to THCixx420for making the island available to us to play around in/on and for providing the canoes/pa/generator etc and general knowledge of the place for all of us to immerse ourselves in mother natures bounties. It was beautiful to share the tunes,laughs,food, time and space with all you like minded souls. cheers crew

Heh I have 80cm and 30cm plants (about to gift my 8cm baby), but germinating this guy from seed is of personal importance to me I found a reptile heat mat on ebay for $8 delivered... my thoughts now, based on your suggestions, are to place the a near-sealed plastic container with the seeds in sphagnum on a tile on the mat, and use a thermostat so that when ambient temps are above 30° summer 25° winter I'll trigger the mat on, letting the seeds cool relatively overnight for temperature fluctuations. Keep it moist, wait a few months, cross fingers?

I did not find this discussed here (using a keyword search) but suspect many have already seen this? If not, these two 'performance art' activists are worth watching if only to be amazed at their nerve. "The yes men fix the world" They also have an earlier one out also but this is by far the better of the two.

Sounds like you Melbourne guys know how to have a good meet. Im so jealous you got to play with the drifter for a whole weekend. .......no Im seriously fucking jealous !!! Drifting around in canoes with the drifter, double drifting you guys are greedy.

Ive seen an awsome set up to keep those scavanger ibis away, It was a large fake hawk, looked like paper mache or something with kite material for wings, it was positioned so that it cast a large shadow over the wall where all the ibis roosted and shat, once up I never saw them return. very effective. Heres one i found online.. http://birdsoff.com.au/scare-hawk-decoy-free-shipping/

I can't believe people are finding the no pour tek so hard. It's a piece of piss and it's definitely the way to go. Mix the liquids of your agar recipe, I use Stamets MYEA recipe (have tried others and will use them when ingredients aren't available). Mix in the powders, malt extract is best in powdered form, light malt, not dark malt. It's pretty much another sugar. No you don't want maltodextrin. Heat and dissolve the powders. Slowly stir in your agar and bring to the boil, keep stirring, it will boil over. Let it cool slightly, or not if you are pouring from a turkish coffee pot, with the nice long handle. Put sauce containers all over your bench and pour a good 30 of them. Leave the lids off, let those suckers cool right down to room temp. Then put lids on them all. I then stack them in towers of 8. I put each stack of 8 into a 80mm wide PP bag, I fold the bottom under and I put them in my PC. So I tend to PC four towers of 8, each in their own bags. Also, put your scalpel or pin or knife or tweezers or lock picking tool into a PP bag, add a drop of water and roll up, put that in your PC too. You could seal the bags up with sandwich bag twist ties. Let the PC come to heat until it's blowing steam with gusto. Then add the weight. Once the weight starts dancing set your timer for 60 mins and set the temp right so the weight is just dancing a little. After 60 mins, turn off the heat. Come back the following day to a completely cooled PC and carry it to your running hood. Open it in your hood and get to work. If you don't use all your plates, don't worry, they are double sealed from contams.

Well,as predicted the flowers are blooming,however somewhere someone posted an article mentioning that the Acacia flowers are; pro·to·gy·nous[proh-tuh-jahy-nuhs, -gahy-, proh-toj-uh-nuhs] Show IPA adjective Botany . of or pertaining to a flower in which the shedding of pollen occurs after the stigma has stopped being receptive; having female sex organs maturing before the male. Also, proterogynous. So I suspect I'll be pollinating manually. The rods that emerged last spring are in bloom,while the rods that emerged this past fall are almost to the point of blooming. I've got my tiny paint brush and am ready to go. It's disturbing how little information there is regarding manual Acacia pollination,

coolness.. yeah i've seen a ton of evidence that its genetic... but i've also seen evidence that the cristate germ or whatever can spread to a scion from a graft.... I wonder though if genetic could possibly be something to do with the plant packaging some of the infecting agent into the seeds or maybe even it changing the dna or something.. I know with Pachycereus Pringlei, the plant packages a bacteria with its seeds, which grow in the roots and help break down rocks in the plants early age to aide the plant with absorbing minerals in strange soil free rock crevaces... but im just wondering if there could be some simlar effect with monstrous triches http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycereus_pringlei The plant I have which I think is like an ecuadorian pach that looks like your TPQC has absolutely no sign of anything cristate whatsoever, except a little part of a tip that didn't grow right looks sort like a blue chicken leg or something lol... I think its more like an ecuadorian pach cause it still reminds me more of kimnach.... it certainly clumps like kimnach but not to say its not just some random other plant... Beautiful plant and very nice monsters you have btw

Noticed that my grafted section of TPM x SS02 is starting to grow - woo! This is my mutant project - we have a T bridgesii cristata, a caesposita, and now this cross growing on the same pachanoi: And I potted up my favorites from 3 Australia hybrid seed batches I grew out: Super Pedro x J3: Super Pedro x Psycho0: T bridgesii "Bruce" x T. macrogonus "sausage"/(Yowie?) Also, anyone know what strain this is? I totally dig this fat blue peruvianoid from Australia - heard maybe it was "Sharxx Blue" or something? I got it with a a cutting of Roseii 1 and Roseii 2 - I prefer this to either of those I think..

Well if I had to live on an island with 4 A caapi, a phleb, and a nice blue bridgie. And every winter subs came up everywhere. ....Im not greedy.

Did I say i was finished? From Feb 1 and 2.

is anyone keen for a meet at mine?? we have decided we are leaveing perth in 4 weeks. So we've got bullshit amounts of plants to find homes for

No this is just a small offset that was cut from the first one that Hellonasty sold on ebay. The clone itself doesn't have a lot of spines but they tend to be bigger than on the other clone that has been around for a while imo. Myco I will eventually be offering this into the community but I will be propagating it heavily first and they will be grafts that I will be making available but I cant see this happening for another year or so I don't want to see these just disappear into someones collection or be a money making venture. These should be available to any one that wants to add one to there collection. If that makes them common so be it. Cheers Got

Hey guys, I was just thinking we all have different favourite plants for different uses. so i was just thinking what are your top ten plants that you couldn't do without?

Lol

the boab, is an ethno plant, ethno means of use/benefit to humans. the seeds of the boab, are said to be high in vitamin c for example, and can be stored for a long time. some people claim, that ancient seafarers carried those seeds, and avoided scorbut. it's one of my favorites aswell, and i planted one out in my garden.

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Think layers. Dig caves.. mounds... utilise trees, climbers.. Potatos and yams, in tyre stack..asparagus grows vertically fro YONKS too.. herb spirals on mounds make use of small space SPECIALTY..the key is not on YIELD but in DESIRABILITY>..always therell be more somewhere..just gotta make your more, more appealing. native..wild..local. ANIMALS aswell..aquaculture..chicken tractors..all of which should be niche high profit shite...gourmet mushrooms, superfoods.. and STORABILITY.. FKN ACORN TREEEs, yo! Will take a couple of decades..but can produce tonnes of high fat, high protein, high carb.. also.. thinking commodity..grow anything that fetches good regular demand.

Yeah should of phrased that better. Just saying that it was possible for them to I did put an IMO

should be fine, without additional heat. they take about 3 and more months to germinate, so by than it, ought to be still very warm at your location. i think, like many seeds, they benefit from teperature fluctuations, so outdoors, would be better than a constant heat source. but sure one can set a heatmat onto a timer aswell.

Ive been using Osmocote native potting mix for my acacias and ive noticed there is quite alot of thin white streaky mycelium inside the bag, Fingers crossed osmocote has done its reasearch on symbiotic fungi and its not just something random growing inside the bag.

cheers I hear you slice. indeed I got a cuzco with reddish/orange spines . I also got one with immense spination. Those of yours could be a hybrid, or maybe this is a normal variation. These are nice plants. Are you positive these are clean cuzcos, end of discussion? I bought a batch of pasacanas, they too show a variation in spine colour there are blonds, there are the orange/brownish and some a bit faded brown. I am not sure T.glaucus is particularly valid as a name, other than a phenotype. But it does have characteristically round areoles and is quite blue