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Hi all, I have some special seeds to get to the right members. 10 seed and soil packs to giveaway. Each pack includes: 10 x Acacia Courtii seed + Rhizobia 10 x Acacia Phlebophylla seed + Rhizobia Due to the scarcity and relative difficulty of germination with these species, I am looking to get these seeds to members who have already developed some propagation skills with this genus (Acacia). Post some pictures here of acacias you have grown from seed (honesty required), doesn't matter what species. If you got the goods (skills) you get the seeds, I will pm you to forward the pack. Terms and conditions: To keep the gifting going and to get these trees out there, members who apply agree to giveaway at least one seedling of each species (if you successfully grow multiples) to a fellow SAB member by posting it on this thread! Open Worldwide

Although the stock is worn out, it's putting on good growth

Hi folks, After many years of saving Im almost ready to make a move up to northern nsw.I have been wanting to get out of the melbourne and live on some land where it is warm for a long time now, (the warmth and humidity helps with my physical ailments, plus I really dont like the cold) so I am very excited.I am looking forward to trying to achieve something like self sufficiency, well... something along those lines.. I would like to not have to pay rent or mortgage and not feel locked into a typical job situation every day for my survival.. so planning to grow as much of my own food as possible and perhaps keeping a few animals, try and keep myself busy doing the things I want to do when i want to do them.I am also wanting to support the natural environment as much as possible and put more time into caring for injured and orphaned wildlife.I have seen a few possible properties that I have my eyes on, mainly for private sale, freehold lease, but one MO.However I have never bought property before, or had anything to do with buying property.So I am putting this out there for advice and suggestions.Are there any scams/legal issues/complications, anything I should be aware of when buying through private sale? Or issues with MO land?Being from Victoria I am not hugely familiar with the NNSW/northern rivers area, I have travelled there, love the feel and the weather and all the delicious things I could grow there.. anyone who is familiar with the area have any advice for me when looking at land? Things I should look out for, potential problems I may encounter?I am of course trying to do my own research on these things but it would be good to get some other peoples ideas.This will be a really big move and change of lifestyle for me, I'm trying to step away from a lifetime of full time city based working and spend more time being present in nature working with plants like my body and mind have been telling me i need to for my whole life... so I wouldnt want to fuck it up by doing something silly like buying somewhere that is underwater for half of the year!Any help or conversation on the topic is welcomed. I am trying not to create a plan in my mind that is rigid in any sense so I dont end up disappointed or working towards something that is not realistic.At the moment I sort of envisage quitting my job and driving up north in my 4x4 with a rooftop tent, inspecting properties and looking around the area til i find what I want, buy it, then go back to vic and get the trailer with all my stuff and favorite plants and bring it all back up. Something like that. Maybe involving a yurt to start the property accommodation.

A while a go I sewed a batch of kk339 bought via wwseeds.More recently did some gardening and ended chopping down all except 3 individuals which are very collectible. One looks like wild pachanoi, more Huancabamba than Chan Chan and an other 2 which have bridge/peruv or bridge/huan. in them?

Fuck you autocorrect I said MATHEMAGICIANS and I meant it.

That literally sounds like my idea of hell...like I get there and the devil is waiting with a thousand rootbound Opuntias

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change so is it that cat that particularly shits you, you know , the one that talks all about spiritual beings that materialize out of no where? You know, they reckons that those beings keep him alive and sane. Or is the fact that science and maths cannot be on the same bell curve in your physical universe? Man, i love reading the vigour in your posts. Lately though, you are displaying anger and frustration more - than the usual cool dissection of the current proposed thread argument. Spring has sprung and it naturally inspires nurturing growth. Maybe you have a lot of pentup planting energy. Plant some seeds man. I too have seen the jasmine in my backyard putting out wee flowers. Ano i love that scent so much too, makes me go oingo boingo in a good way. maths and science and shit are actually all interwoven with the life we are experiencing the way we see it individually. Just thinking about the meaning of our existence is an answer to atleast two of your meandering musings about rants about cunts that shit me because all they talk about is Gaia is all encompassing. hope you are growing some seedlings don't let the hooks hook ya.

Would very much like to obtain a cut of each plenty to swap, or can organise dollar dollar bills yall.

OK, so maybe the astronomer wasn't such a good example - there was almost no significance to me picking that profession - just needed someone for the dude with the net to talk to. Ha, I think (after almost 12 hours) I just got what you are saying - fucking unobservable fish! It's not a bad point. Anyway, like I said, it wasn't well thought out, just wanted to present another possible angle to the argument between those who think that what exists is best described by our observations, and those who think there might be something else.

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I got thinking about this again after reading Change and Sally’s recent conversation. I don’t know if this will help them see each others' point of view, but here’s hoping. This idea isn’t well developed. And I can’t take much credit for it – it’s mostly based on the ideas of another philosopher, John N Wright - and he based his ideas on what he read of Athur Eddington and Laurence Bonjour. We argue about what there is, and isn’t – what exists or does not. Some of our arguments are based on what we perceive, others on what we can infer from these perceptions, and still others from more abstract reasoning. Regarding what we decide or infer from our perceptions, I’d like to tell you a little story. On a voyage of discovery, there was a biologist surveying a newly found ocean for fish species. He was doing this using a net. This net had holes 4 inches wide – meaning that the smallest fish it could catch was just a shade over 4 inches long. It is no surprise then that he never caught anything smaller than 4 inches, but did collect fish in a range of sizes from 4.1 inches up to whale-shark sized leviathans. Still, the man worried about what to report in his survey. He had evidence for fish of certain sizes, but not others. He could safely report that there were fish bigger than 4 inches. And he could say that he had not observed or perceived any fish smaller than 4 inches. But the thought nagged him: What could he say about hypothetical fish that the net did not catch? He raised his concerns with the rest of the crew. On one hand, many of the crew advised that he can say nothing about the existence of things that might have slipped though the net, because he has no evidence - no observations - that they in fact exist. (This is the position of the philosopher of science called Eddington - I think – it’s been a while). But one crew member, an astronomer, took a different view. She said that since the biologist had perceived fish of a range of sizes, he has the right to infer the probable (but not definite) existence fish of less than 4 inches in length. The biologist was taken aback. “How can you justify this”, he asked, “and why as a probability?” The astronomer wryly arched an eyebrow at the biologist. “What are the odds that the size of your net exactly corresponds to the size of the smallest fish in this ocean?” “Umm” “I mean, it would be a massive, cosmological coincidence that the fish, in this ocean we’ve never observed until this week, exactly match the size of that net that you’ve had for years.” Later, when trying to write up his findings, the biologist weighed up the choices in his mind. What was more likely, that his net just happened to match this size of the smallest fish in the ocean, or that there might be fish smaller than those he had observed? While he couldn’t assign a specific probability to either, he had an intuition as to what seemed more likely. On the basis of his, he wrote home saying that, all things considered, there were definitely fish 4 inches and larger and probably fish smaller than 4 inches. And could someone send him a new net. If this sounds outlandish, consider what we can perceive with the un-aided eye. Wouldn’t it be a massive coincidence if the smallest animal that existed was exactly the same size as the smallest thing we could see with the naked eye? I think so, (as does John Wright, whose views I am clumsily relaying). This pattern applies to anything that enhances our perceptions – it would be a coincidence if the smallest thing that existed just happened to be the smallest thing that we could see with the best microscope we had at any given time. How does this apply to the kinds of things we argue about existing or not, here in this community? Well, as the eye and microscope example is supposed to illustrate, the net, that things can slip through, can be our perceptual limits. I would, personally, go further. What if the net is not just made of the limits of what we can observe? What if the net that things slip through is also made up of our concepts and ideas? It’s a bit radical, but something to think about. Even if you pull back from that, I think the idea of our perceptual limits as the net has some pretty wild implications concerning what we might say is probable, cosmologically speaking. It allows for the possibility that the universe could be quite radically unlike what we observe. But (and I can't stress this enough), it's also possible that the universe is exactly as it seems to our perceptions. Now, I’m not coming down in favour of one side or another in any argument about whether or not plant-spirits/machine elves/hyper-spatial entities/non-material souls exist. Rather, I wonder if the net analogy gives us a different way to consider these things – maybe that is helpful for those on both sides of the debate.

I nearly died trying to take cuttings though...lol its on a really steep slope and the ground is covered in old cactus logs, would have looked hilarious to people driving past on the main road

Wow. so many Acacia growers here. *feelsnoobish.jpg* but here are the pics anyway Maidenii: Acuminata: Mixed:

i look forward to hearing more about your perspectives, every time im shown that my positions is wrong it brings me a step closer to understanding what is correct

Roast Mescaline. Chicken flavoured.

Save your money and don't buy into the Byron shire, it is TOO pricey to my mind. You will buy the land and then have nothing for building and development, I know a few people who have done that. The tweed shire can be good, still pricey though, and of course, you go further south it is cheaper. The whole area is big. I know some people who are living out west near Kyogle, which is another option. Even Tenterfield is great (but three hours from the coast) I would advise to think about what kind of social life you want to have out there. This is the main thing that city people have difficulty with. The comparative isolation can really do a lot of people's heads in. You know what they say, "Go to heaven for the climate, and hell for the company!" If you have friends up that way, great. But it can be hard for some to make friends, as you are a blow in, and they say it takes ten years to become a local up there. I stayed 11 around the northern rivers and noticed a shift exactly at ten years. But still, I have noticed many people I know struggling up that way. The issue with towns like Mullumbimby, is that it is a small town with heaps of gossiping, small minded thinking and people who think they are big fish, without any "Northern Exposuresque" charm or innocense of actual real characters, and not just human stereotypes. (which you will more likely find in small and more remote towns) You also want to consider the soil of your property before buying it, and getting it tested. I would personally do a lot of driving around the north coast (it is a huge area), see what towns you like, and see where you like the people and the land.

So we visited little nigel last week. Hes on to nearly 9kgs and much more independent, nearly off the milk, but still loves human cuddles. He's a loner wombat though and doesnt appreciate other wombat company other than to bite them on the bum... but thats normal for wombats. The little wombats (there are 7 wombats in care on the property) have been growing up together so they get along with each other and will have buddys when they are released. Heres some nigel photos... and some baby wombat photos..

Well you raised an interesting irony anyway. The scenario has been framed in different ways over the years but we think of people with "spiritual beliefs" as the ones who invoke unobservable fish to make their views plausible. In fact leading scientists have been doing this blatantly for a long time and their search for non-baryonic fish continues under the assumption that these fish exist because otherwise their existing theories are implausible. The cruellest part of this irony is that these mathematicians tell us how the universe began and sitting in the pews we believe. Detractors are roundly and often falsely accused of pseudoscience and burned at the stake. This is a serious problem.

Quote, sure is! I'd recommend going out there if anyone's nearby, it's about 1.5 hours each way from me or I'd go get some more pieces.

It is! I have numerous pieces from when he had it advertised a year or so ago as "cactus". He asked what it was at the time and I wrote down trichocereus peruvinaus for him, I guess he's an echinopsis fan though. ;) And the PC X Peru seeds I gave away recently were pollinated with this plant's pollen.

Thanks mate, I try my best to give my babies nice clay homes. It's just not possible sometimes though. And cheers for the id, that is what I'm hoping for obviously but I don't think I'll be able to confirm it for a year or two yet. Also, I've have a few nice blue peru's. The three you see in that last photo are, left to right, grown from pachanoi seed off eBay (eBay pach), Len and Trent. Then there's this lot... Back row, left to right, icaro, jac001, another Trent, David and what was given to me as a macrogonus. David is my bluest. At night in the torchlight he's as blue as my pilosocereus pachycladus!

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Yes , nothing is without risk , however I suspect that psychedelics will some day prove to be most helpful therapeutic psychological medications . I believe such a study is recently being done in Switzerland . I think it is time for a big re - think , and a return for psychedelics to be legally accessible without all the hype and stupidity of the '60s that led the them being indiscriminately outlawed .

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great timing to finally get out to visit my phleb yesterday , overjoyed to find in full bloom 6+ months since started budding (in the centre background is a courtii put in before winter, several days with <0 deg temps potentially down to -3 has turned completely bronzed but think will pull thru. I collected some phleb flowers and today rubbed them on some courtii flowers out in a friends Melbourne garden now that would be a cool hybrid )

I have stated my opinion as I have had a family member die from lung cancer. He wanted this medicine but couldn't get it due to stupid laws that are totally ridiculous stating that Cannabis has no medical values. It has been proved by science and Cannabis users that Cannabis does have many medicinal values some of which are still being discovered. Any medicine that people use will always be subject to abuse and misuse. That is the world we live in. People should have the right to chose what works best for them as RC has said. Bring on the medical and recreational Cannabis that is my opinion.

Bitch........... please, post the funniest meme YOU can make and receive a TBMC graft, prints, seeds and things if you have not made a meme before, don't stress its easy, search engine 'meme maker' and go from there, it will take no more than 5 mins to make a piss funny meme, then cut and paste the attachment or the url to your post. open worldwide - you will receive - the Tricocereus Bridgesii Monstrose Crest (TBMC) Graft in the pics below P. cubensis prints and a P. weraroa swab (for microscopy only) asstd acacia seeds inc phleb and courtii. Trichocereus seeds and a few little surprises guidelines - * 1 meme per member, no editing once posted (unless you posted before the 22nd july) * post no words that are not part of your meme. * your meme can be an existing meme or image or phrase as long as you have changed it in some way to make it your own, please do not post an existing meme without altering it. Best to make your own. * please, nothing that is too derogatory (funny is ok though) * likes will choose the winning meme * EXTENDED for 2 weeks - ends august the 10th....9pm Adelaide time. so no rush, think of something really funny. * if you posted a meme before the 22nd of july you get to enter as many times as you like till the end of the comp this graft will be sent to the person who makes the winning meme, anywhere in the world. parent plant (the small graft was on ebay last week, the buyer couldn't pay for it)

Looks like my letter came in. Very wicked! Thanks very much man. Cool stuff.

Cats. Can't help but love them, can't avoid being driven mad by their antics and endless demands. Bloody cats. Furry overlords.

I like to use a straw/haw based mulch on veggie gardens about 3" deep. This in combination with a drip system on a well drained raised bed will help. Weed compost tea is great! just go picking weeds in parks, vacant land anywhere, very easy to fill a 20l pail in a few minute's. Give them a good chop up in the bucket to increase surface area and aid in decomposition, add water and fill up to within an inch of the top (DO NOT FIT A TIGHT FITTING LID!) cover and put away from the prevailing breeze as will smell fruity! leave 4-5 weeks, strain 'tea' into a container and add the rotted weeds to the compost bin. Dilute 1 part tea 10 parts water. Even better if you have a fertigation set up so you can feed via reticulation (on the ever expanding wish list). This same process can be applied with seaweed (where legal to harvest).

I am probably 'preaching to the choir' here but the general consensus is that set and setting play a significant role in a situation where psychedelics are experienced. Most importantly this includes the frame of mind that the individual is in. Being under the influence of psychedelics when you have unresolved issues, or are experiencing hard times, or for a large number of reasons you do not under stand your own mind (and are not stable), normally results in those things getting brought forward and you are forced to face it. Now wether you are actually capable of dealing with what ever comes up is another question. The second thing is dosage, most people that take psychedelics do so in a responsible and cautious manner. I assume its because of the first point that I was taking about. Unlike alcohol, which is generally consumed to excess and causes sedation and inebriation, at higher doses psychedelics can quickly overwhelm an individuals senses and frame of reference to the situation they are in. Psychedelics do not have the depressant effect of the bodies central nervous system that alcohol does, and what that means is when combined with a situation when an individual is overwhelmed and having a bad-trip (I hate to use that term), they are still very capable of doing any thing they can to try and escape the situation they think they are in - that may be running away, trying to self harm or hurting others close by (I have been in a situation where this occurred as a consequence). Thirdly, how an individual deals with the trip in the following days can also have a significant effect on their life and frame of mind, especially if they had a highly negative experience.

cool, it looks like you have most bases covered for water saving. An area for investigation might be to use larger trees as wind-breaks, trees also act as a surface for airborne humidity to collect on and fall to the lands surface. Furthermore, trees can be used to manipulate the rain to fall in bands leaving wetter and dryer areas within the garden...

its really dependent on what it is you're potting up & potting soils used......but generally speaking larger pots from the git-go translates into bigger plants. pot up some 3-4 cm trich seedlings in 10 cm pots and seedlings from the same batch in 2 liter pots and then track their growth rates. would it be advisable to pot up 5mm loph seedlings in 2 liter pots? Not hardly. Why not? think of a pot as a closed ecosystem and whether the plant tolerates wet soggy feet, either by human watering or mother nature supplying the water. dwarf fruit trees? heck yes, biggest pots possible

worm farms are great! ive got 2 on the go, about once a week my veggies get a little worm juice. I've used old 2L bottles with a 6 inch length of pipe attached to the end. the pipe is plugged up at the end and very small holes drilled in the sides. i put the pipe into the ground just next to a seedling and as the water slowly comes out its right where the plant wants it. takes about 2-5 days to empty. great for brassicas and cabbage also plants that don't like getting dry like cucumber. compost is gold!! best fertilizer EVER! and its free free free an smells good too water crystals are fun to play with but ive not found them to be any better than compost rich soil when it comes to water saving also they only last about 12 -18 months then seem to turn to sludge and disperse. mulching with fresh cut mulch (the stuff you can get free from tree loppers) is also a good water saver as it attracts different fungi and microorganisms as it slowly ages and breaks down. i forget the details of how this works but has made a big difference for me.

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Slow over winter for me, I don't have lights. They were happy on the windowsill, but they are hardening off outside now.

Since this thread is currently so sorely lacking in pics, I thought it would be a good place to post a pic of EG's seedlings....at least the ones I havent managed to kill...... EG mailed me a buncha seeds so long ago I forgot, well anyway they were planted a few months ago...

Hey Guys! Here is the final greenhouse. It´s not perfect and there were some big problems during the construction but I am still glad I could get it together somehow. Live and learn...the next one will be better.

some nitrogen monsters. kindly gifted to me by Nemisty. cheers mate! and thanks nitrogen for creating these beastys. so much fun to grow

Hey Guys, some of the side panels were upside down, which is why it ended up collapsing during the storm. I now spent another day getting everything right and added some additional screws and metal rods to give it some more structure. I am surprised because it actually looks really good now. But I´ll still buy the additional wind protection set for like 80 bucks or so, just to make sure it survives the winter. We had a storm when I was building the greenhouse, what made it kinda hard to set everything up. I was working in the pouring and every minute or so I had some pretty bad gusts of wind, what made it hard to get everything together. Nonetheless, everything looks stable now and I´ll add the roof panels later today.

Hello everybody I am new and this is my first post here. It is nice to see you are growing mandrakes. Here they grow wild everywhere. But now in Summer they are "Missing in Action" like Chuck Norris They usually have fruits and seeds around Christmas. Greetings.

IVe planted an accuminata and phleb hedge along the fence line between my neighbour and I, I alternated phleb, accum, phleb accum planted 50cm apart, I hear acacias hedge well so we will see how it goes!