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And then of course some grafts too...

found this lil one flowering today

A couple A. fissuratus were the first Ariocarpus plants in my collection to flower this year at the end of September, retusus were the last to start flowering. Lots of plants still producing flowers this season though, and none of the lloydii's have opened up yet. Got a new camera and took some pics...still getting used to the new format These are all own-roots plants for the likes of Spanishfly...

It is with great pleasure we announce special EGA Melbourne Plant meet. Please bring seed, plants or goodies to trade with fellow plant heads. Where: Abbotsford Convent Room: Oratory Date: 6th December Cost: Free Time: 12.30 - 5.30 We have 4 EGA speakers for your education and listening pleasers. *Sebastian Job: The Light of the Toad of Light Talk duration: 20 minutes + 10 minutes Q and A Presentation Synopsis: Users of the powerful naturally occurring tryptamine 5-MeO-DMT frequently report that they are briefly dissolved into IT, pure being-nothing, the energetic void, infinite love, or as many simply say, the Light. Obviously this Light is not an 'object' in the ordinary sense, and users invariably stress its ineffable character. In this talk Sebastian will be considering how we might think about this Light and its socio-cultural significance. BIO: Sebastian Job, PhD, is Honorary Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney and Visiting Lecturer at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. His research in recent years has centred on the entheogenic uses of psychoactive substances both in Australia and Latin America, with a particular interest in the environmental, political and philosophical significance of the cultures of use of these substances. **Carl TuneIn: Giving Exotic Ethnobotanicals the Conditions They Need* Talk duration: 20 minutes + 10 minutes Q and A Presentation synopsis: Carl TuneIn will give an outline of seven of the major environmental factors affecting plant vitality. Then, using well-known ethnobotanicals, he will show "how to successfully grow everything from tropicals to alpines in Melbourne". The audience will then share their own successful techniques and vexing problems.Personal or organization Bio: Carl has worked in many fields (education, computing, manufacturing, military, farming), and has six tertiary qualifications (from public policy to surgical theatre nursing). He's successfully grown ~40 different species of ethnobotanicals, and gardened in California, Oregon, Idaho, West Australia, New Zealand, and Victoria. ***Arik Reiss: The Pathologisation of Cannabis Use in the Mainstream Media. Talk duration: 20-30 minutes + 10 minutes Q and A Presentation synopsis: Arik will be discussing media representations of cannabis and how mainstream perspectives based on "pathology" or "otherness" frame much of the public discourse. He will suggest ways to rectify these misrepresentations to create a more favourable image and thereby improve the possibilities of changing drug policies.Personal or organization Bio: Arik Reiss is the director of "Druglawed" and "Inside New Zealand: High Time?", documentary films discussing the failures of cannabis prohibition. Arik has been working full time on drug policy media since 2008. His third film on the subject of cannabis, Druglawed 2, is currently in production. **** Michael Bock: Shamanic Plants of New Guinea Talk duration: 20 minutes + 10 minutes Q and A Presentation synopsis: Whilst there is no evidence of the Australian Aboriginies using any plants shamanically (apart from one reported use of Pituri), the indigenous people of New Guinea (which was part of mainland Australia until a few thousand years ago) used many shamanic plants. This talk explores what we know about the Shamanic Plants of New Guinea. Bio: Longtime researcher of Australasian flora, Michael has presented many varied topics at EGA, all based on an aspect of Australasian natural history to bring his research to a wider audience. For info on the film screenings see the following links; The EGA main page - http://www.entheogenesis.org Sydney Facebook event page -https://www.facebook...68407116840338/ Melbourne Facebook event page - https://www.facebook...12802425705796/

Okies, so recently I had what is called a psychotic break, this is the result of eating too much drugs, compounded with stress and fear. I've spent the last few weeks recovering, all drugs are gone from my life and premises. It's been very difficult as I was using so many types of drugs. I've not had a smoke for nearly a week, having been a daily mega smoker for 20 years it's quite incredible the difference. I abused the sacred and I have paid the price I would like to apologise to this forum for my behaviour during my melt down, I really did some stoopid things. I would like to apologise to Incognito and Bullit These two people are far more worthy of any reputation than I. They were right and I am wrong. I would like to thank all who have helped me and who are helping me. It's really quite amazing the assistance I've received. A huge thanks to T for making this forum the great place it is. Also of course the moderation team. Mental illness cost money, n lots of it, so unfortunatly I'm liquidating a part of my cactus collection to pay off my debts, this is being done with Cheezelburger on eBay, so get in there over the next few months as there will be some bargains listed. When I have fixed everyone up on here I have some nice auctions planned for seeds and prints and swabs I have, as I'm not setting up a web site now I've a lot of excess stuff to offload to my friends old and new on here. Lots has been going on here that I have missed, this is really the best forum in the world. I love you all and will be back, brighter and healthy n drug free. Lol n they got rid of abbot during my absence, nice NB- we have edited the title only

Hello people. I did a little competition a few weeks ago to giveaway some seedlings. http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42198&page=1 The winner was Mole but he informed me he already has enough cacti and generously asked me to donate the prize to a new member. So new members, who wants some cacti? I thought maybe you could write a few short words about something that makes you smile in the hope that it will make people reading it smile as well. Can be about anything and everything. Most post likes by next Monday is the winner. Thanks.

This is the correct journal I hope Solanum torvum germination improvement journal.pdf

Do A. fissuratus flower before other Ariocarpus species?

Count me in peeps, I be there with Plants on

Yea it's outside, it won't hurt anything? Sure does look cool, I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks for the id

I have a few specimens which may (visually) demonstrate some of the confusion regarding the identities of these cacti in southern Bolivia and northern Argentina. It may be that Bolivian cacti are much more diverse in appearance, and possibly genetics, than was previously thought. These two photos show plants that look similar to zelly's which were sourced from Bolivian seed and provided to me by an old time cactus collector. These were labeled as: T. Werdermannianus Below is a Bolivian "Terscheckii" from Succseed which looks less spiny than the "Werdermannianus" Now a "typical" Terscheckii from northern Argentina, from seed collected at Valle Fértil, San Juan Province, Argentina. Below: Two examples of SS seed grown "Werdermannianus"

In case you guys didnt know, they are giving away fresh free caapi seeds of those 3 varieties, over on sharetheseeds. Thats where I got mine, they sent it out super fast, just ask for state appropriate labelling according to whats permissible. Very generous giveaway, i think they want caapi global domination.

Many public libraries offer a service called Inter-Library Loan that can obtain PDF copies for free or at a low cost if this does not come to hand faster.

PhaemonsDog here! With a big ah-ah-chooo! to all. Quite a few mixed points here:- Green nunu - that is unusual. By green you mean it is literally green? That's a serious fault in tobacco curing. It means that while the leaf was just picked - and not ripe enough to be picked - still had active chlorophyll - then it was hit with dry heat killing the enzymes and fixing the colour and the chemistry. Happens when stuff meant to be fire or flue cured, which are picked green, is left out in very hot sunlight, on hot rocks or roof tin and dries green. The green colour is permanent and won't "run" with aging. Sometimes this is done on purpose to make candela cigar "fancy" wrappers a feature of late Sixties Dixie and Florida cigars. (You can't watch an American Western movie without Pat Uri giving a live commentary on the anachronisms, mistakes, errors, etc. they make in period costumes, weapon models, farm implements, bloody horse and cattle details, etc. etc. and, especially, tobacco. e.g. John Wayne always smoking Marlboro decades before cigarette tobacco was invented. Spotting candela in the wrong period or location another.) Candela is from distinct "new" hybrids Georgia-Florida Shade Wrapper out of Round Tip X Big Cuban to Dixie L-4, No.63, Florida 15 and C74. Please don't ask for anymore information Pat Uri will go on for days about it. I only mention it because this was when blue mould infection threatened world tobacco production and they bred Australian native Nicotiana debneyi into the successive tabacum lines for resistance saving the industry for capitalism. One of the only times it was acknowledged Australia had native tobaccos other than the all embracing term Australia's Nicotiana suaveolens. No.63 is most favoured for candela wrappers as it stays "tender" after fixing. To fix green colour - and growers of all herbs might like to prick their ears up on this - the leaf is flue dried to a final of 60 degrees centigrade over 3 days raising the temperature half a degree per hour. Then heat stopped and humidity let in until conditioned back. As I said it is only done with wrapper, never filler, binder or any other sort of tobacco as the product is still very susceptible to Lasioderma infection. Perhaps someone is hoping the ash addition to green nunu will prevent spoilage. Fraid I won't know which cacao ash is used - Pat Uri might - he got "family" in Venezuela - the dirty old man! Certainly the Matse's People haven't allowed contact with the outside until only recently, but obviously Pat Uri seems to get on with anyone. But I do recall one very mysterious thing he once said with a cheeky grin that theobroma sounds awfully close to theiodora - tee! hee! hee! Shaman do like their puns and word puzzles - but he might explain himself yet. Personally I suppose at a pinch you could incinerate cacao nibs for their ash - potash is potash, but calcium sulfate content may vary a bit. Such conditioners are pretty necessary if you are gonna keep snuff free flowing in humid conditions. Making cigarettes into snuff is a sad story really. I only did it because I had to and only mentioned it to point out how much nicotine is destroyed by smoking. When I could have smoked a packet I found snuffing two was enough. Cigarette tobacco isn't real tobacco so nothing you can add changes anything. I just left a couple on the dashboard and when dry powdered it in my fingers - and got no nicotine rush, just fluoro yellow snot. It was an emergency. The only real tobacco commercially available is Log Cabin made by who else but Imperial. Its sauced to the max so requires no addition. It makes a real snus however. 10% by weight sodium bicarbonate is boiled with minimum water - microwave will do - so sodium carbonate is formed. Pour it hot onto the Log Cabin seal and keep warm by wrapping it in a towel. Overnight it cools and by morning has the smell and punch of good snus. It should just be moist like good potting mix. At $60 for a week or two supply again it is an emergency technique. Yeah - I always find using rustica for a few days leads to minimum sleep and the most incredible lucid dreaming. The dreams are complex but quite connected stories, the colours bland and the figures shadowy but very real at the time. Oddly I often dream I am listening to music - not just melodies but complete worked compositions, full chord structures and orchestrations, with rudimentary lyrics, as if a new album. Sometimes new electrica - but last night dreamt two students had discovered a forgotten record in my collection of Japanese folk music they played for me and wanted to write an assignment about featuring a couple of the songs. The dream is so real and easily recalled, I write the music down and search the internet to see if I can find it amazed that it isn't some sort of memory. But just like the Icaros or "peyote songs" they always turn out to be original compositions from my subconscious - to be secular about it. Usually it takes me days to come up with original stuff in my awake state, and I use the usual formulas known to musicians to squeeze out a song - I'm not that creative. It really is amazing! How do you folks go? OK and bye. PhaemonsDog.

I smile when my daughter run's out to my plant's and blow's them all kisses and waves while syaing "Hello ca ca"(cactus lol).This happens everytime we leave the house and when we come home.

I have to extend a big thanks to Zelly for being very hospitable a few days ago. I had a wonderful time. Also to Nitrogen for popping in for a chat for a while. It was absolutely fantastic to be able to meet you both. If either of you are to come to Australia I will very happily show you some spots and open my house to you. And to Highdesertcacti for providing some guest passes for me and Zelly to go to the Huntington. Wonderful place it is too. Could have spent longer there but they're only open for 4.5 hours on a weekday. I have LOTS of cool cactus pics to share with you all. And I will, but most likely not for a week or so until I'm back home and can spend some time resizing and uploading them. I am seriously behind on my SAB-ing so will get back into it as soon as I can. I will also be creating a mushroom thread to document the first 2 weeks of my trip when I spent much time in forests and had some great and exciting finds. Including a Boletus edulis, (porcini), on Vancouver island. I'm in Scottsdale at the moment, (near Phoenix). And am heading down to Saguaro national park and probably one of either the Phoenix desert botanical gardens of the desert botanical gardens at Tucson. We shall see how early I get up and get on with the day as I have a bunch of dricing to get done to complete my mission..... How's this for a pic from the kitchen window of the place I'm staying at? (excuse the overexposed pic - trust me, the view from the kitchen is amazing, multiple saguaros out each window, and every other window of the house!) And the Cac-Stang has been treating me well. Thought I'd get one of these as all the Americans drive them, (and by that I mean all the tourists rent them....)

Man I love roasted dandilion beverage! Truly one of my earliest memories was going foraging for roots with my older bro & roasting up a brew.

I've found that the dandy's get going a little later than the rest. But they nearly alll good yo. Some are more bitter than others. It's nice to be aquainted with all the edible weeds (pretty much every thing the councils spray) because if you care about your taste buds or your butthole, you'll wanna know how to mix flavours and acidities to get a palatable balance that doesnt make you shit yourself. I extracted sow thistle once thinking it was wild lettuce.. Luckily, had basically the exact same effect and qualities. I feel a lot of the panaceas are like this. Well, that's why they're panacea's I roasted some this year. Frigggin beautiful!!! Apparently you want the older plants for this. Even 2nd or 3rd year dandy's (?) but to be honest, I thought they die off and re seed each year (?)

Really cool ya learning how to forage, but yeah becareful when using common names, try to use the binomial names for id and research. He are 2 links I used when doing weeds at tafe. https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/plants/weeds-pest-animals-ants/weeds/a-z-listing-of-weeds http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/invasive/weeds/

Phaemon'sDog with others of Clan Pat Uri HATE lies, misinformation and drug hysteria where it is grossly inaccurate and leads to people getting reamed for no medical, scientific or ethnobotanical reason. Fact is its the popular "bullsh*t" spouted by ignorant "authorities" that forces new folk to have to self experiment to find the truth, at their peril. One case is cannabis that for decades "authorities" have told us causes "addiction", "cancer", "insanity", "memory loss", "paranoid schizophrenia", "hopelessly unemployment", "men will grow tits", "girls sluts", "anarchy", "God's wraith" etc. so when kids try it - as they will - they think if "authorities" were wrong about cannabis, maybe they are wrong about the other drugs and these are worth a try too... Man, the amount of young kids who front up in Emergency hospitalisation poisoned on alcohol because they thought it just made you "feel good" - maybe their drink was spiked with "drugs" - confounds belief! But now suddenly cannabis is safe enough to give young children! Ok - that's the example here is the case:- Khat Cathus edulis is f.a. as a dangerous drug of addiction - even as a drug at all! My guinea pig "Bronwyn" escaped into Pat's greenhouse once and eat 10 times her body weight in khat until caught - loved it! and nothing happened, well not to her anyway...when Pat Uri caught up with MY arse it was different. There is not a single report of a westerner getting the slightest buzz off chewing khat - all reports write they were disappointed and would have got better value off a cup of coffee. This is the first hand truth - khat chewing does very, very little if at all - you certainly won't miss any sleep over it - a cigar, coffee or Zoloft tablet is more potent. Dead set! No bullsh*t! Yet good knowledgeable forum folk word up on the following:- Man Charged Over Khat Drug Find in Brisbane's South http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/man-charged-over-khat-drug-find-in-brisbanes-south-20150315-144k18.html http://whlt.com/2015/10/13/local-investigators-concerned-about-foreign-drug/ Saying what little khat has of cathinone is like methamphetamine be like saying a panadeine tablet is an overdose of heroin. And I ain't a chemist. Can you believe such medieval witch burning still goes on in informed modern times? Is it not too late to tell the truth that the only thing that makes khat a drug is ignorant hearsay, authorities are misinformed and, well, racist - its not the khat they should hate - its just the scapegoat - its the anger of ethnic minorities that are given no platform to speak from and no one to listen? Let us keep it real people. Regards, PhaemonsDog

Think I can class my Azure hunt as "complete", found a very friendly little fella in a local reserve that let me in close.

here's a pic i drew then inverted on the computer...does that count...is it still a drawing? had a thread of my own for pics...will add lots of new ones one of these days... nice pics everyone, keep em coming...