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Awesome! It's so rewarding for me to see the beautiful specimens people grow from my seed giveaways - and in the case of the 2015 hybrids I'm not in a position to grow them myself at my own residence - just don't have the right conditions.. So, I'll live vicariously through others Might set them up with Zelly in his foster care situation - in fact, the Achuma Protection Agency (APA) would probably insist on it if they found me trying to grow these seeds out with zero hours of direct sunlight available at my apartment over the winter.. -- One thing I'll add - while I don't have an issue per se with people selling these seeds, or selling the resulting seedlings - I would encourage people to bring a generous spirit to such transactions.. To offer very favorable terms, less than what one "could" get.. To have the spirit of achuma in mind and spirit in such transactions.. I only bring this up because it was brought to my attention that there were some cases, after the 2012 hybrid seed giveaway, of seedlings being sold on Ebay within the USA for super high prices. Somebody or somebodies had grafted their seedlings and grown them into nice little mutant specimens, and was then trying to sell them for very high prices on Ebay. Lol, it's obviously pretty low and dishonorable to price gouge on something that was received as a gift - and most all of our community knows this. So, I mention it in case we see someone else selling these seedlings for high prices - if such behavior is observed on ebay or elsewhere, feel free to correct the other person however you see fit ;)

Hello SABers I desperately had to have urgent neurophylla and burkittii seeds banked a few months back [while the planning of the Australacacian highway path to wattleB grove http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41473 was all i really had to keep my spirits up and keep me going through some of the nastiest things that could happen to a person]..... and the only way was to buy WAY too many from your super Aus seed giant Nindethana... -which leaves me with a krillion too many, and a fair amount of small seed acuminata but nowhere near as many as neurophylla and burkittii.. and to save wasting 200 odd bux I figured here and a few other places might help relieve me of them ummm,,,, because they're soooo heavy! this is the first time I've ever done a giveaway post and I am planning on making a list of folk to share with, mailing the list off as and when I can afford the international postage and I am happy to ship worldwide. please PM me and post PM'd in this thread if you fancy a bash at these super species (because my messenger notifications don't often work but thread notifications more often do) and by all means post any future progress you have with them here if you want to. umm... hope that made sense -any advice on giveaways would be kindly received if I'm making a boo boo somewhere in any way.. bliss wishes and look fwd to your replies, Thunderhorse and super thanks to miss-meander for the inspiration !

Even me Phaemon's Dog can assure you B.caapi are real stimulated by cutting back in winter. Pat Uri's is a jungle with many new root crowns where the vine has trailed on the ground, taken root and shot up. Didn't know better you'd say it was many individual trees planted 5m away from eachother. The main's thicker than your leg. Roots like arms. Every winter it is cut back and everything that snaps away in your fingers removed. He's trained it into a great sheltered party area over a rock apache sweat lodge we got built under it. You can feel the power when you camp under it. Pruning stimulates flowering to. Yet a mate of his planted same time (ten years ago), never cut his back and has only got a mass of spaghetti with nothing thicker than your finger. The smoke off all the pruned off spaghetti stems and leaves - masses - look amazing under blacklights. Don't worry at all - "where the spirit is strong it will grow". Worth a mention = in traditional aboriginal culture your mother-in-law the most taboo person, distanced from and avoided as much as possible. She is never talked to, looked at and her name never used - she's called "that other old woman" or "old woman belonging to my missus*" if referred to at all. You never speak of her to anyone, not even to her own daughter. If she visits her daughter you leave well before and don't come back until she is gone. You are never invited to meeting she might attend - even her or wife's funeral. But this is men's business, I cannot speak woman's business...in other words she can say what she likes about you, and does, but it must never be repeated to you. ...Divorce is unknown amongst traditional aboriginals... (*It sounds better in the actual Kreole dialect of aboriginal/English - "Gin'b'longa'missus" - later postnote edit)

if this thread is already going let me know. there are literally dozens of tpm's around now, and its high time we start organizing some collective info on em, heh? SO, please post your trichocereus P (pach or peru) monstrose pics here. please comment in detail, source, and whether its confirmed or assumed. also if you have any more info on some of the tpm's out there, please share (i'll post the pics of my 4 different types of tpm's after editting them)

Hi guys I've been a long time Lurker of SA and finally decided to join up. I'm from a small little country town in NSW you probably never heard of called Sydney ;) Been fascinated by mycology ever since watching pauls TED talk (if you havent seen it you must or even better watch the 1.5 hour uplift talk) and been reaserching about growing mushrooms for awhile now and I'm more than ready to jump in to it, minus the fact I'm going to try steam sterilization first before forking out on a 23 quart. I figured best to spend as minimal cash as possible the first few runs at it to really make sure it's for me that way if it's not I'm out of pocket $80 or so instead of $250. It's a great place you guys have here lots of knowledge and it's better to learn off fellow Aussies who live in our climate, get by without a Walmart and pay extortional prices for goods. I hope to learn even more and contribute where I can.

admired this little beauty

The kurrajongs around Sydney (they've planted some as street trees) get covered with harlequin beetles at certain times of year - they gather together for enormous colourful bug orgies - males, females & juveniles are all different colours so it's pretty spectacular. So if you have some trees nearby, that's something else to watch out for, lol

Finally sowed some seeds yesterday, Sierra blue x ss02 Koehres scop Scop x bridge Yowie x SxB Knuthianus x SxB SxB x knuthianus Fields macro x rosei 2 Psycho0 x peru john Ethereals open Ben Macro Rosei 1 EG Tarmaensis 1,2,3 Micoz/PGC open Pc 1 Fields 1-5 Scop 1-4 Zed240 Psycho0 x yowie Yowie x psycho0 Yowie x pc Pc x BB scop Secret garden open Psycho0 Sausage Goliath Werdemannius abg1 Red spine peru Yowie Len Scop x bridge Cordobensis Macrogonus Cuzcoensis Bruce Couple sources of loph willy, some notocactus, ferocactus and randoms.. Many thanks to the seed breeders and sharers!

sexy pm coming

Pmd

onya thunder that's honorable. Respect.

planning to get them multiplying in vitro, then use those tips for grafting. no chems used to induce variegation just freaky seeds, i started some earlier in the year which pretty much all turned out variegate so thought would be a good one to get going in TC

solaritea's js354 x 'Jessica'

Here are a few of the cacti from my modest windowsill collection. I apologize for the quality - my phone's camera is awful, and it's dark here. I'll try to snap some more of the others with a proper camera in decent lighting soon!

anything with cunt in the name has got to be a winner..yeah? dunno about the blue cunt though, have you ever googled blue waffle?

i do not understand the deal with post count, it means nothing to me. personally i would name it something with some relevance to its collection location, i dont see why it needs to be catchy and pleasing to the ear. it should be informative. that being said seeing as none of the originals exist maybe you could call it 'survivor' or 'lucky' or something along those lines. i know im a grumpy cunt i just cant seem to figure out what gives someone the right to put their name on a cactus, i tend to think it should be something youve raised from seed, grown to flower and fruit, then planted those seeds. then you can put your own name on it. otherwise it should be something with some relevance to where it came from.

No to shoes. Yes to motorcycle parts and shiny bio-lab toys. What sorts of extravagance makes her happy? Outstanding expressions of traditional romance? Skydiving? Old books? Handmade things? Exquisite food or drink? If you're out to express your love and impress her and make that moment special we can narrow it down if you tell us what she likes

PhaemonsDog here - what's the good word, InnerPathsToOuterSpace? "King Sun travels with the Scorpion" and "Orion Hunts at Night" - for readers who aren't astrologically literate that means it is earliest summer here in Australia - you should be getting a few new sprouts now? Come on tell us - this is better than Miley Cyrus wears a bikini, surely. P'sDog

I have been a member here since May 2012, I guess its finally time to post something! I have been lurking and drooling over all the nice cacti but I figured its time to contribute Psycho0 X Cuzcoensis Monstrose pachanoi SS02 "short spine peru" with mullein Lumberjack and TPM graft TBM graft Unknown hybrid seedlings (lost labels, pretty sure they were a bridgeXpach or the reverse) Scop X Peru seedlings that I got when they were a couple inches kimnach X (SS02 X SS01) From same source as ^ Lumberjack Peruvianoid BBB Macrogonus Scop X Super Pedro pup KK339 pachanoi (clone) BBB Macro and Peruvianoid after some weeding Thanks for looking I've got more to share in the future, and I look forward to being a part of this great community here at SAB TheOwl

Hopefully it survived and has put on some new growth the last few months? I feel your pain. A couple of years ago at my folks place (I used to live there and had a few things planted), the supporting tree on my ~7 year old caapi was looking a bit sick so my folks got their arborist to removed the tree. The arborist also kindly removed the caapi. I can tell you that a 7 year old caapi is a rather large vine. As I'm sure you can imagine, I was a bit upset lol.

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Caapi won't just survive pruning, it loves it. If the main stem on the remaining foot or two is at least pencil thick I'd take the opportunity to cut a few more nodes off to make some T cuts. http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=26670 - ignore the debate over T vs L cuts, it makes very little practical difference. Just rough up the hardwood node with secateurs or your teeth before dipping in rooting hormone. I just moved, and have one caapi I hacked back hard, dug out of the ground after 2-3 years, and stuck in a pot to bring with me. (Never fear I still left one in the ground in the tropics When I first stuck caapi in the ground I planted multiples without realising just how unnecessary that is!). After repotting, it was maybe 40cm with no remaining side branches or foliage - a couple of months of bare minimum attention later and it's exploding again. Once it starts growing I recommend frequent tip pruning both to bush it up and to encourage the vine to thicken up I've heard of home grown caapi reaching 6"+ in diameter at the base when regularly pruned and fed well.