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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/

^ now that is an awesome sexy bridge hulk me want!!

Was an areole on the smooth baby, BAP'd it and it pupped wayyyyy to many out of the one, the pups seem to have more areoles. I believe it'll be time soon for a graft session

I would like to take you for a walk around my small garden. It has slowly build up over the years and will continue to grow into the distant future. I have started most of my plants from seed or small cutting, give or take a few trades and purchases Ss hybrid seeds i got from amozonion, plus a few randoms Except for the crest incognito gifted me the trichos. Native finger lime is flowering Lophophora Defenders of the veggie patch. Well sort of Blue corn from hillbilly Caapi Gold from doublebenno, staghorn,tasmanian mountain peppers m/f, Brazilian grape tree, tamarillo and some azaleas that will get the chop and trained as bonsai once their flowers drop Some future bonsai and a Adriatic fig Fruit trees Lemon/lime, blueberries, peaches, apricots and grapes Hamiltons crest? Got from bunnings years ago Sarracenia olive's pod giveaway seeds in takeaway nepenthes Grafted superkabuto Edit. Removed a double pic. Added some more txt to pics

Here are 2 plants, both sold to me as super pedro, both look different Ive got some more super pedros that are different again, ill post them up later on for now, what are your thoughts, id labeled them SP1 and SP2, which if any do you think is the real deal? feel free to post up pictures of your own super pedro, for compassion SP1 SP2 Both together Gotta love the confusing world of cactus id More then anything, i just dont want to be passing on miss labeled plants, further contributing to the confusion and lack of accurately labeled clones.

I'm saving up my pennies to get a tulhuaycensis from Sacred Succulents. ---Roger

I respect the perceptions individuals share about experiences they've had. I consider vomiting to be an overwhelmingly negative experience although it concludes with a sense of great relief. However, I've not vomited from ayahuasca.

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this is a nice thread....... our backyard is pretty big and rural.

No issues with mine! Looking good. Pictures 1 and 6

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Thanks Obtuse for updating the main post with all the full info

I thought she was holding a big dildo in a glass before I opened that pic to view it properly.

amg one of the very finest trichoes i ever did have the pleasure to lay my eyes upon arrived today ... what a beauty! so happeee i gave it a cuddle (before unwrapping of course) x]

Me too with bells on and plants off

Has anyone tried crossing a columnar Trichocereus with Lobivia ferox? It has flowers of variable colour, and I think the plants themselves would be insanely beautiful.

So i went back to my garden for the first time in 8 months. There were 1000s of flower buds a few weeks away from going wild but i had to go back to work and didn't get to see them they're probably busting out about now... but the schickendanziis and grandiflorus were ebullient as usual for mid-Nov (the columnars don't flower until mid-Dec, like clockwork, the clumpers and columners never flower simultaneously). I was pleasantly surprised by this yellow "grandiflorus" or whatever you want to call it. I have a vague memory of knowing this would flower yellow but i really can't remember even where the cutting came from it's been growing slowly in heavy shade in a mat of carpobrotus for a few years.

Here's one I'm proud of. I always wanted to attract these fellas into the garden, and just 2 nights ago I finally found one. I reckon this one has found a little home under the aloeveras and Epiphyllums. So happy!