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SS01 x BBG? Juuls Giant x pachanoi SS01 x SS02 (pachanoi x Juuls Giant) x Kimuras Giant

pallarensis x SS02 SS02 x peruvianus 'Serra Blue' pachanoi x SS01

Sally, sorry to hear about your car - I hope the bastards pay out in a timely manner!

I am still re/up potting :-) so many. .. anyway the reason for my post is I found some sweet filter medium at work last week, 6-12mm, excess to requirements obviously.. .. been using on latest repots. it is such a lush mulch/dressing!!! Cactus in pic is a ss02 x Serra canyon dichotomous seedling. Can anyone tell me is a dichotomous seedling has more chance of throwing dichotomous limbs?? ???

Today I harvested some seed from my Astrophytum caput-medusae , which flowered for the first time this year. I don´t know if this species is self- fertile (who does?) - otherwise it will be hybrid. But I got 20 big, black seeds.

update on the acacia still in pots, going to wait till autumn till i plant them in the ground have had to up pot the phlebs (got a few left to do) and will prob have to do so with the others as they are growing very fast they are in the green house over summer

ok so I'll try this method of upload... see if it works. if it does this is a nice plant indeed.

^Man that escalated quickly . Beautiful plant mate!

Any updates peoples?

Lovely plant!

Thank you for your input guys when we get 2/3 agreeing on what a plant is then i will tag it as that, tentatively for now.......... heres some pics of #1 flanked by a PC (beat up) to the left and a Pachanoi to the right #2 next to a Knunthianus tip and an old log with pups here is number 3 (and 3b)

no doubts #1 is a beat up rough looking eileen, a wag of #2 would be knuthianus

penis in need of weed! penis after weed! thats all I could do I got stabbed 30 times one hit the bone and the whole aerole and spines were stuck in my finger. oh well the joys of gardening.

so I woke up this morning to a mr spachi being a show off. pretty. small plant for it's display.

some more Trichocereus, mostly..............

Super Pedro buds! (Thanks Alice!) Looks like I'll need some pollen - preferably from something spineless, but anything would do - the weirder the better. About how long have I got?

Cheers Tarenna, and Mountain Goat (I like your wow mate) Astros and Trichocereus I am concentrating on now as these plants are not a declared species in this state. this is very important to me now in a way it never was before. theres something about the 'presence' of these two species that I'm attracted to. like others I phase in and out of 'attraction' to certain plants, though these two I seem to have become hooked on cultivating. its very exciting when the temp is right and the astrophytum flower, I'm quick to pollenate them and usually do this on the second or third day that the flowers are open as this is when there appears to be ample pollen in each flower. Trichocereus with the exception of spachianus, flower where I am - late December and early januarary and feburary. we have some very special clones budding atm and will make some very interesting x's this season. i look forward to distributing these throughout the community once the seeds have been cleaned.

Mate, your teks are amazing, and your plants too. I just sow the seeds on moist soil, keeo it moist, and even the temp are cold the germinate, (16-26 c).

never tried ourhinos .. but i certainly will when i get the opportunity... and my supplier with the caupuri about doubled the price of their seeds samaras this year ... so umm,.. 'didn't bother until I find some a bit more affordable.. but last year all 10 caupuri sprouted and one by one died off with the final death 2 months ago .. i'm just sprouting muricata(cabi roxo in Brazil), white aya, alicia , for the 3rd year running ... -tucunaca doesn't need re-sowing , it's that reliable so far... This year I sowed them along with some banisteriopsis sp' sky blue and peruvian yellow caapi... Tucunacá appears, thus far; to be the easiest and very satisfying. I have 2x 2yr olds,.. here's one of them (also may visit your dreams the night before you see it sprout) Caupuri was ridiculously easiest and fastest to germinate, just a pain to keep alive.. Muricata seems the next easiest, 1 x 2yr old and just resowed 5 (also visited dreams and next am was sprouted) Alicia anisopetala (if you're that way inclined) scores pretty easy too and seems to have the power to resurrect it's self after being dead(at least twice in my experience) - 1x2 yr old and resowed again just in case and white aya failed first year, but i have 2x 1 yr olds left out of 8 and resowed again just in case i found them all particularly easy , just a patience game, ... in my rainforest box thingy. av temps are 23.8 - 32C (the day night cycle) but also dependent upon weather ... ~humidity at a constant 100% all year round... first year i germed in john innes seed 'samara' loam with fresh live sphagnum clipped into fluff .. and potted on to miracle grow compost topped with live sphagnum clipped etc, 2nd year i created a blend using charcoal, live sphagnum, sand, ericaceous, perlite, john innes seed 'samara' loam, DE kitty litter, ormus, .. and other goodies i forget... those 2 years the Rainforest box was in a sunroom/conservatory and had nice sunlight filtered by double glazing this year, in the home, i had to beef up the lighting to save the lianas [and the psychotrias] (didn't realize how much the sun aided us while growing in the sunroom) and I just used ericaceous with a bit of perlite and it's only been 2 or 3 days so far... i cant imagine Ourhinos being much harder to sprout than Tucunacá but i just don't know yet.. i only tried nuking the pots this year after doing a round of cactus sowings using the microwave tek and was completely unnecessary the 2 years prior.. as was the saran wrap/cling film/shrinkwrap/whatever you call that plastic stuff in your lands.. here's pics of this year's sowing and i always update in the "what did you do in your sacred garden thread" -I allowed the fungi that came in on the samaras to enjoy 2 days with the cling film on before whipping it off. and i have a few albums containing all my pics from every attempt at aya's but here's the main liana one http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?app=gallery&album=778 i hope this helps.. and give us a shout if I can help with anything further mate good luck , happy sowing and hope you enjoy them growing .. be prepared to retry every year with fresh seeds samaras until you achieve your desires ;) -and be prepared to over-sow in case of losses, although i began with just 5 seeds samaras of each and they did me really well, at a guess i'd say 80-100% germination rates..(except white aya with nil) 2nd attempt i tried with 10 packs. this year i went back to 5 packs except for the new sky blue one where i got 10 in pairs/3's so it still looks like fewer are sown lol.. - horsey p.s. if you end up giving the white aya a bash... : it helped to ease them out of their embryo coatings when they were sprouting.

A few pics of my recently aquired purpureopilosus flowering☺such a beautiful flower! Pollinated with last years scop pollen... Not holding my breath though. Sorry for the quality of the phone pics...

New paper out, looking quantitatively at the alkaloid content of Tetrapterys mucronata. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pca.2548/abstract Long story short, it contains substantial amounts of bufotenine and 5-MeO-DMT, and smaller amounts of 5-MeO-NMT and 2-Me-6-MeO-THβC. That explains how it could be used without admixture as the basis of a psyhoactive brew: both bufotenine and 5-MeO-DMT have been reported active without MAOI admixture (though the authors don't seem to make that connection). Odd choice of plant to analyze though. T. mucronata has only been reported as the basis of an ayahuasca-like brew by one person (R. E. Schultes), and even he seems to hedge his bets about it. The language is very ambiguous both in his 1975 De plantis toxicariis... XIII article and his 1990 book The Healing Forest (coauthored with R. F. Raffauf). It's not clear, but he may be suggesting that this use was heard secondhand from a native, rather than directly observed. Or maybe his notes from the trip were just not clear... the claim dates from an expedition he took with Isidro Cabrera in the early 1950s, but he didn't publish anything about the plant until over two decades later. This is interesting, because recent chemical analysis of a vine sold as Tetrapterys methystica (which has been more reliably reported as the basis of an ayahuasca-like brew) did not show any known alkaloids. Then again, the vendor who sold that bark is not exactly known to be reputable... so perhaps it's a case of misidentified vine?