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Yah my LJ crosses are still lagging behind.. TPM x SB and the reverse are doing awesome though.. -- Per letters not arriving - I mailed them to every person who PM'd me an addy. However, I know of one case where customs nabbed them for being E. scop rather than T. scop, which of course is absurd. So, they may not arrive for everyone, which is a pity. I will not personally be sending seed out to people whose package did not arrive. However in the big picture there are now an abundance of these seeds in the community, and I'll infuse them in various ways over time if need be - everyone will eventually have happy little mutant trichos trying to take over their gardens

EG, I acquired this one labelled as kk2152 - which should be a peruvianus according to the key. It looks much more like a cuzcoensis to me, which sounds like a common problem with Knize sourced items.

kk919 & kk920 on the seed packet, straight from kk's daughter, in other words, so much for kk clones cant wait for the fuzzy one to reveal its true identity.....

goddamn you brendo... (good onya mate )

KK's from the sab shop kk1421 x kk341 kk338 kk917

things have progressed Glimpse, i hope to see you here again soon. good to see you on this thread Sagi , only you will know what the post below yours means. thank you Interbeing, if this garden looks half as good as yours in the years to come i will be very pleased, same with Sagi's roof top wonderland, spektakula trichs coming to flower candicans J3 SG scop x bridgesii pachanoi SG pc SG helon scops SG something SG psycho0 x favourite table of plants

hey you all anybody out there have any info on this plant? from what i can ascertain it was chewed by the locals in the western cape as a thirst quencher and stimulant, but so far can get no first hand info from anyone, did manage to get 4 seed which germinated, and 13 seedlings from under a tree, did taste the mature soft leaves and there is definitely an alkaloid in there, more bitter than catha even on unpruned trees, will post a few pics of the big trees next time we up there.

What could you live without? I started thinking about this awhile ago. Partly through necessity, but then I became interested in following the idea to see how far it could go. I was inspired by the whole “tiny homes” movement - not that I actually want to live in a trailer home - but I was interested in their ideas. Basically they said: why does it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and decades of your life (if you’re lucky) to own your own home? Is it because we have an idea of what kind of house is an acceptable home? Spare bedroom for guests, a shed for the tools, a big backyard… but how often do most people use those things? Once a month? Once a year? Wouldn’t it be cheaper, instead of paying the tens or hundreds of thousands extra to buy the three-bedroom house with swimming pool & 2-door garage, to just buy a one bedroom cottage and then rent tools when you need ‘em, sleep on the floor when you have guests, maybe use a share-car service and spend more time in the local park or gym rather than needing a private workout room or pool. Whatever the activity, there’s probably a way you could manage to do it in a smaller space, or in a public space (yes, all entendres intended - but that’s probably a separate discussion). Most people seem to cringe at the idea - what would you do with all your stuff? Well the tiny-home solution is to just not have much stuff, to borrow or rent tools & things as needed, then get rid of them again. Personally, I think that’s taking it too far - I’m a hoarder, and I like my tools & reference books & out-of-season clothes to be there when I need them. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to count on buying/borrowing/renting whatever they need, whenever they need it. And from what I gather a lot of the tiny-homes folks also keep storage lockers anyway. But I thought the point was an interesting one - how much money are you paying for a house big enough to keep all that crap in? If you could own your own house for a quarter the standard price, if only you discarded 80 or 90% of your crap, would you go for it? Or do you really need that spare bedroom to store all your backup toasters & fondue sets? So that’s how it started originally, thinking about housing & how I could ever possibly afford to build my own house on the income from my part-time unskilled award-wage shitkickin job (so please excuse all the personal digressions in this post, I’ve just left them in as examples) … and then I started expanding the idea - instead of just wondering “can I live without lots of stuff & a big house to make things cheaper?”, I started thinking, “if I can live without a fridge/freezer, I won’t need a big reliable solar system for my electricity, which might knock a good $20K off the cost”, and “hey, I don’t even want an indoor bathroom”, and “if I can learn to make my own X, then I won’t have to buy it” (where X is well, almost anything - bread, fuel, fenceposts, string, entertainment…) And then other things - could I live without a car in a rural area? You’d say no (& I do recognise the safety issues) but I’ve known plenty of folks who do. Because that’d be about half of my income gone right there, just maintaining & running a vehicle good enough to handle those roads. And half the reason for having a reliable vehicle in the first place is so you can get to work… to make enough money to run the car… and round it goes. Or maybe instead I can just ride to work with my boss, and then do a days work on my neighbours fences whenever I need to borrow his spare ute, and save myself the expense of keeping my own. As an added bonus, this would make me really think about whether I needed to go into town, rather than just making recreational shopping trips out of boredom, which would save plenty more money. When you have to make conversation with your racist neighbour & then drive for two hours to buy that wine & cheese, you start wondering if you can make do with some home-brew & raiding the vege garden instead. And then if food is one of your major expenses, well I’ve already had times when my food bill couldn’t have been much more than $1000/year, and that was with full-time work/study and without a real vege garden. How much could I knock off the bill if I put in a few good days work in the garden each month, instead of spending that time working for someone else so I can buy food from the supermarket? Sure it might take some time to harvest & prepare & preserve all that food yourself, but if you don’t have to work a full-time job to pay for it all, then you’ll have a lot more time on your hands! And which would you rather do, spend your time working your current job, or spend your days digging potatoes & making kimchi? I guess we sort of started this discussion in the penny-pinching thread awhile back, talking about tips & tricks for saving money on things. But now I’m trying to think bigger, about lifestyle changes which would mean needing and buying less things overall. I just feel like we float through, or are pushed through our lives without often sitting down to think about these things from a cost-benefit standpoint. How much does it cost us to have all this stuff, all those possessions, this much privacy & personal space, this many “ ”, our “job security”? How much do we pay in time & stress & RSI & lifelong back problems? Is it really fucking worth it? For what? He who dies with the most toys wins? Unless you’re a pharaoh you ain’t taking it with you, so what’s the point? Perhaps we could be striving for happiness in each day, rather than waiting on some nebulous future paradise (like “heaven” or “retirement”). So what do you think? What could you live without if it meant you could work 1 or 2 days a week instead of five? Or for those already living on a pension or casual employment or some other sub-poverty-line income, have you thought about accepting Jesus Christ as your personal saviour? Or um, a tiny home. Or some other life simplification. Whichever floats your boat (hey, houseboats! fuck yeah). Or Jesus Christ in a tiny home. I think I’m tangentalising here. I blame the reckless drug abuse. But that’s kinda my point (yeah, nice save). How much of our time and money is spent just distracting ourselves from the fact that we don’t actually like our lives, because we spend half of them working to pay for the distractions from our crappy lives! It’s that same fucken circle I was talking about with the car. Circle of life my arse, it’s a circle of crap & I want out. Living in a tent and eating nettles really does not sound so bad, if that’s the way to escape then I think I can live with that. I guess I’ll find out. I’m sure I’ll miss all the beer & skittles, hookers & blow, bread & circuses like my own left arm, but after the last year I believe that you don’t need all your limbs to be whole anyway. I figure shit is always bound to hit sooner or later, but maybe if I’ve opted for a bit of voluntary simplicity in the meantime, then the involuntary sort of deprivations won’t hurt so much when they arrive. Prepping for the soul, I guess. Or maybe just a midlife crisis, who bloody knows? I really can’t tell anymore if this kind of thinking is soundest rationality or antisocial insanity, but happily I no longer feel like I have to care. Maybe I've just read too much Fight Club. I get that I’m in an easier position than most to make these choices, as I have some land, no dependents, enjoy working out how to do stuff for myself, and am already a recluse with a childish “fuck yourself” attitude towards society in general, so living out bush & growing my own beans doesn’t seem like a big leap from where I’m standing now. But I know that a lot of you folk share at least some of these traits, and I’m curious to know what you think about all this. What might you live without? Electricity? Steady work? Human company? Stable accommodation? Do you like making things for yourself? You mightn’t think that your gardening & carpentry & baking & brewing & so on skills are good enough to make a living from, mine certainly aren’t - but as they say there's a difference between making a living & making a life, and I wonder.. maybe they’d be good enough to just make a life from.

ward. I looked upon the ward and gazed the place were special people have a special place. wondering weather I belong in this twisting maze. I see sorro, heartbreak & delusion painted on faces glazed. I take a sip of water from my jug and sip. I ponder the roads these have taken to end up in there little trip. I'd take to them a basket of treats if I knew it would help even just a bit. but these are the those that the maker has seemingly deemed unfit. wert. 12/12/15

Congratulations Brendo, you are the winner! (as much as I'd like to it was Sally ). Thank you everyone for your bids and your interest!

Christmas

dcliw homemade soup so thick you can use it as a dip

I told ya myco, young ppl and this fkn arduino ;) offering to build shit easy like it's all an easy to follow recipe! Hey ace next time we catch up I want you to arduino me a remote entry thing for my front gate, I hate opening it haha

$445

I could probably help you out in the future with using arduino to automate your computer and have it run to a computer controlled terminal Arduino automation is my kind of thing If you send me a PM with the kind of things you'd like automated in your greenhouse I can start to have a look at what's required for each individual component. The joy with arduino is that the sensors are easy to replace, the arduino itself is easy to replace and any one component costs very very little. It's kind of like a multi-component plug and play system and the sketch (code) for the arduino ties it all together into a nice little package.

kk 339 pachanoi on the balcony /thanks mutant/:

http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5903

DCLIW after 12 months of almost constant failure on a pet project you finally reach a point where you are repeatedly having success

UPDATED first post with pics of some new freaks I'm selling. Check out the link and if anything takes your fancy, hit me up with a PM on here - I will discount 10% for SABers. http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/samsplants_au/m.html?rt=nc&_dmd=2

I took my camera around today while enjoying a lovely bevvo, here are some pics to share. I haven't been real active in here or at camps lately. But I'm still alive, growing plants, battling thru the same shit as everyone! Peace and enjoy the beer Ps - sorry can't stop em rotating Rosie open Mixed bunch Psychotria nexus, catha and viridis 4-5ft tall each My Hoya collection A small cactus mound I made

Even though I now feel socially included thanks to the support of friends and this community, I've for a long time struggled with feelings of social subordination and defeat. Here's a recent article that has intrigued me. Maybe nicotinamide is a good direction for targeting anxiety that arises from such feelings? Anyone played around with it as an anxiolytic? I'm aware there are a few reports on the internet regarding use for anxiety but I'd like to hear from members here Mitochondrial function in the brain links anxiety with social subordination Dominance hierarchies are integral aspects of social groups, yet whether personality traits may predispose individuals to a particular rank remains unclear. Here we show that trait anxiety directly influences social dominance in male outbred rats and identify an important mediating role for mitochondrial function in the nucleus accumbens. High-anxious animals that are prone to become subordinate during a social encounter with a low-anxious rat exhibit reduced mitochondrial complex I and II proteins and respiratory capacity as well as decreased ATP and increased ROS production in the nucleus accumbens. A causal link for these findings is indicated by pharmacological approaches. In a dyadic contest between anxiety-matched animals, microinfusion of specific mitochondrial complex I or II inhibitors into the nucleus accumbens reduced social rank, mimicking the low probability to become dominant observed in high-anxious animals. Conversely, intraaccumbal infusion of nicotinamide, an amide form of vitamin B3 known to enhance brain energy metabolism, prevented the development of a subordinate status in high-anxious individuals. We conclude that mitochondrial function in the nucleus accumbens is crucial for social hierarchy establishment and is critically involved in the low social competitiveness associated with high anxiety. Our findings highlight a key role for brain energy metabolism in social behavior and point to mitochondrial function in the nucleus accumbens as a potential marker and avenue of treatment for anxiety-related social disorders.

SLINKY SUIT!!!!!

Spark up... (In a '60's interview with John Lennon and Paul McCartney, a reporter asked them, "Is Ringo the greatest drummer in the world?" John replied, "Ringo's not even the greatest drummer in the band...") Classic Can't get enough of this sound, saw Battles live at BDO a few years ago, great set. Video is a total loop trip. Doods have done them some hallucinogens GET THIS NOW. GET SHPONGLED... (the new drummer's fucking SICK)

The arduino libs are open source, so in many cases it's a cut and paste operation. Simple switching (on/off) routines are amongst the most basic processes on arduino. It can be as complex or simple as you want. Most of what myco wants has all been done and is free to use or adapt for your own purpose. Just dive in myco. If you can blink an LED you're half way there.

I reckon learning to code aduino is the hard bit, putting the components together is prity much lego. There's so many different kits to choose. If you want to learn without buying kits there's lots of online aduino simulators. So you can learn without any physical hardware.

They're good value myco if you think you have a need for all those add ons. If you can afford it and you think you'll use them go for it. *********3rd edit of this space******************************************************************************************* The sintron kits are good value and a good place to start. For $30 bucks you'll get enough to kick you off. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sintron-UNO-R3-Light-Starter-Kit-for-Arduino-AVR-MCU-learner-PDF-Study-Files-/151065206648?hash=item232c301f78:g:haoAAOSweW5VZSER Don't buy anything from this prick - he's fucked my mate around to no end. He sells stuff he doesn't even have and has a well planned strategy to dodge his obligations. ***************************************************************************************************************************************** The PDF's that come with the kit are worth the money alone. The individual components could be sourced cheaper but the PDF's included justify the cost. You really don't need all the bells and whistles to get started. Start blinking an LED and you'll be coding like a demon in a few weeks. It's not like the old days when you had to code in hex, these days a kid can do it. If you want to switch 240 v with it you'll need to buy a relay shield or wire your own. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Two-2-Channel-Relay-Module-With-Optocoupler-For-PIC-AVR-DSP-ARM-Arduino-5V-New-/181752994310?hash=item2a51529a06:g:pjgAAOSwPcVVmfAX 240 v is deadly and one small mistake could kill, so that side really should be wired or at the very least checked by an electrician or someone qualified before it's powered up. Be very careful around the mains voltage myco.

not quite gonna cut it unfortunately miss meander it needs to be happening automatically so if I was going to try and mess around and see if i could learn some of this crazy electronics arduino stuff would something like one of these be good to buy to help learn how it all works http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Lab-Starter-basic-Kit-MEGA-2560-R3-Kit-for-Arduino-Enthusiasts-Nano-Leonardo-/151766863188?hash=item2356028d54:g:18YAAOSwgQ9VvswS http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3D-Printer-RFID-Starter-Learning-Kit-for-Arduino-from-Knowing-to-Utilizing-/231464223379?hash=item35e457c293:g:O5IAAOSwEeFVBpRe

1 million dollars and 36 cents

There are a few things which i thought i couldnt live without, but by becoming really poor and suddenly living in a big city, i realised i can survive depravation from, atleast temperarily. Milk..coffee..cigs.. A washing machiene at my own house Perpetual solitude Complete darkness and silence while i sleep A whole house full of stuff which i rarely utilise or pay much attention to These are small steps, i still buy milk and coffee when i can ;) But eventually i believe i could forgo alot more. I am a loner and have often dreamed of retreating to the mountainous forests and builing a solo life amoung the trees.. but thats uneccesary at this time. Ideally i'd like to live in a world where money was abolished and we traded our way through daily life. I could live without being entrapped by the monetary system.

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/YQCwb

^^ Sounds heavenly. DCLIW - Your SO cleans the house from head to toe while you're at work.

His name is Pinegapcontrol on here and he does international sales Damn fine collection he has, hit him up he's a good bloke

hahaha I know electronics for me is like trying to read some kind of alien language I recently tried to see if I could figure out how to wire up a standalone crossfader for my turntables shit I felt pretty stupid once I started reading stuff and watching videos even with that help I had no clue hahaha thanks for all the help and ideas guys your certainly giving me alot to think about for my future greenhouse builds I might have to hit you up Ace the functions needed to be controlled would probably be fairly simple really (for someone who knows what they're doing) all I'd really be looking at controlling is humidity and temperature as darklight suggested the heat sensitive pneumatic roof vents was what I'd planned on using so really just something to help control humidity would be great

Thanks for the updates, Guys! Khhaven and everyone who is interested to join...I´ll probably make another one within the next 2-3 weeks. Those will have a different type of seeds, such as my new Trichocereus pachanoi / peruvianus intermediate, Trichocereus tulhuayacensis, Trichocereus tacaquirensis, Trichocereus taquimbalensis, Trichocereus puquiensis and more. :-D

Heretic - read through this link and see if it sounds similar to what happened to you. http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/667187-fake-cellphone-towers-used-for-scams-in-china/ If it does you should report it to the police. They've tried to crack down on it in China, maybe they've found a soft target here in OZ

If you are doing online banking with your phone, someone could have set up a fake cell in your area. They spoof the original cell and trick your phone into making connections through them and not the real cell. A cryptophone can find them. I don't know if they still do it but one sign that it may be happening is that your connection drops back to 2G. Or you could have installed a rogue app that has more access to the phone than you do. If you are doing it with your PC it could be any manner phishing scams.

Probably didn't, do it to 50k numbers some are gonna be right, had it been a different back you wouldn't have been fooled. Trouble is for lots of people a reply to the sms would be much more convieniet.

Not mars volta but i remeber seeing At the drive in at the bdo in the animal enclosure shed :-)

When they play The Mars Volta on the radio

I thought it would be cool to share experiences with types of leafy greens that bugs don't seem to touch. I'm trying to find more plants that I don't have to constantly defend from caterpillars and grasshoppers etc. My favourite kale is the black Tuscan variety, but that seems to be the bugs' favourite too. I used to grow Red Russian kale and nothing seemed to touch that. It was pretty tough textured and bitter though so I didn't like it much either. So far my list of leafy greens that have done well against bugs are: Red Russian kale Malabar/Ceylon Spinach - but this is quite mucilaginous which is probably why bugs don't like it Rocket - just have to find a variety that doesn't go to seed easily in subtropical summers Nasturtium - although I tend not to use the leaves as much, they're mucilaginous and a little hotter than some people like I'm about to start experimenting with Ipomea aquatica/water spinach, and Aibika/hibiscus spinach and some others. Anyone have any additions/suggestions?

I literally just wrapped leaves, both whole and cracked, in wet paper towels. These were placed in snaplock bags, sealed up and left to do their thing. I opened them up maybe every 2 weeks to check they weren't going mouldy, and that's it. Easy peasy.

Gtarman, try wild rocket Diplotaxis tenuifolia - the seeds are pretty easy to find, or I can send you some if you want. Rarely gets eaten by bugs either, doesn't bolt in hot weather, and can be grown perenially. I like it because the leaves stay tender even when the plant is flowering or underwatered - they don't go stringy & bitter like normal rocket. If you're interested in ipomoeas - sweet potato leaves are edible too and will grow like a weed to cover ground, fences, walls etc (just like a morning glory vine, complete with pretty flowers). They need some cooking as they're a little sappy raw, but they're an acceptable spinach substitute, like malabar-spinach. Bonus is that you get to dig up a bunch of sweet potatoes when the vine dies back in winter. Not really a leafy green, but nothing ever touches my tulsi (I think because they have a squad of guardian preying mantises) - so now I grow that instead of basil. It's drier & oilier than sweet basil, so it's perfect for drying & makes a great pesto. Nothing much seems to touch the sorrel either - I guess because of the oxalic acid content?

huarazensis x juul's giant: huarazensis x lumberjack: juul's giant x bertha: validus x huarazensis: tpqc pachanoi x scopulicola: juul's giant x macrogonus: huarazensis x ss0201: huanucoensis x kimnach: