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Watered & weeded. Sketched plans for a new cactus garden bed. Organized cactus collection into three groups: stock plants, greenhouse plants and those destined for a new garden bed. Quarrantined a couple mealy bug trichos. Propagated some trichos by cutting. Cleared out cactus garden bed of weeds. Potted up seedlings that had gone MIA, found one with varigation. Spotted a young B. sanguinea flowering And with a pod ripening A lot of B. sanguinea around the place but never seen them produce pods ever. The plant with the pod ripening on it was sourced from far away so must be a from a different clone/seed.

howdy mates, Santa stopped by today & gave me a couple more bags of his seeds to disperse, so if you are on Nitrogens 2015 giveaway list & didnt receive your seeds, post in this thread to that effect & then send me a pm & I can hook you up with his # 1, 2, 3, 4, & 6 as well as 2 others he created, P0 x SB & P0 x LJ. atm, this offer is only good for the ppl who were on his list & havent received his seeds. Once this is hashed out, for any remaining Nitro seeds, I'll open up the Nitrogen giveaway to all current active sab members who were not on his list.

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Interestingly Courtii has demonstrated strong ability to adapt to most conditions found in Australia (from what I have heard) it certainly grows well here in Melbourne which leaves the question of 'why are some plants, in this case A. Phlebophylla and A.Courtii microendemic?' left open. It could have to do with their specific rhizobia symbiot however my tests (and others) have shown that even when not inoculated with their preferred strain of bacteria they grow fine. I personally believe they choose to only grow naturally at their defined locations, big. granite. crystal mountains! However, with a little encouragement will grow anywhere reasonable. Even more interestingly these locations have particular relevance to the indigenous people of those areas... All Courtii I have sent out have been inoculated with the bacteria direct from their home turf. As it is now present in the soil and root system of the plants they can then be potted on with the standard acacia mix Olive described which is native potting mix, granitic sand, perlite and slow release native fertilizer. Acacias are tough and adaptable, once they have developed some reasonable phyllodes only lack of water or getting the trunk snapped off in the wind seems to kill them!

trying for val x scop

The 'Sharxx Blue' clone was named by an older member here PD. As mentioned the plant originates from Dawsons, It's toward the right front near the patch of spachianus. Here's a pic of what is left of the parent plant....

Here is a kk2152 from sab shop

Nice looking plants you have there mystical What I've noticed in my garden is spachianus is usually among the very first to open. If nothing else is open and the spach flower sets fruit, could a person conclude its self fertile? I cant say for certain what my methods were in 2012-2013, but from 2014 on I typically collect the pollen from a flower, then cut off the anthers, then pollinate the pistil. Always at dusk/night to allow the pistil to adsorb the pollen before the arrival of the bees the following morning. Often I'll tuck the pistil into the petals and out of the center of the flower itself.

Here's a few photos you can use if you like EG. T. pachanoi KK339 (Incognito)... T. validus KK1418 (SAB)... T. peruvianus KK338 (SAB)... T. peruvianus KK1688 (SAB)...

It being December, and now definitely winter here, this week my guys went into their winter quarters. Cold frames and a couple of mini-greenhouses, to keep them dry. We can get some prolonged spells of torrential rain, which can lead to rot. This way they stay dry during their winter rest, and are raring to go in the spring. Some pics of two of my cold frames.

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This is a SAB clone kk2148

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Thursday (2 posts above) same plants 2 days later, hopefully most will form seeds some old plants Plants from the post above, pollinated today

^^^^^ yesterday's (same ones in the above post) Todays.........

Whole crop of variegated Astrophytum seedlings...probably 75% variegation and 25% that lack all chlorophyll From cross of myriostigma cv. kikko nudum variegata X myrio cv. hakujo fukuryu Hopefully I'll have plenty of seed from this cross available next season for a giveaway...already pressed for space as it is

My purpureopilosus popped a second flower a couple of weeks ago and this time i made a bit better effort to pollinate it. Both flowers were pollinated with frozen bb scop pollen from last year. First one didnt take so i just assumed the pollen was dead. But the second flower i accidentally left the pollen out of the freezer over night and pollinated the flower in the morning i blew the pollen into the stigma as opposed to brush application with the first). The most exciting thing for me with it all is that the pollen has been stored in the freezer for nearly a year but it is still viable😀😀😀 I will be giving most of the seeds away if anybody is interested? Cheers B

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