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Huarazensis x tpm

More scop x red grandi. All grafts have different degrees of varigation and one is doing a little monster pupping... Probably just from being grafted though. This first one is still on its own roots and doing a dicotamas thing.

Found this guy in a pot under a pot. He was a but over 30cm long, didn't like being disturbed.

As titled id like this thread to become full of pictures of animals in your garden so to get things started.

Hold onto your butts, we're in for a treat tomorrow morning! Planterary alignment to offer view of five bright planets at once Sounds easy to spot, too: TipsThe alignment will be visible to the naked eye from 20 January from 5.30am-5.45am AEDT until 20 February 5am-6am AEDT. Hold your arm up in a straight line from the horizon to the moon and the planets should fall along that line. Try to find a flat horizon and a dark sky. Don’t give up! It may take more than one early morning to see the full alignment.

#1 - def a bridgesii, can't tell which named clone exactly (if it is one), but a bridge for sure. #2 - looks to be the Sausage plant. (the extra pic you put up in post #4 also looks like sausage) http://trichocereus.net/sausage-plant/ #4 - I'd personally call peruvianus, but call it macro if you prefer. #5 - nice looking plant, no way that's a clone of Psycho0 though. Yours is maybe a pach X peru hybrid or something similar. #6 - I can't see much knuthianus in it, but it does look like another pach/peru hybrid of some type. Nice plants!

I don't think I've posted here in a long time, so here's a little update :-------) Trichocereus pachanoi monstrose (believed to be Altmans Monstrose) got a pup that terminated and then decided to un-terminate and go tastily inermis This is a graft of a pup from the monstrose that was all brain-like which has now crested Trichocereus pachanoi PC variegate reaaaaallly slightly variegated, very hard to capture with a camera, especially a phone camera TBM Long Form all grown up : ' -- ) and getting nice and fat Fricii Monstrose/Cristata suffered a nice cocktail of spidermite, scale and sunburn but getting better with the tasty new growth

Yo gather up all your love and send it to someone who needs a touch of happiness. Blessings mates and carry that positive torch high up there so others can see - help up those having trouble standing. Personally this week was a shitter and needs to be canned for eternity - it starts today. Two friends and an uncle passing within 7 days can be a tad disturbing and unsettles your equilibrium - so this album does it for me when that shit hits the fan - pull back yo curtains yo! much love and respect

Ahaha still the epicentre of sab humour. Somebody will have to periodically email the accumulated wicked burns his way??

My first few SAB camping trips were in this area with trips to cactus country. It's pretty awesome. The home of the j series of cacti named after jim the owner. And psycho0 too. Incognito tried walking around the whole garden in bare feet. If my memory serves me, i rescued him by heroically carrying him piggy back.

fer the love of gawd wert would you please upload your pictures directly to sab instead of linking them to that fucked up photobucket site? bullshit. how about no res your linked pics dont display in my browser, maybe you dont know how to post pics directly to sab??

What's wrong with just eating blueberries? I buy the frozen organic ones from Woolies or the regular Aus-grown frozen ones from Coles and have a handful or so a day. As TI says, you can also eat purple sweet potato and carrots, and there's a bunch of things you can grow yourself to nibble on (if you're in Vic, blackberries come to mind). Fruit juice isn't really very good for you, all that fructose with none of the plant fibre from the fruit itself that would have tempered its negative effects. I say get a moderate amount of as many different nutrients as you can, from wholefood sources, rather than just focusing on how you can get as much of one nutrient or another into your diet...to me that seems like the healthiest eating strategy. Not to say the anthos aren't great or shouldn't be sought out though. Edit: to try address your other concern, I doubt there's a way to know exactly how much of any antioxidant compound is in a given sample of produce without actually testing it. I don't know if it's that important though as long as the food you're eating is known to be rich in said nutrient. Unless you really wanna go gung ho and enlistthe help of a lab or a grad student somewhere

5 doesn't look anything like the Psycho0s ive seen or grown.

it is strange... but it really isn't too. 'Australia' is an english colony that is not much more than 200 years old. For the most part, mainstream australian culture is colonial, inheriting the northern hemisphere culture of the colonizers. It's extremely unrealistic to expect that in just a few generations this culture would develop a rich set of cultural practices based on southern hemisphere astronomical & climatological realities, seeing as this culture is inherently deeply disconnected from the complex realities of nature itself. but thats just the thing, the glaring ridiculousness of our schizophrenic cultural discombobulation with nature just brings home over & over again just how deeply disconnected from 'reality' we are as a culture & that is extremely sad & in my opinion is at the core of some of our most profound problems on the planet & the fact that im hard strapped to find someone who is even willing to discuss this with me is just a bit worrying. the obvious & common response to this type of topic is: why am i being so negative? why don't i just focus on the good things, like spending time with family over christmas etc.. which i agree with.. i think it's great that over the festive times i get to see more people than usual because most people make more of an effort.. it's great.. but that also just brings home just how fucked our culture must be that we need a schizophrenic out dated cultural practice in order to spend time with people we love? this may sound negative but that is extremely fucking sad.. life is so damn short! & people require the entire world to shut down & everyone in the entire world to do the same thing on the same day in order for them to find time to see their family & friends.. Nuts Same goes for new years in my opinion.. life will be over in a blink of an eye.. if you need an excuse (like a set of arbitrary numbers which were decided by a 14th century pope) to have a good party then you're simply doing it wrong. Life i mean.

yeah.. to be honest it's pretty stupid, right in the middle of summer when we should be busy getting on with all the great & important things that the summer time entails, the whole world goes psychotic & more or less shuts down in the chaotic lead up to christmas/new year. theres something about that consumeristic chaos in the stinking heat of summer that really brings home just how fucked our situation is on this planet. Y'know, the whole rampant consumerism causing life threatening climate change & you're stuck in traffic in 40 degreeC heat choking on the exhaust fumes of millions of people all rushing psychotically to buy tons of useless plastic garbage.. Just really brings it home. Never fails to depress me every christmas.. & don't get me started about all the mongs celebrating Halloween in australia. An ancient ritual to usher in the winter as the days get shorter & the world begins to shut down. Here its' the opposite.. the days are getting longer & new life is bursting out of it's dormancy all around us.. & here are millions of mongs dressing up as ghouls & celebrating death.. i know i'm a cynical fuck but do people really not stop for five seconds to ponder why they are doing the mindless shit they do? i mean i really don't enjoy being a grumpy tool about these things but it seems to me this total discombobulation is somewhere near the core of many of our serious problems as a culture.. it's hard being a plant person who inherently lives their life based on natures processes & cycles here in the southern hemisphere when all our cultural rituals (which almost all have their roots in natural cycles & events) & we're living the exact opposite of whats actually occurring around us on the planet. it's so glaringly retarded if you stop & think about it for a moment.. considering theres a good chance my own children's (& countless generations to come) lives may be cut short or severely compromised because of this cultures profound ignorance it's enough to drive a person close to total insanity.. that or just a total acceptance of the hilariousness of our dark & tragic existence.. am i taking this all too seriously?

Got off to a slow start but thought its time to contribute some photos, loving the way some of these are turning out already! Bridgesii x Validus Bridgesii 'Helen' x Huanucoensis Huan open Huan open Huan x Kimnach Huan x Kimnach Huan x SS02xSS01 Juuls open Juuls x Peru Juuls x Validus Macro x 'Helen' Pc x 'Helen' Peru x Kimnach Spachianus open Spachianus x Juuls SS02xSS01 x Kimnach Validus open Validus x 'Helen' Validus x Pc

Thank you guys I'll add that lc scop x scop seeds were produced in Melbourne.. Here's one of the parents:

A few days ago I made a few grafts. I left them a day longer and on this one I can see some fungus growing. Well, I don't think it'll affect the scion or the union itself. Here's a variegated Lophophora pup

After grafting in April the little pup of this somewhat deformed psycho0 x rosei#1 seedling to bigger stock.. .. it turned in almost normal growth .. although there's some difference between the ribs ..

Not nutricion deficiency, I say viral.. I also got it in some clones

I plant in native soil - enriched with a little of my "special compost blend" perhaps 50/50 compost/dirt. Drainage is not a problem here in Phoenix and I don't add expensive coir, perlite, vermiculite, or any rock chips to the mix. All of this was brought in for free - from local sources. It enriches the ground and also works great in pots.

12/2007 12/2009 3/2011 view from the other side

Before gettign too comfy about putting money into Oz banks, consider that Argetina [which was rated equal to the australian economy at the time] also guaranteed its bank deposits 10 years ago. Problem is that when the banks went bust the government went broke too, so regardless of how much money you had in the bank you could only withdraw a subsistance amount on a weekly basis. So much for government guarantees.