Sir Jeans

no. 3, $7.00

Still haven't had any offers for this one...

Cheers mutant, yeah I expect I'll be removing the scop from the pachanoi stock in a year or two. I only did the graft because the little scop had such a tiny root system. I figured I could speed it up substantially by letting it borrow a bigger one for a while (plus I was itching to start experimenting with grating!). The other grafts I'll be doing won't be trichos - I've got a small, sunburned golden ball cactus, a rare astrophytum, and a few other little spherical cacti. I'll post some pics when I do them!

I agree with the above very good points. In addition, I think it sounds plausible that people with higher IQ would tend more so to be attracted to exploring and developing their minds through psychedelics. On the other hand though, I'd expect lower IQ to correlate with less "noble" uses of these substances. Of course it depends on lots of other variables, such the "Big 5" personalty construct known as Openness to Experience (if I remember correctly, this correlates with higher IQ). The definition of intelligence is also key. The most dominant theory (CHC theory) posits several facets to intelligence. Some, like processing speed and fluid intelligence, I'd expect to remain stable or perhaps even decline through psychedelic usage (through heavy use). But other "kinds" of intelligence, such as the creative component in Sternberg's Triacrchic theory I would expect to increase.

I have only recently joined the Corroboree, but I have already sold to a few members here - when I was selling cuttings of the sausage cactus a while ago ($10 for 6"), my advert on Gumtree got quite a bit of attention when someone posted about it on these forums. Any member who bought from me will confirm that I sent my cuttings promptly and carefully packaged. I think this is where my ad was mentioned: http://www.shaman-au...=1 I have eight small T. Pachanoi tips for sale. They are all about 10cm long, except for one which is only about 7cm. They all have some scarring: I've been selling much thicker lengths of T. Pachanoi for $10 per 6" (approx 15cm). The total length of the above tip cuttings is about 77cm. But since they are much smaller than the cuttings I usually sell, I'm thinking that half price might be fair. So if you do the math, this works out to about $25, and so thats what I'm asking for. I'd rather sell them all in one lot, but can separate if someone really wants. Local pick up or postage is fine.

Wow, thanks for sharing!

I decided to remove the areole - it looked so unhealthy I couldn't imagine it surviving. Here's what it looked like: I'll shave a cm or so off the stock and try grafting another areole on there soon. The other three grafts look ok, but its hard to tell at this point. I'll have a much better idea about them in a week or two (and will of course update this topic!). And yeah, I've heard that areole grafting is pretty advanced. The only reason I'm attempting it is because the macro cutting was destined for compost otherwise, and the trichocereus stock I'm grafting onto is something that I'm not particularly fond of. Before attempting these areole grafts I had only performed one graft before, which was a successfull graft of T. Scopulicola (so I'm told) onto T. Pachanoi stock: I'm planning on doing half a dozen or so similar grafts onto T. Pachanoi using this less advanced method. Just waiting for all my cacti to wake up from their winter slumber.

Hope your loph survives Fluss, infection is a bitch! The infection was dark red, and was only visible from the cut surface on one end (upper end) that had calloused over. It had also been dusted with copper sulfur, which I'm told is supposed to prevent rot. Obviously didn't work this time though! The infection has not migrated to any other cacti. I kept the macro cutting separate, and I've now thrown all the infected bits into the bin. I just really hope that the areoles I'm grafting are not infected! Unfortunately, one of the grafts I did is starting to look quite unhealthy: It seems firmly fused with the stock. Not sure if I should remove it or not. I'm thinking I probably should, and I really don't want to make the stock sick by leaving a rotting piece of cactus flesh on top of it! On a more positive note (sort of), I accidentally knocked two of the other grafts off. I was putting the plant outside, and trying to cover it with chicken wire to keep the possums away from it, but the wire got caught and pulled two areoles off. The positive note is that I was able to see that they really were indeed well fused, and both the stock and scion looked very healthy. Ive since grafted two new areoles onto these sites, so I still have four in total. Does anyone have any thoughts about whether I should remove the areole pictured above? If I do, I'll post a picture.

All seeds are now gone!

That's right spacemonkey, just one left. Its yours if you want it!

UPDATE: There are now only two batches left to go.

I recently had great success planting a Pachanoi cutting only about 10cm long - its now thriving with a scop tip grafted onto it! I'm sure your cutting will pick up once it develops some roots. I'd leave it out of direct sunlight if I were you though.

To save myself time, I won't respond to every pm - I'll post here once all 10 lots are gone (until then, assume more are available).

I agree - don't plant any deeper than half way (vertical or horizontal), and don't bury the pup. That's what I'd do anyway. I would expect the plant to do better if it can photosynthesize.

Beautifully put! If I understand correctly (and please forgive me if I don't!), it seems you accept a notion of reincarnation that is consistent with mainstream science. You seem to view reincarnation as a real phenomenon whereby "we" will all live future lives (to put it roughly), in the sense that we are all part of one churning universe of matter and energy, which is constantly producing new lifeforms. I'd be interested to know if you (or anyone else) thinks that it follows from such a view that we can personally identify with other life forms within the universe as if they were ourselves (because in a sense, they are). It may not be clear what I mean by that. Put it this way: when non-living matter comes together under appropriate conditions, life and (sometimes) consciousness emerges. Life and consciousness is thus emergent from non-life and non-consciousness. All matter and energy is in a constant state of interaction.*** Thus once we die, the non-living matter and energy from which we were once composed will merge with all the rest of the non-living matter and energy, from which future life forms and consciousnesses will emerge. Speaking about future lives makes it conceptually more digestible, but it applies to all lives living today as well. So again, does this mean we can personally identify with other lives, including future ones? Can we look forward to having future experiences (although of course no vestige or memory of any "previous lives" would remain)? If so, and this is something I've pondered for a while now, how do we deal with the problem of suffering? If we identify personally with all life in this way, then we must accept the immense suffering that most life forms experience. New lives will emerge that will experience all manner of horrors and pains (think of the insect world, for example). If we identify with other lives in the way I have tried to describe above, it seems we have innumerable, unbearably horrible experiences ahead of "us" (the same if true for wonderfully blissful experiences, as well as all other "types" - but I doubt many would be concerned about those!). It also means that there is nothing we can do about it - no amount of avoidance or practice in this lifetime will help, and there's no way to get outside of the system that produces these other lives (i.e. the universe). Does this make any sense to anyone or does it sound as crazy to you as its starting to sound to me? If it does make sense, how do we deal with this problem? Do we really just have to accept the unacceptable? Or is it not as unacceptable as it seems? I am starting to think that we probably can't identify with other lives in this way, but I'd love to know what others think! *** I don't know or even believe that this is the way things are. I'm just interested in what the implications would be if this is how things are.

These cuttings have now been sold.

Tis' all good - the guy who sold it to me said he'd happily replace it ;)

If anyone's wondering about postage, its coming from 5006 and weighs 1.1kg. You should be able to calculate postage costs based on this info if you go to the Australia Post website. 3kg satchel seems to be the cheapest option.

Cheers Tipz!

Your most welcome everyone - happy to share my experiences! In case my description wasn't clear, here's a diagram to show how to I cut the scions for greatest success: The little dot in the bottom view represents the veins (for lack of the correct term) that transport energy and nutrients from the core of the cactus to each areole. I read that its important to line this up with the ring of "veins" just like when traditional grafts are done. Here's a picture of another seemingly successful graft that was cut and grafted in this way. You can see how the skin doesn't touch the stock (especially on the right). You can also see a bit of discoloration, which I think the slugs contributed to. Hopefully it'll be ok though. I mentioned using weights instead of tape - here's a picture showing how I did that: I used books to get it to the right height. The metal pencil case has some weight to it, and the disc on top weights 500g. The successful graft in my first post above was done with this method, and using two 500g discs instead of one. I used a folded up tissue in between the scion and the weight on top of it, and also had trimmed the spines. Another thing that I forgot to mention - if using tape, It seems important that all four sides of the scion are taped down firmly, otherwise the untaped sides lift up when the scion dehydrates. As you can see in the photos in my first post, I didn't do this, which seems to have contributed to my first grafts failing. One final point: I am a novice at grafting, and I don't claim that the way I did it was the best way. In fact, if anyone can see any obvious flaws with my technique, or has any suggestions on things I can do to improve my success, I'd be grateful! I'd also be very interested if anyone knows what was wrong with the Macro cutting to start with (is this what people call "orange rot"?).