Stillman

I have a massive clump of galangal in the back yard which was given to me by a local gardener. its just goes nuts in my climate. I wouldn't know which species though, I assume it is the more common. Its in flower now so I might take afew pics of the flowers and dig up a rhizome so someone can ID it over the next few days. We just use it for cooking in place of ginger, the fresh roots are really moist and hot as in flavour.

you can by the plants/ bulbs from a Tasmanian supplier they are available now. Too hot for me to grow here but.

I'd leave it dry and just plant it. as is, long as it dries and seals the whole end will eventually be a root ball anyway. Monstrose are very cool I have been pollinating and crossing any flower in my cacti collection just so I can have seeds to plant in the hope of unusual mutations, I really like variegated mutations as well.

I have some flowers on at the moment I'll put some aside and when they are dry I'll just add on this thread that I have seeds available if any one is interested. As I said it grows like a weed here, self seeding all over the place. But I do only have the all yellow flower not like the red tipped flower you see online. I would be interested in trading for some of those seeds even.

I found this cacti at a small nursery and was given it for free as they don't really specialise in cacti and he thought it looked a bit sick, but I thought it was a pretty interesting specimen. the photo is not the best but it has quite alot of colour in it, and I think it has some monstrose characteristics.

hahah oh shit yes it was tipz.. funny what you see when you want to.

I think your best bet would to be just to contact a few and see how it goes you would think there wouldn't be too many dramas unless you wanted to sell out of there facility but there could be ways around that. Subleasing can be a nightmare and it can be easy it all comes down to the landlord at the end of the day. (By the way those giant T spach you sent me are rooted and producing pups, they look awesome.)

this one has a couple of the little pink buds too I thought it may have been setting fruit or flowers but after looking up a few things on google I think its just its growth pattern. Do they eventually grow into off shoots or stay as foi-spines? I'm starting to get into variegated and monstrose cacti. Have been looking up Cultivar online mag, some of the hybrids and colours they have OS is amazing, its so alien.

I guess it could be Opuntia monacantha monstrose or similiar. I've never seen one before but then again I may have never looked either. lol.

I think it may be a hybrid but the flowers seem more like C. samaipatanus.

Went out this morning and picked up a couple nice things, This one is about 40cm and flowering I have no idea what it is. I think this is some sort of Euphorbia and I think this is some sort of Lobivia? and I got some lithops but they are id'd I love the markets everything but the lithops was $2.50 each.

Took some pics of the new open flowers this morning.

Excellent work man, I am a grafting novice too and I have been killing scions left right and centre . Good to see others having success.

cut it into 3 and plant in moist soil, you can use root striking gel or just put it in the soil. In a few weeks it will strike most likely, from my limited experience they are really weedy. I have seen the water thing used to and no doubt it would work but makes me nervous.

Cereusly I think you could have it. I will wait for some new flowers to open then take some pics. Is this species self fertile I wonder?

the flowers in the first pick are very wilted the plant was very very dry, everything has stood up a bit since I watered. Once a new flower opens I will post a pic. Kalika I used to have a stall at west end for a bit selling chilli sauce, but these were found at Caboulture.

At the Brisbane botanical gardens they have the cacti behind glass so you can't get as close. That is awesome.

the succulent looks definitely like Monadenium ritchiei ssp. nyambense. Thanks heaps EG and SDB cheers.

Tips thats exactly what I was thinking. Its in an area were I never need to go in the dark or in a damaged state hahaha.

I have decided to put some of my collection in the ground. Alot of the Big stuff will do better out of pots but I also wanted to put some nice small clumping stuff in. So these are the first pics. Still have a lot to do but am on a few days off so will slowly improve what I have done over the next couple days but I recon its a pretty good start.

chilli won't do any permanent damage to them it will just teach them not to touch your nice stuff so very humane I think.

my point I guess is a high strenth chilli spray may mellow the little bastards out either on the cacti or on the possums..

Possums are a pest in suburban areas. And if you have older style houses in QLD they always seem to manage to "nest in the roof". I really hate them, I don't kill them or move them. But I do hate them. I used to grow alot of habaneo for sauce and I had to net the whole thing due to them eating new shoots and flowers but never the fruit lol.

I have a feeling its an Euphorbia caput-medusae var or close relative, but definitely unusual, its not like the usual E caput- medusae that I have seen.

I wish it was, but if you look at the lower pup it has little leaves. It does have a loph like appearance which is what caught my eye.