Stillman

yep die back in winter. I lost a couple plants just repotted a heap. will put up photos in a month or so as they come awake.

Received the seed today. Very impressed with the size of the pods. I believe they are extremely different to everything I have but could just be environmental.

You can start in PDs photo gallery he has listed alot of big clone names. Unfortunately no photos of flowers but maybe he has them as well. Its a very good starting place. http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?app=gallery&album=56

hey slice how old are they are they your seedlings? They have really grown fast.

http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?app=galleryℑ=3359 heres another photo of PDs this is Psycho0 x spachianus, I have a couple kind of like this. But nothing like the two fat ones above. They have really red black spines which I think will look very cool when they get big.

Great Kiwi site http://www.giantpumpkins.co.nz/ http://www.giantpumpkins.co.nz/free-download-pumpkin-tracking-sheet http://www.giantpumpkins.co.nz/how-to-page/weight-table

Icecube I'm organising some scales... and a fork lift.

yeah I'm using it as a soak in combination with "Triple Boost" 3 in one fertiliser. Looks and smells a hell of a lot like Canna BIO organic vega...

Not sure on the wetting agent. I use the premium potting mix for everything sometimes I add a little sand but lately I have just let it go as is. I feed twice or three times a week in summer. You get the old shitty bag but as a whole for an off the shelf product thats cheap its not to bad.

Anyone know much about molasses as an additive to fertiliser? It apparently will promote microbial colonies in the soil. Also allegedly helps uptake of fertilisers to an extent. I'm doing some trials with it on sweet potato and tubers this spring/ summer. Might use it on my Pumpkin too. Apparently it is used as a foliar spray by Giant Pumpkin growers?

Lampranthus are already flowering but the Delosperma sp are just coming into flower.

These are very interesting plants I put a heap of different lampranthus, Delosperma is the ground adn they have gone ballistic. Heres an old thread of some photos. http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=31815&hl=+delosperma%20+thread&page=2

Eileen doesn't flower often from apparently, I have never seen seed of it. There are some fields pach x psycho0 getting around also some T roseii x psycho0.

We use Searls potting mix IME this is the most consistent product on the market. 18 for a 60litre bag I think which is alot of mix.

D rupicola D elephantipes D hemicrypta D sylvatica My babies are starting to grow, the D syvatica already have very small tubers the size of a pea I guess.

Not sure if anyone is as keen on a thread dedicated to caudiciform plants as me lol. But thought I would start one. I only have a small collection but am slowly acquiring more. I'm really keen on the South African and greater African Dioscorea species at present slow growers apparently but impressive once they get some size. Heres some little fellas I recently aquired. http://s111.photobucket.com/user/stillmanz/media/Sweet%20potato%20and%20Yams%20etc/DSCF2030_zpsc69d42bc.jpg.html'> http://s111.photobucket.com/user/stillmanz/media/Sweet%20potato%20and%20Yams%20etc/DSCF2026_zpsbe59c41b.jpg.html'> http://s111.photobucket.com/user/stillmanz/media/Sweet%20potato%20and%20Yams%20etc/DSCF2025_zpse1641ca4.jpg.html'> http://s111.photobucket.com/user/stillmanz/media/Sweet%20potato%20and%20Yams%20etc/DSCF2023_zps0f943f86.jpg.html'> http://s111.photobucket.com/user/stillmanz/media/Sweet%20potato%20and%20Yams%20etc/DSCF2022_zpscc98fdd1.jpg.html'> http://s111.photobucket.com/user/stillmanz/media/Sweet%20potato%20and%20Yams%20etc/DSCF2021_zps2ee7de2e.jpg.html'>

menacing lol

yep I'd say peru

Yeah its a worry, I want one of those ribbons lol

Some pics from the EKKA

I know right.

it needs a bigger pot or to be put in the ground these plants want to be massive giants.

The biggest Giant Pumpkin at the Brisbane Exhibition this year was 56KG piss poor Next year I'm taking in a beast.

Nice one, put that one somewhere safe.

Suposed to be the same nobilis has a yellow flower but? If you got any of the yellow flowering I'll trade you a cutting.