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  1. Posted

    I was just wondering how important the piper betel leaf was in the eating of betel nuts? How much extra zing does it add? and is it worth trying to grow in a temperate climate? What is it in the combination that causes the red staining and can that be prevented?

    Any other relivent info or a good link to info before I try it?

    Thanks

    naja

    Anybody got 2 or 3 they can send me?

  2. Posted

    These are the common field shroom that grows here in the SW of W.A. Normally in wet paddocks, up to 18 inches in diameter. This one decided to grow in rock hard gravel. Tasted fine to me, no guts ache. Was my first wild pick,then eat shroom. Normally alot whiter than this on top, the brown is dirt.

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    QUOTE:

    While on the subject of cheap digital cameras, there are some brilliant quality photos posted on this forum and other parts of the 'ninternut'.... can anyone give me a good example of what bottom end quality photos look like at say, a 3.2 megapixel res ? Cams at this res are sooooo freaking cheap (ie' inder $130) And what of the PC requirements to upload ? (this boy is running an old paperweight with win 98 and a slow processor - PII)

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    All my photo's are taken with a sony 3.3 megapixel, with a carl zeiss lens.

    Check "some pics fom my collection" in the creativity section to see them.

    AS I said b4, unless you are going to be printing the photo's your not going to notice too much difference between photo's taken with 3.3MP and 6 MP. All that MP is for when you print a photo! The bigger the MP the bigger photo you can print without a loss in quality. But if your just viewing it on a computer screen, you won't be able to tell a diff. The only diff then comes down to the individual cameras, and their lenses.

    I can print up to A4 without loss in quality, so unless your planning on getting poster sized prints of your photo's made. 3.3 is fine! Even a 1mp camera can take photo's suitable for printing up to the standard photo size without a loss in quality.

    Conclusion. For the computer screen it doesn't really matter how many Megapixels, the quality of the camera/lense is more important.

    If a 1mp photo, a 3.3mp photo and a 6.6mp photo printed in "standard" photo size, taken with similar quality camera's, were placed side by side, 99% of people wouldn't be able to pick between them. Viewed on a computer screen, would give the same results.

    Only if you had enlarged the prints, would people be able to tell the diff.

    Hope this helps,film is dead people. :uzi::uzi:

    Naja

  4. Posted

    Thanks heaps for that info, it helped heaps!

    I know distilled water for long term storage is by far the best meathod available to the amature, but was just wondering, that if one were to have excess LC left over, how long would one could keep a colinized LC in the fridge for and still consider it usable?

    1-2months? is what I'm thinkin, maybe longer if no contams.

    Any thoughts

    P.S. Any body got some good hints on how to cook oysters as apposed to your average field shroom or portabello? I've heard they need to be cooked and they aren't good raw in salads. Is this also true?

    Are there any enoki grown in Oz?

  5. Posted

    Any good developers visually check every photo in the batch, to check for quality. They will regularly reprint photo's because they are too dark or too light. People don't realize how much work goes into developing simple photo's. Kodak won't hire you if you are colour blind, they even have en employee test computer programme to test for colour blindness. Aslong as it's a privatley owned shop you should be fine.

    Coles,K-mart, etc are not good! They print shit prints and don't do illegal ones most of the time. Even if there is no evidence pertained within.

  6. Posted

    In most cases, photo developers follow a volantary code of client confidentiality and will develope absolutely anything aslong as it's not child porn. You should hear the discusting shit my mate tells me he developes. Some places I know of like coles developing will just not print them or remove the illegal ones like pot photo's, but still do not report to the police. In your case though and considering how cheap they are, just get yourself a crappy digital camera, aslong as you just want the photo's on your computer, 1megapixel is adequate, even printing photo's to the standard photo size wil be fine. If you want to print any larger you need more megapixels, the more MP the bigger print you can do, 3.3MP is fine for A4 printing. If the pics are just for the comp, then you won't notice alot of diff in quality between 1mp and 4mp on a comp screen.

    So even one of those shitty $30 1.1MP dig camera's should be fine, (in theory). If u got some money to spend, go one with a carl zeiss lens, I rekon that one reason my photo's always look so good :wink:

  8. Posted

    Just wondering if anyone knows how long a liquid culture, stored in a fridge @8degC would last for. Looking up ways to store Isolates, distilled water seems best storing for a year easy, then colonized grain or cake last for 6 months, but since a myc syringe of LC contains nutients, unlike the distilled water, how long would one think that it would remain suitably viable?

    Also, how long/many times can one perpetuate an isolate before noticing a degregation of that isolate, if say...... You stored an isolate in distilled water, then once a year did agar plates to make another distilled myc batch to last another year until you repeated this again to keep your master stock viable?

    Is it measured in length of time or how many times it's asked to clone itself?

    Thanks naja

    :blink:

    P.S. By liquid culture im refering to a 4% malt LC

  10. Posted

    ...and I thought teenagers didn't read newspapers or watched the evening news?? -_- :P

    Thats our only hope, only intelectual teenagers would read the news paper and they are more than likely to ignore this sort of information or atleast not commit it to memory.

    Hopfully I.D. will be the major problem for most people.

  11. Posted

    My dad told me today that there was an article on khat in todays sunday times. Sure enough, there it was and lettig the whole friggin world know it's out there and growing freely, also state it's a drug and you've just made every teenager in perth lookin for them.

    Geez the pepers are smart :rolleyes:

  14. Posted

    Yeah I'm gonna place an order from SAB and herbalistics and might resort to this if I have to, but would prefer to find someome in W.A. to help me out, it would just make the whole thing alot easier and provide me with peace of mind.

    Just out of curiousity, what would happen if quarantine confiscated it?

    Would that be the end of it or would I then be facing inspections and persecution?

    I'm pretty sure importing them is o.k. aslong as they adhere to W.A.'s Quarantine policies.

    If someone from W.A. has had success with importing them, please also let me know. I'd like a cutting off you, but if thats not possible, would like some reassurence that importing from over east will not cause me any undue problems.

    Cheers

  15. Posted

    Could anyone in W.A. please help me out in getting a cutting or two, of any variety of khat? If anyone has some spare Catha edulis,rooted cuttings or advanced potted plants, I would be most interested. I can offer pedro cuttings(proven),neoregelia bommeliads(Deb,Lila) or cash in exchange.

    With in W.A. only!

    I too am not sure if Catha edulis cuttings would make it from over east, as has been said before, because of the strict quarantine laws. Has to be packed in shredded paper and not straw, not sure if soil is allowed. Would prefer someone else in W.A. to take the risk. If some1 else in W.A. is ever placing an order from SAB, let me know, I'll put in on the order with you. If thats what I have to resort too.

    Or if anywhere/anyone in Australia can help me out with viable Catha seeds, I'm sure me can come to some arrangment.

    Thanks all

    Naja

  17. Posted

    cool, thanks guy's

    Should be able to get my hands on it now.

    Just out of curiousity, does anyone have an idea on what would be making up the remaing percentage in garden lime if it says that it is 34% calcium carbonate?

    I'm assuming the remainder would be made up of just inert material?

    Thanks for your help guy's

  19. Posted

    What you're saying doesn't appear to make any sense. Assuming the 34% said calcium and not calcium carbonate then that equals about 85% calcium carbonate. The 74% neutralising is probably a figure that desfribes the quality of it's neutralising ability in soil, relating to purity and finesse of powder

    And that assumes calcium carbonate is the only calcium compound in it.

    I know it doesn't ake any sence thats why I had to ask you guy's/gals.

    It DID say CALCIUM CARBONATE, not just calcium. I corenspond all info, correctly, as I see it so it makes as much sence to you as it does to me.

    So is it what I want or not?

  21. Posted

    was not tried by me, was tried over ten years ago by people who knew what they were doing. yeah it's in shade next to a pachanoi. No nutrients ever pretty much, but when tried (10y ago)just caused a big headache, unlike the pach next to it which is super strong aparently.

    I'm gonna get a cutting of this plant and propagate it myself in good conditions, so some may be available next year for sampling.

    I personally aren't prepared to try mesc at this time in my life, but like to propagate it never the less. And it's good stock for when I try my hand at grafting.

  23. Posted

    due to their tolerence and easy maintanence

    Exactly, impossible to get rid of and very invasive, depends on which way you look at it.

    Great to get a lawn established quickly, but sour relations when your kikuyu starts invading your next door neighbours expensive lawn, maybe they've done some breeding to stop this, but it would also mean it won't colonize your grassed area as quick, allowing other weeds and competitors established. Pro's and Con's.

    A weed is any plant growing where u don't want it. If you want it there it is no longer a weed to you.

  24. Posted

    What is kikuyu? LOL

    It's a runner grass, impossible to get rid of and very invasive. I thought every australian would know what kikuyu grass was. The main grass grown as lawn,(bar cooch grass) makes u itchy as shit if you roll on it. variously angled stiff blade like grass, not a nice one.

    Cotonester, don't know, but I think thats a ground cover too.

    I don't need a location, but a certain time/month to look for these would help. As I say, there's absolutely no fungal growth in any paddocks that I've seen in the last week or two.

    Naja

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