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If Dictatorial censorship is part of his policy i have no interest in participating on that forum

sure - thanks again.Ill let u know if anything turns up. hope theres a return addy so i can send you something

Great! these are one item i dont want to have to gift wrap

nice :D pat on the head is the same thing i was taught.. 'flick before you pick' was the instruction while its value is unsure it is probably a good practice just to make people conscious of where exactly future harvests come from. i reckon that spore water trick woul dbe great if you could soak it up onto an absorbant blotter like cardboard chips or paper pellets. then you could spread it even further like sowing a field of grain good show!

please be careful - dont ingest any wild shroom you cant ID to at least genus level with absolute surity, and preferably have a good idea on species as well. Its one thing to test edibility of a shroom, its another thing entirely to test an unknown shroom for edibility - some call it foolishness and it certainly has no scientific merit either beside the big one looks a bit far gone To ID it you could start with a spore print. ignore the gill colour as its no reliable indicator of spore colour the colour of the spore print is very valuable in begginning the ID process next youd confirm with other traits like cap shapes and features like veil fragments and gill patterns, cap shape and size etc by elimination general guide only of a few gropus to demonstrate recurring similarities within the group in spore colour Chocolate brown - Agaricus group Chocolate brown (WA subs) to Purplish black (most) - Strophariales (stropharia, panaeolus, Psilocybe) Cinnamon brown to rusty orange - Cortinariales (incl. cortinarius, galerina, gymnopilus) White to off white - amanita Pink - Volvariella lilac - Pleurotus Olive green - Chlorybdites [ 13. June 2003, 05:28: Message edited by: reville ]

with any species you make your best guess an leave it be - poking around can ruin it with your climate just planting spent cakes outside in moist mulch should give nice results this is a good thing to do with mostly colonised but partially contaminited cakes. trim away the bulk of contam and plant outside otherwise good cakes should just be decased, soaked for 24 hours in water witha littl peroxide or bleach and hen patted dry recased and returned for fruiting FF in a rudimentary form will be up as soon as the webcart is completed. Stock will be all basic cultivation tools, with a couple of kits to make it easier. Biologicals will take a bit longer as i have to sort out the precolonised kits and grow up stocks i have a few new species though including luminescent fungi and King oysters (pleurotus eryngii). Only edibles , medicinals and novelties though - no blue stainers check out this species - now if this isnt a funky fungus i dont know what is - Dictyophora http://www.shaman-australis.com/publicpics...ureset1_115.jpg Prepoured media will also begin to be stocked as it becomes available and im certain production protocols are watertight for sterility

well ime completely fed up with lophs on their own roots - stinkin things Ive lost both my parent caespitosas several of their pups and others from careles mistakes - and considering how old they must have been the chances of making a mistake are high enough to make it alsoms inevitable that all my plants would eventually succumb faster than i can grow them to nay respectable size so im on a grafting campaign and until i get a cactus greenhouse proper, thats all im doing - even with seedlings (graft) maybe in 5 years ill have reclaimed the attrition that has occured in the last 2 same for all my arid cacti in fact [ 13. June 2003, 04:46: Message edited by: reville ]

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Love and marriage are anything but partners Love is love. Acceptance, enjoyment, sex, a phenomenom between 2 lovers Marriage is everything else. Marriage is fulfilling ones various 'obligations' to family and society. Its about Wealth and procreation, about familial ties and consolidating intergenerational cultural values, its about so much - but even though many have the tragic view - its not about love - love is something you bring or make as a bonus - not a prerequisite Given my hassles and past disasters in getting to where im at id have to say that if i was to start from scratch id WELCOME an arranged marriage. I think the concept is much better so long as its based on pairing up personalities that are compatible - to the keen eye these things would be evident in childhood, as temperment, emotional and intellectual signatures. Theres also the behind the scenes politics - how well do the families get on? what conflicts in cultural and economic differences will divide not only the couple but the 2 converging families. To start with a clear understanding about what a marriage really is and then to grow to love your spouse.Sure affairs will happen but they do anyway As long as marriage is based on the illusion of compatibility because of romantic love i think its going to continue to be a disaster and the gap between what people believe they WANT out of this social institution and what they NEED will be as far apart as ever I may not hold the same views as most but i think that you can grow to love not one 'right' person but any one of thousands you meet on your lifelong journey and that whether the love is a fiery one that fades or one that endures has more to do with compatibility of personality and similar attitudes to the the external factors and expectations youll both face as you live out the life cycle

A bonobo is a pygmy chimpanzee (Pan paniscus) http://songweaver.com/info/bonobos.html

i dont know about cutting off at the base cut stubs may just act as infection points. Id be more inlcined to put 2 fingers either side of the stalk and with the other hand pull it up while the hand to the ground applies enough pressure to make sure you dont rip up the mycelium with it. IF you do rip it up recover with leaf mulch and trim any bits dangling from the base and plant in another likely suitable area - these species transplant well In stamets book it says that a bed can be expanded by a factor of 5 every year just by transplanting colonised chips - im sure this is a minimum value designed to ensure fast colonisation dont forget that stubs also regrow in contact with woodchips and or cardboard.

ah just had a thought.... P cubensis is a prohibited plant in Qld legislation i remember reading so that might be a prob also

and even then wouldnt it be the responsibility of the reciever? as with plants?

yeah sorry bout posting in the other thread - sat down at the comp looking at the thread alraedy there and just posted without noting what forum it was in. So Planthelper is this from your own stock?

4 guesses in order Mutant (recssive genes) Virus Pathogen (verticillium, bacteria) Environmental parameters - ie CO2 too high, fluctuating humidity (pins dried out then resumed growth again - causes splitting and wierd growth To weed them out look at how this behaviour differs spatially across the fruiting area, across flushes and across separate patches the more consistent it is the further id move to the top of the list and vice versa.

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quick is good - if like me you have no intention of ever eating them my pic was peasized when it went on and single - that pic was at just 3 months - im sure i could do better too. I read on erowid? about japanese grafters getting loph from seed to flowering in 18 months? searching.... 'Peyote is easily cultivated and is free-flowering. On the other hand, one must be very patient if he wishes to grow peyote from seed, as it may take up to five years to obtain a plant that is 15 millimeters in diameter. At any stage, however, peyote can be readily grafted onto faster-growing rootstocks, and this usually triples or quadruples the plant's rate of growth. Japanese nurserymen, for example, have obtained peyote plants large enough to flower within a period of 12-18 months by grafting the young seedlings onto more robust root stocks.' this is good news as you can play with forms and hybrids n stuff - I just bought a mammilaria heyderii damn shoul dhave picked up that bocasana 'Of interest is that L. williamsii has been successfully crossed with Mammillaria bocasana and M. zeilmanniana. The former producing plants with a distinctly more tuberculate form, the latter producing plants with dark red flowers. Lophophora flowers are very structurally similar to Mammillaria flowers, and an interesting speculation might be that L. williamsii var. decipiens is a natural hybrid between L. williamsii and a Mammillaria species.' http://www.cactus-mall.com/mss/#42

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im pretty sure the cultivation of edibles will be covered well enough by funky fungus printing might be useful - especially tailored towards field techniques vs domestic how about some info on amanita and gyms?

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hot n wet no seriously