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  2. Posted · Edited by Psyentist

    Unfortunately I never met Ed, or even spoke to him for that matter, so I'm not really sure it's my place to comment here.

    But he sounds like one of those precious gems of a human that the world is worse off for losing.

    I just wanted to share this for people who may be grieving, I think it's quite a beautiful sentiment....

    Death is nothing at all.

    It does not count.

    I have only slipped away into the next room.

    Nothing has happened.

    Everything remains exactly as it was.

    I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.

    Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.

    Call me by the old familiar name.

    Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.

    Put no difference into your tone.

    Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

    Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.

    Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.

    Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.

    Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.

    Life means all that it ever meant.

    It is the same as it ever was.

    There is absolute and unbroken continuity.

    What is this death but a negligible accident?

    Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

    I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner.

    All is well.

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  3. Posted

    There's not a thing I can do about the ants. It's seems there's some sort of ant superhighway running along the fence line at my joint. All I can do is try to dissuade them from frequenting certain plants.

    I have a strict no ant policy on my plants.

    They used to wreak havoc on my psychotrias by farming the above ground mealies. They even started bring dirt up into the lower branches of one to build a nest or something. But I went around daily, sometimes more, to disrupt them and ruin all their hard work, or make moats around potted plants to prevent access, and they got the picture eventually, touch wood.

    But if they're also in the soil where I can see them harvesting mealies this scares me. Especially, like you say, for my little Mexican amigos.

    They're in their own seperate little place at the moment that is relatively ant free and as they were repotted recently I'm confident they're alright at the moment.

    I'm reluctant myself to use any poisons, especially if it's only precautionary for most of the plants. I've also looked into biological controls for other pests like spidermite and above ground mealies and think they're a great idea. But my outbreaks aren't that serious and I'm afraid they'd just relocate to the neighbours yards as I'm pretty sure I take more care with my garden than they do. Might have to look into this hypoaspis miles though.

    I think for now I'll just have to closely monitor my more sensitive plants and see how it goes.

    Thanks for the advice.

  4. Posted

    Yeah, I've heard about the bee issue with imidacloprid but as it seems my trichos won't flower during my lifetime I don't really see it as a problem.

    If I didn't have so many pots, there'd be close to 200, I'd bare root and check them all but I just don't have the time. Some are pretty big and spiky too!

    I found this thread where evilgenius was having root mealy issues...

    http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=27625

    ... and m s smith says he has had root mealys rampant in his collection for years. That they weren't really that much of problem.

    I'm not sure what to do. Just leave them and wait to see if any plants start looking unhealth, and hope for the best. Or try to wipe them out now before they do any damage. There is a lot of ants around my yard though so I feel it could be a losing battle.

  5. Posted

    I thought the white webs were the eggs.

    That would be my only hesitation with the hot water method, it might kill the bug but leave the eggs behind.

    But then I read people saying they're not really a serious problem for trichos and not to worry about them.

    I think I'd prefer not to have little bugs sucking on the roots of my plants though.

    Think I might go with the confidor pot soak. Cheers dood.

  6. Posted

    Hah, you wouldn't believe it but I just logged on here to ask the exact same question.

    Did a whole lot of repotting yesterday and noticed root mealies on a few of the plants.

    The thing is I don't want to unpot every single one of my plants to check them, there's just too many.

    I'm looking at doing some sort of soil soak thing on them all with an insecticide, and repeating yearly. I hate to use chemicals but if it means plants not dying then I don't really have a choice.

    Anyone have any good methods for this?

    From the little research I've done it seems Rogor or Confidor could be used. Some people even said to use a soil wettener or even a tobacco tea.

    What do you's think?

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  9. Posted

    Hah, watertrade. It's not rocket science is it. I don't know why it's taken me so long to piece the puzzle together.

    And thanks olive! :)

    Yeah, I'm not worried. I've heard a few stories of survival through brief periods of swampy conditions and think people sometimes underestimate how hardy trichos are.

    Saying that, I haven't lost one to rot yet so could change my tune pretty quickly, hah.

  11. Posted

    Yeah, the cactus were a bit of an afterthought to be honest.

    It's the only ground I really have available and I thought they'd like it better than their pots.

    The whole garden bed is raised and quite well drained, you can't really see in the pic but the whole thing slopes to the right.

    She'll be right, hopefully!

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  12. Posted

    Yeah, it's hard man when you don't have enough room to house your babies.

    Sounds like you need some shade cloth my friend!

    I'm thinking foster homes would really be the best bet for mine. I still want to release a few into the wild though.

    I will pot and keep as many as I can in the next few weeks though. The weathers just starting to get nice for it here now and I have quite a few more plants that need doing too.

    Where there's a will there's a way!

  18. Posted

    Yeah, I know they're well overdue for a repot.

    I've got about sixty of them but I honestly don't have the room to repot them all.

    I was going to keep a couple of each cross and then plant the rest out in parks around the neighbourhood.

    There's a local meet coming up in my neck of the woods too so I'll bring a number of them to that to give away as well.

    I can't grow them all!

  19. Posted

    This looks like this little fella can't handle his drink.

    Found him keeled over to the left this morning, he was leant up against the scruffy looking thing behind him yesterday and falling over on the bloke in front of him last week.

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    Grown from macro x roseii#1 seed about two years ago.

    I've always though the name Eileen would have been better suited to a prostrate peru.

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  22. Posted

    Thanks mate, I try my best to give my babies nice clay homes. It's just not possible sometimes though.

    And cheers for the id, that is what I'm hoping for obviously but I don't think I'll be able to confirm it for a year or two yet.

    Also, I've have a few nice blue peru's. The three you see in that last photo are, left to right, grown from pachanoi seed off eBay (eBay pach), Len and Trent.

    Then there's this lot...

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    Back row, left to right, icaro, jac001, another Trent, David and what was given to me as a macrogonus.

    David is my bluest. At night in the torchlight he's as blue as my pilosocereus pachycladus!

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