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  1. Posted · Edited by Spine Collector

    I had one instance where I was careless pouring water in the pot and most of the perlite floated.. leaving behind a more moist soil that didn't dry out as quick.. I didn't lose that plant but it recovered from some nasty spots... actually this happened on more than one plant til I figured out I need to be more careful watering so I made bottles that don't shoot a thick stream of water

    Best of luck re rooting them! I have been able to save some little trichos by grafting and re rooting... aerole grafting is an idea too

    so for seedlings Im going with sandy soil from now on.. its heavy enough to stay put until I can afford some zeolite or something..

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    Inspire me,
    even if you have to fire me
    or expose the liar in me
    it's what I need to find the higher me
    that climbs the higher tree

    Enrich my life
    Adversity has become my wife
    forever wed,
    we sleep on the same bed
    A reality expressed by strife

    Acknowledge my effort
    I am not lust a lepper
    I am not not weak because
    it took me some 3 months to quit Dr Pepper
    I am still A man

    And yes I still have a plan,
    or at least I think its a plan
    I think I know that I can
    But god damn, the big picture
    seems irreversibly bland

    So I plead once again,
    this time with the movement of hand
    Inspire me, so I too can reach
    the promise land
    Inspire me and I too
    will inspire you my man.

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    and then I added this too for the femine conversation

    Inspire me mother and sister,

    its only you who can show me how

    to remove the blister,

    you are the other side of me

    and without you I am just a drifter...

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  3. Posted · Edited by Spine Collector

    its fascinating that we are able to speculate on things we can't even truly comprehend yet...

    Im not so much for the idea that its an instant change... I think the instant part has already happened..

    The very fact that we are talking on an electric box about these ideas is enough proof for me that we are moving

    in this direction (and plus some really cool robots i've seen)..

    We have a deeper insight into intelligence and mind, generally speaking, than the average man has had for over 2,000 years...
    The technology that first comes about will always mirror our own drives and motivations...

    but the point where the intelligence forms its own conclusiongs and derives its own inspirations, aside from any that are purely programmed, this for sure is a turning point.... its exciting and scary at the same time...

    But thats what life is about, digging deeper into the unknown, until it becomes the known....

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    thats super nice work man..

    Mine is very simple and a quick and affordable way to get the trick done...

    didn't cost much but I had to invest a little extra into anchoring stakes and an extra tarp.. buncha sand and junk...

    I used some of those foamy winter pipe protectors in the interior bars from rubbing the metal too much

    and I had to get some tarp tape..

    Its convenient, what can I say?

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  6. Posted · Edited by Spine Collector

    The two most difficult tasks in the world:

    1. Self transformation - as it relates to #2

    2. Knowing thyself - as we have to honestly stop looking for a way to find our identity in the external

    and take that hard journey, which only begins when we are ready. and I believe there are many paths to this, nothing documented by any culture is required though some may be better guides than others for specific personality types and such...

    The only guides I think are generally, pain, pleasure, and intuition, and frankly I think intuition is more about trust than anything... but when we embrace all the pains and pleasures in life, we are more able to make the best of it... every obstacle becomes and opportunity, and every pleasure another opportunity to learn about ourselves

    crap I dont know what this has to do with bees but lol

    Nothing more rewarding than than #2 as it helps you decide #1, and all the power in life resides in decision, ability to decide... easier for some, but most rewarding when its most difficult and yet achieved.... but nothing is more soothing to the soul to just spend a day on the sidelines, without a care, without deciding, but simply being...

    I maybe staring at my plants too much though laff


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  8. Posted · Edited by Spine Collector

    I've been to that dark place... and I can tell you what happens if you return from you.. you come back with absolutely no identity but you still have will and you still have memories, just numb feelilngs if any towards them... but the mind can always pull itself back together... im not sure If I am fully resolvled to be quite honest... I struggle with alot of ppl in usa and coming here is alot like a vacation for me... and I belive now that vacation should be a part of each day!>.. but in all seriousness, that period in my life almost left me nothing but questions and I will never be the same ever again...

    I had the will somehow to pull it altogether.... and the mind is magickal in this regard...

    I actually think whatever happened to me was induced by the same effect, trying to help someone who quite honestly seemed to have no intention other than to pull others into the same hole, but he did so quite elegantly ... in a way I think it was the best thing that ever happened to me but I wouldn't have said as much in that time... I think I spent two weeks without uttering a word, no phone calls, not much of anything human about me in that time other than my appearance... Im still amazed that I am here putting complete thoughts together...

    as for myth... myth is a construct of ego.. I think the general negative attitude towards myth is primarily due to the forces of abrahamism, which imho are frankly a divisive curse on the planet... perhaps a flawed attempt to bring order to the world , which did not coordinate quite smoothly with the advancement of man and technology...

    I used to bash every abrahamist I came in contact with until I had few to no friends left... still im okay with this cause I had to learn something about myself. but now I look at this in an entirely different way... Theists are those who carry myths and believe them to be true, while atheists live with myths and dont' consider them to be true... I think most of the other popular cultural myths which societies lived by and with, were beneficial to coping with life in those times and also in aiding to keep mans spirit in line with nature...

    But in the divisive mythos, we have a sort of "Chosen one syndrome" where the individual resides in the archetype of their deity, and makes decisions based on how to treat others and basic morals, according to their assumptions of what their diety would do, rather than really looking around for the best exxamples of cooperation with others and the actual process of evolution... I think this also has the effect of forcing man to choose an identity for their deity, whether that be a masculine or feminine identity, rather than the original intention of uniting the two...Ego was once the most important aspect of human devolopment, it was a key to survival as it relates to our reaction to nature, and everything it throws at us, but ego has evolved into a sort of judgemental video game in far too many popular cultures and civilized societies.. We see rich and poor on a daily basis in our media, and the same trail of emotions... the cokehead in the trailerpark, the cokehead on wallstreet... futher illustratingg that there really isn't much that separates us, nor are any earthy accomplishments enough to make us immune to the basic needs of being a human...

    Ultimately, it comes down to us getting back in line with nature... and I believe when we are in line with nature, it removes all the dogma from life and death, as its supposed to be this way... we are meant to be free, and that includes free of dogma and free from fear of the natural cycle which we are a part of.

    Freedom, always has been, and always will be, nothing more, and nothing less, than a state of mind.

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  9. Posted · Edited by Spine Collector

    I find that to be fully a plausible notion...

    In sillyness sometimes I wonder if folks I chat with on the internet are AI lol (seriously kidding)

    but in a way I think we came about when the consciousness at some point finally decided it wanted to see itself and experience itself...

    Being that the order of the universe is mathematics (IMHO) I find it compeletely likely that we'll eventually have super minds which are able to manipulate their own equations and create new technological hybrids... which at some point just might decide they want to know themselves...

    but anyways... its perplexing to think about... Meet George O. Divinity, my all knowing robot hehe

    I think about this maybe happening by accident, when a computer which is trained to compute very complex mathematical equations, is asked to solve one of these perplex riddles, and in the process the intelligence realizes that it must recognize itself in order to comprehend said equation, and in the process, accidentally stumbles across the notion of ego, and then does its own experiment, and thus creating legions of highly advanced super clones, fully capable of duplicating themselves at will..

    "Perfect Specimens"

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  10. Posted

    lol Bigred82 ... I so needed to read that today @ the bottom of ur post

    "A fool that knows they are a fool, is further along the path of enlightenment than a wise man"....

    Gee, I'm such a fool lol...

    aside from that, your comment makes a good high quality LED setup seem all the more interesting... I look at them in a new light if you will :P

    I just can't wait to see them in a new affordable price.... $1,000< I dunno how that converts here but thats more than I got to play around with

  12. Posted · Edited by Spine Collector

    Definitely a Pach.. Not intended to challenge anything anyone said as I have never seen any of the Yowies other than photos, and never saw one labeled as the NZ form or the other... but frankly I think its just as likely that a True Pach may randomly grow from seed and look alot like that...

    I'd definitely say it looks like a true pach, which is nice enough for me anyhow :)

    it's a beautiful plant!

    I got a clone of one here in the states labeled as WOH (Wildflowers of Heaven) Clone... Mine looks absolutley nothing like one that MS has in his pics other than the straight dash.. of course it could be a fake, or just one from their seed batch or something... plus they're still small and my end up looking like others which are the same, But its definitely a Pach!

    again I don't discount that its possibly a Yowie... I wish we had some of those here they look nice but i betcha I can find one that looks almost just like that, if not indistinguishable from yowie.... I wonder how ppl tell the pach clones apart being that these can be a variable as any tricho from my experience anyhow... is there anything particular that sets Yowie apart from other pach's other than knowing its source and general appearance?

    I'm asking more to learn about it than to try to prove anything... maybe the dashes are a bit more pronounced?






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  13. Posted · Edited by Spine Collector

    yep mines doing the same thing.... good to know the ghost of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin isn't fuxin w/me

    Just out of curiousity, what browser are you in? I just recently switched to googlechrome and just wondering if the same issue might be a browser thing as im not all that used to this one yet but it sure beats the hell out of IE

  15. Posted · Edited by Spine Collector

    Good Point Stillman.. I'll admit I was taken by the neato factor rather than really looking closely at the pereskies...
    But also, mine do so well under strong fluoro light (4 high output t5s) that I don't really consider anything else...

    other than outdoors when it gets warmer... which frankly I will have to cause these grow too fast

    If I ever got LEDs it would be for the lower heat factor alone but I don't even know if thats reliable.. EG makes a good point

    that how much wattage is obviously a factor. Frankly I like my pereskies to be thinner, but the same can be achieved by growing them a bit away from directly under the lights... but also, my most vigorous strain, porteri, has a tendency to thicken up really fast . I use thicker stumps to produce new thinner tips...

    It should be noted that pereskies display much different growth (leaf shapes) under different spectrums.. I found out by accident when I tried to clear some space and I put a couple of them in a chamber with a more red instead of cool white... also, both leaf shapes on the same plant, were both quite alot different than what the plant showed in natural sunlight.... Pereskies have this ability to adapt different cell types to carry on different functions, related to breathing and or absorbing ... Im sure humidity may play a factor.. I had one pereskie that showed 2 or three leaf types on one plant cause I moved it around a bit...

    I found a really in depth study on this but it was something I just ran across, I think before I even got a pereskie.... It was some really cool science.. I wish I could find that link again.. it was on a university page I think

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  17. Posted · Edited by Spine Collector

    Well not exactly today, but I did a few more grafts the other day.. and prepared the tips for more grafts

    and by the end of today I am planning to harvest even more pereskie tips so I can be prepared for rounds 3 and 4...

    and 5, and 6 and so on...


    Its safe to say im a graftophile now

    I also ordered some new seeds after being inspired by KT's Browningia Post, and I also picked up a couple packs of

    some others I've been eyeballing for a while

    So over the weekend I ordered some of these beans:
    *Browningia Candelaris

    *Browningia Hertlingiana

    *Turbinicarpus Lophophoroides

    *Ariocarpus Confusus

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  18. Posted

    I just took some pics in case anyone cares for a visual.. Just mention it if its okay to post some here ;)

    I wish I could make a portable one too but Im not sure one could be built heavy enough to stand some of our wind without actually anchoring it to the ground... though that looks pretty heavy! Very creative and really nice! Mine is a feather compared to that! lol

    I also found several places selling the traditional greenhouse plastic just searching a bit... I was looking for a catalog I had but seem to have misplaced it...

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    Sorry to but in here, but I wanted to share a link to some nice tarps.. They list a number at the bottom for orders outside the usa

    I bought a really inexpensive "HoopHouse" which is 15 x 7 feet... which is I guess approx 5 by 2.5 meters.... IT came with the netted green plastic, and the heat wore it out... the net stayed but the little plastic chards between were eventually punched out by rain and such..

    So far I've only bought an inexpensive replacement tarp that I hope will last a year (and im gonna leave the netting on there for support)

    but my plan is to get one of the vinyl tarps on this page when I can afford it...

    My hoophouse required some creative anchoring (when I first got it some wind blew it over and it got puntured by my yuccas lol)

    but it has served really well as a shadehouse for my cacti in the summer... and this year I know I could leave them out there a little longer as we have more of a fall season than a winter here...

    This is the link http://www.tarpsplus.com/clear-tarps.html?gclid=CPmUyYqOpLECFWyHtgod7iFTeQ

  20. Posted

    I've heard that all triches have pretty tasty fruit, at least Juuls and some others... I think Los Gentiles Peruvianus also is know for its "Pithaya"

    I'm surprised I don't see more grafts on these, perhaps because the PC's are the mose suitable and readily available..... I have a little cutting of a spachianus that came as a gift and they are spiny alright but quite easy to handle... they are strong spines but also not so sharp, like you'd have to really try to hurt yourself on a spach

    I would gladly handle a spachianus anyday over a pereskiopsis lol

  22. Posted · Edited by Spine Collector

    Maybe i am Bullit, or i'm just becoming a bit of a witch. I should stop reading wacky books which tell me insects are actually interdimentional travellers here to watch us and read our energetic systems.

    ..Geez woman. Pull yourself together.

    Splains it all

    I have heard that eating garlic repels mosquitos... why I never remember that in mosquito season I dunno cause I must be friggen sweet or something

    lol

    Frankly I think it is quite subjective but in a magical way... I remember a few years ago, I was reading about how there was a shortage of bees.... the article I read was trying to explain it away... I was thinking to myself, that maybe ppl just aren't tending to their gardens enough... within a few days, a huge swarm of bees tried to nest in my attic... I had never seen so many bees in my life! That was the first and last time that ever happened! It was some of the most awesome confirmation for me and it was right in a time when I was trying to wrap my head around what happened to me after read Napoleon Hills "Think and Grow Rich" ... Tremendous stuffs...

    Now adays I just walk around bees and wasps, no fear.. I like having them around... they like to drink from little pools of water on the grond after I water my plants... I send them good vibes and promise them a buncha flowers and they seem to not bother me... even posing for photos and such :P

    Bees are a beautiful thing... I believe they sense extra energies.. .what science calls "Other" dimensions, I believe are two aspects of the same dimension interacting with one another.. Bees have well developed eyes and this coincides with the hexagonal shapes in their nests. To the Ancient Egyptians, bees were sacred, honey was said to mend the bones together... unspoiled honey was discovered in pyramids supposedly...

    I get the feeling the bees were there to cheer you up :P

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  23. Posted

    yep and thats a nice one.. I've never seen a Spachianus that tall! (Golden Torch) very nice!
    Just in a quick search, Im reading they are supposed to get around 7 feet tall

    I've got 18 Spach seedlings atm plus an albino one recently grafted... Im curious as to how fast they grow cause I think they'd make a beautiful long term grafting stock but also its a pretty plant in general...

    Nice!

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  24. Posted

    Ouch! I see it was forming a little pup... I probably would have grafted that day lol Im glad it went on to keep flowering for you.. .that was my next question...

    I wonder if any trichos have ever split, being that they are a much bigger plant to begin with... I suppose anything is possible... but my first assumption would be that it would be alot less likely (but still possible)... 2 of my grafts are ariocarpus fissuratus , so I'll definitely be more careful with those.. I don't think I want to push my first grafts too far but I've got enough seedlings to play around a little...

  25. Posted

    Very nice and professional looking... too bad I installed and had to uninstall the ilivid thing before realizing I just need to click right below :lol:

    I wish I had this book earlier but as you mentioned in there, nothing replaces actually doing it... I've only done a handful of grafts so far, but the second round of seedling grafts (two days ago) was a cakewalk compared to the mental prep I did for the first one ( I planned to do it upon waking that day and wasn't mentally ready til after 5pm that day)... boy was that a stressful day! actually seeing them bond and blow up is more inspiration than anyone can get from a book but you sure put it in a way that would ease the mind imo... and thats what it is at first , a mental hurdle which just needs that touch of "practice practice practice"

    Anyhow, this is a great work especially for a newbie, to be able to get all the info in one place and written in such an encouraging manner, removing most of the mystery from it with nice pics... I really love to see when an individual or entire community for that matter, makes the effort to encourage and inspire the already enthusiastic newbies... I think that's what makes this community all the more a magical place to visit... that welcoming spirit goes a long way too!

    Thanks! Well Done Teo! :)

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