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Tried finding the book in the "non-traditional" manner.. didn't have any luck but I found this http://thepoisondiaries.tumblr.com

Thanks for the post hostillis, it should be noted that Keeper Trout is a well respected member here. Personally, I feel removing information such as this will only serve to hinder the SAB community... "Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) is a Not-for-profit association that exists to create a supportive environment to foster mature, open disscusion about psychoactive plants and chemicals"

I agree with kk, it is typically seen in bridgesii. It has been proposed to be bacterial infection. It typically occurs for me in the winter as well (have some currently on my TBM). I also had some occur with one cutting of my TPQCxTPM from nitrogen, but none of the other cuttings have shown this trait yet? There are several threads on here and other boards. Search for "black rot" or "black spot", it seems to be almost entirely cosmetic and will scar over in time.

Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I have said this before. Open and honest discussion about relevant topics needs to be allowed to occur. I do not disagree with the rule, but do not believe in the systematic use of the delete key regardless of the situation is the answer either. For those who saw what it said, it was clearly relevant to the information on this forum. I do not believe Dreamwalker in any way intended to encourage everyone to seek this cactus for thrills. Now this information has vanished, and leaves even more confusion around the topic. How are we supposed to further this discussion now, I am sad to know that it will probably die; are you?

From my post here: http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=37313&p=450047 Get some Spiders or Mites? They are much more efficient at finding them, and killing them than I am. For Christ's sake they have 8 eyes and 8 legs Humbly, I only have 2 of each. Not to mention a voracious appetite. Wholesale use of pesticides kills other life in my garden. From Wiki... https://en.wikipedia...ki/Phytoseiulus Phytoseiulus is a genus of mites in the Phytoseiidae family.[1] A predatory mite this is the most frequently used mite predator to control two-spotted spider mites in greenhouses and outdoor crops grown in mild environments. Adult females are approximately 0.5 mm long, reddish in color, pear shaped and active at room temperature, Immatures & males are smaller and lighter in color. Eggs are oblong. About 80% are females. At optimum temperatures Phytoseiidae can develop from egg to adult in 7 days and live for up to 1 month. A well-fed female will lay about 50 eggs in her lifetime. Prey consumption is up to 7 adult spider mites or 20 eggs per day.[2] The ecological impact of introducing a foreign organism into a naive biosphere remains untested. XLSCG provides a place for predatory mites to survive, maintain, and flourish! It won't even cause cosmetic damage to your prized specimen. You see Population Dynamics dictates that communities will rise or fall, depending on the amount of available resources. All I seek is shelter and a light meal, it's an easy way of life. Also found this for you... Mealybug Control If possible, plants infested with mealybugs should be isolated from other plants. When using a recommended natural insecticide to kill mealybugs, always try to remove as much of the “fluff” of the nests as possible beforehand. Follow each insecticide’s instructions for control. Beneficial insects and parasites are considered the best long-term solution for mealybug infestations above ground. ARBICO offers a unique biological solution:Mealybug Destroyers, which are small dark brown ladybugs with orange heads whose preferred food happens to be all stages of mealybugs! Try our Mealybug Destroyer beneficial insects to keep mealybugs from harming your plants. http://www.arbico-organics.com/category/pest-solver-guide-mealybugs

I have a good many of his crosses too including Lumberjack x Juuls and Juuls x lumberjack. Mine are over a year old. I got a bunch of albino's from these two crosses but failed at grafting them . I also had excellent germination rates from most of his crosses. I'll try to get some updated pics in the next few days, you can find some old ones that I posted in the Lumberjack origins thread.

reminds me a little of Echinocereus rigidissimus, always thought they looked like they had bugs crawling all over them

I found this interesting. I had heard numerous times that spines are modified leaves, but one of my teachers had mentioned in class that cacti spines have stomata on the bottom. This thread reminded me of that and made me investigate further; I found this.. "One defining feature of cacti is having clusters of spines. Numerous plants have spines of course, but in cacti, spines occur in clusters in the axil of leaves, even though the leaves are usually microscopic. Most cactus morphologists have concluded that cactus spines are either modified leaves or modified bud scales (the difference is inconsequential because bud scales themselves are modified leaves). The leaf-nature of spines is certainly understandable from the point of view of location: spine primordia look just like leaf primordia and are produced at a location where we would expect leaf primordia – at the base of the axillary bud’s shoot apical meristem. Evolution appears to have been more complex than would be expected: mature cactus spines do not contain any of the cells or tissues characteristic of leaves, and conversely leaves lack all features characteristic of spines. The two organs have little in common other than developing from leaf primordia. Spines consist of just a core of fibers surrounded by sclereid-like epidermis cells. They have no stomata, no guard cells, no mesophyll parenchyma, no xylem, no phloem. When mature, all cells in a spine are dead, and even when the spine is still growing it has living cells only at its base. Cactus leaves on the other hand – even the microscopic leaves of Cactoideae – have parenchymatous epidermis cells, guard cells, spongy mesophyll, chlorenchyma, xylem and phloem. So the evolutionary conversion of cactus leaves into spines did not involve a mere reduction of the lamina and then further reduction of midrib and petiole, it instead involved the suppression of all leaf-cell type genes and activation of genes that control formation of fibers, the deposition and lignification of secondary walls, and then programmed cell death. These fiber morphogenesis genes are not activated in any cactus leaf (none at all has fibers), but they are activated of course in the development of wood. It would appear that after an axillary bud apical meristem initiates spine primordia, most leaf genes remain suppressed and instead wood fiber genes are activated. This does not involve all wood genes because vessels are never produced in the spines, just wood fibers. This would be a type of homeotic evolution." Spines: http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/mauseth/researchoncacti/spines.htm Leaves: http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/mauseth/researchoncacti/Leaves.htm

Should be called a prison garden...

Sorry I got a little trigger happy on the digicam!

Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed the video. I love this plant, although I have never chewed it myself, I think it is beautiful!

Oh man I forgot about rubber johnny! Definitely some weird stuff. Here's another one that's just as old..pre utube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET6p9AcN4L8

A laugh a day, keeps the at bay. So I'll leave you a weeks worth, and never forget to love all ways

I love the don't hug me, I've seen it before though. Thanks for sharing!

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

I could be ABSOLUTELY WRONG, about EVERYTHING But I think this is what your ACTUALLY LOOKING for ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES! Everyone is born with a death sentence, but nobody knows when they will be REBORN. So live everyday as if it's your last. Leave no stone unturned (or any turn unstoned for that matter), no words unspoken (unless you use pictures), and no love unexpressed (even if they "don't want it").

Timber!!!

Some strange things going on with cacti that are already strange to begin with... I removed 3 pups from the mother plant, yet pup #2 is strange. After I first grafted it, the tip showed the black spots that we sometimes see. I wasn't too concerned, as it had started pupping like crazy which I figured was due to the tip damage. Now the thing I find odd, is that all the pups even have the spots. Pup 2 is the only graft to show this... even though its right next to pup1... it will be interesting once I graft some of pup2's babies. "WTF" pup1 "WTF" pup2 "WTF" pup1 & 2 "WTF" pup3 And I just thought this was cool, this guy is ready to root himself! Psycho0xTPM

Psycho0 x TPM This is the ball looking thing that I grafted a while back Now.. I grafted one of the pups

Juuls Giant x Lumberjack

http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/uploads_gallery/gallery/album_622/med_gallery_11911_622_2053001.jpg

TPQC x TPM var. "Cactapillar" TPQC x TPM var. "L1" TPM x N1 var. "WTF" (She's undergone some minor surgeries...) TPM x N1 var. "WTF; pup 1" TPM x N1 var. "WTF; pup 2" TPM x N1 var. "WTF; pup 3" Psycho0 x TPM #2

TPQC x TPM "L1" (different from the one I posted earlier) Pup from TPM x N1 "WTF?" TPQC x TPM "B1"

So I contacted M.S on another forum and he informed me he had lost his password and had difficulties signing up. I am posting this for him. "Well I no longer have the double lopho graft and as the trichocereus grew more I noticed that the growth reduced and reached 'normal' rates. There likely could have been more growth however I leave my grafts in near full sun exposure so there is a decrease in growth speed. (I prefer slightly slower growth over extremely bloated grafts) There is a huge spurt initially however it is short lived (only a few weeks) and this technique doesn't seem practical for mass grafting projects due to the increased difficulty over a simple flat graft. If you or anyone else is interested in revisiting this I suggest attempting a double columnar stock graft if possible; there may be a more consistent growth rate. I never got around to 'plugging' more pereskiopsis to the lopho graft and it is now on its own roots. The pup that resulted from cutting the graft came in less than a week. Another thing I should note is that I removed the tricho shortly after the reduced growth rate... there may have been another increase in growth after the summer sun subsided or I could have fertilized and watered more often. This was an interesting experiment and I would be interested in results from others; there is much room for improvement. I'm happy with the results I got as the trichocereus is the largest I have from seed and also have some clones from graft."