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Does anyone have a spare piece of spineless scop they would be willing to part with? If so i have heaps of stuff to trade or can pay cash

How to build a cactus fence https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=KLP1eDWdvyU

Don't ya hate it when someone reverses into your car and then trys to say it's not their fault?

I got my first L. jourdaniana flower today. So pretty

Min different soil mixes work in different parts of the world, but generally for lophophora you want to avoid too much organic material and make sure the mix doesn't stay wet. When it's hot i water mine every week or so, but the easiest way to tell if they need water is to give them a gentle squeeze and see how soft they feel

Well that was quick. i am all sorted now thanks guys

hey guys i have a couple of different varieties of papaya growing and have notices something strange going on with one of them. It is a hermaphrodite variety i got from bunnings labled as 'bisexual yellow'. Anyway it has been producing heaps of tasty fruit which has always grown normally like any other type. A couple of months ago i gave all of them some dynamic lifter and applied some lime because the soil was getting a bit acidic. Since then pretty much all of the fruit this plant has produced has had the seeds germinating inside of the fruit. As in when i cut the fruit open to eat, it has a bunch of little pawpaw plants growing inside of it. But none of the other types have done this even though they are growing within a few feet of eachother, and i cant understand why. Does anyone have any ideas why this would be? I understand that there is some type of hormone that plants produce to stop seeds from germinating inside of a fruit, but dont understand why just this one plant is doing this

I know it's an old thread, but i finally got some pics of the fruit with seeds germinating. check it out

I will take the florida water please

Endorfinder you need to show those guys how we used to do it in north queensland ;)

If i was going to keep it i would get it growing on its own roots. But you could also regraft it if you wanted to

Hey guys i recently degrafted this big williamsii button and now it is for sale. It is approximately 8cm wide, has a few pups and is nice and healthy. $100 including postage and i will throw in a surprise rare tropical plant aswell

You should have just dusted your leg with sulphur and kept it dry for a week but seriously it is good to know you are getting better

Distracted i very rarely sterilize my blade and the only time i have had problems with rot etc when i graft cacti is if it rains for a few days

I hope you feel better soon zelly

I left a degrafted williamsii button upside down for a couple of weeks to dry out years ago and in that time it pushed out a fruit that was white instead of pink

i would prefer to graft it onto one of the less spiny varieties of trichocereus. i only really use pereskiopsis for seedling and areole grafts

no they were grafted on T. pachanoi

i finally degrafted this beast today

there is another one called the soap tree, Alphitonia excelsior (i may have spelt that wrong) which is full of saponins. you can use the leaves to wash your hands and they also have antibacterial properties. i use it all the time when i am fishing or in the bush to keep my hands clean and any small cuts disinfected. there is also some type of acacia that is called 'fish poison tree' in north qld but i don't know which species it is

i am hoping to get a hold of some super hot chilli seeds if anyone has some spare. just let me know what you got and we can work out a trade. thanks

yes please gtarman that would be awesome

mu! i am not sure if they count as mid shelf bourbon, but i will say jack daniels, makers mark and wild turkey. i had a few bad experiences with bourbon when i was a teenager and still can't drink it

mu! i was talking about the plain old while label stuff that i am sure everyone has tried before. i haven't tried any of the other jim beam varieties. to be honest i am just not a fan of bourbon so would rather spend my money on scotch