zed240

September 19, 2016

1 minute ago, Halcyon Daze said:

I've said it before and I'll say it again...

You'll just have to wait the 10 or 11 days Aus Post will take to deliver your Hopi corn and see what else made it's way into the envelope. :wink:

September 19, 2016

Awesome @doublebenno, I'm really glad they finally showed up!

I hope the rest arrive with no issues too.

September 19, 2016

2 packs left!

All those who have asked so far have had theirs posted out.

It does seem that Aus Post are taking about 10 days to deliver a letter, so unfortunately they may take some time to get to you. ( Slack Aus Post pricks!)

September 19, 2016

@theuserformallyknownasd00d

Can you guys please let me know when these arrive? I'm getting a little concerned as they were all sent on either 09/09 or 10/09 and I don't think any have appeared at their intended destinations yet.

I'm getting pretty pissed off with Aus Post about this. 10 days or more to get an envelope sent within Australia is bullshit! It used to take about 3 days and now their prices have gone up the time seems to have blown out.

September 18, 2016

3 packs left.

September 17, 2016

1 minute ago, elfin said:

I would love some please but can they be sent to West Australia?

I don't know if they're allowed in according to your states laws. But you don't write any sort of declaration on the outside of envelopes you send within Australia anyway, so they probably have a pretty good chance of getting to you. It's up to you if you want me to try sending them your way.

September 17, 2016

I have a bunch of seed I saved from last years corn field to give away. (Thanks to @El Presidente Hillbillios for giving me my seeds last year!) My corn was grown with no other corn growing nearby.

8 packs to give away, post below and send me your address in PM. (Australia only)

If anyone happens to have any bloody butcher corn seeds they'd like to send me in return I would be very grateful.

September 7, 2016

Apologies for my tardiness, I wasn't able to sort this out last night either as something came up. As an apology here are some pics of a few cool native orchids I found a few days ago.

But I've just drawn the competition now and we have some winners!

So the winners are:

Grand prize

4 - @MountainGoat (lucky you edited your post in time!)

Runners up

22 - @doublebenno

9 - @Conv3rgence

17 - VOID

5 - @Berengar

And cause I'm nice, I'll do an extra pack of seeds that I scrape together for the next one in line.

2 - @theuserformallyknownasd00d

Please hit me up with a PM including the address you need the seeds sent to as soon as you can. I'll get them in the post tomorrow morning so you should receive them early next week if you're in Australia and in about 2 weeks if you're overseas. (if overseas please let me know if there are any particular requirements I need to adhere to in regards to labelling the seeds to satisfy your customs laws and make sure they get through)

Thanks heaps for playing.

September 6, 2016

Thanks heaps for all the entries. I've been away for a few days and not within internet range. I'll draw this later today and announce the winners.

September 2, 2016

@MountainGoat @Enrique sanchez @El Presidente Hillbillios @Joshthepainter @J Smith @smithy

All you guys need to change your posts still to be eligible for a prize! You've got a couple of days still until I'll draw the winners.

" Entry is easy, just post in this thread with the next sequential number, I'm number 1, so the next person to post is number 2, and so on. Winners are chosen by a random number generator. You must also post a cool picture, or joke, funny story or something random in your post to be eligible for a prize. "

September 1, 2016

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/lismore/plants/cactus-in-terracotta-pot/1122814271

Cheap PC looking thing, someone should buy it and graft a cool seedling or something else onto it.

August 30, 2016

1 hour ago, doublebenno said:

@zed240 , maybe this can help you..? anyway I just did a post with a couple piccies, so it seems that after you upload the image and click the '+' to add the attatchment to your post you can double click the image within your post (the pic actually in the post window now) and it will give you the option to change the image dimensions... this is the display size, you you can specify whatever size you like, and when a user wishes to see the pic they can then click to view full sized image... I assume this is creating a thumbnail and not simply resizing the full size image with html.

So... this may help you with YOUR posts but unfortunately the default setting means that the forum will still run like a bucket of shit with those huge data heavy threads......

If this works for me I will be very happy!

It'd be great, (IMHO), if it was the default setting, like you say, to keep other threads smaller and more unwieldy. But you've gotta be thankful for the small things! I'll give it a try below....

[edit] - You're a fucking champion @doublebenno ! Worked like a charm!

August 28, 2016

8 hours ago, niggles said:

Seeing as someo e must have taken 15 just before i did ill ask for 20?

Yeah, that was weird, I saw your post and the one after it, then next time I checked AustralianDreams post showed up. So I'll put you down for #20 Niggles.

Next person is #22

August 27, 2016

Cheers for the entries so far, crew! I'm keen to get some of these seeds out into this great community.

But because I'm a bit of a prick I'm just gonna point out this little part of the entry rules I mentioned in the OP so some of you can edit your posts over the next week or so to ensure you're all eligible for a prize!

" Entry is easy, just post in this thread with the next sequential number, I'm number 1, so the next person to post is number 2, and so on. Winners are chosen by a random number generator. You must also post a cool picture, or joke, funny story or something random in your post to be eligible for a prize. "

So keep on entering people, and people who already have but haven't posted anything else but a number please edit your posts.

Next person to post will be Number 15!!

August 26, 2016

zed240's 2016 big trichocereus seed competition giveaway!!

It's time for me to resign myself to the fact that I'm most likely not going to get around to cleaning all of my trichocereus hybrid seeds from last season and just distribute some of what I have ready to go now.

So I'm doing a bit of a give-away, open to SAB members from anywhere in the world. It'd be nice if people only entered the give-away if they will sow all/most of the crosses and are prepared to post the odd picture of them as they grow up.

So there's ONE grand prize pack, and three other packs up for grabs, so 4 packs all up.

Entry is easy, just post in this thread with the next sequential number, I'm number 1, so the next person to post is number 2, and so on. Winners are chosen by a random number generator. You must also post a cool picture, or joke, funny story or something random in your post to be eligible for a prize.

Entries will be accepted until Sunday 04/09/2016 at 5pm Australian Central time

Seeds that are in the MASTER PACK GRAND PRIZE!! - (one pack of each cross, most packs have 80-120 seeds in them)

Short spined terscheckii (SA clone) X Scopulicola

scopulicola X anakie (peruvianus)

Gawler peru X scopulicola

Norma (peruvianus) X Anakie (peruvianus)

Tipz macrogonus X scopulicola

Gawler peru X Norma (peruvianus)

Chilensis (James) X Ech. Seminudus

scopulicolaX Norma (peruvianus)

Super Pedro X Norma (peruvianus)

Norma (peruvianus) X Hahn pachanoi

Hahn pachanoi X scopulicola

scopulicolaX Hahn pachanoi

Fields pachanoi X Norma (peruvianus)

Tipz macro X Norma (peruvianus)

(these are from last years hybrids)

Yowie X Psycho0

Psycho0 X Yowie

Yowie X BBs Scop

PC Pach X BBs Scop

Yowie X PC Pach

PC pach X Gawler peru

Seeds that are in the 3 runners-up prizes include:

scop X anakie (peruvianus)

Gawler peru X scop

Norma (peruvianus) X Anakie (peruvianus)

Tipz macrogonus X scop

Gawler peru X Norma (peruvianus)

Scop X Norma (peruvianus)

Super Pedro X Norma (peruvianus)

Norma (peruvianus) X Hahn pach

Hahn pach X scop

scop X Hahn pach

Fields pachanoi X Norma (peruvianus)

Tipz macro X Norma

(these are from last years hybrids)

Yowie X BBs Scop

PC Pach X BBs Scop

Yowie X PC Pach

PC pach X Gawler peru

And here are pictures of pretty much all the plants involved in the seed creation. (clone names are on each pic)

Have at it SABers!

August 23, 2016

On 11/08/2016 at 5:10 PM, etherealdrifter said:

as if Tristan reads what we write about anyway Zed240

You may very well be right.

Some sort of response from admin would certainly be appreciated though.

August 23, 2016

This looks pretty much exactly like a plant I have called Capel Pachanoi.

Capel pach came from a town in Western Aust called Capel. Apparently the mother plant was near a servo or bakery and has now been completely removed.

(Old-ish pic)

August 22, 2016

Very generous of you.

I'll take #23 please.

August 16, 2016

I just signed in at the right time and I have some recently cleared space in the garden I wanted to use some plants like these. Such a good pack!

I have put the donation in.

I'll be sure to pass it forward and do something similar for the site in the future.

Communacacian - acacia SAB fundraiser #2.JPG

August 16, 2016

That's a great pack, I'd like to buy it, please.

August 12, 2016

It does seem to be a pretty fast grower and definitely very attractive. I think you guys have gotten a bit more growth than I have so far though.

August 12, 2016

The Psycho0 X Yowie seeds might have come from me. I sent out lots of that seed and the reverse cross early in 2015. Lots of Aussies have those clones though so maybe not......

They're looking real good for 1 year olds.

August 11, 2016

9 minutes ago, etherealdrifter said:

being old, half blind, sexy, unwashed and possess a hint of sarcasm - i was quietly rapt when the new version allows you to see full images without having to log in......used to piss me off no end -espesch when i was too munted to remember passwords etc.

i can understand your viewpoint zed240 - keeping the image small allows the site to run smoother too but i - for 1 -will unequivocally state that the new auto big view is one i want to see sab stick with hence forth..........or is it just me that can see all images now without the need to 'log on' for friggs sake

I believe that change came through with the recent update. I never used to be able to see any images unless I was logged in either, now I can see the images no matter which computer I use and if I'm logged in or not. That change seems retrospective with all old images now being visible to me when I'm not logged in, not just the newer images.

I sort of think they are probably 2 separate things, but maybe if/when Torsten or other admins see this they might be able to enlighten us on both issues.

I'd even be happy if there was the option to have the images you upload display as thumbnails or as full size, at the discretion of each poster at the time they make their posts. That way I could make my nice, neat, anally retentive posts and others could just post full sized if they prefer. :wink:

August 11, 2016

I'd love some help with uploading pictures to this new version of the SAB forums.

Basically, I'd like to be able to upload them so they display in a similar way to how they used to. As small thumbnails which people can choose if they want to click on and load the larger image. You could choose to have these thumbnails display in a horizontal line next to each other, or make them display under each other.

Old threads that were created in this way still seem to retain the same look and usability as they did previously, but I'm yet to see someone make a post/thread that behaves the same way since the forum was updated to a new version slightly earlier in 2016.

See this link for an example of the "old style". You'll notice that the OP and another post has the old style where you can choose to enlarge the images or not, then the later posts made in August 2016 the images are the newer, large style.

I prefer to be able to upload images as thumbnails that can be enlarged rather than as full sized images by default for a few reasons, including ease of reading posts with some detail that use pics to explain things, and not having to load full size images for every single picture before I can read the thread.
Threads like the "What did you do to your cactus" and "Tricho flowers" threads will become huge and unwieldy to use and load each time. When you want to open it up (especially on mobile or slow connections), and just read the latest post every image in the thread is now downloaded in full.

So for some new posts I'd like to make that require a number of pics to explain the gist of what I'm getting at I'd really like to be able to do it in the old way. So I can write a line or two, show a pic or two to explain what I'm taking about, then another line of text followed by the next picture/s and so on. Hopefully people understand what I'm getting at here.....

BTW, I did try and add pics to the gallery first, thinking I could then insert them into a post as a thumbnail you can choose to enlarge or not, but I couldn't seem to make it work like that. It was still a large image or nothing.

I'm hoping there is just something simple I'm missing that means this is still possible. Some guidance would be appreciated!

Thanks, SABers!

Zed

August 5, 2016

This sounds like fun. I have got some nice plants from you in the past!

I'll take box #2 please.

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