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COOL! been hunting a flying saucer for a while, theres a krillion on ebay , just ..I want 4 for the right price lol bought some new showey pots from uk provider that seemed to get it right last time ; I guess it's worth mentioning the pots are German still lol :D same as the bigger ones in this pic were ordered c; so I can work more on my specimen collection - sexy planties might wanna breed faster in sexy black sleek "panties" and they just look nicer and neater Also the fatter "knuthie" seems to wanting to make the spines of the knuthianus i see on the usa pics on here , maybe its the change to the new media ? found a few Welsh cactaceal contacts that say there's not many orrible ones over there ... old friend in Scotland saying their cacti shops are really nice ... still wrking on finding out about Ireland , so far its looking like just England that has some asshole ones... as a redeeming quality though, I did telephone one very olde one in the midlands that have been hybridising echinopsis for krillennia and they were so delightfully polite ... I was bowled over... had to have a cup of tea about it to deal with the shock! finally ; another good cactus nursery for england, only 3 though so far... at least France is looking good lately , spesh for validussy um ... terschalidus valideckii lol and taquimbalensis/tacaquirensis if anyone else is seeking in EU, theyre so fkn pricey tho , almost matches uk prices at least they're impeccable quality and the size you expected when you open up the box still waiting on the order from the best of the england based ones tho .. 2 weeks since i bought... will be funny if the taquimbo and subdenudata i got from france the other day arrive first I almost ordered more cactus food , but at this rate... I figured I'd buy a pack from another supplier and see if they get here before the cactus order

Micropera rostrata (small one) from India & Rodriguezia lanceolata (larger one) from Peruu arrived so I clipped em to the coir "moss" pole in the Yukutlan box Vanillas lookn awesome and better on the "moss" pole than on the baby cacao Finally managed to get some of the insulation/sunscreen up *chuckle* those poor tomatoes got toasted to fk , so I had to do something

Bought another tacaquirensis subsp' taquimbalensis and an echinopsis subdenudata from Kuentz in France , I couldv'e sworn the last time I bought from them ; that they were in Germany ? shrug

RRRRAAAA(ground shaking)AAAWWWRRZZZ!!!! finally my first ever successful genuine UK Psychotria viridis cutting threw a shoot, what a day! *celebrates* - I rooted these within 2 weeks as 3 whole leaves end of october last year..., then cut the bottom sections off and potted those while i re-rooted the remaining leaf tips, I did this once more , and lost 1 leaf tip (died) leaving me with 8 rooted leaf section cuttings which eventually regrouped in this pot ... so thats 7 months from arriving to the very first shoot... I wonder how the usa ones will fare being left as whole leaves? hmmm wonder how to reciprocate the gesture...? since it was a gift.. maybe a cielo vine if I can get these two up and running .. I turned the other 2 upside down just incase , since they had looked worse off also Nicotiana tabacum flowered outside... I mowed the lawn the other day .... bullfinches are using the old cardoons seed fluff for nesting materials it was nice watching that extra species show up again this year.... amongst countless other bird species from blue tits, wrens robins, blackbirds, mistle thrushes, yellow finches, not only; but including owls , still unknown which owl because I havent seen either and don't know how to ID them by their call ..and it's like 2, one answering the other.... magpies loving the toad's old morio worms... as are the wood pidgeons and sparrows... now to find a way to feed them locusts and crickets without them turning into a plague in all this heat ... some new type of bastard fly that seems to want nothing more than to drown in your eye juices.. like the ones I see bothering deer but far smaller , seems to have begun to occupy certain patches of lawn

repotted everythn in this new media and some showey pots from Germany that arrived in fukkin 3 days !!!!!! thats as fast as things from the next city (ikr should be next day at least uk to uk) arrive infact fk it , I hope DHL buys off the royal mail too.., they do a damn site better job still waiting on BEF uk since feb who are only a hundred or so miles away I'm going to try hook up with some welsh, irish and scots cacti/plant peeps and see if it's just england .. at least there are a few prescious golden ones holding the flag of virtue looks like i was wrong about the rain... wonder why it still smells like its gna rain? , in it's own time I guess -edit- has rained according to everybody else..., everywhere but my little microclimate : 3 -fed all the cacti, only the "terschalidus" from Greece; left to root now I think -later edit- is raining and by the way the hylocereus got totally slain by the full on sun so are now in shade , hopefully some will come back to life :D and it's not even summer yet -incidentally, that very same nuclear ball of fire in the sky; toasted 3 valle fertil san huan terscheckii's .. , i had just toasted one by accident the day b4 by putting it in the GH for 30 mins , these other ones toasted outside! I thought terscheckii's wr the hardest cacti? folk must just be referring to cold/wet when they say hardy ? Knuthianus / altman strain monstruose pachanoi cut exploded into roots , it had none the other day when i potted it up and started using using alchemical gold in my mix (ormus from germany - what a surprise theirs is the best) , thats the fastest cutting i ever rooted ! ... unless it was because I always put my cup of tea near it ok , all my cuttings seem to have rooted yayy , but now i cant wrk out which ones wr the fastest... probably the 2 big macrogonus frm germany

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lol same was watchn it too got stung with a trichocereus bridgesii monstruose "peperone" for £35 not including shipping once (around winter time) turns out its a T santiaguensis (spachianus monstruose) , was italy tho I got 2 nice little werdermannianus and a pelecyphora aseliformis frm Hungary tho so ya they're def a cool cactus country just watch out for the one on amazon with the caespitose peyote and grafts ... they dont seem to mail em at all i frgot their name but can recall it frm history if necc ... was a welcome £100 refund tho but 3 months of waiting pain

finally figured out it was real spider's webs i was flame throwing off my cacti ... spidermites rlly fkd w me so bad its like some sort of ptsd lol watered the seedlings since they dry out every day in all this heat dinosaurus finally took to the new media last night as a desperate last emergency call before it shrivelled to death it was a graft i bought from jusberti on ebay germany but the scion rotted away and i guess i just learned my first de-grafting lesson the hard way ... its so hot today so i would normally water n feed all the cacti but I know it's going to rain tomorrow so i will guage how much to dilute their feed after i know how much rain fell

@prioritise - Always a pleasure , it's nice to have somewhere to document progress too incase I make any mistakes and can then go back and see what i may have done wrong if at all , and thank you kindly @bullit - your Wattles are awesome! , I'll look fwd to seeing them progress too -looks like u have a lil helper too, I have three that love helping out too, especially at watering times melted in 42C , got too much for the chillis so i opened a window for them mmmm now this is the weather im fkn talkn about heres the tobacco after 4 weeks or so of urine tek it even stayed 36C+ with all the windows open its even 31C outside in my little microclimate : ] so all i did today was water things so far.. oh yeah i changed the substrate on one opthalmo to test it (the weakest one) -sorry for pic qual , was an awkward angle to lean at and a nobby camera -temps in GH with all vents and windows n door fully open Pineapples n cacti n some psychotrias and hard to germinate shi' .. all sweatn it out in Germinatia at 47C and made a new mix for the virola seeds now i have some reliable instructions on how to sow them from a very expensive book Looks like I'm gna need more LED power for the aquarium and this morning a flood of Clematis montana fragrance flooding in and temps this morning in the sun room (i just corrected the time for the pic, it was wrong yesterday since i had just replaced the battery)

Ended up this way tho lol with a waterproof heatpad wrked on the GH adding pots with cut off bottoms to increase available rooting soil - gardeners delight heres a blue tomato I'm trying and a black one im trying rained Yukutlan by hand and propped the coir pole back up well, that was just before raining it , here's one after raining it ...from last night Tidied the cables of the four: 1.8watt led bars, and re-routed the cables out the top to free up the top/side vent so it can be shut found a new substrate to play with from the bonsai folk

found a new substrate/media to play with put a few cacti in the greenhouse, saw they were getting scorched within 20 mins so rescued em n put em back outside the italian terscheckii with the voracious hard thorns is loving it though with zero scorch : 3 same with the santiaguensis from the same seller must be what italian sun is like maybe? the 50-60C heat slapped the Azadirachta indica into life too which is kinda xeriscape even tho not cactus , same with the peganum harmalas checked germinatia

sounds awesome! ;) vanilla orchids? theobroma species? aya and allies? virola? , enjoy i was thinking under floor heating for a new greenhouse/ hothouse im planning at the back of my mind i never thought of geodome polycarbonate , I cant wait to see how gardening looks in 50 yrs! :D

Ace grafts but Fantastic poly carbonate work too ! Im just planning polycarbonate to expand my old exo terra toadarium , (vertically) to turn it into a swampy rainforest box front door on yours is exactly how I imagined it shd be ... v similar to the exo terra build itself.. thanks for the thread, pics, sharing, and ace ideas ... I hope ur cacti do awesome in there

ive been so tempted to buy one of these, they're one of the prettiest of the short stuff crews what did they say about watering it? (i have no clue about em yet) (edit i don't think I would waste my money on one of those again , shame because they look so beautiful but wasn't worth the hassle in the end)

got a new book with a few virola in it , 1st of 3 bought finally managed to germinate pineapple 2 days ago , now one has roots and leaves tryna figure what to do with em next , whether to add a lil sand or a lil john innes seed 'post sowed some seeds mutant sent me with the erm so called "validus" (edit still looks like a terscheckii even now [2 yrs later] though) trimmed the rest of the shite leaves from the big aloe started using a cable to experiment with to see how much bigger a cable i wd need if i use a cable but i might use a heat pad still Chocolate and vanilla doing well 2 of the cielo cuttings seem to be growing leaf shoots ok i strapped the salvia to a coir "moss" pole that i got to clip miniature orchids too - bought some orchid clips planned some polycarbonate use ... had a quote for some greenhouse glass... told em to fk off and ill cut my own glass (patch up the hole till i learn how to cut glass) urine tekked every tree outside

helpful link for any other people living in england wales scotland and ireland http://www.clear-uk.org/

bought 100 tacaquirensis and 100 werdermannianus seeds made some new labels and added all the new pics to my trichocereus album http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?app=gallery&album=734

cleaned some glass and re-situated some short stuff crew

ok so the hunt is on for validus with zero spination in the top half of the areole , and a big fat ole straight as fk central spine pointing down thanks you guys! -edit- and sorry EG for misunderstanding your view of the existance of validus ... -and i got it wrong about the pot my 'validus' from mutant is in, i thought it was a 24cm pot but its a 30x30cm pot : 3 still my fave fatty cactus of my whole collection , .. -does zelly's 'fields' validus look diff because of climate differences? or is that what immaculate ones look like ? maybe i accidentally fell in love with a nature-beaten validus ? was this one on bretloths site