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I've heard the decomposers/frees up nutrients argument before. In those arguments the health of the human tends to be ignored. If mushrooms are frequently fruiting in indoor or greenhouse grows wont the spores eventually cause allergy, et al. in the gardener that habitually breathes them?
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To date, the cacti have demonstrated no vaginal bleeding. There has been some nice weight gain tho <___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_smile.png
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The hots and megahots are more for odor and heat than flavor, IMO. Caribbean Red is hab hot+ and a nice fruity aroma Fatalii is hab hot and a very clear lemony odor The Coumari ou Passarinho I grew (there seems to be several variants) were like small blunt end indented apex cylindrical orange habs with an amazingly complex fruit odor and slight fruit flavor. Almost hab hot. BGH 4200 is only like 1/5th the heat of caribbean red, perhaps 1/4 hab, but its got some of the same odor as those, its bigger, and you can actually taste it and its good for salsa. I enjoyed Congo Trinidad, distinctly bigger than habs with a nice acute apex 'tail', hotter'n habs and a slight vegetabley flavor managed to come through on the ones I grew. I liked it enough to choose to cross it with a antioxidant rich wild chinense for a new breeding series.
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Have you ever met a psychopath (corporate or otherwise)
Auxin replied to Zen Peddler's topic in Chill Space
I dont know if it counts but when I was 13 I stopped in mcdonalds so my friend could use the shitter and right away this filthy homeless guy with wild hair and wilder eyes sat down in front of me and proceeded to give me a detailed discourse on how to gouge the eyes out of a grizzly bear with a pocket knife. Guy was chowing down on sugar cube acid the whole time, and my bastard friend was constipated or something so it was quite a while. Didnt stop me from trying acid a few months later tho. In fact it might have been subconcious encouragement <___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_tongue.png -
Just gave a PC and a scop 20 mg of megestrol acetate each With luck they'll either flower, or grow sexy 6-pack ribs
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Yeah, but I wanted it to be clear. When most people make a tobacco tea spray it typically starts with a whole store bought cigarette. Tho I've seen people use butts from their ashtray <___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_biggrin.png
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Glitch is you cant tell if thats the case on cigs. One could grow the high nicotine aussie native tobaccos like N. gossei or N. excelsior. ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ, I tried pronouncing your name as one integral word. It sounded like a sneeze. I name you Sneezeo.
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I wouldnt give coconut milk to a plant, especially a cactus. Its the 'coconut water' that was used in tissue culture and subsequently found to have growth promoting plant hormone like effects similar to the 'tomato juice growth factor' that didnt get quite the same attention. Make sure to dilute the coconut water enough to avoid root rot.
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News Article Research paper [PDF]
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Indeed TPM - peruvianus monstrose TPC - peruvianus cristata TPQC - pachanoi quasi-cristata N1 - bridgesii SS02 - bridgesii Psucho0 - bridgesii Juul's - ....Juul's
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The practice might possibly be phased out at some point, depending on consumer demand. The adjuvants are added to reduce the amount of actual vaccine in a shot, make the immune system go nuts and you need less vaccine to cause a immune responce- so one option would be full dose 'pure' vaccines. I've also seen research on non-toxic adjuvants, like compounds isolated from Platycodon grandiflorum root IIRC, which have a more balanced effect on the immune system. Like waking someone up with a cuppa coffee, rather than waking them up with a shotgun blast.
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Meat. Mainly poultry and fish. US meat is well known to be highly contaminated with PBDE's. The stuff bio-accumulates, and the shit has become ubiquitous here. For instance, over half of my bath towels are threadbare because new towels are so heavily treated with PBDE's that they appear to be coated in wax, they wont even absorb water! Literally, water rolls off of them like its wax paper, and it takes a year of washing them before they'll even absorb water so it takes a long time for a new towel to be worth using as more than a rug for the bathroom (do these morons really think I'll burst into flame as I step out of the shower?). Carpets, drapes, toys, and clothes are the same. I've learned to be careful buying socks and shoes so I dont get the wax coated ones that make my feet rot. All this shit gets emulsified by laundry detergent and flushed down the sewer where it goes into rivers that provide water to irrigate farmland, then the rest of the river dumps into the ocean. Poultry eat grain grown on this waste water, fish eat little water critters that feed on this waste water. The result is the filth we wrap ourselves in getting in our food. Do Not Buy american or canadian poultry or fish.
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I once had the same thought, then I grew it. Not only does the bastard take several years to grow out but I observed the strangest thing- in addition to native bees attracted by the wonderful smell, ants are major pollinators! The very critters its supposed to harm, they go out of their way to climb the meter tall flowers and frolic in the pollen! I'm far from convinced that plants produce ecdysteroids as a defense mechanism. Anti-moulting would be a very inefficient strategy to begin with, and on top of that most plants with known ecdysteroids (like spinach) only produce a few ppm. I think its a "undiscovered" plant hormone class.
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Look instead at brassinosteroid plant hormones like Brassinolide, you'll see a clear similarity. Its expensive and never found in concentrated form in plants tho, what would be really wild would be a plant we could decoct and feed to cacti to get the steroid flowering effect EG proposed. I suspect one candidate would be ecdysteroids. In places that get winter Stemmacantha carthamoides could be grown as a concentrated source of 20-hydroxyecdysone et al. Its seeds and roots would be the best. You aussies will have to find a subtropical plant or something.
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Other seeds can also be a drying tactic. Some rice or corn seeds, etc. (rice is generally preferred as it absorbs moisture fast) will act as a buffer against any moisture that creeps in.
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Blackboard chalk is usually gypsum, useful if you want to severely inhibit cactus growth, lol.
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Hobby stores will often have jars or sacks of loose desiccant, which can be recharged much easier than baggies. Just ask for the flower dehydrating gear and dont dress in your psychedelic accoutrements, as they might remember you as a mushie head. <___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_shroomer.gif
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Its a magnet, a torrent prog should have a 'add torrent from URL' function, in µTorrent its ctrl U
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dea concerned about loss of revenue, decries marijuana legalisation
Auxin replied to DiscoStu's topic in News & Notices
If marijuana with a state tax stamp on hits the stores in washington state I think I'll buy a packet. I've got no use for it, but 40 years from now it'd be a valuable collectors item. -
This is one way I found to get exercise, my river is 3.5 kilometres away, downhill, but I found a basaltic sand deposit there so I hike back with five or ten kilos in my pack. Do that every month and the volume builds up by planting time. Cacti that truly benefit from limestone seem to be rare but on the eroding floodplain I found deposits of fossilized bubbles! Limestone blobs shaped like bubbles. I just had to pack back a few liters of those. Cacti, an unexpected source of exercise. I stopped using gravel, tho. It seems to just add weight and useless volume. Not even much nutrients in most as its usually just low surface area chunks of feldspar and such.
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By default I put them in little labeled zip bags and pack those into tightly sealing glass jars to put in the fridge, remember to let them warm to room temp before opening. Because of that last bit, in planting or harvesting season I just keep 'active' jars in my larder... coolest room in the house. I keep a backup jar in the fridge too, a desiccator containing little packets of desiccated seeds for long term storage. Individual species have different seed half-lives and preferred storage criteria, the Seed Information Database at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens is quite helpful.
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My sister didnt get that memo. She gave me a box of empty herbal supplement bottles. See, she knows I like chemistry and chemicals need bottles, so what better than a plastic echinacea jar she probably coughed on with the flu. Not a gag gift, shes just not the sharpest thing around. The following year she wanted a power strip with a surge protector for a phone line so I got one and with voluminous quantities of newspaper and tape I turned it into a big teddy bear and wrapped it in christmas wrapping foil. She nearly peed herself unwrapping it when the arm came off.
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The largest portion of my diet is bagged like animal feed. Triple cleaned (human grade) whole grains and beans in 11 kilo sacks. With my garden supplementing a large portion of my vegetables my food budget is about $75 per month- home cooked whole food plant based everything. It costs a fortune if you try to buy lots of pre-prepared stuff or all organic, etc. a sack of animal feed and a bit of kale shouldnt be too expensive tho. <___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_newimprovedwinkonclear.gif