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    Any finds in aussie yet?

    well, i havent got many specimens of anything this season . The psilocybes in question look like subs although the caps are usually a little darker caramel and the stem and cap a bit thicker than other subs from the same area, they do usually stain alot more than the others aswell. A friend who picked one of the psilocybes about five years ago still goes on about how "black" the mushie went after he removed it from the roo poo.
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    Friendly neighbour.

    Yeah i took her a C. peruvianus monstrose in return a few days later.
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    Friendly neighbour.

    . Thanks for that.
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    Any finds in aussie yet?

    I occaisionally find active psilocybes growing directly from kangaroo or wallaby droppings. There is one area i know of in N.E. Vic where i see this more often than other spots though..... i may have to look futher into this. Now.... where is that rain?
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    Friendly neighbour.

    hope this works......
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    Friendly neighbour.

    She had heaps of flowers in late January/early feb.... I think. My memory isnt that good, haha it is pretty shit actually. But yeah i think it had just finished flowering when i got the cuttings, which was late feb, i think.
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    My first seed grow setup

    haha.... love the lamp stand.
  8. Thought some of you may be interested in this. Ebay
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    From the local paper

    ROFLMAO That is gold.
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    Bargain TBM's

    On a family outing today i noticed a very small nusery just up the road and had to go check it out. On the first stand as i walked in was heaps of tiny cacti all for $1 each, in amongst them i found these. The one on the right is a little sad, even though the soil is wet the the main part of it is severely dehydrated. Would bare rooting and a bit of dry warm air remedy this problem, or something else? These are my first tbm's so any help is greatly appreciated.
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    Bargain TBM's

    Yeah iam gonig to repot, i was just wondering if i should let the dehydrated one dry a bit before i do this because it is saturated.(like most nusery cacti) The larger of the two is fine and the soil is JUST damp, so he gets a new home straight away.
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    Ps.Semilanceata - the search continues

    finally........ Today it has finally start to rain, lightly. If it continues like this for four or five days we may be in luck. *leaves computer and continues rain dance*
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    Ps.Semilanceata - the search continues

    Things arent looking good at all for any sort of fungal growth in the N.E.. I remember posting in the aussie finds thread "looks like this season is going to be awesome", I was gravely mistaken. I have said to a few friends that if we dont get another flush before the end of june I am gonna call "worst season ever". The early rains got things going really well in a few patches but since then there has not been a drop, even the first lot of rain harldy touched the buffalo/bright region. I am heading to the mountain in the next week to check on some things so i will take a look around up a bit higher and see if there is any action........but i doubt there will be this is the dryest Autumn/winter i can remember..
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    Cristrate

    unknown specimen. Maybe Echinopsis
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    Where to get 16 gauge needles?

    You should be able to get them at a pharmacy somewhere. The pharmacys in the closest regional city to me mostly only have the small insulin syringes but one (soul pattison)has any size barrel you need and any size tip(needle), try one of their pharmacys if you can find one. They are usually cheap too, under a dollar for a barrel and tip.
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    Cactusgirl .. strange mutation ..

    lol Is that from rooting cuttings?
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    can i get an id on this please

    That looks like a Cereus. As for the second part of the question, i too would like some input into that.
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    Acacia Confusa

    Isnt A. confusa a weed/pest in Hawaii?
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    Found some more please I.D?

    Try "mushrooms and toadstools of Australia" by C.J. Shepard and C.J. Totterdell. Excellent book. or "Fungi of southern Australia" by Neale L. Boughee and Katrina Syme. This one is more for our friends in W.A. but still a good reference none the less.
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    Long spines

    On a large Trich i obtained recently i noticed some very long spines in various spots the longest being 24mm. Is it common for T. pach to have some longer spines or is this another trich or hybrid?
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    WA Season

    Dont worry, its the same for me over here in Vic. Whilst Melbourne gets all the regular autumnul weather, here in the north east of the state have had one lot of rain at the start of the season. This was enough for ONE really good flush but since then there hasnt been a drop and it is as dry now as it was before the rain. When i was younger i remember starting the season at the end of april/start of may. Over the past ten years though it has been reeally dry and a "late" start to the fungi season, alot of my favorite patches dont start fruiting till late june. They will come. eventually.
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    Long spines

    Thanks Archaea. I have no idea about the background of the cactus, it came from a large collection. The people i got it from bought the house with all the cacti and have no idea where any of them were sourced. Judging from the size of some of the cacti it looks as though they have been there for some time.
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    Happy Bithday Young Tripper!

    Ahhhhh, to be 21 hope you have/had a big one dude. and hope you have an awsome day.
  24. I was lucky enough to be the first person to arrive at the sale of a cactus collection. For $100 i got hundreds of specimens although not a great deal of variety. this is what i got, 1 T.pach 8 foot tall with three arms, but i had to cut it to 5 to get it in the trailer The two cousins, One 2 foot C. peruvianus monstrose and a 9 footer still there in the ground waiting for me This one is a mystery to me, it looks like a monstrose form but some of it has gone cristrate I also need an I.D. on this one beacause i now have hundereds of them. I also got heaps and heaps of lobivia sp. I think the small one i asked an I.D. for may also be a lobivia but i am relatively new to the cacti world so i dont have much of an idea. Also got five golden barrels, heaps of peanut cactus and there is still more waiting there for me. Why so cheap you ask? Well a couple moved into the house and decided they would prefer a vegie patch rather than cacti everywhere. "Any that arent sold are going into the skip" was the reply i got when i asked what the plans were for the unsold ones. "in that case, I will take all the unsold ones" was my speedy reply. There is still hundereds there and i need more pots, sand and potting mix. I think i may go crazy. The succulents are all free aswell, I do not have a great deal of interest in them but if they need to be rescued, i will oblige and give them away to anyone that wants them. Oh yeah..... Any suggestions for removing a 9x5foot C peruvianus Monstrose? Sorry about the picture quality once again, my daughter Ellie decided the camera needed a bath so all i have now is the video camera
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    Spotty Subs

    WOW I get alot of subs that also have this colouration but nowhere near the extent of that. I just assumed it was some sort of insect damage as the younger, viscid mushies rarely seem to have it, only more matured semi dry specimens. One patch in particular seems to get alot of these "stained" ones popping up, although this patch is the last to fruit out of all the ones i know of around here. It would be good to finally find out what really causes this. Sweet find alkatrope.
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