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Just a heads up to those that hunt morels. Season is booming after what I thought would be a pretty poor show. Ive been checking patches over the past few weeks with no fruit to show but yesterday they were everywhere, had a lazy stroll with my girl and the kids and got just over 2kg. If I put some time in I believe that number could have been easily tripled. Get out to the granite country folks, these lil babies are delicious and well worth the effort!!
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I have a clone very similar if not the same...... My awesome memory is serving me not again today, have to wait till I go out to the farm. The very first pic it looks heaps like the bogan clone, too hard to ID random trichos. Nice plant none the less!
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Ill send some phleb love over for ya bro.
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Ok, ima gon try get to this one. I was in melbs the weekend of the last meet but didnt know about it until I read about it the following monday. I was rather disappointed I missed out on ethdrftrs alluring gaze and wandering hands.
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Whatever floats ya boat incog. Fecal eye injections arent really the done thing at bbqs round these parts though.
I doubt lil creatures will taste as good as many think it does for long, has been sold to one of the big companies. I was drinkn it for a bit but got sick of it. Homebrew a lil now but can never go past a box of steinlager pure, failing that ill go peroni failing that ill go stella failing that ill go Heineken failing that ill take whatever it is you have in your fridge. I cant get my taste buds to agree with cider, nor my sense of smell, its has the flavour and nose of bottled vomit. Been getn back on the shiraz or merlot more often lately tbh.
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is not an offer it is a replacement for the ones that perished and was posted a few hours ago.
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They degrafts were calloused and fine when sent, some small yes but sizes I have no problems rooting out. The "detailed" instructions I apparently gave made no mention of anything other than sand which is what I use whn rooting out lophs. The others I had at the time were rooted in sand and some others in a soil mix then were greenhoused for a month or so before sitting on a verandah under a table due to having to move house. We get mad frost here and days in winter are cold. I take no responsibility for the obviously very poor care shown for the plants and hope bf can learn a lesson from his loss. I have however put an extra bakers dozen of rooted lophs in his most recent purchase so his collection will be not much changed. Please look after these ones bf and try getting some advice if you run into trouble well before they get beyond help. I cant do anything for stock once it has left my care as everyone should be well aware and poor care of plants or cuttings is not the fault of the seller whatsoever.
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i reckon the hamiltons crest is more inline with cuzco from observation of grafted growth in more direct light, spination is telling. thats just me though. who knows really. Nice lil plant regardless of who thinks what!
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Had a couple of these the season just gone, one on a yowie tip that had snapped off the main plant, too top heavy, tip was smashed in so i cut it off and the flower/pup came out soon after and to begin with it was very hairy....... think i showed interbeing that one. The ones pictured are from an old cutting that i recently harvested the tips from. The base produced the flower pups. The base was from an old pedro and it had flowered many times so i assumed that the pups came out from where the plant was ready to flower before i cut it years ago, the flower buds already formed in the plant and dormant jjust waiting for the flowering hormones but instead different hormones were produced and the plant wanted to grow rather than flower. Im guessing the yowie tip that did the same would have flowered during the summer but fate had other plans.
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"JOSEPH Kony is basically Adolf Hitler. He has an army of 30,000 mindless children who slaughter innocent people in Uganda."
Have you seen something like that fly across your Twitter or Facebook feed today? Or perhaps this: "#TweetToSave the Invisible Children of Uganda! #Kony2012 Make Joseph Kony Famous!!"
Kony 2012, a video posted by advocacy group Invisible Children to raise awareness about the pernicious evil of Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony, has already been viewed more than 40 million times since its release this week.
It would be great to get rid of Kony. He and his forces have left a path of abductions and mass murder in their wake for more than 20 years. But let's get two things straight: 1) Joseph Kony is not in Uganda and hasn't been for six years; 2) the LRA now numbers at most in the hundreds, and while it is still causing immense suffering, it is unclear how millions of well-meaning but misinformed people are going to help deal with the more complicated reality.
First, the facts. Following a successful campaign by the Ugandan military and failed peace talks in 2006, the LRA was pushed out of Uganda and has been operating in extremely remote areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic - where Kony himself is believed to be. In October last year, US President Barack Obama authorised the deployment of 100 US army advisers to help the Ugandan military track down Kony, with no results disclosed to date.
Additionally, the LRA (thankfully) does not have 30,000 mindless child soldiers. This grim figure, cited by Invisible Children in the film, refers to the total number of kids abducted by the LRA over nearly 30 years. The small remaining LRA forces are still wreaking havoc and are very hard to catch, but Northern Uganda has had tremendous recovery in the six years of peace since the LRA left.
So why is "Uganda" trending on Twitter?
Unfortunately, it looks like meddlesome details, like where Kony actually is, are not important enough for Invisible Children to make sure its audience understands. The video, narrated by Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell, says its purpose is to intensify pressure on the US to make sure Kony is brought to justice this year, and as the message broadcast throughout says, what is important is simple: Stop Kony.
Among other emotive shots, the video features Russell's attempt to explain the LRA to his toddler son and some heart-wrenching footage of children who walked for kilometres to sleep in a safe place at the height of the LRA's power in Northern Uganda. The latter comprised much of Invisible Children's namesake first film and brought the organisation to prominence.
In the new film, Invisible Children has made virtually no effort to inform. Only once, at 15:01 in the movie, is the fact that the LRA is no longer in Uganda mentioned, and only in passing.
That's it, in a 30-minute movie.
Award-winning Ugandan journalist Angelo Izama is among those not thrilled: "To call the campaign a misrepresentation is an understatement. While it draws attention to the fact that Kony, indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in 2005, is still on the loose, its portrayal of his alleged crimes in Northern Uganda are from a bygone era. At the height of the war between especially 1999 and 2004, large hordes of children took refuge on the streets of Gulu town to escape the horrors of abduction and brutal conscription to the ranks of the LRA. Today, most of these children are semi-adults. Many are still on the streets unemployed. Gulu has the highest numbers of child prostitutes in Uganda. It also has one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis."
If six years ago children in Uganda would have feared the hell of being part of the LRA, a well-documented reality already, today the real invisible children are those suffering from Nodding Disease. More than 4000 children are victims of this incurable debilitating condition. It's a neurological disease that has baffled scientists and attacks mainly children from the most war-affected districts of Kitgum, Pader and Gulu.
Along with sharing the movie online, Invisible Children's call to action is to do three things: 1) sign its pledge, 2) get the Kony 2012 bracelet and action kit (only $30), and 3) sign up to donate.
There is intense criticism over Invisible Children's finances, including that it spends too much money on administration and filmmaking, while still touting its on-the-ground NGO-style projects.
What worries me more is that it's unclear what exactly Invisible Children wants to do, other than raise a lot of money and attention. Here's Russell in the video (21:40): "We know what to do. Here it is, ready? In order for Kony to be arrested this year, the Ugandan military has to find him. In order to find him, they need the technology and training to track him in the vast jungle. That's where the American advisers come in. But in order for the American advisers to be there, the American government has to deploy them. They've done that, but if the government doesn't believe the people care about Kony, the mission will be cancelled. In order for the people to care, they have to know. And they will only know if Kony's name is everywhere."
So the goal is to make sure that Obama doesn't withdraw the advisers he deployed until Kony is captured or killed. That seems noble enough, but does anyone have any evidence about this urgent threat of cancellation? One that justifies such a massive production campaign and surely lucrative donation drive?
There are many reasons uninformed and oversimplified advocacy can cause trouble. Blogger Siena Antsis notes that Invisible Children expertly "commodifies white man's burden on the African continent". Buy a bracelet, soothe some guilt.
One of the biggest issues with a simplistic "Stop Kony" message is that discussions of Navy SEALs or drone strikes are inevitable when patience runs out with Ugandan-led efforts.
But what about the hundreds of abducted and brainwashed kids? Should we bomb everyone? What if the kids shoot back?
Coming back to the Kony 2012 video and its celebrity endorsements, what are the consequences of unleashing so many exuberant activists armed with so few facts?
In addition to the problems of poverty and nodding disease Izama highlights, Uganda is barely (if at all) democratic.
President Yoweri Museveni ushered himself to a fourth term last year, taking him to more than 25 years in power. Corruption is rampant, social services are minimal and human rights abuses well documented.
Stopping Kony won't change any of these things, and if more hardware and money flow to Museveni's military, Invisible Children's campaign may even worsen some problems.
Here's to hoping Kony hands himself in tomorrow and that the fear of the US "cancelling" its LRA-hunt support is misplaced. But if the most impactful the result of Invisible Children's campaign is to cause millions of viewers to think Northern Uganda is a war zone, even if it's not their intent, it is hard to defend.
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For some reason in the crosses of psycho0 and j2, both ways, the J2 characteristics seemed to be rather dominant which to me is strange as generally psycho0 genes display more prominent in most crosses regardless of it being mother or father. That is in my experience though and only with the small numbers of plants i have grown to any size to speak of from this particular cross. That said, J2 can show a great deal of variation in its appearance from plant to plant, moreso than other trichos, even plants grown in close proximity can look very different from one another a slight difference in sun/light exposure is all it takes. Im talkn cuttings/plants that are growing within 2ft of each other, same soil, same everything except one gets shade a lil earlier in the day, not much earlier but obviously enough to alter the appearance from the other plant. I cut them back rather hard this season though so it will be interesting if the difference continues to show or if the traits were from previous growing conditions which went unchanged when moved.
I think i know who you got the plant from, he should have a lot more different hybrids from the aussie clones soon if i get my arse into gear
Wanna pm me a pic? Interested to see how your plant looks.
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I think the ants leave the seeds and take the fruit flesh away. The reason i believe this is because this season i moved a couple of mature plants into a well shaded area. After a good soaking seedlings started popping up everywhere in the pots, some more than others but there they were, baby lophs. I always thought the ants took the seeds as well as the flesh but they must discard them. I have only missed picking fruit a few times i had thought so i was surprised at the amount of seedlings that popped up.
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I lost my turbinies a while ago now, snails got two and the other couple got left out during winter with the gymnos by mistake, i think the gymnos beat them up and gave them rot. Thats the only explanation i could come up with, there were mamms there but they are scared of the gymnos so i dont think they had anything to do with it though i bet they didnt help the poor lil turbinies while the gymnos were floggin the crap out of them!
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Lmao, if that caespit is 20 years old then im the president of nambia, i also own 3 cargo carriers that are converted to a 34 star cruise liners for the 7428 wives i have.
The colour on the main head of the larger one seems normal ime, my larger one often has shades of red and purple on the older growth where new pups are going to push thru.
I wonder how this seller is getting away with selling lophs on ebay, i get pinged as soon as i list them with any name and dont bother even trying anymore. I guess some ppl watch and report sellers they know and/or dislike.
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I took some tape off some grafts, looks like they have all taken, more crests and lophs to spread around
Misted the bloody loph seedlings then patted my big lophs.I kicked an old pedro that had fallen over with his mate who were obviously drunk last night, i then stared at the rest of the plants in the immediate area and told them to get fucked, it rained the other day so suck it up ya not gettn anything from me today, then i went inside and glared at them through the window. I could hear them laughing at me, smart arses.
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Flower or pup forming as already mentioned, will heal as usual.
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Its strange, a few ppl that i sent this seed to have told me they got a degree of variegation with the seedlings though i cannot recall even getting one lol it was a long time ago when i grew them though and no doubt they copped my usual neglect so some may have perished. I have a small amount left so will put it down and see if i can get results. The only cross ive done that i have had large percentage of vari was the whiora x pach pc, well over 60% vari prolly closer to 80% but they are fragile as you may well know and the ones that have some ribs normal grow all funky due to the normal growth growing faster than the vari parts. I neglect them too much, just wish i had the time to graft them all, they are slow to get to size but they get there none the less even with the pittance of attention they get from me.
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That one in the pic just looks like a lil trich seedling. I have one popping up in my tray of lophs atm but they are all my own seeds and no doubt with the amount of seeds from trichos scattered all over the place here it just bounced in at some point or fell of my clothes into the loph tray. Keep growing it, it may turn out to be something nice.
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Nah looks like the same one EG, the seller is Hamiltons.
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If its from the seed i sent you then it would be J1 x pach
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What is the other parent wt?
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Jebus mate, cant believe ya gon cut up the one and only lol, cuttn that bridgie would be like cutting off ya fingers
If ya gettn rid of any of ya TBMs ill grab em and if ya still got taya and gettn rid of ill grab her too. Grafted loph far left of pic, very interested, what var mate?
This man looks after his plants ppl, the weeds in some pics may say otherwise but the growth on some inbetween my visits i couldnt believe.
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Looking good mate, take care of that baby wont ya.
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Been a while since i have read/seen this thread. Simply it is as jabez says, all evidence and stories that could be relied upon as truth/fact were lost long ago and all is merely speculation regardless of the desire for it to be otherwise. One thing though i missed last time,
but as far as I was aware the concept of boiling in vessels was not known to aboriginals before the invasion
From what i have read, boiling liquid was simply done with large shells or even bark "troughs" via the use of stones from a fire, easy. From boiling liquid to using this knowledge to produce any kind of tryptamine brew is a long long shot. The use of mushrooms i have found little written about but from some accounts certain mushrooms were strictly not for use/consumption. More than likely for reasons of toxicity but if one was to assume that trypts were used then wouldnt subs for example be the most obvious choice........... then i guess you get into the old argument as to whether or not subs are introduced lol. Many accounts of miners and early settlers eating fungi and having "experiences". Dont ask me for refs though, cant recall where i read the articles or if they were of substance at all, too long ago now but no doubt easy to find on the www.
Some things we would love to be true but there is just no evidence to back up the speculation and highly doubtful there ever will be.
Another thing, i thought that the "meeting place" on the mountain was womens business and it was women that led whites up the mountain when they first ventured up there, the track used is where the road is now, well, that is, apparently.
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I did get some pics but atm am unable to upload sorry, its a pain in the arse on so many fronts tbh!
Ob, I hadnt even thought bout prints but ill give it a crack for ya, failing that would some basal myc be any good to you?
Granite, sandy granity native forest. Not too wet...... Sandy ;-)