Psylocaria

Grafting practice, first time working with pereskiopsis. Starting to get the hang of it, messing up less and less. These are between a week and a month since grafting Tersecii x open

This thread inspired me to go collect agave shoots this year.

Sorry dream walker, if I digressed this thread, I just realized I was doing it, just an example of how choppy my thoughts are. Your post reminded me of something and I went 80 different ways. 1. Stamets, I saw him speak a few times at a conference in 2010 and 2011. Wow, what a powerful lecturer. As an amateur mycologist and philosophical thinker, his talks were empowering, he challenged everyone to think. At the time, he had just introduced lifeboxes (boxes that within the corrugation, contain tree seeds and spores of mycorizal fungi), and gave one everyone in the audience. Anyway 2. Next I saw Lindsay's signature about wanting to experiment with cordyceps. Those little fuckers are absolutely incredible. We have a lot of research to do here. In nature, cordyceps plays the role of both colony health system symbiant to a host, and eminent death parasitism to invaders. When we take it as medicine, it works at the DNA level performing the same job. Fascinating stuff. Drinking a cup of cordyceps coffee right now.

Here is an artist conch dry and ready to prepare.

Been using various conch tinctures for quiet some time. Each one has its oun beneficial alkaloids. I do a double extract, alcohol 6 mo. Then a water boil, strain and reduce water to equal amounts alcohol and water. Then mix.

Thanks to all

Hey to those in the states, I am just getting into the seed game, and don't have any pereskiopsis. Was hoping to get some though trade or buy a little. Why can you not just buy it at the local plant nurseries? Anyone game to help out, shoot me a PM. Thanks

Ok dream walker, you inspired me going to have to try the exterior grafts, and opuntia grafts, have a peniocereus gregii seedling that rotted out at the root ball, going to try to save it.

Glaukus, Thanks for playing. Hope to see a bunch of other 2 to 3 year old tersecii's. Any age actually, I don't care. Recently posted tersecii seedling in the sowing out thread, but will post more of the progress here. The mother is interesting, four feet tall with three branches.

Been putting a lot of plants in ground as I work on the landscaping in my back yard. It's starting to take shape. And then I'm teaching my kids not to disrupt the spiders.

Day three and germination rates seem to be very good. Now I'm going to need some pereiskopsis to play with, let me know if you can help.

Stenocereus pruinosus on the left, I think I think this cutting is S. griseus Wish I had a better pic. but don't, this was it in May, middle pot on the very left, right before I did the graft.

Lemariocereus chichipe from a Colorado seedling distributer Under the name poleska chichipe at local hardware stores And At a local seedling distributer

This is roughly a thousand tersecii seeds open pollinated. This was two seed pods worth, I think the pods were picked a bit early, and I have no experience harvesting seed, so who knows if these will be viable.

addicted, just a few grafts I've done. The two puping grafts here, are three months old. The dormant graft in the center is three years old. Go figure. Front and back, I like how this one is splitting Love these Poleska seedlings as grafting stock! And my next three scions will be these tips once the cuts are good and rooted

My puquiensis cutting, just starting to root.

Really don't know a lot about candy caps. They grow on the the Cali coast. I traded a pachanoi cutting for a dry oz at a mushroom festival this summer. They smell like strong musty maple syrup. Anyway I think they would make great pastry filling blended with creamy cheeses.

Oh, candy cap whip cream, my new obsession, first had it on boletus edulus pancakes with wild berry compote.