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Haha I remember when I was a kid we made little guns out of these We'd take the spring out and put it into one of these Jam the end cap back in and you'd get a few second delay before it fired across the room with great speed. Good times lol. A product of a wild and untamed mind.

I don't think there is. "5 July, 2015: Tasmanian man Damian Johnson, 46, is killed by a great white shark while diving for scallops with his daughter, between Maria and Lachland islands. " So humback whale populations are on the rise, great whites eat humbacks, july is right when humpbacks come close to the coast for the annual mygration from antarctic waters, humpbacks or commonly sighted around tassie, go figgure. 29 December, 2014: Jay Muscat, is killed at Cheynes beach, east of Albany in Western Australia. The last commercial whale hunting off Western Australia stopped when the Cheynes Beach Whaling Company near Albany closed in 1978. It's the whales I tell ya, haha. Just my oppinion. Peace

hey I also found this quite interesting regarding Mamillaria Hernadezi, they seem to "care" for there "children", as it's frased. Though idk if that's quite right haha. "The special characteristic about M. hernandezii is that it is serotinous, which means that it will keep a portion of the seeds that it produces inside the stem, and release the rest. Being serotinous has many advantages. It can help in protecting the offspring from seed hunters, such as ants. It can also allow the delayed release of seeds when conditions in the environment are best for germination" But more interestiing is the observed differences the "inner" seeds have. "and found that older seeds, kept inside the parental plant, germinate and survive more than young seeds, which are released immediately after their production." "found that older seeds possessed special proteins, which indicated that these seeds had experienced the rain pulses and the periods of drought. This adaptation to its natural environment wasnt present in young seeds that hadnt had the time to experience these environmental changes. "found that young seeds that are released in the soil were more likely to be eaten by predators or rotted by micro-organisms compared to older seeds that had been protected inside the parental plant." Quite interesting in my opinion. http://theconversation.com/plants-can-actually-take-care-of-their-offspring-heres-how-33048 The studdie http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23345416

still heaps of them around Roma area, I hear they are good around they crops as they keep pests away, roos don't go much on them.

Maybe of interest, the nopal cactus from the Opuntia genus is being used to produce electricity "Basically, the leaves of nopal are shredded and placed in a biodigester where they start decomposing and generating biogas which contains 65% methane. This, in turn, feeds an internal combustion engine generator which produces electric energy." http://www.mexiconewsnetwork.com/adventure/nopal-energy/

Today I watched this little thing grow a bit fatter

I'm special because I send loving vibes to all my plants and they seem to love it.

i = Acacia iteaphylla ~ flinders range wattle, mabye? haha

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Hi from NSW somwhere. Today marks my first ever cactus seed germination, I've been lurking here for a while soking up information and didn't find anything about this. This is my 6 hour old Trichocereus Cuzcoensis sprout, I thought it was a funny looking pic but I'd really like to know if the white hairs are roots or something els? It's the biggest sprout at this point and the others don't have this yet. Thanks guys.

Thanks guys. Thismorning they are looking a little greener, got some leds in the mail that I plan on making into a good little light for em, the cfl I have I think is less than ideal not knowing the spectrem it throws. The soil is river sand from the river, out of the few places I looked it was the most coarse some rocks up to 3mm I would think, but still some really small stuff that might be worth screening out? so hopefully it's ok, it also tends to develop cracks on the surface so this could mean it tightens up to much? I must channel them good vibes

Cool! Not mold do they stand themselves up?