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Dekeius
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All good words here. I find any break from my analytical mind to be beneficial for my health
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thanks SayN
I like the idea of an adventure activity.
4 or 5 nights is just how long it tends to take me to get up to speed and back down again. But it might be nice to have an event people can come and go to
Simon
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Gday fellow humans,
I'm getting hitched next april. It will be great.
However as maybe some of you have struggled with before I cannot figure out my bucks.
I got no interest in strippers. I don't drink. I do enjoy most other debauchery however.
I'm thinking that finding a property somewhere in NSW between casino, tenterfield and nimbin for my mates and I to get weird in would be good. I'd also like to put a bit of money into some communities I know have been doing it tough with our country being on fire and all.
Requirements
- Loud music for extended periods of time isn't a problem
- 4 or 5 nights over a weekend
- Probably in February
- Welcoming of fellow psychonauts
Peace
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@Humboldt
There is something so magical about one human offering to share with another human a cactus, that doesn't look like a cactus, cannot be bought, that is fast growing and is only owned by those of us who were also once offered said cactus.
Peresk are such a fantastic symbol of what we do and who we are.
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freespirit420 I love it mate.
There is quite the origin to my Brain. I was having an issue with migraines. I ended up in emergency twice. It was really starting to impact on my life and so I said that's it enough this stops and found a solution. In celebration of overcoming this issue I bought the crested bad boy, having always thought they looked like brains, I then found the pot online and bob's you uncle.
I have given it more attention than a lot of my other plants and I reckon it has the best spot on my little balcony.
I was thinking I have 2 options. Either I repot it into something (cool and unique of course) or I do some surgery and essentially regrow the brain but also pot a segment elsewhere.
I have had limited success with cuttings but have never tried with something exhibiting mutation.
Peace to you too and thanks for the ups acasshia
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Sorry for bad photos and for not being on the forum for a little while now. Here are a few of my babies.
These are my long lived Peruvian torch hybrids. They had a hard beginning because I was a novice. Grown from seed. Will attempt to graft one to peresk at some point.
Speaking of Peresk, here are my bunch. They were also poorly cared for, for a time.
Received this girl and think she is just beautiful. Has such a blue hue in the winter.
Don't know what this is, got it last week. Looks alien.
Getting to big for the pot, I need to either repot or cut back. Mammillaria cristata is just amazing.
Bought this little dude a few years ago. Seen some nice growth. Pretty happy plant.
Thanks for seeing my babies. Any advice on the Brain would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Dekes
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Found this gal at a homewares store. The soil is full of wood chips. Will repot immediately.
Could I get an ID please and help with what I think is scale?
Peace.
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tried a weak vinegar spray on the plants as I saw more little bugs. hopefully that wipes them out
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I found the bugger!!! he went for a 10m sky dive.
And no pets (unless you count my cactii) mountain goat.
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thanks Change. I would love a green house but just don't have the space. Got a few germ boxes but nothing bigger.
Maybe I could make something around the pot ive already got.
Unfortunately aesthetics matter a lot to my girlfriend and housemate. was quite the battle to get the pots I wanted.
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I have some pereskiopsis living outside in a pot in the open. I live on the second floor (3rd for you yanks) of an apartment and have noticed something has had a munch at some leaves.
Just wondering if anyone knows what might have done this and how to go about stopping it?
I have little general gardening knowledge so any advice would be much appreciated.
Need these guys strong and healthy to help support some trichs ill graft in a few weeks.
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These are my original sown seed. Quite proud of them. No lights, no heating, sown in Autumn. Very pleased.
One of those guys there is a little smaller but also seems to have limited spines. Would love to see it keep growing without becoming real spiny.
I have a tiny little lophophora williamsii about 3mm in diameter.
I'm rather nervous about him. its the only loph I've got to germinate out of 10 seeds or so.
will try grafting a trich or two in the coming weeks.
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Alls going well in my cactii Kingdom. got some beautiful seedlings and some not so. tried and failed at grafting and will try again with bigger scions. been to bunnings a few times to acquire some terracotta pots.
All my guys are outside now and some still with glad wrap coverings. sun burn is still a problem and my holiday to the states was not welcome by my cactii.
Lets go summer!!!
Pics to come.
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Yeh people think they can beat the elements. As waterboy said all you can try and do is divert it away.
On a more humourous note when i reached into a vending machine today to retrieve my peanuts the compartment where the purchases fall into was full of water. I guess flooding? That or rain is getting really wacky.
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Hope everyone on the east coast of Australia is doing alright this morning. Lot of destruction.
Had to empty water out a few pots.
Lost a few peresk leaves that were outdoors.
Come on sun!!!
Dekeius
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IME if uve got them outside you probably will end up giving them too much sun early on (they go red). I've found shade cloth or just an old rag over my germination box works.
Enjoy.
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One graft failed and some idiot bumped another off so I did a bit of surgery and then decided to sow all the remaining seed I had. I now have trichs and lophs in a variety of organic and no organic soils. Got some lophs sown but none germinated. I've also tried a technique i found on the forums to get pereskiopsis to root in just a glass of water by a window. Got 2 of my seed trays indoors.
With this amount of experimentation I'll get some success hopefully.
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Update. Grafted 5 of my trichs and sowed some loph seeds. Seeds and pereskiopsis courtesy of a member
Currently don't have any plastic for humidity or weights on the scion. Have them out of the sun though. The trichs were small and juicy. Will wait to see if the grafts take.
Only question for now is what will happen to the base of the trichs i took to make my scions. Any chance they live?
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A simple tshirt seemed to work. Some (probably not fully covered by tshirt or maybe receiving more radiation facing outwards) are still a little red. The green ones are certainly looking plumper.
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Thanks everyone.
Karl Marx i am planning to graft but not every seedling so need a parallel plan.
Will probably try a few things and see if anything changes.
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Got some trich seedlings which are nearly 3 weeks old. They were doing fine with just the plastic lid and were receiving sun protection from the soil mix and edges of germ box. However they are now a little red. So I have put a tshirt over them but fear this cuts out too much light. At the moment they get no direct sunlight but are outside.
Unfortunately the image doesn't do the colour justice but they are red near the top especially.
I was wondering about attaching a shade cloth directly to the top of the lid. Maybe starting with it doubled up.
There is a lot of conflicting information on here about sunburnt trichs.
Peace,
Dekeius.
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For some reason I feel opposed to using a heat mat, don't really know why as I can get one for about $15. Maybe I will for my next go round.
For now I am very pleased with the growth I'm getting. I believe I'm getting the very first areole atop some of my shoots. Bit hard to see in the photo however.
Aiming to try a graft within 3 or 4 weeks time.
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My main concern is still temperature as we get closer to winter.
Peace.
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Planted some more seed last night. Into a moist medium of just perlite. I sprinkled more dry perlite on top. Placed seed and misted before covering in cling wrap. These guys are going to start life indoors. They have an obscured window for light.
In an exclusively inorganic medium i really should add some type of fertiliser?
I'll add some pictures tonight.
Germinating Newbie
in Cacti & Succulents
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Peace brother, very happy for you. Its a great feeling.
Also be wary if you want to graft them young. I murdered a lot of my babies with ideas of fast growth via surgery.
Then again you might have skills I dont mate