Ethnoob

Today has been a good day. I scored a J2 x Psycho0 from @MountainGoat and some pupping cream and seeds from Makka Pakka's Night Garden. It's also been a shit day. I hurt myself applying pupping cream to the vast majority of my cacti and then some filthy fucker attacked my cacti again. This time it happened to my beloved Crazy Spine Oh well, the other cacti pulled through no problems and the pupping cream will bring about a massive replication of my garden in the near future so if those psychonaut cunts want to have a nibble and trip balls for the rest of the day they can have their nibble.

Good luck :)

I've always watered everything I've potted up the second I was done. I think I picked up the habit from watching Burke's backyard as a kid. Oh well, guess that's just another long line of habits my cacti are forcing me to break. Thanks for the advice guys

The price for all of those was the other kind of wicked. This meme's no joke. I actually had to sell some cacti to make it all work

Best. Mail. Day. EVER!!!!!

That's my point exactly. If they follow the laws as they're currently laid out we're shit out of luck. We'll say yes, you lost, here's the spoils and we're still criminals. When in human history has the loser of a war been given such terms? From my perspective we either win the war on drugs and give them everything or we lose and give them everything which makes denying them the cause we should fight for. If we decide that they won't get the market to themselves we have to decide to go against international law and be willing to suffer the consequences or remove the laws entirely and stick our finger up to the UN using technicality to set us free. It's really that simple. Either we give them everything or we deny them. What would you give the side who declared war against you and lost? Personally I'd give them nothing and make them consider themselves lucky to remain alive.

You're not wrong but when their masters have been given the market it will be taken up a notch.

The ONLY way I'm wrong is if you convince our politicians to remove Australia as a signatory to the convention on narcotics. Do you really believe they will do so as a sign of defeat in the war on drugs and suffer the consequences the rest of the world will impose upon us or do you believe they're more likely to reap the rewards of the black market driving prices up without anything negative from outside impacting them at all? I'll let you know exactly what we're in for. There's only going to be a handful of legal producers in the country and everyone who steps out of their monopoly is going to be demonized as tax dodging, child endangering, black market suppliers, etc. and literally everyone will be on board to hunt us down to the point the government is given the go ahead to finally hunt us down using the power cycles our grow lights produce. Herbal cannabis is going to be grown in massive greenhouses with a handful of tomatoes to ensure that the offgassing of the tomatoes leads to an entirely sterile female crop. This will then be sold as a premium product for higher prices than what the black market currently commands. The massive outside crops are where no fucks will be given as they will see the fields not as producing a smokable product but a field of chemical potential. They're going to see cannabinoids and terpenes only because their individual blends are what they're going to be able to patent and massively profit from. It might be nice being able to go down to the shops and buy 25 different types of oils that have been made in a standardized way and a handful of nearly perfectly grown and cured buds (they definitely will be harvested early amongst other things) but they absolutely will use their monopoly status along with their so called rigorous testing and whatnot to drive the prices up to crazy levels. These insane prices will see people trying to grow in their backyard which satellites with their shitty resolution can easily detect. The people who grow indoors will be undone by their power companies. Even those who manually turn on their lights and use a combination of indoor and outdoor growing will end up being caught as the police will be given the right to invade the privacy of anyone they suspect of cultivation which will be based on the higher electricity usage levels and the times that it was used. Now the general public is going to see all this availability and call us pieces of shit for going outside the system. They will see it as avoiding the same taxes they pay making it unfair, they will be told that we're doing so to illegally profit, etc. and when you have 90% of the population cheering the government on you can kiss your freedom goodbye. In short it will always be legal for them but never us regardless of how much you're willing to pay for your license. Like you said it will be an unworkable system and they will use that very fact to shut us down. History has proven that governments aren't there for the people and their bottom line revolves around money. Since they are assured of a monopoly they absolutely will take it and fight with everything they can to defend it. If you think it's bad now with LEO just wait until they have the right to collect every last cent while simultaneously being able to imprison those of us that dare to step outside of their monopoly. I'm not wrong with the things I've said at all. The war will continue with the efforts doubled when they declare themselves losers and get to reap the spoils.

The UN's convention on narcotics treats cannabis legalization the same as opium in that a national organization needs to be created that controls everything from seed to sale. Now lets assume for a minute that means home growing is allowed. You will be liable to buy a license to cultivate, the license will dictate how much product you can produce in a given amount of space, you will give up any rights to privacy you previously had as they'll be able to inspect every inch of everything you own to make sure you're not diverting to the black market and then after all your freedoms have been eroded you have to sell every last scrap to the national cannabis agency for the price they set. Don't believe me? I encourage you to read the UN's convention on narcotics for yourself. Now ask yourself how much do you think it will take to enforce a system like that for everyone and if you'd be willing to break the law to avoid their insane prices and requirements. Congratulations, you're still a criminal while it's 100% legal for them. What we really want is decriminalization where there are no laws on the books as it makes it a free for all. More than that you want it legislated that any person engaged in the for profit trade of previously illegal goods or services, no names give for obvious reasons, that the only taxes that can apply to them are GST at the point of sale. Why? To stop those who declared war upon us from sin taxing us without also raising the price of everyday staples like bread and milk too which no politician would be willing to do. If they're unwilling to do that I'd rather it remain illegal because either way we're fucked and it at least denies them profit too.

You fellas don't want legalisation. Legalisation will force the government to comply with the united nations or get sanctioned and if you for one minute think that our government gives a single shit about weed over international trade and whatnot you're a fool. In essence it will force the government to maintain a monopoly over everything from seed to sale and if you or me say fuck the system we go from being rebellious druggies to tax dodging black marketers that are trying to supply children while denying them the funds their schools would get from the legal sales of cannabis. We'll be demonized for trying to enslave generations for growing a plant and be even greater criminals than we are today because the government will have the public's support since they can go down to the shops and buy their vape cartridges as easily as they can a case of beer today. Do you really want to give the spoils of war to the government and their friends? Do you really believe they will set you free if you agree? Would you even want to live in a world where cannabis cultivation is in their hands only? Personally I'd rather keep it illegal and deny them a single shekel. Fuck them, fuck their agreeing to 100% of the spoils for ending the war and fuck ever agreeing to a plant limit when their buddies get told to grow x amount in a given space. If we win the war WE should get to set the terms of their surrender and not the other way around and don't think any differently because they literally declared war on us by calling it the war on drugs and fucking each of us over with it. It might have been through taking your freedom or merely your taxes but each of us has been impacted by it so fuck giving them an inch let alone absolutely everything.

Check out the current top post on the tricho community review page from Gee Bee. Doesn't look so good for them hey. https://www.facebook.com/groups/TrichocereusCommunityReviews/

Damn it, if I wasn't flat broke for another few weeks I'd have bought a few of them. Someone's going to be getting a really good deal on them though especially with those peruvians and the J2 x Psycho0 in particular. Lucky pricks lol If you ever have another one of those J2 x Psycho0 for sale in the future let me know and I'll buy a cut for sure. I can feel it's spines calling for my blood through the screen and I'd be happy to give it a taste to have such a beautiful yet menacing looking plant in my garden

This may just be the worst cactus I've ever seen offered on the bay... https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Trichocereus-pachanoi-rare/323722355360?hash=item4b5f5b22a0:g:HR8AAOSwSjpcfhJC&frcectupt=true

This guy just put up a ton of massive lophs and also has some really interesting looking ones like loph jourdaniana cv fingers which you should look at the last pic on the varigated listing to see the mother plant as it's unreal. The prices are pretty reasonable too https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/sacredcactus/m.html?item=254151024703&hash=item3b2c94e03f%3Ag%3Aro4AAOSweGpcfdTE%3Ark%3A2%3Apf%3A1&siteoverride=15&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

Oops, my bad lol I assumed with your name you were him but I guess we all know what they say about assumptions. Kinda wish the other name came up when I typed in @ moon though but I guess it must have had something to do with using lower instead of uppercase lettering. It would have been a no brainer picking him if it worked either way but thanks for clearing that up and tagging him for me though

That's a really good idea compared to the one I had which was poisoning the area. I'll have to see if I can make that happen as getting pallets here would be quite difficult but if I can't I'm sure I could work something similar out with some pavers or plastic sheeting I took a shitty group pic last night for a friend to show how bad my cactus addiction has become. @moon_unit was right, I have full blown cactaids There's no hope for a cure either. Not only do I have a couple of choice cuts coming from MUB and an absolutely gorgeous T. Thelegonus coming from ebay but Rodni from trichocereus.com.au was selling cuts from his garden over the weekend so I got my ex to go pick these up for me too. Clearly I'm beyond help so you lot best hope it's not contagious lol

My newest addition to the garden is a Terscheckii x Psycho0 that's already drawn blood and I've found a bunch more pups and what I think may be the start of a flower in the garden too

That was good to watch. Thanks for sharing your skills and garden mate

Get a friend in another state to order them for you and then go on the aussie post website once the tracking number has been supplied and redirect it to your place.

This guy just put up a ton of cheap crests and will combine postage too making them an incredible purchase for anyone with the funds to spare which I'm shattered to say I do not. https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/thelivingrock/m.html?item=153399155218&hash=item23b74d5a12%3Ag%3AcnsAAOSwAdhcecBO%3Ark%3A17%3Apf%3A0&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

I lived there. My description of the place is 100% accurate based on personal experience. I had my bins burned, stolen cars crashing through my neighbours fences more than once, packs of ferals roamed the streets looking for people to roll, etc. I even had my mullies stolen constantly while they were literally a week old because those derros wanted something to smoke. You'd think they'd have worked out seedlings are worthless after the first 300 they stole but after trying to flood them with seedlings under the belief the thefts would cease once they filled their own gardens and being down nearly 5000 sprouts the only conclusion I could make was they were smoking them. The place is an absolute shithole and if I were emperor of Australia my first action would be bombing the terrace until it was nothing more than a crater and then pumping raw sewerage into it so there would never be any doubts as to how much of a shithole it really is.

If you want the drug variety hang around the arse end of Parkway avenue which you'll instantly know you're in the right place when you get to it. There used to be 5 permanent dealers and always a bunch of upstarts there just in the last stretch of the street that could get you anything you wanted and it's such a shithole of an area that I doubt any of them have left since I was there last. Just make sure you're not alone or there at night and follow your money otherwise you're likely to get your head caved in or minimally have your money stolen. Honestly though you'd have to be a fool to go there and would be better off growing them yourself. In fact the best thing you could do is move away from the terrace entirely. I got robbed every 3 months when I lived there and your neighbours are always going to be trying to scab milk, bread, flour, sugar, coffee, etc. because they all spend their money on drugs instead of basic supplies like that. Goddamn it's such a shithole that one of the greatest memories of my life was moving away from there so I strongly suggest you start saving your shekels now to do the same. And no, Lakeside and the other upper class areas aren't any better, they just don't scab as much stuff but their paranoia will leave you with absolutely no privacy whatsoever. The whole place is a giant shithole and you too will look fondly back on the memory of leaving as much as I did when the time comes.

Foolsbreath from moonunit for $150. I paid $330 for mine and saw one before that go for $777....get in quick lads. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Trichocereus-bridgesii-cv-FOOLSBREATH-Rooted-Cutting-100-Authentic-Genetics/202609302790?hash=item2f2c749d06:g:qQoAAOSwcSJcdf7x:rk:1:pf:1&frcectupt=true

Here's some puppy love and since I potted up the cuts I took on the weekend today those too plus a group shot since it's been a while

Yay, some cuts arrived. Thanks for telling me they were still in Bendigo at midday aussie post 2x Ferret, 2x Fields Knuthianus and 2x Dawson's Peru all in rounds pots because Bunnings have employed literal retards that can't stock shelves.