Ethnoob
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I need some pereskiopsis and I'd prefer to enrich one of you than I would herbalistics which seems to be about the only readily available online source I can find for them at the moment. I need around 10 of them though the more the better really as I've just started a ton of seed. Reply here or PM me with offers if you'd prefer, either way lets make this happen.
Also did you ever take a close look at the flowers from Mario? Kinda looks like a combination of a grafted loph and a fly agaric mushroom to me....Nothing suss lol
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1 hour ago, Spiky Mc Cactus Face said:Wow 2000 that puts my efforts to shame must be the day for it thou. I to planted out some of the sharxx blue × bridgesii ben and terscheckii. Also put in patch feilds × crazy spine, psyco0 × Peruvian john, helon × Dawson's pasacana, helon × spinless scop, pasacana, oreocerus, echinopsis, copiapoa resnuissima, RG-3TAC 3 (whatever they are im not 100%) and aprox 90 loph seeds.
But 2000 thats a top effort...lots of future pots lol
That sounds like a lovely mix of genetics some of which we share in common. Unfortunately one of them that I learned with early on (fields pach x crazy spine) were exposed to the elements too soon and got genocided as a result so I'd love to see how yours go for you. I'll definitely keep a keen eye out for them and the others like helon x dawson's pasacana that we share in common too
Don't feel bad about not planting as many seeds as another person though but especially me either. I'm probably insane and tend to jump in the deep end with everything long before I'm ready choosing trial by fire over the slow and steady learning experience that's conducive to most people. Hell it's probably conducive to me too considering how often I get burned. Just look at what I said about the fields pach x crazy spine above for all the evidence you need of that lol
As for future pots I'm going to take a more tame approach to how I'm treating things now with known cuts. The known cuts get their own special pots but the newbies will grow up fighting for resources in the same pots as their siblings. My idea is that there's certain traits I want to select for the first of which is growth potential (especially in the face of hardship like being grouped too close, viral infection, etc) as I want the biggest and baddest cacti there is. After a select few have proven their worth they move on to the next round of trait selection which will drastically reduce the amount of plants I end up keeping around and this will continue until I'm left with my ideal specimen for each group. I'm sure some lines will be easy to give up on while others have nearly every single plant being a keeper which will kind of suck to say the least but in the end I should end up with an army of plants that are perfect for me and the local conditions. If not it's always a numbers game and there's always more seeds
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Another day, more plants added to the garden lol This time round it's another Crazy Spine, a monster Melted Wax cut and Nothink. I also mislabeled the dragon fruits which are red and not the yellow variety. You'd think I'd know better than to rely on memory by now but apparently not.
Thanks a million for those @MountainGoat, you're a legend!
Also since it's my thread and I can shit it up with all the pics I want to here's the start of another 17 varieties of cacti I planted today. I acquired some pots and instantly ran out which is why I've gone all BBQ tray tek on the Sharxx Blue x Bridgesii 'Ben' but in all fairness I put down 7 packs of them and needed a decent amount of space anyway. There's something like 2000 cactus seeds that have been planted in that greenhouse now so my future is looking bright indeed. It's mostly in search of blue plants but there's also tons of terscheckii and hybrids with it, lots of bridgesii's, scops, cuzcoensis, fulvianus, etc. It's really a huge mixed lot of trichos in general and a 30 pack of loph seeds for good measure as well
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I recently saw a Chemical Shaman's Dick cut go for $777 and I bet this one sells for more due to the trusted nature of the seller. I reckon this will be the one that tops a grand.
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Here's another Sharxx Blue that's definitely going to end in another bidding war as it's an astoundingly pretty cactus. Those blues, those spines, I'm in love
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39 minutes ago, bardo said:Sweet as man, square pots are more space efficient anyhow, what is your location ? if your anywhere near my vicinity I can give ya a heap of pots, mainly approx. 14cm x 14cm can spare ya 100 or so, I got a shit ton a while back from a closing down nursery for near nothing.
Thanks for the offer mate but I'm probably 600km or more north of you so it would be cheaper to buy a bulk pack of pots online than it would be to travel.
38 minutes ago, Micromegas said:Nice start to your collection noob.
I'm not sure what the problem is exactly with the virus stuff, but when my cactus are not doing well, I yank them out, trim the roots, and plant them back in a better spot (all my plants are in the ground but this method still usually works for resolving issues).
I would try with the worst of them, pulling them out, cut the roots back by a third, and put them back into a better growing medium in a location that has more airflow and sunlight. I would also do away with the rock mulch you are using, at least for a while. The soil may be staying too moist especially if your conditions are already humid. It looks great but i am not convinced that rock mulch is good for cactus, especially or particularly if you are in a humid (subtropical) environment where you want the soil to dry out regularly. I think humidity might be your main issue so anything to assist in getting it down will be helpful.
If I'm honest I'm not keen at all at ripping a plant out of the ground and chopping it's roots off as a method of medical treatment for it. I don't doubt that a new environment would treat it well but that seems rough as. I'd be more likely to cut a cactus like a loaf of bread and try to graft/turn them into cuttings than I would that.
As for my environment it's actually pretty nice except copping the arse end of hurricanes. It's technically the wet season now but the humidity is sticking to around 65% and I mostly make sure to let the pots dry out before watering them again which takes 4 days for most of them. There's been a few times like recently when it's rained for days on end or when I hit them with a cal/mag supplement that I didn't wait that long and the really small pots which dry out in a couple of day but I really try to minimise the amount of love I give them as I know that too much love tends to really fuck them over.
The rocks I used are there for two reasons, first because they massively help with stability without adding moist soil up the stems which I know to poses a great danger to the plants and because they're different to the typically white pebbles you see online which always look baby poo green after a year or so. I have noticed that since using them I need to water less often so there's definitely some water retention going on but I'm pretty obsessed with my new hobby and check on them at least twice a day by lifting a couple so I'm making sure the pots are relatively light before watering them. If I'm in doubt I just wait until the next morning or night and check them again as over watering is one of my greatest concerns.
To be honest I'm not sure what to make of the damage done to Eileen. The first pic is from the day it all went to shit and the second one from like 10 minutes ago
Clearly it's healing and I'm glad she didn't get the chop. It seemed viral with how quickly it spread and I doubt she'll ever fully recover but as some of the other plants have seemingly caught the same shit I'm putting her back in with the rest of the family tomorrow. It's now a game of survival of the fittest and while I can weep my man tears for every loss I have given a few years I'll have an army of tough plants that will all but ignore such weak will viruses. Or so I hope, it might all go tits up and I cry for real but only time will tell lol
Thanks for the replies guys, it means a lot as I'm stoked as to finally have some people to share my latest obsession with
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I'm starting to think this cancer juice might actually be worth investing in
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On 15/01/2019 at 5:43 PM, bardo said:Beautiful stuff man : )
Thanks mate
Another day, more plants added to the garden. This time it's Crazy Spine, Glenrowan, Lance, two AD006 Pasacanas, Peruvianaus '86 and yet another psycho0 because you can't have too many of them. Unfortunately bunnings was still completely out of small to medium sized pots (ffs fellas it's been like 3 weeks now) except for their massively expensive range which I refuse to buy and I've been unable to source cheap/free pots elsewhere in a timely manner so most ended up in the larger square pots I've been using for the already established plants. Shit happens so on with the pics.
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I'm interested in blue trichos like the one in the background of the crest pic. Sharxx blue (hi @sharxx101 above me lol) peruvianus david, len, etc. come to mind. Do you have much along those lines or anything mega blue in general?
edit: Just saw when this was posted and although I'm late to the party I'm still interested if you have anything available.
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10 hours ago, Omen said:Hi guys, The photo in question is the flowerless Cacti, is it a Pachanoi? the other photos are just for fun. enjoy
I can't help with the ID but I wanted to say those are some damn pretty flowers.
8 hours ago, Halcyon Daze said:They are all different types of Cereus which have yummy fruit. Is that all you got so far? I could certainly send you a cut and some seeds to play with.
Members like you are what make this community so great
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Glad to hear that you're both really trust worthy and have lots of goodies like freaky monstrose cacti and tobacco. I'll definitely remember that for the future
Turns out I was wrong about the unlabelled cacti from a previous post. I've been swamped by the generosity from the members here already so I was a tad confused as to what they were but from a process of elimination they've got to be Sir Jeans's 'Jeans' which I'm mega stoked about. If that wasn't good enough they've been met with some new family members today so here's 2x Rita, Rosei 1 and 2, an absolutely monstrous Super Pedro, a really fat Helon cut and my first two sprouts from the blue peru project which I'm happy to say are Rosei #1 x John.
Except for stabbing myself a dozen or so times and running out of pots today's been a fantastic day in the garden
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25 minutes ago, bardo said:Very nice : )
I can do some different nice melty semi monstrose named cloned bridgesii tips for you at good honest prices. if ya interested send me a pm and ill send some photos of different things I have : )
Thanks mate but unfortunately I'm broke for another month or so. I've already committed myself to purchasing from other people this month and have my heart set on getting a few bulk packs of seeds afterwards. If your offer is still good at the end of February though I'd love to take a look
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1 hour ago, waterboy 2.0 said:Your skim milk will work for powdery mildew
.... It's not doing shit for viruses. The Internet weaponised all kinds of shit.
Rule number one if you think somethings viral or something really pathogenic you remove and isolate it. Get it the Fck away from every eryrhing else.
Before you lads get jumped... Read this
Edit - there's good reasons for this
I forgot about how strict those rules are. I remembered it mentioning not talking about increasing potency, methods of preparation, etc. but damn, my bad. Sorry folks.
I read up about using milk and it looks like it might actually be quite effective at stopping the spread of tmv. It won't help the infected plants, in fact I read absolutely nothing will, but it will happily bind to the virus outside the plant and stop the spread until it gets washed off by rain or the plant has new growth that isn't protected at which point an uninfected plant is vulnerable again. Now the really shitty thing is that where I live conditions are perfect for it, it's already here and short of making my own powdered skim milk chem trails and blanketing a high percentage of Australia in every direction around me absolutely there's no slowing it down let alone stopping it.
The only real choice I have is to play a numbers game looking for strong plants that can grow up in this infected environment without succumbing to it and that's not a terrible thing. I'll cry my man tears for sure every time I lose a plant but given 3-5 years of throwing down massive amounts of seeds I'll have an army of plants that laugh in the face of such dangers and from there I can start looking at them for other traits that make them worth keeping around. Survivability first, everything else second and a world of heartbreak and fun in the meantime. Should be interesting
Speaking of interesting things I had some new additions to the garden today, Melted Wax and I'm pretty sure they're Crazy Spine and Nothink but they came unlabeled so I'm just waiting on confirmation before giving them a name tag. I hate thinking about how much I spent on that one melted wax cut but it was totally worth it, it's dead sexy
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4 minutes ago, Joshwaa said:I've heard many are, not sure about 80%
There are test strips avaliable for tmv (again fb ground cactus lab)
Diatamaceous earth kills bugs and is fully organic
Pyretherum is another one to look at
Sounds like the tomatoes could be the source if the infected plants have come from all over
Skim milk is the best antiviral/sterelizer for tmv
Soil and tools should be treated (again more info on fb)
Tmv is ravaging the states atm but is alot less common here, please consider this before trading your plants!
I read that about skim milk last night but I thought it was just the internet having a laugh. I'll definitely look into it and the other things you suggested.
I'm definitely not trading plants with anyone anytime soon. If I get on top of this yeah maybe, but in the meantime keeping this bug to myself is the least I can do. Last thing I want is for it spread like crazy like what's happening in the usa. If my cacti die that would be terrible but helping to wipe the rest out would be a crime against humanity. Everyone should get to experience mescaline so if I have to bunker down and take one for the team so be it.
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43 minutes ago, Spiky Mc Cactus Face said:Good shit
I also hear that creating competition with the use of beneficial bacteria and fungus is useful in controlling viruses.
Also read that basically more than 80% of cactus are infected with tmv (thinks thats the acronym) it sort of behaves like herpes. Stays dormant till the conditions are just right then wakes up
Also learning how varigations are actually a virus and not genetic...byt that might be common knowledge now, also learnt you can infect other cactus with variegated trates via aloha grafts some how.
Also research is showing that in some cases theres a beneficial relationship between cactus and viruses till conditions are just right and viruses takes over and fucks shit up on ya. This relationship between cactus and viruses is thought to have come about when cactus first appeared (eons ago) and that possibily one wouldn't be hear with out the other.
Goddamn it, sometimes I feel so retarded that I shouldn't be allowed to have kids and then I see my daughter and feel evil for having such thoughts lol I've had these benes for ages for growing weed and never once thought about giving them to my cacti.
If tmv is in 80% of cacti and is responsible for varigations I've probably spazzed out over nothing like a mother with a newborn that coughs for the first time. Still though that feeling of helplessness doesn't seem to be getting any easier. In any case I get what you're saying about viruses, they can't survive without a host so the chances of them causing actual problems or death relies on conditions becoming out of balance to favor them reproducing out of control and for what it's worth my cacti do seem to be getting on top of things again. Eileen has completely stopped getting worse as have the others except that little blue brigesii but even the progreession in it has already started slowing down considerably and will likely stop by day's end.
Just to be on the safe side of things though I smashed them with a ton of the beneficial bacteria and thoroughly washed it in. I got them all and also hit my other ethnos like my hawaiian baby woodrose and yopo plants while I was at it. Christ I'm a retard for not doing it sooner but better late than never.
6 minutes ago, bardo said:I don't have a fb account either just sounded like there might be some good info there
It's been a long time coming. Family has given me shit for not having one, the CSD guy sells cuts way cheaper than I can get off ebay, there's tons of cacti groups that can satisfy my desire to see more plants, the trading groups, the help groups, etc. Still though I'm going to feel dirty as pressing that register button lol
Thanks for all your help guys, it really means the world
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50 minutes ago, bardo said:I don't think insects would be to blame if they are not sucking or eating the cactus, I wouldn't imagine just landing on them to cause transmission of the virus.
Hmmm seems odd for so many to be effected especially in such a short time frame, a bit of a mystery to me.
Have you had a look on that fb page Joshwaa suggested ? sounds like there is some good and interesting reading there
I haven't looked but since it keeps being brought up I'll finally cave in an make a facebook account. Damn you all for making me side with the devil but it sounds like it may just be worth it.
21 minutes ago, Spiky Mc Cactus Face said:You don't happen to have tomatoes growing close by, by any chance? Next door maybe?...there a viral sorce nightmare for cacti
I actually have 3 types growing not even 2m away. Well had, they're gone 30 seconds after I hit reply.
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10 minutes ago, bardo said:Ah shit, do you smoke ciggies ? if so make sure to wash ya hands before handling the cacti just in case, cause it could be a possible source of the virus ? and if making cuts sterilize the blade between every cut.
At least it appears you don't have scale insect, im anti poison as much as possible so prob around every few months im out with the tooth brush scanning for the suckers.
I wouldn't go genocidal on all the insects but watch to see if any particular insect is causing any issue and deal with that how you may, I think it is wise to keep them in a sick bay and monitor the situation from there. Hopefully someone with greater knowledge will offer up some more helpful advice than my own.
try not to let it get ya down, they are living things and life is always at the mercy of disease, sickness and death.
Thanks for the quick replymate.
I don't smoke ciggies and haven't smoked weed since about a week before Christmas as well. I also only touched them while planting/transplanting them as I have a healthy fear of getting poked. My daughter has touched a few of them but she too got poked early on and hasn't put her hands anywhere near them.
The ones I've tried to graft are all fine. I even had to go back and cut the originals again because despite the quite large angle I cut them on they all formed bowls which were holding a ton of water and mold was starting to grow. They look ugly as sin now but problem solved I guess.
I know absolutely nothing about bugs so I don't know if any are to blame but there's been a massive amount of grasshoppers here of late, spiders absolutely adore setting up their webs between the spikes, oddly enough flies tend to land on them all the time despite the spiders being on on duty 24/7 and I've also seen moths on them too. I haven't seen anything chewing on them though and nor have I seen any bite marks either. The first signs of damage are those yellow dots appearing.
I think I'll take a trip to bunnings and see about getting one of those screened in plant enclosures. They're terrible quality but if I can keep the bugs out maybe an ounce of prevention will be worth a pound of cure.
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1 hour ago, teonanacatl said:Haha MG I literally have never read them since I got them, keeping the ones I do use though
just hoping they go to someone who will use them. Joshwaa mate I think I bought it for $70.
I found a pdf of The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants after seeing your post here and it's fricken awesome. You should at least binge it before parting with it. I'm like 20% of the way in and definitely going to buy a copy of it when I can justify the $137+ bookshops want for it.
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The universe givith and the universe takeith
I've seen the yellow spots on these two since I got them but they never got any worse so paid them no attention. I think they're the likely sources of infection but I got them from two different sellers thousands of kilometers from each other so I don't know.
Sorry for the potato pics but I'm an emotional wreck right now. Clearly it's spreading and it's hitting some of my favourite plants first.
These last two pics are the Eileen from before that's stopped getting any worse and may have just saved herself because of it.
I don't want to expose new additions to the garden to the same virus so how should I go about things? Should I bake the soil before using it? Bleach the pots? I'll definitely be keeping them isolated in a separate place in the garden but I can only keep them like 30-40m away at the most so I'm not sure how effective that will be. Should I go genocidal on the local insect life? Please tell me there's something I can do to save my babies
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13 minutes ago, bardo said:Geez a lou that is spreading fast, here is a pic of one of mine that got it pretty bad a couple years ago, I thought it was toast, all I did was turn the effected side away from the sun but seems to have recovered and seems stable tho was majorly stunted
Defo see if she lives up to her reputation (near certain she will
), no idea if there is any consequence for doing so with effected plants but I have and I am absolutely perfectly fine lol Some bridge at 5cm diameter and 6 inches can be pretty cool indeed.
I would say don't skin it or de core it just carefully de spine it and brew the whole thing, if ya got some fungi handy its a great combo, one comes on fast and ya like sweet then the slow deliverer goes pow and adds another level to it all, just always remember to flow with the stream
Damn that cactus of yours took a beating. I'm glad to hear that you were able to consume some cacti in a similar state and didn't have lasting negative effects. It makes me a lot more confident about consuming my messed up cactus hearing tales like that.
As for mixing the cactus with other stuff like shrooms I really wish I could. Unfortunately I don't have access to them and have to wait until payday to get the equipment I need to put some recently acquired spore prints to use but even then I'm still months away from having them in my possession. I do however have some hawaiian baby woodrose seeds which I found out from recent experience are massively potentiated by consuming some cactus juice. I thought since the cactus was wearing off I'd munch down just a few seeds to kick it back in and sweet baby jesus was I blasted to another plane and ended up having that trip where you feel as though god is tuning into you like a radio frequency. I'd been wanting to experience that for a while so I was quite impressed to say the least. I imagine shrooms which are far more pleasurable than HBW seeds would be infinitely better. It's definitely on my to do list
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37 minutes ago, Trichocereus_Rhinocerous said:Hey guys, one of those csd's up on the bay was mine, happy to answer any questions. Just loaded another up for $20 starting price. Mine is legit. I got mine direct from the man himself.
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com.au%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F254066277975
Hey there, I've bought cacti from you in the past. I'm especially find of the grafted lophs, They're growing like mad and I couldn't be happier with them so thanks a bunch
It's a shame I've sent myself into the poor house from buying too many cacti already otherwise I'd be bidding like a madman on some of your listings. You've really put up a decent selection that makes looking at going into some serious debt sound very reasonable lol
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Here's the pics I said I'd take. I'm actually shocked that it's essentially stopped it's insane progression. It's still getting worse but at like 5% of the original speed. I also found out that TMV isn't an issue to consume so her fate is sealed. I'll be keeping her alive for another 5 days completely isolated from the rest of the plants and then I'm going to see if she lives up to her reputation. I'll be sure to take some more pics when she gets the chop.
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23 minutes ago, Joshwaa said:As far as I'm aware its safe, possibly due to the boiling process or maybe its that plant viruses can't affect humans? Defiantly do your research because I'm not informed on the subject
Thanks for being honest and not just saying there's one way to find out. I'll definitely look into it before deciding to consume it or not.
In the meantime I found a thread on here with similar pictures and others saying it's TMV too. Looks like @bardo and yourself were right on the money. Thank you both for all of your help in identifying my issue.
In an hour or so when I take some pics I'll spin her around and really try to document the damage. It's spreading unbelievably quickly and starting to go around to the uninfected side too. It's going to be a horror show but if Eileen's going to die at least documenting it may help others in the future. I may try to fully quarantine her and document her full demise but I'm pretty scared that it's going to spread so time will tell how far I push it.
eBay/Gumtree finds
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Blue loph
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/An-interesting-cactus-LW-Texana-locality-pere-graft-cactus-succulent-plant/153338118628?hash=item23b3aa01e4:g:-OEAAOSwZ2FcOsuM:rk:12:pf:0
Yellow loph
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/AUCTION-TheCactiGuys-Unique-Clone-Variegated-LW-Grafted-Cactus-Rare-Succulent/153338076378?hash=item23b3a95cda:g:tcEAAOSwrZBcOsTs:rk:14:pf:0
Normally I jizz myself over blue cacti but holy shit that variegated loph is something else