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  1. How are the pods coming along Ferret?

    Initially I was going to post a 'no chance' for those summer flowers to produce seed, but I reckon you'd have pods the size of pins.

    Without going too detailed and granted different location, soils and species, my experience over previous years with obtusifolia in my spot constantly yields nil seed from a summer flower, although this season must have been right as the tiny pods actually made it through summer, nothing like a spring harvest but there none the less.

    Top work with your cuttings mate :)

    I've got a heap of tubestock for ground plantings you may be interested in.


  2. Cactusland bridgesii

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    Eileen from Ed

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    SAB pachanoi - One of the similar looking PC variants SAB had years ago, looks similar to PC but also Super Pedro and Fields like. Tag got lost. (it might be a SAB 2)

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    Seed pach G3

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  3. Yeah I don't know about all that Zelly, from what I hear you've got lots to teach and us a lot to learn, besides the days are getting shorter here ;) I'm majorly keen to read more in depth about your old school soil improvement techniques, germination, seed and potting mixes, container sizes etc. but understand the nature of these skills and our society, You should write a book.

    I hazard corrective suggestions of what to do with other peoples plants primarily 'cause i'm not positive in what i'm talking about and the internet is restrictive. I'm more than happy to get in tune with and or experiment and kill one of my own plants.

    With insulation, just get creative, small things make big differences, get naked and go outside in winter, sit on the bricks, sit on the lawn and sit on a lump of wood, see which one you'd prefer to be on for an extended period.

    Simple things like a bubble wrap tree guard allows the early planting of annual summer vegetables. A species may be in a specific spot sitting on bricks during winter and it dies, same species same spot sitting in a styrofoam box, on bricks, sprouts in spring.

    If you can restrict a major fluctuation, or simply stop a decrease, it possibly could be the difference between life and death, growth or dormancy, deficiency/toxicity or stability.

    Get as many opinions on it as you can Scarecrow, if you are interested it's probably worth taking it to a couple of quality nurseries. If you find out the root cause and apply the solution, you will progress immensely as a grower, that can't be underestimated or overstated. None of this modern gardening hardware store 'throw this at it' flying blind bullshit, we need to educate ourselves.

    At the end of the day, we accept that we are sweeping back the ocean with a broom, in potted culture as zelly succinctly stated, and in taking more or less equatorial rainforest species and giving it a view of Antarctica.

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  4. A valid point and good information, though given the context it's a relatively arbitrary statement.

    There is a fair difference having an established root system in the ground in an organic amended clay, compared to a leaching 20L pot with pine bark potting mix sitting on a lawn coming into winter.

    I can only assume your soil practices from little snippets i've picked up over the years, but i'm waiting on a took the bait answer where you planted the caapi in a compacted corner of non-amended clay where it gets wet and cold where phosphate issues theoretically should show up but don't, so i'm just cheekily getting in first. :wink::)

    Min max is one thing, local environmental conditions, how abrupt or erratic is season change, what's the plants nutritional tissue health going into change, whats the potting mix / soil properties and nutrition etc. is a broader context to consider.

    It could be viral, you get similar looking things in grapes called leafroll that looks like a P, K or Mg problem. No idea if leafroll or similar impacts plants outside of Grapes, but even then it doesn't look right and is a long shot working in that area.

    Mg to me doesn't fit too well given the very even parallel nature of the pigmentation or necrosis (think it's just all pigmentation at this stage?)

    Scarecrow, the more information you can give about anything he better, pot sizes, soils mixes, feeding regimes, history of plant health, location etc. Plant diagnosis can be ridiculously hard and even then it can be ballpark theories that fix problems, it's best to eliminate variables before considering an area of possibilities.

    Deficiency, Toxicity and Availability can all interact making diagnosis difficult and solutions often not as straight forward as we'd like. it is a very complex field.

    You can get a deficiency of one element due to an excess of another, or simply a deficiency due to lack of presence. pH can increase or decrease availability, creating potential deficiency or toxicity.

    Sky's the limit and humans will never master a dynamic system, we just attempt to make it logically functional for ourselves, just like taxonomy, doesn't mean shit but is handy.

    Either way, as an experiment or an irrational practice, i'd be getting some sort of insulation below and around the pot making sure not to restrict drainage, attempt to increase and stabilise soil temperature, below is more important than above so prioritise but don't limit.

    What do you think it is Zelly?


  5. ah ronny, you've moved on into another area of greatness with you photography, changed styles and solidified another, holding form true, really impressive, am still confused with the earlier on night time/day time tunnel shot. These new ones are even more impressive, has elements of a painting, real/unreal, quite a lot of character. Hope your business endeavor is treating you kindly and thanks for sharing.


  6. oh and forgot to say, pretty cool too, nice work!

    No idea what JM's ones are doing as he's overseas these days, hopefully still kicking around in someones collection if not brought with him. Would be good if they survived.

    Do you know the origins? are they Tucunaca seed, something else or unknown?


  7. Probably better off to cut open a mature fruit, scrape out the seeds and dry them on something like paper towel/baking paper or just on a plate, won't really be a problem with capsicum seeds sticking to paper towel like thorough cleaned wet or pulpy tomatoes, but be aware of it if they are quite wet out of the fruit and move 'em around a little in the early stages, though some people deliberately make seeds stick to towel and plant that.

    You can possibly do them in the fruit, but would potentially be a higher chance for them to go mouldy. I've done it in fruit with Withania seed before due to absolute abundance and couldn't be bothered processing a slurry or by hand, but there appears to be more blackened and dud seeds in those fruits, but sheer quantity and later success in germination didn't worry me, though I won't trade those ones for quarantine, respect and personal standard reasons ;)

    Make sure they are essentially cracker dry before storing them or they will mould.

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  8. http://www.australianethnobotany.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1886

    Last picture in the first post, not the clearest but characteristics can be seen, Juicemonkey had this type come out of a batch of seed a few years back, from what I interpret that one was unknown provenance, possibly Tucunaca or similar from interpreting some of the info, but am speculating.

    Tucunaca seed batches seemed to have quite a wide variation with some interesting horticultural gems from what I've seen around.

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  9. Only info I can find regarding glands is in the general A. mucronata description which then breaks off into the 3 (currently recognised?) subspecies descriptions with no mention of gland presence/abscence. References used are online world wide wattle and text Flora of Australia v11B.

    So i'd assume (assumptions are the mother of fuck ups) that yes glands would be present on all 3 subspecies.

    A. mucronata subsp. longifolia is presumed to hybridise with A. oxycedrus, and A. oxycedrus is presumed to hybridse with A. floribunda, so quite possibly A. mucronata subspecies could hybridise with A. floribunda.

    It's all very confusing, really takes complete dedication to even begin to understand acacia's and even then we are just trying to somewhat unnaturally put dynamic things in set boxes which is somewhat impossible in the broader context I guess, but can still be achieved somewhat. Variable and dynamic are good contexts to keep in mind with Acacias. (all biology too I guess).

    Our scientific methods are somewhat restrictive, and also limited based on information available and understood at any given time, as are more cultural classification methods, which as I understand it can have differences as well as similar grounds/overlaps.

    Visual botanical classification can be somewhat restrictive, just like chemotype classifications etc. One example I like to vaguely keep in mind with classifications is the situation (if i recall correctly) of the botanist in South America that I think Shulgin spoke about, where an Indian was pointing out two Cyperaceae (I think it was PiriPiri) plants of the same western botanical classification that the botanist was somewhat ignoring one as he had the other, but the Indian recognised one as medicinally useful and the other not, even though the botanist said they were the same plant and only wanted to focus on one.

    Confused? I am.

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  10. to take a guess, but am not really up on Capsicum taxonomy, let alone all the hybrids.

    1) Capsicum annuum types, Black Pearl, should go red at maturity. Does look very soft though, could be photo, maybe golf ball type eggplants, but inkling towards black pearl.

    2) C. annuum/frutescens types, Cayenne types

    3) C. chinense types, Orange Habanero

    4) No experience with, but looks like Pineapple sage, Salvia elegans; and no, 'fruit salad sage' afaik is Salvia dorisiana.

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  11. cool, looks like I knew what I was doing after all :wink:

    Don't know about making wattles easier to ID for everyone is a good thing :o i've shared my views about that previously around here so won't really get into it again, but I don't think the community has really matured in any sense these days from previous years.

    I think it's also important to remember that if people don't financially support the work of others, future works have the potential to cease to exist let alone can screw people out of incomes they deserve, i know there have been some questionable copies of the cd version going around for many years but hopefully the people accessing them were never planning on purchasing it in the long run, though it's still quite questionable and not exactly right. I guess it's easy to manipulate media, but context it in say someone building a house or similar, i'm sure not paying at the end of the day wouldn't go down too well :wink:

    glad you've got it working, i'd suggest the 2 flora of australia texts (11a11b i think) as an accompaniment and good investment to further learning.


  12. Am not overly sure what i'm doing, though you may potentially have to set the security level in the java control console to medium or high, it should then prompt you to let it run or not, it sounds like your security setting is 'very high' so it's just blocking it from running.

    http://www.java.com/en/download/help/jcp_security.xml

    My java console says version 6 update 22 and I don't have the sliding bar security levels, i think they came in 7 update 21

    though in my advanced tabs, i've got things like 'allow user to grant permission...' enabled.

    Tried updating to the latest and did the java website check version and reckons i'm up to the v7u21. I tried to see if I could increase security to see if it'd refuse me, but my console is still saying it's the old v6 even after reset, have disabled lots of stuff and still can't get it to refuse me entry to wattle. Maybe i've created a permanent exception somewhere that i'm not disabling, though as said I never had the issue in the first place.

    Seems for 64 bit vista it won't update the java control panel physically even if java is up to date, a bug they are working on, so i guess i can't try the sliding scale security.

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  13. I've never had any issues with the CD version, wasn't even aware of a flash drive version.

    csiro website lists some flash drive help

    http://www.publish.csiro.au/samples/USB/usb.pdf

    i'd make sure you're software if fully up to date with the associated plugins, pop up blockers disabled within browsers and if still issues look at anti-virus and firewalls with the same associated things relative to the browser issue.

    http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/2543.htm

    "NOTE: Web pages such as fact sheets attached to items in Lucid v3.5 interactive key matrices may be considered pop-ups by certain browsers (such as Internet Explorer (IE) when clicked on by users. If your browser blocks these popups, in your browser's internet settings you should allow pop-ups for this Lucid tool. Additionally, Internet Explorer may block "active content" on web pages or interactive keys. To allow active content, in Internet Explorer, under Tools, Internet Options, Advanced tab, Security category, the box next to the setting: "Allow active content to run in files on My Computer" should be checked.

    The Lucid3 interactive key "" will run embedded within a web browser as a Java applet. Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.5 or greater must be installed on your computer for the Lucid3 Applet Player to run successfully.

    Java information You can install the Java Runtime Environment provided on the CD ROM found under the 'java' folder. Alternatively you can download and install the latest Java Runtime Environment version from the Java website at: http://www.java.com (free download)."

    Interestingly it's undergoing a revision and update, excellent!

    http://www.worldwidewattle.com/infogallery/publications/wattle.php

    http://www.worldwidewattle.com/infogallery/projects/wattle2.php

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