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  2. Posted

    do better in the ground, but sceletium / similar would be one to consider, can sprawl over pot edges or kept hard trimmed (though best to trim tips if on the sprawl as you want to build up a strong stem base, else it goes all lanky shitty and will abscise itself), good soil and keep the water up to it and you can pretty much keep it ever green without it skeletonising fully.

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    I've no experience with button mushrooms / phase 2 composting etc.

    imo spawn is best kept running, realistically you shouldn't even let it go a day or so post full colonisation, if you want storage create a culture specific for it, then revive and get it running. You may get away with storing bulk spawn for a while then getting it to re-invigorate and run again, but do this as practice and you'll soon realise it's not good practice with more failure than success. Storing grain spawn and getting it running again would be far harder than say shiitake dowels in a fridge, it's already undergoing more complex metabolism.

    another point, if the compost has already been used to fruit a crop, the compost is best for the compost/garden, unless you want to get into species sequencing, using spent substrate from one species as a substrate for another, though see previous no button experience, my species sequencing has been more with saprophytes. I wonder if you've got your wires crossed on that one, or if you can actually fruit twice off the same compost substrate, i'd assume not and if so it'd prob. be a poorer performer than the first crop as it'll have far less nutrient available. You are probably best to go back and ask the fella who gave you the compost with that one.

  4. Posted · Edited by gerbil

    would people agree this is similar to, or possibly the same as the yellow spot that is essentially endemic to the pc pach? I thought the smaller yellow spot has been spoken about before but i can't seem to find it in the search.

    Possibly a different type or thing all together, as i've not seen it as spread out or severe as in the first photo. Will get some photos to communicate it better.

    edit ahh here tis, bugger photos, pd put some up!

    http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=26936&st=0&p=291261&hl=+pachanoi%20+virus&fromsearch=1entry291261

  5. Posted · Edited by gerbil

    that potting mix really does not look good from what is shown, it looks just like fairly decent sized chunks of uncomposted pine bark with salt build up (either from the mix, your water, or fert if you are using it which you shouldn't be), possibly it's better underneath as all the bigger bits have come to the surface, but still not really what i'd call good in any way.

    You'd be aiming for a finer more well drained, airier, sandy compost. Or preferably a seedraising mix (you'll notice these are fine and well drained, easy for roots down and veg to break the surface, which then can be moved onto a more sandy compost. Torsten has spoken a lot about coarse sharp sand and compost mixes over the years have a search.

    Most potting mix is crap, even 'premium' ones, the industry needs a shake up and dont get me started on all the gardening shows floggin the shit, poorly composted materials with added fert yuk, and it's not really the best to start seeds in, getting away with potting mixes, even poor ones are more in the realm of plants/established seedlings with rootballs. I avoid them or add them as a small part of a mix.

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    Don't know how they contribute to soil fertility, though i guess with a large taproot as they are said to have, that'd improve structure and increase nutrient profile from lower down drawings, chocolate, seems to grow under canopy, likes wet but drained, said to grow near streams if i'm not mistaken.

    The large amount of rain may be an issue, as i think they prefer consistency over time.

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    glad you got something out of it, was edited a fair bit, had directions and relevance, but i suppose i wasn't comfortable with it in the legal forum, as after a while it can dilute threads away from more precise legal info.

    I suppose i just meant, these things have serious social consequences and people just don't seem to care, so after a while people who do care, stop caring, due to brick wall phenonenom.

    The impact these sorts of laws have, directly restricts the capability of life. Keeping genetics going is excellent, though stocking up doesn't stop the potential for your human rights to be violated, because the legislation still exists.

    Educate yourself then educate those around you, help people that need help and communicate what is going on, cultural ruts are hard to change, but our society is sick and we are blinkered so much we actually actively promote it as a majority.

    For legislation like the proposed to even be proposed let alone administered completely leaves me lost for words, we use psychological wars to keep the masses in line, lie about substance effects through bias information selection and distribution, yet if the masses took a step back, the hypocrisy of enforcement and supporting attitudes is scarily embarrassing to our entire society.

    anyway it's turning back into an edit lol

  10. Posted · Edited by gerbil

    Quickly looking in the legal forum has one of the main threads of relevance

    http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=26539&st=550

    So as far as i'm aware and understand, it's past the submission stage, now we wait for their move and response after accounting for and reviewing the submissions in relation to their proposed legislation.

    I'm not aware that anyone here could fully answer your question, you'd have to talk to the authorities and ask them how they are going with it, which you probably wouldn't get a proper answer anyway. It hasn't gone away if that's what you are asking, afaik.

    Just my opinion, though i reckon one of two things, they will drop legislation in when there is a lull in social drama to solidify their propaganda regarding dangers of substances and ultimate society protection, or they will drop legislation during hectic public times so majority of people have no idea, no care and no reaction, smooth sailing for ultimate erosion of human rights. wow that was insightful gerbil, it's either put it in the face of the public or hide it from the public, i guess in a 50 50 world either is possible so my comment is pointless, it's like if you hold your breath you can't breathe, it's one or the other, unless ya want a third mixed option, though more complex ratios are as known outcomes as a 50 50 outcome anyway, to paraphrase my comment is stating the obvious and meaningless haha

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    shit yeah aux, those sorta lineages do it for me, highly intelligent, generally good natured given their strength and aggressive potential, plus good hunting companions if gun dog methods of hunting is ya sorta thing.

    ah dog breeds do my head in, have been trying to figure out the retriever / lab retriever thing for many years.

    Yours initially is something i wouldn't call a lab retriever, looks sorta like a golden retriever influence in the coat and ears, but such a lab retriever structure underneath, initially i'd thought golden retriever x black lab retriever (never heard of that one! gold retriever x gold lab retriever is abundant here though). The american lab retrievers remind me of black pointers (as can english ones to me, but english usually more stubby like a mastiff).

    No doubt lotsa variations even within somewhat stable breeds.

    Nice dog mate :D You feed off each other no doubt, intelligent dogs reach better potential with intelligent owners, it's amazing what can happen.

  13. Posted · Edited by gerbil

    sorry for sidetrack, if it interests you zen, they've also got Mind Altering and Poisonous Plants of the World, essentially same format as med. plants.

    wow just looking up the authors other texts after T's 'write excellent books', found Wink's Annual plant review biochemistry and plant secondary metabolism, relatively fresh out, pricey but wow sounds interesting.

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    hah yeah that whole natural thing is funny, such naive people, i remember hearing about a fella who somehow drank fertiliser, but after the realisation of, thought he'd be 100% fine 'cause it was organic hahaha

    i've had a quite severe allergic reaction to a green chilli in india, the heat was ridiculous but for at least a few days i was covered head to toe in red welts/rash, which really isn't much fun in indian humidity, heat and crowds. The fella i knew there would eat two of these a day instead of taking malaria tablets.

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    rocoto capsicum pubescens the black seeded chilli would be a good one down your way, it's a bolivian species that does well in cold, is a sorta viney/branchy tree, from memory can get to 15ft, pretty sure the italian mob i sourced my seed off was growing it on a flat wall trellis, their branching is flat like that at times. i don't know if i've got seed anymore, will check soon. anyhoo gotta run.

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    looks like something outta le planete fantastique,

    i think the whacked out nature of the shot is from the angle of the ribs and the shadow forming in the decussate growth, grouped with the textural skin and strikingly odd colours, quite a stunning visual phenomenon, bloody good shots when you can capture those sorts of things, it's the elements that excite you in real life but when tried to be captured on film, tis elusive and frusting for a hobby photographer, gold when you hit it though!

  18. Posted

    how about something like justicia, many coumarinsare said to be antispasmodic i think?

    and it's creates a bit of a creamy sorta tea so possibly would go well with coffee taste and texturally. Might be worth looking into, i don't know all the interactions though :D

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    dont really have the time to look deep into 'em, also doesn't help when there is no locational data, it can be very important and helpful with ID, i'm guessing you are VIC/NSW.

    You're possibly looking at:

    1 baileyana

    2 longifolia complex, leaning sophorae

    3 pycnantha

    4 longifolia complex, leaning longifolia

    5 pycnantha

    6 verniciflua

  21. Posted · Edited by gerbil

    it's like a strobe light for epileptics, tis going to 'cause flashback in perceptive normal people i reckon, particularly those empty nothing sound moments, very interesting, am not so interested in the clip itself, but it's structure is quite astounding.

    edit: wow tonight, hope it's going well for ya.

  22. Posted

    tis a cultural construct, and our society is unhealthy in all contexts of the word, but we're fed like rabid dogs from a construct above us who makes us think we have choice and dictate our direction, yet our dictation is being dictated.

    We are the blind leading the blind and our frustrations arise when we realise how helpless we are in our position and the snowball rolls.

    Hope you're sadness passes :)

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  23. Posted

    Well im sorry if it doesnt agree to some people , but mining is the best thing thats has ever happened in my life financially. happy wife, happy life. :rolleyes:

     

    Honesty is a wonderful thing, 'tis respected caapi even if opinions don't meet eye to eye. I reckon it's hard to work in a job these days that isn't destructive and unethical in some way shape or form, even environmental fields seem to degrade localised environments in their own unique way, mining may just be more in your face and obvious, i don't like mining, but it can be an easy head to put on a pike, a location for a good finger pointin' session, whilst hypocrisy is weaved within the air around us feeling like a plumped up marshmallow with no where to escape :P

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    don't know if this helps but, re employment, i've known family get in as a lower end truck drivers at the lesser preferred mines and work their way through tickets leading to different vehicles/responsibilities and better condition mine sites. These people are mature workers with trades under their belts, though not related to their work on site, and personal friends/contacts in the industry seemed to help out. Were willing to do long hours of hard work in hot conditions (i.e. lowest ranks), but didn't have to in a sense and entered a bit higher. Anyhoo good luck with whatever.

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    Love your updates spun, keep em comin' they are really appreciated. That plant is really vibrant, it must be a pleasure being in that greenhouse.

    How are the flowers? they should be blooming by now eh?

    don't discount seed set, i've had an obtusifolia sapling flower for the first time last year lightly, which podded up a handful, most seemed to abort but one is continuing to mature currently while it's about to hit it's first major bloom this season (2nd flowering).

    I'd be really interested to see the update of the fella in ireland who was growing these, might have been on the other boards.

    anyway fitting with the trend, 2 seedlings in tubes emerged after rain just shy of 6months from treatment.

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