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  1. Posted

    hey auxin.

    what a great post.

    i love it.

    i've grafted lophs, epithelantha and ariocarpus this way onto opuntia, echinopsis and myrtillocactus sprouts, with the aim being the provision of a reliable root system for the desired species.

    the increase in growth rate was reasonable, not stunning, but my goal was for reliable specimens true to form, which the technique certainly provides for.

    in my limited experience the opuntia is preferable.

    The terscheckii will wanna grow up to 6 metres or so on it own roots.

    Your opuntia could do the same.

    they're both pretty hardy (depending on your location).

    i see no real benefit grafting the seedling terschekii to the seedling ficus-indica.

    if i was trying to find a use for the opuntia seed, i'd stick to grafting the globular dry climate cactii.

    i'd put the terschekii seedlings onto an established echinopsis spp. stock.

    WHHOOOSH!

    however,

    i think you should give it a go with 1 or 2.

    and i'd love to see some pictures of the results.

  2. Posted

    Heh..

    i've always liked this one out of PIHKAL

    Alexander wasn't actually the author of this commentary but...

    who needs to take drugs to have a good time..

    GO THE CONTACT HIGH :P

    #33 2C-I

    DURATION: 6 - 10 h.

    QUALITATIVE COMMENTS (with 0 mg) I was present at a group meeting, but was only an observer. With zero milligrams of 2C-I, I was able to get to a delightful plus 2.5 in about five minutes after I arrived at your place, and absorbed the ambience of the folks who had actually imbibed the material. My level lasted about four hours and came down at about the same time as did the others. There were no after-effects experienced except for a pleasant languor.

    :lol:

  3. Posted

    i've always loved this poem.. ever since i first read it in 1995...

    its warms my heart up and reminds me that simple things are o so worth while.

    the first stanza hits me in the guts.. gives me a feeling of anticipation, excitement, gratitude and delight..

    i'm sure you know the one...

    it casts a spell that speaks to something i am.

    Homo Suburbiensis - Bruce Dawe

    One constant in a world of variables

    -- A man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables,

    and all the things he takes down with him there

    Where the easement runs along the back fence and the air

    smells of tomato-vines, and the hoarse rasping tendrils

    of pumpkin flourish clumsy whips and their foliage sprawls

    Over the compost-box, poising rampant upon

    the palings ...

    He stands there, lost in a green

    confusion, smelling the smoke of somebody's rubbish

    Burning, hearing vaguely the clatter of a dish

    in a sink that could be his, hearing a dog, a kid,

    a far whisper of traffic, and offering up instead

    Not much but as much as any man can offer

    -- time, pain, love, hate, age, war, death, laughter, fever.

  6. Posted

    sugeshotcha - there's only a couple of mm depth taken out of the loph, not the whole central bit. i guess that wasnt made all that clear.

    don't be dissapointed mex :) , i'm not doing it for prestige or for value adding - merely to ensure the (limited) genetic variation available to me can be maintained and thrive, and ultimately utilised to produce viable seed. If i had some big fella lophs that i'd been looking after for ages i'd be posting pics of them too.(not with the tops drilled out tho')

  9. Posted

    :) thanks!

    as for the technique..

    it very technical :P

    -buy a nice new 2mm drill bit (or sterilize a sharp one)

    -sit your recently taken, bulging babygraft in front of you

    -smile and think happy thoughts

    -holding the bit gently between forefinger and thumb - like you do when you roll a cigarette,

    -place the sharp end in the centre of the graft and spin backandforth applying a little presure.

    if the drill bit is sharp this will work very nicely.

    -done. ( optional: sprinkle some sulphur/mancozeb powder in the wound and blow out any excess)

    -keep dry for a week or two.

    The drilled scion will pup like crazy, and the overall growth rate actually seems to increase. i dont know why.

    My initial reason for trying this was to create a few more avenues for the growth to take so as the growing scions weren't so distended.

    i assume this would work with amplified results with peresk.... from 1 seedling to 10 small buttons in a couple of months? i'd like to see that!

    i love cactus grafting :wub: ..

    -------- disclaimer: cactus grafting is addictive----------------------------------------------------------------------

  10. Posted

    hello everyone,

    just thought i'd share a little trial i am doing with loph baby grafts involving the application of meristem drilling to the very young grafts.

    The difference in volume/size between the drilled and nondrilled is quite phenomenal.

    and i'm sure this has all been done before but the following illustrations are quite beautiful and unique. i hope you enjoy them.

    The last image shows 3 grafts in the foreground 2 of which are drilled and the other not.

    gallery_281_3_74946.jpg

    gallery_281_7_33624.jpg

  15. Posted

    mr amine - i don't know what sorta trich it is.. i'd just assumed pachanoi, but hey, if you, like myself have read the recent tomes by MSSmith and Archea around the place, well, i dont think i'd even hazard a guess.. i just know it's a trich and a it's a good trich at that.

  16. Posted

    ph- the roots havent left the pot, yet. wait till the weather warms up tho' and i'd say it'll be definitely exploring. i had the stump and roots sitting out on the ground for a few months and put it in the pot around december last year. I've found that old chunks just power along anyways, like if you put a big, tallish chunk to root, they'll throw big fat pups... there was about 45m/145' of trimmings off the top of this old fella before it got removed from the ground, so i think its just trying to get back to it's former glory asap.

  21. Posted

    sexual opening?

    i'll admit it's a bit "sploogey" but really? :P

    what does the writting say? hmm just rambling stuff..i cant remember what i scribled at the time.my reading of it goes something like:

    bend the law - let me tell you what i

    ??????????????????????? getting??????

    what a feeling to be free - its whats

    called true love.

    anyway.. :D

  22. Posted

    8.0.jpg

    yeah.. i need a caption!

    its really about breath and concentration and all that stuff.. peace and stillness in a joyous whirling vortex of constant creation that can be called into existence with a little thoughtfullness etc....

    [ 29. June 2005, 03:34: Message edited by: mulch ]

  23. Posted

    i have to agree with benzito re: moving it round.

    also, viridis seems to do just fine outdoors all year round in urban sydney as long as it's protected from the cold southerly winds in winter and the hot, dry westerlys in summer.

    you dont get frosts, and with an hour or two of morning sun - if possible - you can expect year round growth. just dont over water it during winter. Winter is the drier season on the tropics. Try to emulate it.

  25. Posted

    thanks for the replies,

    archaea, nice .pdf on your site btw.. and yeah it is different to what i regard as my "straight" pachanoi.

    i guess i'll just attribute a pachanoixperuv to this one..and leave it at that...

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