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Sounds like it would beat the shit out of easter too. Eggs and little fluffy baby rabbits sounds like spring to me, not autumn. bah

just a quick word on desiccant, damp rid. okay that was two words m

Hey, sorting 1000 loph seeds of different varieties isn't easy. It took me and a newly acquired, (after the great seed dividing night) friend the best part of three hours to sort the seeds out. All done now, will post off in the morning. As I didn't have a stack of little pastic zip lock bags they are all wrapped in glad wrap and then paper - with the variety on the paper. These are all then inside a bigger piece of paper and will tomorrow be wrapped in bubble wrap and popped in a hardcore yellow envelope. I got all paranoid reading someone elses post about shitty seeds arriving in glad wrap <gulp> im sure they will be fine, you will all just need to be delicate unwrapping them - as we were in packaging em! peace all meanies

I like the idea of the thread and you know it would be fking nice to get these seeds flowering one day and sharing the seed around for no money. Well at least to members of the community and like minded's out there. back to the thread though, i am totally up for that. Would definately contribute. I should really be sorting out all your seeds right now too... woops busted. I need to get some plastic satchel bags first or something.... will be sending em divided up in padded envelopes. love m

Pretty excited hey we got: L.W v Cedral L.W v Est Catorce L.W v Texona x 200 L.W v San Antonio L.W v Caespitosa L.W v Weisse Bluete L.W v Coatrocienejas L.W v Paila L.W v Tecolate All in 100 seed lots bar the Texona of which we got 200 woo

seeds arrived today. more soon

Hey all, What a top response! This opportunity has now passed for anyone who got in too late. The seeds were sent from earth alchemy on friday. I expect I will have time to sit down and do the sorting/packaging toward the end of next week. Those who have already paid will be first in line for being such trusting souls! I'm pretty stoked that we are all getting a good amount of seed for cheap! Here's too growing loph's hey! Anyone needing more info or whatever to pay me please pm me. Also yeah!! thats a top idea harry... I would definately be in for that, specially if it's in small amounts!! warmest m

this is a post to see if you all think we should keep cheap loph seeds going, because with the power of numbers it is definitely possible! meanie

Hey Mark, we are pretty sorted already I think. this thread has got me thinking that loph seeds should be cheap all the time... maybe we should keep a cheap seed thread going? I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo not interested in making money here. I just have mucho love for loph's and want to graft and adore seedlings myself and figure that it's cheaper to do so bulk style than individually... but yep.. if you post a thread for more seed bruv's I reckon I would be in... just don't get var huizache's cause it's looking like I will have 200 of them!! peace and all m

Cool, Pm me

The seeds I got off you last time were wicked shruman. Were they from earth alchemy? I've also committed to the 1000 seeds and only have two definite takers thus far.. anyone else in?

Okay, I'm going to go ahead and order the huizache's can all those who are definitely in on the $15 for 100 seeds idea please pm me. As far as I can tell we are still looking for 6 more takers. Cheers

excuse the double post.. Yep I have seen that seed list before, (cactus.com) they look awesome! But as you said I doubt they would want to sell 1000 seeds to us! ***************** Yeah, it is a bit weird, maybe they figure that not many are going to want a 1000 or maybe they're thinking, "who's going to count and see if there are 1000 of these tiny seeds?" I dunno... guess it's my risk though.

Sweet...thats four of us so far, not sure what you want to do there mark80? Assuming you are in either way. Does anyone have a preference for seeds? Out of the aforementioned lot? peace

Yeah, sure none taken... this should put me at 26 If anyone else is keen to take up the mantle I'm happy to pay them the $15... would you been keen dude? peace

earth alchemy... unless you know of a better seed supplier. It seems that buying in bulk the prices become somewhat reasonable hey! peace

one of the following.. straight williamsii or var Huizache or var Las Coloradas or var Mex 54 or var Parras or var weisse Bluete yep I know, thats a bit of a list... at the moment I am thinking var Huizache cause I remember them being recommended in the past. I think that the variety is open until five people have replied/pm'd - so let me know what your preferences are!! after that it's locked in eddie! I think it would be a good idea if anyone that is interested could post a yep on this thread and then also pm me. peace

Thats a real bummer that no-one from the community in NZ is able to give you a hand! At very least you're going to have to give the bloke the $1 and take as many massive cuttings as you can! Hire a trailer or a ute for the occasion.. and like someone else said, if you feel like building a raft out of the cactus and floating over the Australia with it I'd certainly put you up at my place for a bit!!!

Just wondering if it's definitely a pachanoi or if maybe it is a cerus? If it is a pach then I think it would be worth investing the $500-$1000 quoted in the ad to move the thing, provided you have somewhere to put it! As has already been mentioned, you would be able to cover your cost in the re-sale of cuttings/plants! Yewwwwwwwwwwwwww!

I'm in for the comp.... as mentioned by other members I think my participation is going to be more of a learning experience than to win. Found the progression of pictures from the last comp awesome - frothed on them for days!!! My Pere's have got about four weeks to look lively then I guess. peace

So what direction does that lovely brick wall face? If it's a north facing wall and you are living in a climate where you get frosts then you have yourself a superb microclimate.... If it is a north facing wall then perhaps putting up a trellis and growing a HBWR up it would be an option? Anything really that loves it hot Khat? dunno... more details on what direction your wall faces etc and how much sun it gets would be good. peace. soz for ramblings w

teos tek is available via pinned thread at the top of page 1. if you cant work out how to get it pm me with your email address and i will send it to ya

thanks Mark! I have 10 Acacia Maidenii seeds, a bunch of delosperma bosseranum(sp?) and a few heavenly blue seeds to offer peace

Hi all, Thought you guys might have some wisdom to impart here. I have tried twice to graft lopho's onto pere's - each time they shrivel up and look terrible. The last one I ended up taking off and then trying again with another seeding. It is now looking decidedly shrivelled. So do I give up on this one also and try again or is this a normal part of the grafting process? cheers

I think I might also leave my seedlings for a little bit longer next time. The one pictured was about 3 weeks old as I recall, still very small. I'm waiting for my next batch of seeds now to try again. Is grafting bigger loph's onto tricho easier? Does it have a higher sucess rate? I am asking this because I have a 5cm loph that I'd like to graft. Thoughts on that till now have been that I would like to get the baby loph / pere grafting down first before hacking into my big one!