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  1. Posted

    thankyou all very much.
    the bamboo pile in under a shady bunch of camphor trees.
    there might also be another aus native hardwood amongst the bamboo mix.
    much appreciated. also .... this those two blue shrooms yielded black spore print.

    also ... they were growing at the very top of the mulch pile.
    again ... thanks heaps, &
    Cheers!!

  2. Posted

    these mushrooms were found in northern nsw on leaf mold on top of piles of bamboo chip/mulch.

    didn't know what these are, but am taking spore prints.

    can anyone tell me what these are please?

    im brand new, but does this blue mean magic or poison ... or both ;)

    thanks heaps in advance. ;)

    Cheers!

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  3. Posted · Edited by bio

    I was wondering, if there among us, metal fabricators, welders, that kinda thing??

    I've been teaching myself to TIG weld, making rocket stoves and gasifiers.

    what? you dont know what gasification is??? LOL look here --> http://victorygasworks.ning.com/ -

    Gasification is pyrolysis. its like destructive distillation, you burn the flammable mixed (ert & inert) gas rather than condense it.

    I was just curious if there is anyone here doing it? would love to bump heads with ya. :)

    Sláinte

    edit: this warrants a discussion about biochar or terrapretta or adding elemental carbon to the soil ... helps plant growth, locks moisture etc.

  4. Posted

    hiya SL.

    as for theobroma cacao, it was a trade between someone from this forum or entho'australia forum.

    re: euterpe oleracea, I found mine (seedlings) on ebay, seeds seem difficult to germinate, need to be very fresh.

    My seedlings are growing well, the ones that survived like a shaded environment, mine are amongst bamboo shelter, and a giant Fig tree, lots of mulch, but mostly ... dappled shade, or you WILL kill them.

    my cacao died, so i cant say what it did or didnt like, much the same tho, semi shade.

    try ... Daley's nursury, http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/ should have some luck there :)

    happy growing :)

    Will

    Can I ask where you got the Theobroma cacao from ???

    I am looking for either viable seed, or a sapling.

    Does anyone know where I can get these from ???

    Thanks

     

  7. Posted

    Hiyas ... I been researching this palm, and trying to find seeds.... finding it more difficult that i had imagined considering it's everywhere in juice form.

    I was just on to Austrahort this morning, they called their supplier, and it's difficult to source them for some reason.

    I'm just bought the jelly palm, and the chilien wine palm (huge tall thing) but what I really want is the acai palm (Euterpe oleracea) for the raved about juice.

    going to try my luck with Theobroma cacao... it's said they dont like the northern rivers so much, so I'm creating a small rainforest area for them to live in.

    have a thick of bamboos that block the higher altitude winds we get here, so thats what the jelly palm will be for too ..... wind breaks.

    and avo's and maybe icecream bean..... rather have an avo if I have my choice!!! .... for the shade.

    if there's anyone who can input from growing chocloate successfully would be awesome ... i'll be stoked.

    thanks for the read... :rolleyes:

    so yah.... "Euterpe oleracea" Acai palm :wub:http://www.pacsoa.org.au/palms/Euterpe/oleracea.html

    thanks heaps :) cheers

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    check out all of "ELManlinos" 's youtube lawnmover videos ... cant see them myself at the moment ... i'm shaped to 8kbps broadband :)

    this dude has made what is essentially a bong to fuel his lawnmower.

    air in ... bubbles thru the 50/50 water+fuel mix (or aparantly whatever.....windex & lemon juice one story said from 2 school kids!)

    bubbles as does a bong, but to the carby rather than your mouth LOL ...... sorry simplest explanation I could think of!!

    saves lotsa $$ aparantly .... I'm gonna try it on my gokart .... current fuel tank is heaps dangerous anyway :)

    enjoy!!

  11. Posted · Edited by bio

    hiyas, I would love some of the living blue lotus plants if anyone can help me out?

    I've not too much in the way of entheogens to swap and trade... nothing is really thriving yet :)

    I do however grow structural building bamboo (clumping) would be happy to trade some of the single shoots from the bigger ones.

    I'm not looking to sell the lillies, just want them for my ponds, and wines ;) :wub:

    Cheers ;)

  14. Posted · Edited by bio

    well, they're rainforest plants .... so the appreciate being under canopy ... do not seem to appreciate full sun for extended periods ...

    nor do they respond well to wind.

    watered daily hey?? that's interesting .... mulch works wonders ... ive just moved them all from a sunny spot to something more like

    where whey would grow in their native environment.

    have a few in quite shady spot, and they reach for the sun, and they get THICK stems / trunks.

    more light seem to make them faster, but more spindly ... in my experience anyway.

    the morning after they were rescued from the sun, the drooping leaves reached for the sky again.

    So folks .... canopy canopy canopy!! :D

    how does alba compare speed-wise to viridis ??

    edit addon: caapi is a mutant!! :) ive seen it unhappy, didnt really grow much over a whole year ... was next to a basalt rock wall amongst bamboo (plenty of water too coz they 'rain' ... soon as it was under canopy .... its going mental skywards ;)

  16. Posted

    local?? not as spectacular is it sounds, it's not a big tree yet, I took big thick horseshoe shaped cuttings from when it was a year or so old, growing up a tall palmtree, and put both ends of those cuttings in the ground, around the base of an an old dead Camphor tree.

    here's when the vine was healthy ... (come to think of it it had grass clipping mulch then)

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    here's the original cuttings as roots:

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    now .... here's the bugs - or whatever they are.....

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    another:

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    if anyone recognises the problem i'd be most grateful

    Cheers :D

  18. Posted

    I've heard of this plant growing wild in australia. While walking through a mild wet land area in sydney near my house i found heaps of this herb but not sure about ID. I'm going to get pics so i'll put em up when i get a chance to take em. Was wondering if anyone knows if this plant does grow in sydney? is it likely?

    PEace~

    M

    im in north nsw, but it grows like wildfire! great that its just wherever you're walking. im sure its there and more than likely ;)

    seems to distract arthritis ;) yay.

  19. Posted

    A. Confusa. :wub: <-- (?) :rolleyes:

    I may have posted pics of it here, but it was probably ethno australia's forums ....

    but my Confusa is happy as!!

    it LOVES full sun and lots of humidity.

    It was, at one point a fully established, tall tree ... (this is in northern nsw by the way)

    now, after it was lopped, it reshoots like crazy... has a tendancy to sucker once it is quite large,

    dont let it travel, as it is a declared pest in taiwan (or somewhere like that!)..... so watch it!! dig those lil feckers up!

    I didnt try transplanting the suckers, but that might be a good way of cloning .... im not too sure.

    Im curious if anyone's FOAF has tried extracts on A. Confusa ....

    I read somewhere that is was all DMT, bark and phyllodes, but another thread suggested it was all MAOI's ???

    so... i remain confusa'd :) please enlighten me!! much appreciated. Cheers fellow psychonaunts x

    ........2. A. confusa. Love this one!

    Compare the anguishing demise of the obtusifolia to the resounding *SUCCESS* of the Taiwanese acacia confusa. Germinated *with* the obtuse in the same conditions that caused the obtuse to die, except the confusas are living it up! Have two really fascinating little ones (I get the sense that they're girls) that intrigue me no end.

    Just a feminine spirit, and a certain degree of coquettish shyness.

    *One* of the confusas has a frond, and the other one has just the single leaf coming out. HMMMM....

    The one with the frond-like structure demonstrates mimosa-like behavior. She literally folds up her leaves straight up when she wants to sleep at night, and in the morning she lowers them and fans them out at about 45 degree angle. She does this like clockwork. What amazes me that she knows that it's time to go to bed even when the lights are on. She just folds herself up VERTICALLY like flagpole!

    Does anyone have any comments on this great little plant? She really likes the humidity, this one............

  21. Posted · Edited by bio

    If there is an Aussie source for MAOI I do'nt think we've found it. So we better keep looking ;)

    Acaciahuasca, Aussiehuasca or Anahuasca ;)

    I was always under the impression that Acacia complanata contains harman harmaline and tetrahydroharmin ... or something like that??

    is that the same thing ?? maoi?

    'could' the complanata be seasonally active like the baileyana is said to be?

    im pretty new here too btw :D ... hi

  22. Posted

    as far as our cane toads go ... i had 2 kittys, just given birth to a fresh litter each, and they both died from cane toad poisoning.

    if a cane toad can kill a cat, im sticking to what we aussies do best with these lil feckers... use them as golf balls.

    i mean, im a fan of nature ... but cane toads are something else

  25. Posted

    as for youthinasia, this is your thing, however i remember reading hemslock / monsbane are things you dont want to endure the pain of.

    travels through the skin easily from the plant, and makes you very sick.

    i like dangerous plants myself, but this one wasnt one i thought was safe to have around in case some kid played with it.

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