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yeah they're very slow growing... I will be able to make a comparison with the regular monster this year..
Berengar, I might just do this some time... combine pleasure with busines... but I do have to find some appropriate city with nice nurseries near to ports to greece...
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some 20 years ago me and some friends were making up jokes about santa and his reindeer.. one of the best laughing sessions ever...
I haven't really read up a lot about amanita muscaria symbolism and I really dont read a lot about symbolism.. I dont really get symbolism, so its not really my cup of tea.. Some people say that Coca Cola logo is the Santha Klaus, and this makes better sense seeing how xmas is a celebration of consumerism basically..
anyhow, I know some people tend to see mushrooms religions/cults in any object (man made or a natural sculpture) that resembles a mushroom.. I am more sceptical and realist. And since most people haven't figured out how to use amanitas and what they do, whats the point in searching the deeper meaning of amanitas past, like supposed links of amanitas with christianity even!
But I do tend to believe amanita muscaria is the Soma.
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I hear you on the self-negating capri, but you still got taurus (sun in 2nd) and virgo (moon in 6th) elements which are quite important
so your chart could be considered a battle ( a mix) between fire and earth elements.. Again I encourage you to check out what lack of the arorementioned elements (air, water) means.
Some time ago I downloaded a astrology book pack in pdf.. most of the shit was outdated and stupid, but there was one book really worth checking for the dude that already has understood the basics of chart interpretation
there you will find grind trine interepretations, as well as lack of certain elements plus much more...
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Yeah I got an athletic body, I was always slim and flexible, well not anymore, I gor a discslip..
but I never had a tendency for sports...
when I go mushroom hunting the adrenaline and excitement is such I really dont see it as an athletic thing.
its more like an animal thing, I transform to another animal when there're mushrooms in the woods.
anyways, I still maintain some of that athletic stuff as it seems to be in my body
I regard it as a physical quality of aries / 1st house : strong body and metabolism
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about the opposite sex...
venus in sagitarrius and moon in aries, you could be attracted in any of them girls, and also cancer fits, as it is opposite capri..
maybe one nice bet would be a saggitarius - cancer hybrid, preferably with some extra earthiness to match yours... maybe sagitarrius with cancer ascedant...
I cannot understand the pisces you wre told though
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looks like it, but this is not the place to ask for ID, but rather discuss terscheckii and pasacana cluster.. welcome to the forums
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yeah thats cheap...
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you could even try to make a time lapse video if you're near to the spot when they;re fruiting
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Inco>>
About the carrer thing - lol, but I have thought about it, but I would not like to use it that way..
I might start a non-profit blog If I had a couple fellas to collaborate...
but I would like to do a more entertaining , not so objective , humourous project on it..
I actually have written some texts in greek, saying how ALL signs are fuckin arseholes in one way or another..
change>>
now who said its a science? its a technique, I am tired of all this scientifism material, they're all over the internet
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you might struggle to keep it alive during summer.. best season to sow, grow, transplant is september IMO for out hemisphere.. be careful if you transplant it, I would wait for 1st real leaves or 2nd I guess to put it in a deep pot, not the final pot
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Yeah I remember that crest pic, zelly, would love to taste the berry. Got one over a meter in the ground I hope I can see some flower sometime!
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you are gold, give out more awesome practical suggestions like this, will you trooper?
and I will try to make crosses of tricho with harissia and selini... lol
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zelly was right in something he was saying .. regarding prices and all... which is how some big grower might have sold you the X product , and then you see him selling the same or bigger specimen for half the price in ebay.... or shit like this... becuase he might have decided to both sell-out his stock in ebay, and both take advantage of some dude who buys with the current price for a collective cactus...
besides, why the heck are those "rare" strains, crests , rare at all?? they are slow to grow, slow to propagate and root, and not so common... but its already more thatwhat has to be said about this... I dont want to be a merchant, I am a grower and have to be this - a seller - as well... and I have sold pach crest and penis for 'pennies' to friends or good re-occuring customers... but never fucking up the price up on ebay...
sellers, people who are involved in this more than hobbistically should not opportunistically fuck up prices in the biggest picture...
unless a said market floods with some product and that changes inevitably the price....
that is, if I am really strong on penis or pach crest this year, or some years in a row , I should not fuck up current ebay price and sell 3~5 branched specimens for 5 euros each.,.. and pach crests for 8 euros.... what I could do to a friend, or a regular customer off ebay is another thing...
if you get my going... I am trying to sell my shit about at the price I got it it the first place... relatively...
I have managed this for some shit I have sold
it is also a craft to learn how to propagate cristatas... let alone saying how awesomely interesting it is, now that we have a known enemy , lol....
It is indeed a challenge , whether grafting could get some of these monsters propagation going faster... I am usually prone to trying own roots when dealing with "fast growers" , which , for cacti, every columnar could be such - but... NO!
Stetsonia seems to be very slow like the grower told me
Pilosocereus/Azuerocereus crest is also very slow growing, but I managed to root a cutting.
Eulychnia is EXTRA slow growing... hence so many try to graft
Polaskia I already lost a cut I did during cold weather.... dunno If I should attempt another...
TBMCs seems to root somewhat later than regular TBMs, but it seems they root easier than I initially thought...
Myrtillocacti monsters like really warm weather to root, so take your cuttings in warm weather... otherwise it might take 6 months for a cutting to root.
In the past I had awesome results with grafting the mini-mid- crest monster monvillea monstrosa...
I wonder how one could speed things up with graftin Eulychnia .. and maybe other slower cresties...
. Grafting TBMC works wonders, in my case it was bridgesii stock...
we will see how the rooting of the cuttings go, I have already rooted a couple penises off TBMC, incl. a areole-less one, yeah, thats one of my utopian projects, where I still think this creature might make an areole from the root system if needed... or even more impressively sprout from the urethra .... we will see...
BIOPROTECTION
I am keeping an eye and spraying with bio stuffs for the creatures that would like but will not eat off the wavy crests of my pach-crests and rest of trichs, and possibly a variety of other cacti and plants.... that wont happen like last year ( I thought it was spider mite and shit , stupid me)
Old scars cannot heal , at least not completely, but cacti are hard mofos...
PS: euro (and whatever) SABers , there are some scarred pachanoi crests for sale, in community prices, if ya like ;) ... all kinds of sizes avail... limited edition offer for sabbers who read the growing section....
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As in all specialty cactus sales, it all depends on size and beauty and scarring and rarity of the formation... spiralis and crests are sold more expensive ..
this is eacily the most interesting monster cacti of them all... in my humble opinion
I havent seen those sold under 30 euros per rooted specimen, and I think I paid 45 euros for my double spiral specimen (well that was indeed a special specimen, too bad it got chopped off during the GH disaster of mine)... anyways I recently got a better deal off ebay for 6 regular monster columns for some 20 euros each... we will see what they can give.... so if you find them cheap , get them mate!
In fact this whole thread got my hands and all itching for another attempt of grafting, now that I have a variety of stocks available and the target itself is actively growing.. I do have a regular growing part taking energy off my crest, and was thinking of getting rid of it.
now, that how much they cost...
they are not easily/quickly produced , I suppose, so they're quite rarely offered as well...
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wow philocacti my man, this is easily the best looking specimen of melted wax I have seen...
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cacti people: a special kind of people, somewhat eccentric, but certainly people that are not afraid of a couple spikings. Fine people.
PC is awesome for grafting but not especially handsoce compared to other pachanoids
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kk339 pach - euro scop - super pedro (either lance or rob)
clearly super pedro (AKA cordobensis, lance, rob) is more on the scop side, if not a genuine scop strain
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Echinocereus rubrispinus fruits and Setiechinopsis fruit split... If I leave it there wont be any seeds in 24 hours... we will see..
PM me for limited edition seed giveaway.
LONG LIVE SAB
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Hey this beauty sure deserves its own thread. And its price I might add.
Awesome grafts Philo, very cool you got multiple pups!
this cactusart page is also essential
I have 2 specimens , one bought as crest and one as a double spiralis.. but the latter was in the GH disasters and
...long story short, my cacti now have 3 growing points each, and each seems to be doing its own thing.. regular columns might be grafted to propagate and encourage the growth of more rare formations.. I did 2 grafts, but the upside-down one didn't make it while it had taken.. Also the successful disc-shaped graft I did started to turn to regular after growing on the graft, and eventually terminated (not sure why) and stalled a bit due to pupping from the stock.
my spiralis tip today
will provide more photos later
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Hey Snowfella does that M.geometrizans flower and fruit? Pretty rare to see such a big specimen in a collection
Did some cuttings. I cut 3 penis-pups from my own roots TBMCrests and also took cuttings from my two TBMC grafts. I had to slice my weird-shaped big graft (not the one depicted) in more parts so as to maintain an areole in the graft. ALso took cuttings from myrtillocactus crest (non geometrizans) and myrtillocactus breast . Most of the geometrizans crest wax are about to root too...
Potted some newly rooted specimens , PsychoO, a pachanoi X (nook/otto) , echinopsis crest and myrti crest, and couple loph's other pic on the right is the previous batch of the lophos that rooted.. They all come from a caespitosa graft on pachanoi which rotted but this time I made it in time and took dozens of pups/cuttings.. Most lophos become more rot prone and more sensitive skined when grafted and especially in caepitosa specimens grafted where the overupping created cavities and overhead watering could cause rot when not in the hot period.
I greatly suggest grafting and taking pups off grafts as a means to propagate lophos for pleazure or trading. The rooting time is not bad at all.
Also took some other shots but I will post them up in the appropriate threads...
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I promised I would get back to deal with earth signs to finish off the first cycle..
well earth signs are not as awesome as the fire signs, but they are pretty awesome .. what they have to offer is a sense of positive stubbornness, the effort, the know-how about doing a job, they're materialist, persistent, hardworking ... they step on earth and they're strong realists, so it not an exaggeration earthy signs are the mechanics and materialisers of ideas and plans. Having venus in capricorn, I find earth women the sexiest.
Taurus is stubborn, patient until he bursts into rage, very materialist and said to like gourmet food... he is also prone to high aestheticism and pretty / expensive objects he will never use.. so they're practical, but they also like nice shit.
Virgos are more fucked up than the rather straightforward Taurus.. They are prone to phobias including hypochondria-type and are often the very tidy, clean ball-breaking type that needs everything to be at its place, hates dust, mud and anything that makes shit 'untidy' and 'dirty'. They also can be really eccentric and specific, taking time to analyse all kinds of details, for better or worse... Virgo women have awesome big breasts. This is the most hardworking sign of all 3, and is actually the dude that will help many people or groups of people with doing some practical job.. One older joke I made about Virgos is that while the the other signs are drinking beer at the shadow, Virgo is working alone under the sun.. And he is never hasty to finish off early so as to come and drink with us: no my friend, the job has to been done the right way
Capricorns are one of the less liked signs.. There are a couple good reasons for this.. They're regarded as hardfisted, carreer bitches, patriarchical and with a controversial sense of humour. They are often regarded as they hardest sign to please, to be happy. They're supposed to be interested in what society thinks of them and their social status/archievements. But they are also the Pans of the world, they carry the animal and the father mammal and the traditional and the link with nature within all of us.. Also, I dont know why I find Capricorn girls the sexiest of them all, even if they , along with virgos, often have some coldness in their face/style/approach.. (I got venus in carpicorn)
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Eating A. muscaria?
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like I have said, I have read wasson and mckenna and some other on the matter, but not John alegro.
in any case its propably one of the most beautiful mushrooms of the forest!