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    Right... so just to be irritating, I have to agree with Incog that the last weekend of April makes more sense than the first weekend of May... Why not make the most of the public holiday?!! Means we could head up Fri 23/4 and not have to head back until Mon 26/4.

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    Wow, haven't been around in ages... place looks different and all!

    I'd love to come along but will be away until weekend starting 19 March. If that's too late or doesn't suit others just go for it, I'll be along to the next one! Curious timing for Hillbilly to hit me up about this, I was thinking yesterday doing some gardening that I can't wait for the cold of winter to start creeping back :)

  7. Posted

    Thought I'd give this thread a bump...

    I can't imagine anything will come of this request, but like half the world, I would love an invite to Waffles.fm or what.cd

    Fingers crossed someone out there is drunk enough to send one my way!

  9. Posted · Edited by poo

    Nicely commented Holy Mountain, I couldn't agree more.

    As the following article points out: "Labels may be losing money, but artists are making more than ever"

    http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/13/label...-be-losing.html

    Don't feel too guilty for ripping off the companies that have been ripping off the bands you love. I've no intention to buy music mass produced in archaic and fundamentally sub-standard formats (CD) or butchered into even lesser quality 'convenient' files (iTunes). I do however have every intention to see bands live, buy their shirts, steal their music and tell my friends to do the same. If you're not so comfortable with that, start searching out the myriad of artists releasing music in high quality formats under creative commons licenses; there's some stunning music being given away!

    As an aside, start downloading lossless audio so you don't regret it in a few years! Lossy audio like MP3 is fast becoming obsolete given the ever diminishing price of storage, and lossless quality rips of anything you'd like are floating about for you to google into your ears :)

    Nearly forgot... Quite like new Shpongleland, hell I might even buy it!

  11. Posted

    It gets worse... I killed a second one :o

    I'm a cactus n00b (clearly) and my Cacti have died. I had them both in a terracotta pot, and they were both very small trich seedlings (maybe 3-4cm high). I was told to keep them out of direct sunlight and water roughly 3 or so days. Sadly their little bases seem to have let go of the roots, and there's just a hollow base where the roots should be (or were).

    So what stupid/obvious thing did I do to kill them? Overwater is my guess... but (presuming I've provided anywhere near enough info), can someone help out so I keep future genocides to a minimum please?

    :slap:

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    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/...cent-mushrooms/

    (Images within link above)

    Seven new glowing mushroom species have been discovered in Belize, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia and Puerto Rico.

    Four of the species are completely new to scientists, and three previously known species were discovered to be luminescent. All seven species, as well as the majority of the 64 previously known species of luminescent mushrooms, are from the Mycena family.

    “What interests us is that within Mycena, the luminescent species come from 16 different lineages, which suggests that luminescence evolved at a single point and some species later lost the ability to glow,” said biologist Dennis Desjardin of San Francisco State University, lead author of the study published Monday in the journal Mycologia.

    The new discoveries might help scientists understand when, how and why mushrooms evolved the ability to glow. Desjardin suspects that luminescence might attract nocturnal animals, which would then help the mushrooms spread their spores.

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    From memory it was neoshaman who mentioned the following:

    Extract from http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/shulgin/blg/index.html

    However there is a very interesting study that took place in Leipzig about 15 years ago. Jochen Gartz, a mushroom explorer whom I know quite well, has done some fascinating studies with Psilocybe species by raising them on solid media containing strange tryptamines that are alien to the mushroom. Apparently the enzymes that are responsible for the 4-hydroxy group of psilocin are indifferent to what it is they choose to 4-hydroxylate. He has taken things like DPT or DIPT and put them in the growth media and the fruiting bodies that came out contain 4-hydroxy-DPT or 4-hydroxy-DIPT instead of psilocin. In fact, he has a patent on the process. These active compounds are made by the mushroom so they really are natural and yet they never have been observed in nature. I'll give you even odds that if you put spores of a psilocybe species on cow droppings loaded with 5-MeO-DMT you would come out with mushrooms containing 4,5-HO-MeO-DMT. This way you avoid a 10 step synthesis by growing a psychoactive mushroom that contains no illegal drug.

    I forgot where I had read about it before, and have been reading more about it since I found this article again, thanks neo!

  20. Posted · Edited by poo

    Look great, nice job man! Would love you to keep the thread updated every now and then when you think of it. I have plans to try and develop a similar system in a medium sized balcony area. Not too much sideways room, but based on the top floor, the 'sky's the limit'. General idea is to try to limit footprint area and maximise surface area & volume.

    Thanks for posting.

    Forgot to add... nice specimens in the background ;)

  25. Posted

    ^ Plan to plan a plan...

    Anyway, I would have expected a nice little flurry of posts by now... I have sorted all things in the way of my getting there, and am looking forward to it! Hope to have a few odds and ends for the brave few by way of returning the favor of meetings past. Really looking forward to meeting you neoshaman - seems we've always missed one another each meet so far!

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