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    i still have the box they cam in so it will look very nice and professional when it makes it to the winners door; like a bought one! which it is.. i guess.. the only prob is it's mostly in japanese or chinese or something, but i guess you plant heads should be clever enough to work it out. lotsa water and a lil sun and she'll be right! the lil cuties..

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    if i remember i'll raffel it at the next melb meet in a few weeks if i remeber. I'll take everyones name down that have shown interest here in a pet plant and pull names out of the hat there, so i got whitnesses and that ;)

    everyone will have an equal chance that way. Even you rahli. I'd give you a potted pet plant if you were in my state, but your not :(

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    fancy pants: i'd rather share them because i am nervouse about my seedling sucess. between the four of us, we should have at least one good plant, ya? ;)

    santiago, so ya, i think fancy pants should have 1 or 2 of mine, if the others are willing to share ;)

    with that said, i couldnt bring myself to waste viable seeds on my own selfish endevourse. does anyone know a reliable source for yopo seeds?

    santiago, perhaps you could get me in touch with your loine clothed shaman friend? :D please? pm me?

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    i ordered some pet plants a while back and finally got them for christmas! yay! but a lil too late for what i wanted to do with them.

    http://www.aliexpress.com/fm-store/102788/210237387-360521795/100X-pet-plant-PET-TREES-Plant-selection-Mobile-Phone-Charm-cell-phone-straps-keyring-handbag-accessories.html

    i only bought 5 by the way, not 100, anyway..

    i wanted to pull out the cactus and put cuttings from my own plant, lets name her sally for now, and then send some away for christmas to the quickest person on the plant trade topic, here but alas, i only recieved them a few days ago so i havent got time to check they will survive and be fully rooted when i ship them out. i guess i not need a reason for shipping them out, even tho christmas is a good reason. oh well...

    i'll post a thing up when there all healthy

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    ya guys, i thought i'd check with you guys first before i go on a store to buy some seeds. it doesnt matter if there not viable. i had some once but didnt realy know what i'm ment to do with them so they were wasted. anyone got any yopo/Anadenanthera colubrina? thanks!

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    i saw a can of Folimat today at a clients house. it's a systemic organophosphate (or how ever it's spelt). organophosphate's are a class of chemical that they are slowly banning. they are a fantastic insecticide, however, long term high exposure, like long term high exposure to most insecticides, can cause nerve damage much much later in life. shakes are the most common. the only common comercial organophosphate that i've seen used that often is a chem called ficam, wich comes in wettable powder and dust formulations used mainly for bee's and wasps, although it can also be used for spiders, ants, roachs, fleas etc but it is more expensive then other dusts and only comes in 5kg buckets instead of 25kg buchets, wich for a pest controller doing 3-4 spider jobs a day and using typically 200g a day, isnt worth carrying such a small bucket around when other chems work great too.

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    its interesting you should say that, we have a native bee we always called a bush bee. They are recognisable by looking like a normal bee, but completely black. They also produce honey and have personally only seen them down the peninsula but dont know there habitats.

    The reason they are not used instead of honey bees, i assume, is because of there agressiveness. When there home is endangered, (which is the only time i encounter them as a pest controller) they are often as aggressive as wasps in the same situation. I assume they are difficult to calm to collect there honey. They are a rare bee, in my experience, especially when compared to the common honey bee.

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    true, my bad, i guess i was thinking inside my box a lil too much, i dont deal with agricultural & horticultural pests, only what we call domestic pest like wasps, spiders, ants,temites, rats etc

    last time i spoke to our bee keeper he said ours are alot healthier then alot of the other bees around the world. any collectable swarms we find near were he lives, we let him know so he can collect them.

    i guess maybe not the best of the best but i'm pretty sure that we have some export quality bees flyin round our great country ;)

    crazy bee fact:

    you know that a swarm can set up a hive with honey comb and honey and everything in just a few hours? crazy! i had a client who said a bee swarm landed on her car while she was at the gym, and when she got back they were all over the bonnet, up the skirts, in the wheel arch, everywere! she tried driving round for 2 hours as she did her dayly chors, took it thru a car wash to maybe drown the buggers but nothing worked! the car wash only pushed them to a safe place were the water couldnt get them, that is, in the coil spring of the front left suspension system! on the 5th hour she called us and on the 6th hour i rocked up on my way home. while i was treating it, i could smell the sweet sweet smell of that honey. now thats crazy!

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