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  1. Inyan

    Grafting to old Pereskiopsis?

    Having made woody grafts... what you say meets up with everything I've also experienced so I'm inclined to believe you.
  2. Holy cow that is one nice looking tip. And yes, just the tip is perfectly fine with a specimen like this.
  3. Inyan

    Going it alone

    Not a problem H, Listening more to what you are saying, it sounds like you might benefit from sitters who are able to watch from afar to give you your space, but who can remain close enough to ensure you are safe. If that is indeed what you want, I would make sure you have the ground rules laid out for how much interaction and interference you would like from your sitters prior to any journey. Something as simple as your sitters playing music a good distance away from you can substantially alter the quality and nature of your journey. Especially so if you have positive or negative emotions attached to that music. In this modern age, it is not uncommon for a yuwipi to utilize binoculars to check up on those on a vision quest for example. A supporter may even be asked to go up and check more closely on a particular person if they look like they are in distress. It is far better to interfere too much in what is supposed to be a solo and personal journey or quest than it is to have that person die which could indeed happen on something like a vision quest. What is meant to be a symbolic death and rebirth should stay that way. A supporter on a typical Lakota vision quest will often sing ceremonial songs loud enough to be heard by the one they are supporting. The aim being to be heard and not seen, but to be able to provide the needed strength and emotional support to those they are supporting. At the end of such a quest, the supporters are gifted something from the quester. This is always nice to do for someone who has given of their time so selflessly for you. At any rate, food for thought....
  4. Inyan

    Grafting to old Pereskiopsis?

    Knowledge worth having is always worth a few trials if it is something your interested in. My suggestion, try it before you discount it. For me, I find this is the easiest way to get a more long term stock for a seedling as shown here by a seedling that has been growing for some time on this old stock. Still, you could just as easily graft your root stock to your Pereskiopsis and then graft to that as I have done here.
  5. Inyan

    Graft of the day

    And update on how the above looks today. And yes, I had to share one last picture of one of my areole grafts attached here as I no longer have any variegated crested areole grafts. They have all been sent to new homes where they can be adored rather than ignored. The scar tissue on the thumb is from one of my first Brugmansia grafts a few decades ago. Like my better grafts... that scar can barely be seen anymore.
  6. Inyan

    Going it alone

    One thing we generally figure out as we get older is it is okay not to rush things. What this might mean for someone in your circumstances is to wait until you do have an in person mentor/sitter or loved one at the very least as a last resort Second best to that and perhaps in conjunction you may find that simply growing the plant you would like to experience may help build a psychological and spiritual connection that may positively benefit your experience. You may even want to consider taking sub threshold amounts of the particular pejuta you are working with on a few occasions and gradually work your way up to a full threshold experience over a period of time. There certainly is no need to jump straight into a full blown mind melting experience with any pejuta Slow, safe, and steady....
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    From the album: Hybrid propagation via grafting or crosspollination

    Grafting stock... now we just need something nice to put on it after it grows a wee bit more.
  8. Inyan

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    When it comes to grafting, there is not much I won't try. I find that the best way to learn is to do. If you never attempt that which is hard or seen as crazy then you will never achieve that which is hard or seen as crazy.
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  10. Right now, I'm not sure what is glowing in the garden after I tried to sell a variegated crested pachanoi on the bay for 2.22. With that being said, I've got to re-evaluate what I'm going to graft next just as soon as my stock gets a bit bigger. [
  11. Inyan

    Monstrose/Weird Tricho seed

    Misplants definitely throws out a lot of variegated and crested cacti. Ethylmethane sulfonate (EMS) can be used to induce point mutations. Soaking your seed in a solution of 0.2% (w/v) EMS may produce those genetic mutations you like, but it is also very carcingogenic so it must be handled with care. Suffice it to say, any chemical you use to induce genetic mutations should likely be handled with care if you haven’t had any offsprings yet yourself… especially important. The downside of coarse with a treatment like this is that you are also likely to lose a large percentage of your seed as they will simply fail to germinate. Alternately or concurrently, one might wish to experiment with colchicine to induce polyploidy with your seedlings as this can sometimes result in phenotype changes. This is especially true with hybrids and may even improve fertility in hybrids that are not generally fertile.
  12. Inyan

    Cactus help!

    I'm with Evil Genius on the topping layer as it just obscures the green mat that sits on top of a well watered Trichocereus cacti's soil. However, I don't use lava, or pumice in my Trichocereus soil. I have used good strong composted cow manure, bone meal, blood meal, fish emulsion, etc. however mixed into my soil. However, with the latter especially one must be aware that the smell can get very strong and it can attract wild life to ones cacti. I'm also not knocking the use of material to make your soil dry out faster. Bogponics or hydroponics is not for everyone. But I will say that I have grown many different species of cacti from germination up to adult specimens that way and it does work. Everyone has their own way of growing cacti and as long as it works for you that is what matters. Open fresh cuts in a cacti however can be very much like an open wound on an animal. Wetness or humidity simply adds to the ability of microorganisms to feast on the open wound and once an opportunistic pathogen takes hold it can spread throughout the tissues of your cacti if you don't get it in hand and removed. Better to cut and remove too much than to have to cut twice. of course, if your grafting and growing your Pereskiopsis in hydroponics, bogponics, etc.... then things just got a whole lot faster.
  13. Inyan

    Cactus help!

    Any well calloused Trichocereus that can't handle sitting in water isn't worth growing in my book. As you can see from my Icaro specimens all grown from seed and in standing water that has grown algae no less from the length of time they have sat in the water. Why save bad genetics by grafting them?
  14. Inyan

    Cactus help!

    If you suspect rot then dig it up and confirm rot. If there is indeed rot, cut at least an inch above the rot.. yeah, what he said! Lol, literally beat me to it as I was reading at the same time.
  15. Inyan

    My garden from seed & 1st grafts

    100% success is 100% success though my friend. But yeah, if your not grafting 2-3 day old seedlings your wasting time waiting for them to get big enough to impale and if they are big enough to impale why aren't you areole grafting?
  16. Inyan

    eBay/Gumtree finds

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Trichocereus-scopulicola-x-T-terscheckii-T-huarazensis-x-T-scop-Variegated/273331344569
  17. Inyan

    Cactus of the month year day thread? Which cactus is really shining for you right now?

    I'm in love with the scopulicola hybrids. A few more scopulicola hybrids i took pictures of today as I'm thinking about mailing them off to new homes... scopulicola x huarazensis and scopulicola x terscheckii
  18. Pejuta is consumed in the NAC ceremonies. Yet, young puppy is also eaten traditionally in many yuwipi ceremonies. Buffalo stew is often the second go to meat in many of these ceremonies with cow being considered a poor replacement to buffalo.
  19. Inyan

    My garden from seed & 1st grafts

    Well done grafts. I can see you didn't use parafilm with your grafts which means you likely let your stock dry a bit before and during your grafting procedure which can slow things down just enough to cause a slightly higher fail rate which many try to offset by increasing the humidity. With the use of parafilm, your stock can be watered and fertilized daily. This added water and fertilizer is then pumped into your scion like a bunny on viagra provided you also have warmer summer temperatures. I put my freshly done grafts straight into the green house in the summer if they are particularly important to me.
  20. Inyan

    Up-potting near complete..

    Looks like you like Trichocereus bridgesii a lot! 4 hybrids involving scopulicola, 4 hybrids involving peruvianus, 4 pachanoi....
  21. As nice as this graft looks I would not of suspected the stock was any bigger than 1.5 cm tall. Very nice work.
  22. I like how you mention it would be rather dole if we were all to agree with something. For me, if we could all agree that rape was inherently wrong, the world might be a better place. Someone who could simply watch a rape occur and not think about it in terms of good or bad is someone that I could not relate. By watching an event unfold such as rape and not wish to doing something to ameliorate the situation to me is a bit unsettling. We may choose to do or not to do, but by witnessing an act we can not say we are innocent and simply an observer as the choice to act or not to act is always present. A person who does not think in terms of good or bad about such a thing as rape for me... is likely to be a sociopath and not capable of real empathy. Empathy for others and the planet... it is as simple as that and intent. Action of course are guided by intent, but also the degree of knowledge we have on a particular subject. For instance, if you know a woman is being raped and beaten into submission and you do nothing that is much different than a women who you might see in the woods who is having what you assume to be consensual sex, but in reality has simply been beaten into submission so many times she no longer fights back. You could simply remain an observer in either case... but what one observes and does nothing to change to me speaks volumes about the person. Are the acts not done just as important as the acts that are done? If the planet is being raped and you do absolutely nothing to change that... is it because you lack power to make a change, knowledge to make a change, or do you simply lack the intent? If you have the power to ameliorate a little bit of the suffering and instead you happily engage in the raping of the Earth or watch as others do the same....What does that say about you?
  23. Inyan

    The Great Global Warming/Cooling Thread Part 2

    The bottom line, if you don't understand science it does not make that science untrue nor does it make those that understand it retards or workers of great magical feats trying to deceive the masses.
  24. Inyan

    The Great Global Warming/Cooling Thread Part 2

    https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/schmidt_01/ For you specifically, since you seem not to understand that bit of science. People that don't understand science to the same degree as those scientists with actual doctorates in their field of study might not be retards as you say, but instead, one might argue they were simply not as well educated on that particular subject. https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/how-do-we-know-the-temperature-on-earth-millions-of-years-ago.html "Determining one’s ambient temperature with a small amount of effort is ridiculously simple these days. Even a 5-year-old with absolutely no understanding of weather could tell you the current temperature by simply glancing at a smartphone. However, ascertaining temperature was not as easy two centuries ago. In fact, the modern instrumental temperature record could only tell us about the planet’s temperature trends over the last 150 years." "In that case, how do scientists and researchers talk about the climatic conditions thousands or even millions of years ago? How can they tell what the temperatures of Earth were in the ancient past? Short answer: Researchers estimate ancient temperatures using data from climate proxy records, i.e., indirect methods to measure temperature through natural archives, such as coral skeletons, tree rings, glacial ice cores and so on." For more information... please read on. " When we see pictures of dinosaurs basking in tropical heat or wooly mammoths shivering in an ice-covered tundra, how do we know that they lived in such climates? We can tell indirectly from sediments and deposits laid down during these periods. The presence of tropical plant and animal remains at the polar latitudes indicate that significantly warmer conditions must have existed as compared to today. Conversely, the absence of tree pollen in the tundra probably means that conditions were too cold for trees to grow. For more quantitative information you have to look in the oceans, and in particular, at the deep sediments that lie on the bottom of the seas. There, a steady rain of shells from small, surface-dwelling animals falls continually, eventually building up hundreds of meters of sediment. These sediments preserve the shells of these small animals for millions of years, all the way back to the age of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago. Figure 1: Magnified (400x) photograph of a left coiling N. pachyderma foraminifera. (Photo: Deep Sea Repository at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University.) The most important of these animals, foraminifera (or forams for short), make their tiny shells from a form of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). This carbonate is found in many common geological features, such as the White Cliffs of Dover, which were once at the bottom of the sea. What makes calcium carbonate important? The carbonate, originally dissolved in the oceans, contains oxygen, whose atoms exist in two naturally-occurring stable isotopes, 18O and 16O. The ratio of these two isotopes tells us about past temperatures. When the carbonate solidifies to form a shell, the isotopic ratio in the oxygen (written as δ18O) varies slightly depending on the temperature of the surrounding water. The change is only a tiny 0.2 parts per million decrease for each degree of temperature increase. Nevertheless, this is sufficient for us to be able to estimate the temperature of the water in which the forams lived millions of years ago. From this, we can see that temperatures in the Arctic Ocean were about 10-15°C warmer at the time of the dinosaurs than they are today! There is a complication, however. The δ18O value in the shells depends critically on what the δ18O value was in the surrounding sea water (H2O), and that can be as variable as the temperature! This variability arises because when water evaporates, the lighter molecules of water (those with 16O atoms as compared to those with 18O) tend to evaporate first. Therefore, water vapor is more depleted (fewer H218O molecules) than the ocean from which it evaporates. Thus, the ocean has more 18O in places where lots of water evaporates (like the sub-tropics) and less where it rains a lot (like the mid-latitudes). Similarly, when water vapor condenses (to make rain for instance), the heavier molecules (H218O) tend to condense and precipitate first. So, as water vapor makes its way poleward from the tropics, it gradually becomes more and more depleted in the heavier isotope. Consequently snow falling in Canada has much less H218O than rain falling in Florida. Changes in climate that alter the global patterns of evaporation or precipitation can therefore cause changes to the background δ18O ratio. In addition, the great ice-sheets that once covered North America, consisting of snow falling in what is now Canada, were very depleted in 18O. Now, enough water was held in these ice sheets to reduce the global average sea level by about 120m. Furthermore, there was also enough depleted water trapped in the ice to increase the average isotopic content of the oceans. And so the first thing we see when we analyze the shells from the bottom of the ocean, is the waxing and waning of the great ice sheets over the last 3 million years (figure 2). The same pattern over the last 400,000 years can also be seen in the isotopes measured in ice cores drilled from the remaining ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Figure 2: The variations of 18O in carbonate averaged over a large number of different cores (in order to isolate a global signal) over the last 600,000 years. Most clear are the regular oscillations of the glacial ice volume which follows small changes to Earth's orbit around the Sun (Milankovitch forcing). In consequence, the many records of δ18O in ocean sediments and in ice cores, contain information about the temperature, evaporation, rainfall, and indeed the amount of glacial ice — all of which are important to know if we are to understand the changes of climate in the Earth's history. Unfortunately, trying to disentangle these multiple effects is complicated since we have one measurement with many unknowns. The paleoclimate group at GISS is working to try to decode these records using the latest generation of numerical models of the atmosphere and ocean circulation. In those models, we have included most of the physics necessary to simulate the distribution of δ18O in the oceans and the atmosphere. In addition, we have developed models of foram ecology that allow us to estimate at what depths in the ocean and at what season the carbonate forms on average. This sequence of models allows us, for the first time, to map simulated climate changes directly from the model to the carbonate in the sediments — the actual data that paleoceanographers have measured. Initial experiments have focused upon the large climate changes that occurred during the melting of the ice sheets between 20,000 and 10,000 years ago. The closer the modeled changes match those seen in the sediments, the greater the confidence we have in the realism of our models. While this new approach is unlikely to show that mammoths spent their time on the beach enjoying the sun, it may provide better understanding of the complicated sequence of events that marked the end of the ice age. It should shed light on the very rapid climate changes that have occurred in the North Atlantic and Europe at the end of the last ice age. Those particular changes have been associated with changes in the amount of heat carried poleward by the Gulf Stream. If we can understand that process, we may be better able to estimate the probability of its recurrence as a possible consequence of continued global warming. Reference Schmidt, G.A. 1999. Forward modeling and interpretation of carbonate proxy data using oxygen isotope tracers in a global ocean model. Paleoceanography 14, 482-497. Contact Please address all inquiries about this research to Dr. Gavin Schmidt."
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