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There were quite a few slippery jacks around, i'll know for next time. The flash on the camera kinda whites it out a bit, it was an electric vivid blue

Still figuring out how to use my camera. Ran out of battery power aswell which was a bummer cos there were more I wanted to snap. I managed to focus on the background on this one....... It was hiding in a little cave behind a curtin of lomandra

I'm looking for spores of edibles and other prints for microscopy, I don't have any to trade but could trade something else? Although very recently a friend rescued some mycelium/woodchip from being excavated...I havn't seen it fruit, so not sure what it is but they say its an edible kind. So I might have spores in the future....

The problem isn't lack of water but the plant not being able to take up water at the rate that it is transpiring....this is what i believe. So it's most likely a problem with the roots, if its been in the pot for awhile then i'd flip it upside down in one hand and take the pot off to inspect the roots.. Could be root rot or that it needs to be potted on to a bigger pot? I'd also tent a clear plastic bag over it to increase humidity now that its getting colder and dryer.....this is what i've done for mine and they like it edit... I also moved them from dappled shade to getting a couple of hours of direct sun which diffuses thru the condensation and plastic and makes a little hothouse and they are punchin out new growth

The best option would be to cut at the base and bin them if they have seeded and apply neat glyphosate eg. roundup, to the surface as chaos said. Cos if you try n pull them out in my experience your likely to break your back...clay soil. Depending on the size of the area and how badly infested the site is and if there are native species around spraying starane would be effective but the last option i'd choose only in degraded areas.

This is how I discovered compost worms. I had a 60L garbage bin with holes drilled in the bottom in which i'd put vege scraps in and some sugarcane mulch occasionally thinking it would be a good compost bin but afterawhile it became quite wet and anaerobic. So i left it alone for a couple of months and later found it to be full of compost worms that had migrated into the bin from the soil. Not earthworms but tiger worms. The kind bunnings sells $50 for a 1000. A had this bin sitting under an orange tree so it would continually feed it but this is all it did due to limited design. So I bought a worm farm with changeable trays and a tap and am slowly building up the population from the old bin. If you create the right environment for them they will come

I've had a hive of native stingless bees (trigona carbonaria) for over a year and havn't had any problems. They pollinate my two macadamias alot better than european honey bees which seem to knock alot of flowers off. I've had a much bigger fruit set than previous years. If its honey your after then the european honey bee is the go, as dbbard said. Comparatively native bees produce around 1kg of honey a year depending on location. This is because they are alot smaller, only forage around 100m from the hive and can only fly if its 18 degrees C or higher. So these are factors to take into consideration depending where you live. They naturally occur in SE Queensland and as far south as Bega in NSW. I like them because they don't sting so you can get up close and watch them as they come and go with different coloured resins and pollen. Apparently the honey, sugarbag has a tangy lemon bush flavor although I'm yet to try it as i'll leave them alone this year so they have enough honey for winter.

I had the same problem with my compost bin in summer. I made a couple of traps. 1.25L bottle with the top 1/3 cut off and inverted inside the bottom half. Tape up the edges and fill with some wine, fruit juice, vinegar. At the same time as having the traps I stopped putting vegetable waste in the compost bin to take away their habitat. The traps do catch alot but are mainly an indicator of how bad the problem is aslong as there is somewhere for them to breed they will keep coming. So the best option for success would be to start them as early as possible in spring and cover them with mosquito nets and hand pollinate them with a tuning fork as they are self fertile. Or rotate your crops and grow veges that do not host fruit fly.

Its playing out in the same scenario as the end of alcohol prohibition did with the great depression. Now California has a 'crippling budget crisis' they can see the dollars in legalising and taxing cannabis and reduction in spending on law enforcement. I wonder how much the tax to grow 2 sqm will be.

The leaves of Acacia longifolia can also be used as a bush soap. Probably other species aswell, but I know that one does. Handy when camping cos its fairly common.

Last winter my P incarnata died back to the ground where the winter is only mild. Leaves yellow and fall then the vine dies back to the ground to reshoot in spring. I've just been harvesting my P incarnata and found that just cutting the leaves off and not the vine leaving several leaves on the tip caused the leaves to regrow from the nodes. This was some weeks after flowering. I think it would yield more leaf as the framework is already there as compared to it reshooting. Perhaps before flowering in summer would be the best time, rather than autumn.

The only useful purpose of twitter I have seen was after the last election in Iran where protests were organised via twitter and other social networks and news and images of those were able to be broadcast to the world, like the mobile phone video of the moment that young woman that was shot and killed by the military during the protests. Since then the government has done alot to restrict the internet. Much like the bringing the Vietnam war home via tv changed public opinion. Now they've set up a cyber army much like China. Which has attacked twitter and other sites and can use twitter to spread propaganda and disinformation. So it can be used for good and bad. Another example is the website 'please rob me' which searches twitter for keywords in peoples tweets or their status like "im going away for a week from tomorrow" or "gone out to dinner". So people that tweet what they are doing every minute of the day are not the wisest bunch.

Thanks for the confirmation guys Yea next to the monstrose cereus and massive Euphorbia that I wouldn't want to be standing near on a windy day.

Hey everyone I was visiting a rather large garden and saw this roughly 3m high cactus. Nearly spineless, 1mm or less. There was no sign showing the name. After much googling I think it could be a Trichocereus scopulicola? What do you reckon?

Full thread can be found here: link Another advantage of the narrow leaf variety is that its quite bushy with lots of fresh tips.

Temperature is only part of the reason, you need to maintain high humidity around the cutting so the leaves slow/stop their rate of transpiration. Try putting a plastic bag over it or reducing the leaf surface. You don't want to make it cool or cold, heat from underneath or a warm environment will make them root quicker. I use a little yates plastic propagator for most things. With potting mix, perlite and sharp sand in different combinations depending on the plant and it works great. With a heatmat underneath in the cooler months.