tripsis

That Path of Life pendant is awesome. If I had the money, I'd buy it.

Amazing work, very skillful carving. Are you self-taught? Website is working for me.

at the general hilarity of this thread.

Believe what you want. Tell me, why is it you think mould can't produce even growth? Pleurotus cystidiosus has larger conidia than what's in your photo, with each conidium composed of a droplet of black liquid. It's impossible to tell from that photo, but are those black point liquid?

Nope, you're looking at mould there.

Or you could just use white oil.

One of my absolute favourite tracks, incredibly beautiful. http://val.fm/lights-of-arctica-metanoya-reprise-koan-mp3/

You should remove them, or the stock will be directing energy to growth of its pups, rather than to the scion.

Sorry to see you go, tipz.

Yes, many varieties of scale in many colours. Scale encompasses a large taxonomic group of insects. I think you should share your more colourful language in future.

Wow, maroon sunflowers. Never seen those before. I need a proper garden again. No growing giant anything for me until then...

Also...

Difficult to say with the quality of those photos, but it looks like scale. Pretty easy to get under control, but I would quarantine those until you do.

Something you wouldn't want to trip over into? Maybe Stetsonia coryne.

As a matter of fact, looking at those latter photos of Mushroomman's compared to the one I just posted, it may be the same plant. Would potentially explain the age of the mother plant as well.

Not dissimilar to the terscheckii from Dawson's either, though that plant is massive and fat. (interbeing's photo)

I've been hoping you'd weigh in EG. Originally I wanted to suggest that it may not be a Trichocereus, but I didn't have any suggestions as to what it could be instead. Doesn't quite look right to me.

Those poor cormorants, trapped in a life of fishing slavery...

The Great Arch of China, in Getu River National Park. I hope to be climbing there within the next four years. See the Youtube vid thread for the video. Worth watching even if you're not into rock climbing.

Check out the link. Not photoshopped, just simply amazing.

Musically, not my cup of tea. But...mmmm, cute hippie chicks..

There are some stories I would like to share, but being a public forum probably won't. So back in my youth, when I still smoked weed, I was in Africa with my girlfriend at the time. We had travelled to a little coastal town called Lamu, in Kenya. East Africa was an extremely intense and often unpleasant experience for us, both being young, naive and with little experience travelling in foreign countries. So we're in the town, idyllic in some ways, not so much in others and decided we wanted to smoke, so to went to find some weed. This was an easy thing to do for both of us as we had dreadlocks, which immediately labelled us as Rastas to many Africans. We found someone who could help us out and followed him into some back alleys. We sat down on a bench across from a local eatery and he told us to wait. After a few minutes he returned, then asked us to pass him the money discreetly. Once done, he handed us the bud right in front of everyone who was eating, making no attempt to hide it and then bolted. We were sitting there with everyone staring at us, stunned and unsure what to do. We quickly left and got back to our hotel, rolled up a joint and smoked it up on the roof. Then the paranoia set in. We thought about the shit we would get in if we got caught, weed being illegal there and all, and so in a moment of panic decided the best thing to do would be to flush it down the toilet. When that failed, we tossed it off the roof into the wind. After calming down we turned to each other and commented "could really do with a smoke now...damn!".