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    manitou rolling tobacco

    in my current SE asia hideout you can buy an ounce of homegrown nicotinia rustica for 20 cents US. its dry and harsh, but definitely gives a more smooth and satisfying experience than commercial cigarettes (LA lights... ) . the locals in the country side smoke it in huge fat spliff type constructions where the shear amount of densely packed material acts as a filter. goes well with betel nut and palm wine apparently! will try adding some piper betel leaves to the bag to give back some moisture...
  2. well said – magic is everywhere.
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    2010 P Cubensis Season NOW OPEN!!

    welcome to the world of the mushroom... yep they are cubensis mate, nice healthy specimens! best way to preserve them for later mycological analysis is to air dry them at room temperature. the rate of oxidation increases with temperature for psilocybin. check the inside of the stems for maggots... especially the large diameter ones.
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    doogadooga

    deva vu... the fabric of reality right there
  5. I guess this is the traditional shamanic healing (or sorcery attack) approach, where the psychedelic space is used as a means to an ends. but it seems to me the psychedelic space is dynamic and its purpose is no longer what it used to be in traditional societies. for me at least, a contemporary approach appears to be entering into the psychedelic space with an open mind and attempting to discover what lies behind the veil, and encountering that in the form it so chooses.... this seems to be the antithesis of the shamanic approach as the intention is no longer on manifesting outcomes in this world, but experiencing an authentic encounter with the other. it just feels to me that we are progressing to the point where the barriers between the two worlds will eventually dissolve... perhaps spontaneous psychedelic experiences are a foreshadowing of this.
  6. so how do we go about engineering this possibility? (EDIT: I see your answer is 'directed ritual tripping' – care to elaborate?) psychedlic experiences are perhaps merely the desire for such a possibility will crystallise it out of the historical process. this reminds me of mckenna's axiom "what would you do if you could do anything?". although he had other answers, one that springs to mind is – initiate psychedelic experiences endogenously, of course! as this would not require us maintaining the intimate relationship with nature it currently requires (knowledge and care for the psychoactive plants), I think endogenous psychedelic experiences would require us to be in direct connection with Gaia or whatever you want to call the collective organic matrix. In the dream state perhaps we are actually in the realm of the Gaian mind, and this allows the psychedelic experience to manifest spontaneously. I see the current state of humanity as the come-down from an collective psychedelic trip that we experienced between 200,000 and 10,000 years ago. just like after a trip you try and make sense of your experience, image it via art and integrate it into your life, humanity is attempting to do the same vis a vis our partnership with the goddess. history is the attempt to image the transcendental beauty experienced in the ecstasy of the tryptamine trance. this physical, atom based existence is but a prelude to our future as a co-partner of Gaia in the spirit realm, where the psychedelic space is reality. random ramblings...
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    2yr old peruvianus HB01

    this guy grew 75cm in 12 months!
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    Nepal - shrooms and mountains

    Your trip looks and sounds amazing, I have been thinking of going with my girlfriend next year. You have now convinced me! Nice photography too, love the smattering of plant shots throughout your blog. Did you encounter any jhankri on your travels?
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    2010 P Cubensis Season NOW OPEN!!

    hey mate, yeah it can take a while to find a good patch. ideally you want to know the people whose property you are on. if you come across a random farm paddock, always talk to the owner and be up front about what you are doing... talk about mycology, show them your camera etc. often farmers are grateful that you have let them know what your up to, and will give you free reign. even if you have permission, its also nice to find places away from roads and out of sight – don't really want to draw attention to yourself. in terms of location, look for paddocks adjacent to forests with small hills and creeks running through them and nice long green grass (careful – watch out for king brown snakes, lots of them around). trees and gullies provide a bit of shelter for when its not so wet, and the open grass areas produce the huge sun-seeking fruits when its really wet (like now). also its the older cow pies that the mushrooms grow on, so you can steer clear of the herd... (jumping over barbed wire fences with a bull chasing you is not fun).
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    2yr old peruvianus HB01

    double post
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    2yr old peruvianus HB01

    ^^ was in 1:1 potting mix and sand for first yr, then 1:1:1 potting mix, perlite and sand for the next year. used seasol for nutrients, but not very often. It was in the central queensland coast for the last winter so maybe it liked the extra sun and heat. I have just been assuming that HB01 was a fast growing strain.
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    Hyperemesis in long term Cannabis users

    sounds like a similar quantity then I guess. will be interesting to hear the results of your friends bioassays. good luck!
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    Hyperemesis in long term Cannabis users

    and how do they fair with that habit? you have to expect some negative consequences from such high consumption. but in a way your right, that thread does seem to indicate there are predisposing factors for cannabis hyperemesis.
  14. Alien life form ‘is here on Earth’ Will be interesting to see this press conference, 6am tomorrow morning. I guess it is probably at least partly related to NASA drumming up public interest in a bid for attention from the government (ie money), but they might actually have something interesting here...
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    Hyperemesis in long term Cannabis users

    I heard about this syndrome on The Grow Report forum: The following response in that thread echoes my own views on this: In this case durastically reducing intake was an effective measure against the symptoms – although I think he was smoking a very large amount of herb, 6 to 10 spliffs a day for 16 years!! No wonder.... anything in excess is going to f%#k you up. Ethan, is the intake of your friend similar or different to this case?
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    Bulk KAVA

    get a mate who is coming back from a pacific island to bring you back some (2kg limit), get thompsons kava capsules from your health food store or grow a kava plant
  17. Hi guys, I don't have much experience with cacti and would like some advice! 6 months ago I was given a 6 inch cutting (from near the bottom) of a very large san pedro plant. I threw it in a pot with 1 part river sand, 1 part searles cactus mix and rocks on the bottom to aid drainage. The cutting got very wet over the second half of winter and started to rot (red stuff on the base), but come spring i could feel roots were emerging and one month ago these pups emerged: The pups look healthy (but I guess they always do), but the cutting doesn't look so good with a lot of blackness (an infection or rot?) appearing at the spines and the exposed top surface. Here are pics of the single root that has emerged and the bottom surface: There is much less redness on the bottom surface than there was in the past; maybe this can be attributed to its new location where it doesn't get much rain. But still I am worried that if I don't improve its growing conditions that when I get back from OS its going to dead. What soil mix, nutrients, watering schedule or magik would you recommend to keep her alive? cheers!
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    Wikileaks media coverage

    totally agree sola, the public's response to this has been spineless. even 'letters to the editor' columns are full of people saying how wikileaks is an attack on the free world... we truly have a propagandised population when the people side with the governments and organisations that oppress us.
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    help with a san pedro cutting

    yep i am learning these spiney friends of ours are very tough to kill, but sometimes hard to grow well. cheers guys, I think your right too much water. the sand was the problem, too fine so it didn't allow efficient drainage. will make a mix with some coarse sand, soil and perlite and report on how it goes!
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    HB01 pup

    going to miss this little guy growing up... lets hope he is as vertically aspiring as his mum
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    Freecycle

    wow have managed to find homes for most of my stuff on freecycle in the space of a few hours! just make sure you aren't offering stuff to people that seem to be getting things of freecycle and on-selling them on gum tree etc... unfortunately I found a few people claiming hardship then searching their phone number I found things like plasma TV's for sale on other sites!
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    2010 P Cubensis Season NOW OPEN!!

    when its a bit dry, I look under eucalyptus trees as leaf matter and debris can insulate the cow pie's enough to fruit, like these guys:
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    Mushrooms on TED

    yeah paul stamets is very inspirational, what a passion for fungi he has! checkout his company website Fungi Perfecti lol love the giant prehistoric mushrooms in that TED talk!
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    Police arrest 43 in biggest drug raid

    racist cunts.... there is no need to mention the ethnicity of the people involved... unless this will justify the police actions to a redneck public. $30 mil equates to about 100,000 ounces... would be interested to hear if this seizure drives up the price in victoria - if it doesn't, there is a shit load of weed being grown elsewhere.
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    Acacia

    IME acacia's love being in the ground - the growth gets stunted after about a year when in pots. guess its the same with most plants, they prefer space for their roots to grow.
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