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It is for me unless im on my iphone, then its in the blue colours. Clear history and temp internet files maybe?

Lol yea - should have done that when i first potted them up once it had the plants and soil and everything in it i had no hope of lifting it (thing weighs a ton). The main issue was i didnt realise how swampy the area got after heavy rain - lesson learned

Lol yea - should have done that when i first potted them up once it had the plants and soil and everything in it i had no hope of lifting it (thing weighs a ton). The main issue was i didnt realise how swampy the area got after heavy rain - lesson learned

Try getting the free IPB (IP Board) app from the app store - i couldnt use my iphone to post for ages, then the forum got updated and i have no problem now, but i still use the app for convenience. Are you using 3G or wifi?

Its a weak sweet smell with a sort of 'leafy' smell as well - like ph said, its hard to describe, but if you've smelt it before you would recognize it. its not a strong smell, but its most noticeable on hot afternoons on plants in full sun. not sure if you would see any khat in adelaide - may be a bit cold there, but then again perth is khat central and it gets pretty chilly too.

Iv cut down gnosis and eileen already. eileen was really bad at the base (almost rotted all the way through) and i now have the stump from gnosis and a tip cutting. i completely emptied the pot today and turns out the other bridge that was in there had the same problem, so im glad i did that. The pot they were in now has a single terscheckiiXpsycho0 that im trying to grow into a monster - its doubled its size in a few months and has been the most tolerant of extreme amounts of water. i also plan to keep it off the ground this time

Most of them are doing fine, and i think the main problem is that the pot was on the ground rather than up a bit higher. also it was in the rain a lot. iv cut the 2 affected ones down and im trying to callous them up now inside away from some of the humidity. i think they all may need to go under covers if it starts raining heavily again. last year the couple of cacti i had during winter really took off (our winter is dry if you've never lived in townsville), so maybe i should be keeping them dry in summer and watering frequently during winter - which is the opposite of what you would normally do, but only the night time temp really changes between summer and winter here as well as the humidity levels.

The pot probably doesnt have the best drainage, but now you mention it i think the fact its on the ground has a lot to do with it (blocking the holes). and yea i think it has scale too - might have to get the white oil out tonight. its waaay too humid here to allow it to dry out completely at the moment, so maybe cutting will be the only option. ill try and move the pot up off the ground and out of the rain more too EDIT: ugh - just had another look, and it appears the eileen in fron of gnosis in the picture is also rotting (much worse). its rotting around the base - sort of got a cave in it. i think im going to have to cut the eileen and the gnosis and maybe take them inside away from some of the humidity and start over. its a shame tho, because the delosperma and the other bridgesii in the pot are doing really well and it looks nice (apart from big black chunks on the cacti )

Well as you all should know, QLD is pretty much under water (though mostly in the south east, we've had plenty up north too). All the rain, and the crazy humidity is not going too well with a lot of my plants and especially cacti. Iv had a small pedro get like a boil (ooozie rot patch), but its recovered since, and all my sceletium is looking real sad. the main thing im worried about though is my Gnosis (peruvianus) - i just noticed (must have happened in the last couple of days) a huge patch of black rot. im basically wondering what id be best to do. the cactus is about 40-50cm tall and the rot patch is about 10cm+ long - should i just cut it off a bit below where it is rotting and try and move the pot more under shelter? the main problem (and the reason i cant just take it out of the pot and put it in some perlite or sand till it dries up is the pot its in: those cacti have been in there a few months, so id need to take everything out of the (surprisingly heavy) pot to get gnosis out. nothing else is suffering. here is the rotted area Its funny, every season leaves me wishing for the next (we only have summer and winter in Townsville) for one reason or another. any advice?

Might give that a go. its been a bit stormy these last few days, so ill put it out now. thanks for the tip

Thanks for the advice =] i repotted it and included blood and bone with potash and trace elements. its looking a lot worse than in the first picture, but thats because i delayed in repotting. hopefully it recovers. im probably going to buy another one soon too - i love these plants

Iv only tried the red fleshed one and one with white flesh but unknown skin colour (with high tea at raffles in singapore ). Iv heard yellow is the best tasting but red flesh has a stronger flavour - but taste is pretty subjective. I sewed out most of the seeds i collected yesterday, so we'll see how that goes. they were really sticky, so hard to put down in any order. And the whole flower and little bud is dropping off too. this picture shows what i think is a developing fruit and one that will fall off soon. and here's more of the ones that are falling off and a bud that will probably open tonight (i took the picture yesterday)

Thanks for the tip kada - might go out and do that when the last couple of flowers open up and i get up their to pollinate. so far all but about 4 flowers have gone yellow and are about to drop off, the others appear to be developing fruit (the buds are still green and swelling a bit). and PH, i pretty much did what you just said =] i decided to buy a fruit while i was out last night and now i have probably about 100 seeds (from maybe an inch or two of fruit) which are the red center variety that im going to try and sprout when thy dry out. itll be interesting to see what colour fruits mine has (hopfully either red with a white center or yellow). Ill probably post some more pictures later, and it would be nice to see some from other people who have had success

Iv heard of people bathing in beer, and it wouldnt surprise me that it could clean hair and skin. i dont love beer enough to give that a try though lol

Do you mean cut the actual vine part that continues to grow past the flower? the flowers have all wilted now and i have (attempted to) pollinate most of the flowers that i could reach, so hopefully most of the lower ones should produce fruit soon.

Iv heard of a few different cacti being used for conditioner. Trichocereus and opuntia (prickly pear) being the main ones. not sure how well they would work though.

Well its growing up an Ironbark with a large sapodilla next to it, so it receives some (dappled) shade maybe for a couple of hours a day, but otherwise it gets quite a bit of sun. Noone goes out of their way to fertilize it at all, and its growing out of a small pot (the roots have well and truly destroyed the pot and run down to the ground). Its right next to the driveway and the soil (lik e the rest of the townsville area - except near the ocean) is basically solid clay most of the time with poor drainage. It is near where the lawn is frequently watered though. i think flowering is triggered by a well watered plant that then receives a shit load of extra water then maybe some sun. i can only comment on a plant this size and age (5-10years) though because none of my other smaller ones have flowered. but it flowers most years around this time, we just never get fruit. i could start feeding it to see if that brings on more flowers, but i doubt it will be effective because of the fact its clay with poor drainage that then also slopes down to the driveway. any excess water quickly turns the driveway into a small river, then the whole yard turns into a swamp.

That is interesting =] Seems like only certain ones are self pollinating, so hopefully mine is. i guess ill know in a week or two. thanks for the link. good read

hahaha yea me too and yea collecting plants in general makes me want my own property to plant them all in the ground (where they belong)

They'll do fine, but will probably grow fairly slow. i have a couple of brigesii indoors at the moment while i sort out a new home for them, and they are still growing fairly fast, but a bit deformed (losing ribs)

I hope so too and mutant dragonfruit is delicious (and expensive!). The only time iv eaten them was in singapore, but you can get them here at certain times. They dont have a lot of flavour, but its a mild kiwi/pear kinda flavour and the seeds make it nice and crunchy. Chilled on a hot day would be heavenly might have to keep an eye out around town for other flowering plants and collect some pollen (only trouble is you often need a tall ladder to get to flowers)

Damn - i hope im lucky too. iv never seen so many flowers on the thing! thanks for clearing that up =]

Hey all, my massive hylocereus is in full bloom at the moment - this is the most flowers iv ever seen on it! the last two nights dozens of them have opened up and wilted away the next day, but there are still plenty more to come Iv been up there in the mornings on a ladder with a paintbrush to hopefully pollinate some of the flowers so i can get some tasty pitayas. is running a paintbrush around inside the flowers enough to successfully pollinate them? as far as i know pollination rates are pretty poor here naturally (from what i understand in their native habitat they are mostly pollinated by large moths and some bats, which we dont have here). Iv seen plenty of flowering plants around town, but none ever seem to get fruit. this particular plant is around 5 or 6m high and is growing from a small pot thats tied to the host tree (its been there as long as i can remember though and its pretty much busted out of the pot). I would really love to be eating chilled dragonfruit this time next month so hopefully iv done the right thing =] thanks

Good ideas guys =] ill have to pick up a ph test kit, and ill repot it asap. ill also try some dynamic lifter pellets (cant hurt even if thats not the issue). The rain seems to have eased off now, so i think the next few weeks are going to be pretty busy - the whole yard is a swamp at the moment and a lot of my plants are not liking it all that much. surprisingly my cacti seem to be the least affected by the weather, they are all going mad and only 1 (which is indoors) has had an issue with rot. ill also give everything a good feed tomorrow (the ibogas are both under cover now, so nutrient runoff and overwatering shouldnt be much of an issue any more. i just hope i can save my plant.

The ceramic pot has drainage, but it was sitting on the ground (clay), so that may have blocked the holes too much. Im going to repot the healthy one later into the terracotta pot that its sitting in in the picture, so ill probably put the sick one in the pot the healthy one comes out of. The soil is similar for both except the sick one has a fair bit more perlite and gravel in it (my attempt to overcome the decreased drainage from the glazed pot). Id say your right though, because i had an "unnamed bolivian rainforest plant" ;) in it that started off in a fridge crisper with holes drilled in the bottom in a similar pot and its leaves started wilting on one branch, and spread branch bybranch until it just carked it Thanks for the suggestion