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    It was the CBD I was taking for the most part, kinda funny cause I was surrounded by mountains of OG Kush. One of my issues with weed is it can make my anxiety levels worse.i guess it's safe to say if my back pain and anxiety levels are lower than decent sleep usually follows. I didn't get to use it long enough to make much in the way of definitive comments it was only for one sweet, sweet month I was doing that work in California.

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    Grafting is the logical choice if you want to selectively breed cacti for the production of hybrids and cultivars before you GET old. I've found it to be a pretty popular method on most cacti forums. I don't like how they look. It is a means to an end. It also allows me to show all my hot young cacti groupie girlfriends the fruits of my labour before they get old. ;-)

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    Wow I haven't looked on any international Ebay sites in long while. For someone in Australia it gets a bit much to take. The low prices and rarities that is. I had no idea it was so freely available. Do you know how that occurred was it due to this propagation program I was told of or the usual illegal stuff? The botanist who found it was pretty determined to keep the site a secret for as long as possible. How many vendors sell it? Would love to know how they get at the seed given what you say Berengar. Funny I just had a look at which country's the vendors were in. Eastern Europe. What is it about Eastern Europe and very rare recently discovered cacti showing up for sale?

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    Nooooooooooo. Dark day in SAB history. Your gunna be missed mate. Lucky for me I have the training, means and motivation to hunt you down. Massive loss to this place. Starting to feel like a war zone in here. We've lost two good people in as many weeks.

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    That does my head in, I looked at a bunch of photos of valdezii thinking I had misidentified that plant and I had. I've grafted ritterii. I have mostly seen photos of what must have been wild plants. That thing is so green and the ribs are so pronounced, looks so perfect. Just not used to seeing them in cultivation and you can prob place more blame on some eastern euro smuggler than yourself mate. First time I saw a wild plant for sale was from the Czech Republic from memory. I even started a thread here about our responsibilities with regards. I didn't explain my point very well. It's a sad difficult issue the loss of plants like the originals from the wild. I thought I had heard of a program to spread seed from that new Mammillaria Bertholdii and A. valdezii. In fact I still have not seen that new Mammillaria Bertholdii for sale. I was told the botanist who discovered it was keeping the location secret and an immediate propagation program be started to try and prevent the extinction of those in the wild thanks to collectors. A particularly well know grower here was offered to take part in the program but the import of the seeds at the time was and still is illegal I guess.The problem was the import into Aus of the seed to take part in the program not the export of the seed from Mexico ( from what I understood it was all good legalities wise on the Mexican side but Aus aquis were going to be a problem). That new Mamm is one of the coolest plants I've ever seen.

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