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I only know sceletium, but it too has this salty flavour, thank god somebody mentioned this detail. my guess is, if it stinks, it's good! I once made a batch of sceletium, and it smelled like cheese, does your have a bit a cheesy scent?

but not recommended for the hot tropics, unless over winter, as said... this thread makes me realize how, a german word inspires non german speakers, like a latin church mess in the old day's...

T peruvianus 'rahuapampa' (iv got a lot of crests from these seeds) please, i'll pm you. will share, the spoils, in given time... "sab, the best place to be".

you should have gone to specsavers instead! obviously, you did not employ my trick. not happy Jane...

it's a skill to grow, vigorous plants in small pot's but it is possible. I had a 3m caapi in a small pot... small pot's dry out fast, that's the main issue, but if you fertilize (mix up indoor strength, than add 10 or more times water) with almost every watering, and you can water twice a day (or even more), when needed, it's possible. morning sun or dappled light is enough, otherwise evaporation is too big.

seems our beloved friends are quite resilient. the firemen did a lot of hazard burn offs localy, and all of the "wild" cacti (optunia & co) survive those either scarred or they regrow from the bottom. I believe I have seen the same with pedros, they grow back from the base. extremely hot and durable fires will though kill everything, and this includes even, the so called fire resistant Australian natives. we had one of those fires localy, I guess the are should have been back burned more often... the area I talk about, is shaped like steep funnel... good to know, all is well at your place!

another, facilitating raping nature law!

the rest went out today! if your transfer went through, after I looked last time, than I will send out to you, next Monday/Tuesday. I got still some good stuff left, so send me a pm, if you want. most specimens which haven't sold yet, will be sold in bulk soon.

tony abbott is our new prime minister... does that mean, many Australians have a low iq, just like him?

pyrolising is not a good method with kanna like materials, sublingual (1 to 3g), is better, imho. once it get's too strong, take the quid out of the mouth, once you feel "confident again", put the quid into the mouth again. a single quid can last you 1h or more...

I have posted 5 parcels today, and will do more tomorrow! a few people interested, have not transferred yet, so here is a reminder. I got still some realy good stuff left, drop me a pm, if you haven't done so already, and we work out the details.

gtarman, what you suggested, I tried even before, I asked here and it was not the way. I was talking about, what is called uploaders comment. but I worked it out now, and deleted it, it was a symbol next to my comment, clicking it gave a drop down list, and I clicked delete... wau, I thought every website must feature an email addy, but google doesn't have one, how ironic. basicly, one cannot complain to google, strange indeed.

I got a troll, at my last upload, and it seems, the first comment cant be deleted by me. I does one report a troll, to youtube? the report button only covers the video, but not the comments.

thx! said to contain supinine. anyway the whole plant seems to scream stay away... AbstractTwo pyrrolizidine alkaloids, supinine and lasiocarpine, have been investigated pharmacologically. In confirmation of our previous results in mice and rats, a single intravenous injection of lasiocarpine was followed by acute necrosis of the liver of golden hamsters and a rhesus monkey. Hypoprothrombinemia occurred in rats injected with lasiocarpine. Single intravenous injections of supinine, on the other hand, had no hepatotoxic action in mice and rats. This alkaloid appeared to have a very weak atropine-bike action.

I spotted this plant today on a bushwalk (at the road side embankment), it has to be out of the duboisia family, but I could not find it on the web. the flowers were blue and not white as with pituri, as well it was covered with "stinging nettle like spikes", which ouch, right away embedded themselves when I touched it. sorry for the out of focus close up of the flower. it was a small ~ 1m bush, not sure if it can grow much larger, probably not as it was in full bloom.

my pc skill are just average, or less... i would like to edit my own, comment (the field which shows up on top of viewers comments), but can't find a way, how is it done?

it could be a variegated seedling, and all of us hope it is! if it's shrivelled, than this would support our hopes. good luck for when you graft them.

African violet, is a classic leaf cutting. here is a list: http://plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com.au/2010/04/list-houseplants-which-can-be.html

my guess is no, sorry to say. it's not uncommon that some are green and some are orange in color, to be honest your "red one", grows far to well to be variegated. variegated cacti, don't grow well and are to my knowledge white in colour. will you graft them anyway? arios grow much slower than lophs, so I quite like grafting them anyway. if it is variegated, than it will only survive, if grafted (with very, minimal exeptions).

nice one! many seed grown individuals of the same mother, show similar growth pattern, but there are huge exeptions. some seed might be more uniform and true to type than other. I got many dwarf peyote and some giant ones, and they all came from the same seed... the small loph is in a far too large pot, and for this reason it would not grow fast either, because, fast dry wet cycles are needed to avoid root rot. a large pot can't be watered often, otherwise one risks problems, imho. anyway, you probably think, i'm splitting hairs here... if one uses, clones of the same specimen and a more similar set up, the difference is a bit less. anyway, it doesn't look like you grafted a dwarf and cultivated a giant on it's own roots, but it has happened... nice pic.

^I have replied to your pm.

one can bleed the Mexican, but I found it very labour intensive, compared to boiling up, I thought, there is not much quality difference between, milking and boiling up. it's possible to milk, wild lettuce, by cutting the stems, and wiping the milk off, the cut, two or more day's later you cut them a bit lower and so on... wait for the rains, or water a lot before collecting sap. as everything has an up and downside, I say as follows. if you are after a quick fix, small amount, go for bleeding, if bulk, go for boiling up, maybe. I never used any poppy much, so I don't know how addictive, wild poppies can get, use them sparingly and in small amounts.

I would say yes, but I have not got experience with all of them. I might add at this point, that I think, bleeding any of the legal ones, is not the way to go. another avenue, I never have tried, would be to lace the herb, with the product of the extraction.

nice and good quality pic's, great progress, shonman! and thx Dl for all your input!

I have killed seedlings by attempting, to pull the seed coat off by hand, but I have been successful many times as well. I would try to pull the coat off, if I were you, but with tiny force only, as you could be lucky and it comes off easy. but maybe the easy, to pull ones, would have come of themselves a little bit later, so it's a hard call at times. it as well depends how steady your hands are, but sometimes the "skin" (I think it's called endosperm), can be cut, with a scalpel or small razor blade. doing so helps often, and it's this skin (visibly, just where the hypocotyl / stem, comes out of the seed coat) which will strangle the seed. the safest method, which helps, without any risks are, to mist the seed coat with a mister or by other means, as often as possible. you can as well, place a tiny pot filled with soil next to the seedling, in a fashion that the new pot, will act like the seed head is still under ground. to achive this, a slot is cut with sissors, which will facilitate this feat.