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planthelper

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  1. your datura x crosses are good work! :)

    you saying "father not around any more" makes me think as follows.

    if you would breed brumansias, you could save a clone (cutting) more easy than with a datura.

    if you want to be able to re create any of your x crosses, than you have to work with stabilised parent plants.

    you get stabilised parents by inbreeding them for 4 generations or more.

    datura cuttings should work though as well, in other words, you could have saved all parents, via cuttings, and prolong ther life this way. than you have the parents, for x crosses as well alive for longer.

    some of your parent plants could be stabilised already, because of previous in breeding.

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  2. your pot is a magnet for pests animals, because of the moisture and the good food you provide.

    I suggest you re pot them into the open or repot and place the pot somewhere, where it dries out more.

    12 inch plants hardly can get killed by slugs and leaf eaters (they always survive!:)), even if ther is only halve the stem left they will re shoot.

    try not to fight the pest but eliminate issues which facilitate the pest ( wet spot with slug, snail hide outs, too shady, spot never dries out,...).

    put the pot's somewhere higher up, this can make it harder for snails/slugs.

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  3. its a matter of trust, and those people can't be trusted anymore.

    I used to be a tradesman and my clients trust me, that I will not bug there phone, check out there medicinal cabinet, and don't touch any of there things and belongings!

    if Obama and co would be tradesman, it means they would do all of the above stuff, double standards...

    no one has the right to listen and tape your personel life.


  4. oi t , an old friend of mine worked on a duboisia farm out near kingaroy. the farm was fuken huge .. so yeap this plant would turn sum coin!!!!!!!!!!

    keep talking, we need to know more.

    I want a pituri farm as well, on top of my hoodia farm.

    had to give up my sceletium farm, as bigger guns took over my share, such is life, hehehe.

    plenty of fish in the sea!


  5. Well done PH! Still nothing from my lot you sent... My viridis, Cartha and nexus are all about to flower and there's plenty of native bees in the greenhouse so hopefully there's some interesting crosses! Or should I selectively pollinate?

    my view is psychotrias don't need hand pollinating, but maybe I am just lucky to have many bees and all sort of insects in the garden.

    all my psychotrias, apart from the shipibo, just emerged there flower spikes, but I took most of them off, by hand, as I don't want them to flower and produce seeds. left two spikes at the nexus though...

    side track over.


  6. following the threads in the cacti and plant forum...

    sundays, I often go for an excursion.

    today, I stayed close to home, but it was still very event full.

    I decided, to go fishing and setting red claw traps in the local dam. :)

    decided, to drive a 4 wheel drive track, with my non 4 wheel drive car, and got bagged in a sand trap right at the beginning. :BANGHEAD2: placed twigs and branches of a fallen tree, underneath the tiers, but made only little progress. walked to a friends house close by, and they snatched me out of the sand. :worship:

    good ozzie adventure, right from the word start. :excl:

    fishing turned out a waste of time, but I managed to set the traps, with hopefully, no body watching me (the bastards steal your traps plus contents) :devil: .

    now the highlight, I tried another spot for fishing, and noticed a pair of small king fishers, flying in and out of there nesting hole, catching aquatic food!! :uzi:

    took some samples of the alluvial of this creek, in hope to find some gold.

    life is good!

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  7. Hey there, nice plants.. here's my P.carth, just sprouting after 3 months. No sign of the P.viridis yet...

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    They are in takeaway cont. the lid is kept on apart from this pic. Was wondering if I should leave lid on, but for how long? they are under a T8 twin cool white fluro. With shade cover.

    Cheers

    harden them out right away after they germed, so take the cover off.

    observe for wilting symptoms, once you took the cover off, if wilt is observed, put cover back on, but take off again a few hours later.

    here is my pic of a seed grown nexus, seedling which just poked her head out yesterday.

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    I don't use a dome/ cover at all for viridis seeds.

    if you keep them under great humidity, you will run into trouble later...

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    nexus_seedling#1.JPG

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  8. hi!

    I am after some energy exchange or swap.

    I offer cunnilingus :wub: to the right person, in exchange for cleaning my fridge on the inside, outside no need, I do. :)

    I offer a even better service, to a lady who would clean my stove. :wink:

    the rest of the house work, I do myself (bedding is clean and fresh!!),
    but I struggle with those two task's, pls help. :blush:

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  9. regarding camphor wood getting you "high", there is no sience back up...

    I worked with camphor, and when you router the wood for a few hours, I felt intoxicated, but I got no one to back me up on this.

    neither wood I know, which are the actives behind this claim, but camphor contains safrol...

    if you breath in those fumes for a long time, your hands get shackey and your eyes will get blood red and you will weep a lot...

    edit: I tried 4 different versions of shackie all were wrong, English sucks...

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