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    If ur not in a tropical climate u would be eating ur time and money and muttering some special plants!

    Not true. I live in a Mediterranean climate and my caapi plants are growing nice new green leaves at the moment even though it's Winter. My psychotrias are left outside too and they currently have pretty looking berries on them. I keep my iboga inside as a house plant though because it gets too cold.

    Psychotria carthagenensis thrives in this climate, however, psychotria viridis needs some kind of greenhouse setup otherwise the lack of humidity ruins the plant.

    I wouldn't bother striking any cuttings in the current weather though unless you were using a heated mini greenhouse or something similar.

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    Hey guy

    Haven't bought one yet. I'm gonna look at the postage costs for the all americans. Of all the youtube instruction vids i've seen they seem to be quite popular. I didn't realise the hawkings big boy didn't have a pressure gauge. Something I feel i'll need as knowing me, winging it would just mean lots of contam.

    I'm waiting to see what sort of tax return I get before I decide. I'll have a look at the presto cookers tonight d00d. Thanks for all the help everyone.

    Cheers

    YM

    All American pressure cookers appear to be what everyone covets. They even make sterilisers and autoclaves for medicine etc which can be run on gas or electricity. An electric model would be handy so you can turn it on and not have to hang around watching it.

    If you need to find out the postage costs then add it to your cart and proceed with the next few steps and Amazon will tell you how much the shipping will be. Better to do it sooner rather than later because the Aussie dollar keeps on going down.

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    Amazon has the best prices on pressure cookers, even though you still have to get them shipped from overseas. If you don't have a big budget then you can order a budget pressure cooker, such as a Presto, but if you have the funds then get yourself an All American Pressure cooker. The All American 921 is a popular model. I have this model but I'd like to order a bigger one such as the 941 model. The All American pressure cookers are tough, they'll outlive you and they also have less parts so you don't have to buy and replace seals.

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    There is never any good that comes from having catha edulis in your front yard. I've known a couple of people who had issues with this and heard stories about more.

    I had the same trouble with Indians when there was a curry tree in the front yard. They'd come at night and try to sneakily steal it but then I'd wake up thinking someone was breaking in. I'd open the front window and they'd race back to their car and drive off. They'd fuck up the tree by snapping branches off it too. My friend is having a similar problem but it's a mango tree instead of a curry tree. It sucks when people come to your home and start stealing stuff.

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    Oh, man. I know your pain. I had my two caapi plants pruned the other day before I could say anything about it or move them. There would've been a bunch of material I could've used to make cuttings with but it got put on the verge for a pick up and taken away :'(

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    I asked AQIS about importing some cultures once. From what I remember I would have had to had them labelled and inspected which would've cost me money. I then thought it'd be easier and cheaper to find someone local who had cultures.

    I was able to buy a blue oyster culture from a local source which I fruited and cultured on agar. Another thing I did was buy a mushroom grow box from Bunnings and when it fruited I took tissue samples from the mushrooms and put them on agar. If you come across mushroom grow kits then it's a good way to grow a bunch of mushrooms from which you can take spore prints and tissue samples.

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    Exactly the same with me bar the type of prefilter.

    Man, go onto Amazon or Ebay and buy some furnace filters to use as a prefilter. If you can find something just as good at a cheaper price here then do that. To quote RR

    "Use the highest quality furnace filter you can get because it will save the expensive HEPA filter. I use the super allergen, 1 X 20, by cutting the packaging so I'm using only half of it at a time.

    My flowhood is nearly 12 years old, runs several hours per day and is on the original filter. I've probably changed the prefilter 100 times."

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    Zen Peddler ..how do you work with the hood...do you just spray everything down, place it in front of the hood then turn the thing on for a pre determined amount of time before doing any work?

    I have a small flow hood. I clean the room with bleach and then I leave the hood running for a while whilst I shower and do what I have to do. To make the expensive HEPA filter last longer I bought a furnace filter and stuck it over the air intake to use as a prefilter.

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    Don't waste your money on buying cacti and succulent mix. It's so overpriced. I only buy it for seedlings since I can't be arsed pasteurising my own and a bag of store bought mix will go a long way when used for seedlings.

    Everyone seems to have their own special cactus soil mix but I just make a 50/50 mix of potting soil and coarse river sand. If you buy it by the trailer load you'll save so much money. Cover your left over pile of soil with a tarp otherwise cats will shit in it.

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