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i would leave it too, i had my first trichocereus (a scop) absolutely mauled by a hungry possom and it started rotting, a horrible black slime rot halfway though the side, right to the core and then stopped! i was stoked, sure its pretty ugly now but it saves the hassle of drying and re-rooting.

whoops, sorry i wont do that again guys i was trying to be helpful.. but i guess it didnt work

lol your request will no doubt be fulfilled!

awesome if you ever come back again send me a pm and come round for a cuppa!

hahahaa i thought that could have been the case im glad you like what i have done with them lol and thanks again, they have really made my collection alot more special

probably wellington would be your best bet for multicultural diversity! i love it there, very vibrant and creative good idea on the street directory, i havent spent too much time in the suburbs other than miramar where my dad lives and that is a suburd almost entirely inhabited by weta employees and weta buildings! very nice though. some areas seem a bit seedy. another thing that amazed me about wellington is how many personal elevators alot of people have on rich clifftop water front properties!

hey someone from the south island! they are from a guy who is selling trichs on trademe at the moment, his username is qo72 and is in nelson have a look under trichocereus, he has heaps of big pedros on at the moment, i reccomend asking a question on one of his listings, he might have some perus left

had one this morning that went something like this. at my boyfriends house and we noticed this incredibly big glasshouse on his property which we had somehow missed before and it was so huge it would take me litterally half an hour to walk fro one end to the other, we were planning on splitting it into three zones, one for cacti, one for food and one for leafy ethnobotanicals. then ended up at this house belonging to a guy i know and we were sitting in his house with a group of hippies and they noticed the massive glasshouse at my boyfriends house and they all wanted to go explore it so we went over. then shit started to get weird... we were all running around in the glasshouse getting drunk and then more and more poeople started appearing out of no where until i realised that the new people arriving were'nt people they were like human shells all governed by the same conciousness, and then they snapped us all into this group dreamstate where we were all dreaming individually but somehow all the dreams were coinciding and we were all brainstorming on how to fix the problems that we as a human race are currently facing. we were all sitting as if in a movie theater and dreaming together, seeing the group dream as a whole made up of all the individual parts, sort of like when someone makes a picture of a face made up of hundreds of other photos. the other people were only identifiable by a sinister feeling that you got when you looked at them and myself and my boyfriend were completely surrounded by them, we somehow managed to snap ourselves out the dream state and run away, but i think that if we had stayed a solution could have been reached.

my place is about 25-30mins walk from the centre of town but im in dunedin - some people love it some people hate it, we have this saying about dunedin weather being four seasons in a day, but with global warming i reckon it will end up perfect conditions. tripsis is pretty spot on with his comment, most places are quite small. one thing i would also like to mention is that the north island has large areas which have been burnt for use as farm land so can be quite barren in some areas, whereas the south island is generally a bit more untouched. depending on wheather you want to go to the extremes and live in pristine ancient forest and dont mind being a hermit your best bet would be the wild west coast of the south island, but if you want a nice natural landscape with a decent enough town to be able to party when you feel like it i would recommend wellington (very arty, cultural city, but lacks the small town charms of dunedin and you have to travel quite a while to get out of the densely habitated area) nelson (summer paradise, beautiful scenery but goes a bit dead on the social scene in winter)or dunedin (a large chunk of the population are students -most of whom seem like dipshit eggs getting all raucous cause they are away from mummy and daddy for the first time, but there has to be some good people amongst them. so there are HEAPS of young people and lovely area to live in. glad to hear someone's considering crossing the ditch in the other direction for once!

cheers! certainly not too bad of a garden to inherit as a rental property, came complete with 3 plum trees, 2 apple trees, and apricot tree and a fig tree - i'll certainly be staying here for a few years yet. will also add a pic in the near future of my big norfolk pine tree, i think its about 30-50years old, beautiful geometric form! not 100% sure its a grass but will have a look at the tag next time i'm home. and Moses cheers for the tip! i am a complete newbie its very much appreciated. i also read somewhere a day after ripping all the roots off my new plants that nz natives HATE their roots being tampered with and that it often leads to instant deathl! but they havent carked it yet so i'm considering myself very lucky!

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i have been wondering lately about finding some decent classical music as i occasionally hear the most mind blowingly intricate stuff on the radio, but they quite often wont tell you whats what. some stuff really reminds me of trance and decent electronic but i dont really know where to start when it comes to classical. have kinda gotten over electronic music at the mo, after listening to it for so long i find i am craving REAL music with REAL instruments, there is something magical and elegant about classical. would love to hear any suggestions or even anything out of the classical genre

please no one limit what you would like to share within the typical classical genre, as i am open to anything and actually really like the broad spectrum of what people have been mentioning. as much as the standard classical archetypes are magestic in their own right i am more into the the music which is difficult to define into a particular genre. and i'm a she!

wow fuck yeah thats awesome

wow i love that leather and lace cover, Icelandic music is so ethereal!

some hard out secret agent business going on here. cool!

cheers well you guys have certainly set me up for a future of loving classical music!

odd maybe there was something sinister about the history of the place which you were driving around.. if it was a real place. i occasionally come across a place i have never been and i swear i have been there in a dream before very strange

yes please do i would be really keen to see any of your creations too. peyote paper weight sounds excellent!

just stumbled across these guys, Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson i'm pretty taken with them btw how do you embed videos?

yes! i have heard these from the movie Amelie - amazing!!

thanks guys there is certainly some beautiful work, atleast gives me a starting point! cheers for sharing what your ears like with my ears

my partner has spider dreams too, often wakes up and rips back all the covers frantically looking for them. slightly off topic, but i heard recently a theory that an insect that lives on a certain plant and is always there could be the spirit of the plant in question. there is a massive spider who is always in the same spot at the top on one of my partners cacti, happens to be the only variety i have ever tried. i also remember reading about Arachne a spider goddess who weaves the web of life and also decides when your life thread is cut off, tried to find more about it on the net but couldnt find much sense through the rubbish

fuck that "its my tobacco pipe!"