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Hey blowng do you know who the artist is for the datura and mandrake paintings is?
Seen them before, really like em.
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Ps don't be nervous of grafting, if you can succeed on pere you can succeed on a trich for sure. If your uncertain do some practice runs with cheap cacti from garden stores.
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At this size, and considering how lovely and plump it is, I would definitely graft onto a small/medium sized trich. It will take easily cause it looks so healthy, and the growth that could be achieved in 1-2 more years on a stock makes degrafting now not so worthwhile. It also takes a long time for astro degrafts to grow roots, so may be advisible to get it a bit bigger before attempting to grow roots of its own to ensure it doesn't dry up too quickly cause its little.
Matter of taste of course, but I reckon it would be loovely on a wee pach.
Very cute. Well done.
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I make weapons of peace, preventative warfare.
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Top notch!
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Thanks buddy. It really is wonderful. Couldn't believe my luck and still barely can. I've been being extra extra nice to my landlady and tending the hens, ducks and geese and working in the vege garden with hopes she'll let me stay on long term.
Wait till you guys see the worm farms..omg. Never seen anything like it. I have so much worm castings its ridiculous.
Beautiful house and property, with a pretty colourful history. It has fallen to neglect a little over the last 15 years or so. Guess that's why I'm here. Put a bit of new energy into the place, get it lively again. And so very lively it is..
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Thanks all!
And hey Getafix, believe it or not it is! And yeah still have 3/4s of my plants at my friends and my mums houses, cause I've been slow on the uptake this year and until recently circumstances haven't been appropriate for having 30-50ish spikey as heck trichs around.
Once I get a free weekend with vehicle access then some things gonna change around here.
I am trying to decide if I should get another greenhouse or not..
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Thought it be time for another garden grow log..
I have since moved homes and now live in a little oasis. Today the sun was shining brightly so I got sowing cacti seeds and tending some of the plants.
This is the beginning. I'll post here as the garden slowly develops, still have many plants hibernating with friends and family, but since I feel like I have my gardener-self coming back into season, I'll start here.
Planted some:
Macrogonus OP from Ethy
Macrogunus OP (secret garden) from Olive
Sausage OP (secret garden) from Olive
Goliath OP (secret garden) from Olive
Macrogonus x Juuls from Thunderhorse
Validus x Peruvianus from Thunderhorse
Roseii #1 OP from Ethy
Validus (alpine garden society) from Thunderhorse.
Then sat the trays out on the table to get a good initial sun-burst:
Watered bonsai, got this one at the front for my birthday, been bringing it out during the day for fresh air and sun and inside in the evenings, seems happy enough but I'm being careful as was told they are sensitive. Can't remember the botanical name ..might be a ficus. Think it is. The other one is some very hardy kind of conifer:
Added more worm castings to the vege tray at the back, watered what was already out here and then titoou'd about moving some of the braver indoor plants out into the world.
The conifer in green ceramic pot is a Tsuga, then there's a clymacen, trichodaemeia, pedro, candicans, haworthia, crassulla 'Fawlty Towers' from CC, and what I'm pretty sure is an acacia maidenii...and bulbs and kale and silver beet chilling at the far right.
Then added sedum crest, some juuls x peruvianus in 4 singular black pots at left, a macrogonus in circular geen pot in middle, then some huarazensis x puquiensis from nitrogen in the two black 6 packs, then newly repotted variegated pachanoi crest.
Then some of the indoor stuff
My 1st graft bottom left corner, ariocarpus retusus in centre bottom, two ariocarpus fissuratus in pot together, in small bonsai dish in right bottom corner is 4 ariocarpus types, fissuratus, kotschoubeyanus, kotschoubeyanus v. Elephantidens, ariocarpus hybrid..can't remember what.
Further back on the left are some more nitrogen seedlings waiting to be repotted, ayacucho x huarazensis and behind them puquiensis x scopulicola. Behind that is 4 op bridgesii 'alko' and next to them is a TPM x TPQC from nitrogen on a pere. Midrange there's a grafted aztekium ritterii, ariocarpus brovanus on pere, singular will, then tucked over in the far left corner is a pelecephora aselliaformis and a teeny tin TPM x TPQC crest and some kanna cuttings.
Will show my crests tomorrow they are mealy-bugged atm.. Oh the shame. Will hop to it now.
Thanks for looking, happy spring preparations to all
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Hi, just wondering when is best to take cuttings? .. And how?
Thanks
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Hi, I have no first hand experience with antipsychotics but I thought I could leave you with this, as what you said seemed very relevant to the content : http://upliftconnect.com/shamanic-view-of-mental-health/
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Omg. Amazing. I have surplus nettle. Definately gonna try this. Thank you for sharing!!
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Thank goodness for that! Does this mean you are through the worst of it and now just got some serious taking it easy to do while you heal? Please do take it really easy, even when you start feelin ok again, its a big shock for your body to have such things occur....just chill and soak up all the tlc you can!
Much love and happy healing time. So glad you made it through okay!
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I'd say Cuzco. Gradually the eye becomes accustomed to the slight morphological differences between a Peru and a Cuzco, I can't explain it very well but something about the wavyness of the ribs, how they curve around the aereole, and all the dominant long singular downward pointing spines sing out cuzcoensis to me.
Beauties!! Great score indeed.
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*scoffs* ...still a newbie Philocacti? With a TBM crest setting flower...not to mention all your other beauties..I think not.
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You are awesome Communacacian. Best introduction I've seen.
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Wow..... Too cool. Are those yours Sabry? Or found pics?
Either way, mind = blown. So much variety.
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I am displeased to see what appears to be a pelecyphora in the far left corner... Tut tut.. Way too special to expose to such antics.
Nice 'idea' but too silly. How are you meant to water this anyway?
My dad mostly lived in his house truck for the last 5 or so years and while doing so he attempted growing many different kinds of plants, although mostly herbs, cacti and succulents, and he found 90% of them died quickly, he hypothesised that it was the vibrations and the continual change in direction of the light source that stressed them to the point of death.
Oddly enough the lithops survived though.
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Gearing up for spring, acquired some sweeeet lil tricho hybrids, an ario brovanus grafted on pere, and a lovely lush short spined peru cutting from one dear planty-friend and then also some kanna cuttings and datura metel fastuosa seed from another buddy.
The daffidols are sprouting, heralding the beginnings of the new season. Im gna do things properly this year, no fluffing about.
New plant tables 2moz, let the bogfrogery plantnerdery (re)commence!!
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Much much goodvibing from me WB ..we loves you sooooo much, be calm, have faith u will be in good hands. Keep positive you will get through this.
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Hi and welcome!
Your seedling looks very normal, those fluffy roots are the first stage, it is probably worth gently standing the seedling upright and sprinkling a little more substrate around it to help it on its way.
Not that likely to be variegated Mystical Oyster, they all come out a little pale when theyre born, should green up in coming days and weeks.
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Bye Michael. Hope you come back sometimes. I like being reminded by members such as yourself that I'm just a novice.
Good luck and take care.
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Share your "Shamanic weapon" bases for that added tribality feel
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These can be thrown at people if they have ill intent and need be. Otherwise they are entirely peaceful.
And here's some other tools of use, not for attack but just defence. Again. Preventatives.
The fan/wand is made out of totara, with pointy end, could hurt eyes. Tucked in at the back is an agave spine and hematite.
Pendulum - pretty self explanatory.
The rest are "holders", they act like little outposts of particular intention around the house. Signals to self and others.
Greenstone. More greenstone. Jasper. Ameythst. Fluorite.
Gold lions are lucky for me. I now have two. One Asian, one lionking type.
And moons are peace keepers.
The engraved bullet casing is a shed-bad-vibes charm. Begins atopped with a piece of black kyanite - protective, reflective. Inside is housed a tektite - space rock. Buffered by small quartz, 3 small citrine, 1 small amethyst for easing off a bit.
Just little things that make me feel safer. My mind to inhabit, if it helps me, so be it.
But yeah. These guys are the best guardians. That blue!
Think I could also call the geese a shamanic weapon. They are a symbol of protection, and live up to their title..making one hell of a racket when someone unknown steps onto the property. Geese are an acquired taste but I've come to appreciate them.