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Not even 12 months for me yet GOT ;). I had 2 LW grafts for the comp, which happened to be my FIRST EVER ATTEMPT at GRAFTING. Back at the end of 2011, i had only been into gardening for just over a year, and it was my first 2 L.W grafts that fed my addiction in cacti like the plague! One fell off late feburary 2012, and is significantly bigger than their brothers and sisters that are hard grown(see just below), but still no where as big as the one that stayed on!(see just below) I dont rekon its too far off budding either...what you think fellow members? Some of my grafting antics can be seen below the one I had in the comp, which is the first row of pictures. Congratulations GOT - Beat me too it! Don't mind coming second though!, and amazing considering we were both extreme noobs, and still only just novices :D. Also a big thankyou to all who participated, and had me constantly checking this thread to check out the newest growth on all our 'Peyotzl on stocks'. As you can see, this comp was merely the beginning of what I can envision as a life long obsession for me! Peace ladies and gentlemen 2Deep

Ow man I would love a little albino spach on pere one day. Waves hand about madly as sign of 'expression of interest' :D Looks like a couple of the ones of pere already have pups ready to put on more pere too? :D Love the pics man. Grafting is a never ending joy!

got access to loniceroides and daphinoides at my local botanic gardens. Curators have already agreed to let me take cuttings. Can probably get other australian natives too. Will see how i go this saturday

PM me for some freebies Carl!.....so many of the cacti seeds i got off you last season are coming along nicely.....they were my introduction to cacti basically..... All were labelled, except some dodgy looking fruit thing, which heaps of popped up, but i didnt take care of em, so only one survived. They were astro capricorne or ornate bishops cap. either way was devastated i didnt realise what i was planting at the time lol You just want a few to raise from seed? or for nom nom nom?

lol man waiting for my pod to ripen up seemed like an eternity!....i think it was actually probably closer t0 3-3.5 months. Formed quite quickly (maybe 2 weeks), but then took forever to ripen, and i didnt remove it, until it started browning and shrivelling of its own accord. Wanted to get it off just in case it managed to rot inside its own flesh. Brug fruit for breakfast anyone?

I care not the motivation! If you didnt grow it...leave it alone. Did whole trees(that were not your own) ever die as a result of your actions folias? If not....harvest away......if so....bad karma for you Ive got a bunch of obtuse, floribunda and accuminata coming along nicely, that I will one day harvest(as sustainably as possble too) Use the trees in the wild as a source of seed and grow your own FFS! You might actually learn about the plants and trees, as well as the alkaloids in them! Do you care for plants folias or only the drugs in them?

Ow my.....the old boy had been collecting for 50 years! There be some pre-metazoic gargantuans in there! If anyone here managed to get it, please put some pics up!.

Does that mean you don't care for its culninary properities? If not... $50/m is good value...if you do.....buy a bridgesii Personally like the rest of the group, you can never have enough trichos, or cacti in general for that matter!

scratch the soft 'fuzzy' white scale off with a toothbrush, before it becomes hard 'calloused' 'witches broom-like caulking', that is so notorious on TBM's in humid conditions (Aus East Coast from Coffs Harbour North)

Hey mate. Didnt rub me the wrong way at all. Just wanted to know if another new enthusist was close by to me, and by the looks of things it looks like you are :D . Just means im even more likely to trade with u now, knowing how close you are.

LMAo...this is almost scary timing klip. I just harvested my first ever brug pod (crossed by me) not 4 days ago. It is a Brugmansia candida X 'Double white' Flora Penna cross Brugmansia 'Sacred Sunset". Some of the seeds were much bigger than others, and the seed pod looked nothing like the pics of how a candida pod should look....much fatter, but still with the length of a candida pod. Hand pollinated - first attempt ever at brugs, so they cant be that hard ;) Pics up very soon! Can grab you pollen of sacred sunset, the double white candida, or a candida 'hot pink'. Let me know. Peace EDIT: Im assuming the 'sacred sunset' must be a sauvelens(maybe even aurea), as its genetics made the pod much fatter, and the sacred sunset flowers are usually at about 65degree angle(sauvlenlens if im right? Torsten? lol) Darkspark....got any idea what the 'sacred sunset' is species wise?

Pretty sure everyone here loves to grow plants....learn about them....and use them...full stop.....pretty sure that group of ideals in itself constitues what I and everyone else here beleive (amongst our other ideals(christian, muslim, atheist, and all the other idenditified religions) and therefore under greg's proposition, we will all be able to use transcendant compounds anyway, because we are all of the Corroboree religion. Sad to see everyone arguing. Greg....I support what you are doing, but can also certainly see why some may be opposed to the idea of transcendant compounds only being avaible to selective religions. How are you going to define religious beleif's? As this is the biggest issue by far I think.... As an atheist in pursuit of altered states of consciousness, I really couldn't give a proverbial which way it becomes legal for me to grow my own drugs and use them, for no other reason other than I f@cking want to! So sick of the man telling me what to do, and seeing my brothers and sisters argue as a result of it! My choice is what I choose to do...and if im causing no harm it shouldnt bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be, and if your causing no harm then your alright with me! - Ben Harper Back to the Garden amongst the gnomes and fairy's!! Peace

Thanks for the good update Zelly. Loved the section on Copipoa. Cant beleive they were in San Luis Potosí and surrounding, and didn't go loph spotting!

13.8 grams of viable fresh self-harvested HBWR seeds (116 of em) here

for nom or sow? lol I got 13.8 grams (116 seeds) fresh off my vine one and half months ago and stored straight away out of light and heat. I actually need someone to bioessay them, as the vine seeded after only 2 seasons, which i thought nervosa var. nervosa only did after 5 years? It came from SAB early 2011 as a little cutting, that has well and truly(along with my caapi) taken over my garden.

PM me for free tobacum or rusticia if u couldnt aquire them with your goodies :D

oi CM where in Aus are you? For Oz members, it is a good idea to let people know at least your zone, or preferable your general geographic area (ie im SE QLD or Gold Coast. You dont need to know where i am, but it lets people in SE QLD know that if if i have something there really after, thats too big to post, they can come get it personally , and vise versa. Also i( and many others here) dont like sending postage tubes to W.A or TAS, but will post cuttings in tubes to all other states. Seeds only for TAS and W.A members really., unless i feel like playing russian roulette ;)

Pretty sure GoOnThen(GOT) has one of these? I told him i'd trade my right nut for a little head on pere!

I usually have close to 100% sucess with pere as stock, and following scions; ariocarpus,copiapoa, lophophora and turbinicarpus, but ive tried 5 Turks Cap (Melocactus peruvianus), and only had 1 sucess . When it gets too big for the pere, it will go on some tricho stock, and hopefully will re-pup on the pere......i also have 40 seedlings 3 months old, and 4 that are a year old, so like DoodAbides, is more just for teh lolz than anything. Kinda like my "Tim's Penis" i made! :S

Pics of inside the place to drool over please?

the blue pots from hamiltons, are the packaging for master hardware chain, as requested by them...bunnings have black pots i think from hamiltons. EDIT: BUnnings also order through(and at my local store prefer) Paradisia Cacti as well

lol is that what you got the fruit off that we ate Jox? lol

Posted 02 November 2012 - 09:23 PM looks pachanoi to me. Yeah Looks like 'ALF'?

yeah e.seminudus, and maybe pachanoi x scopulicola, or just T. pachanoi??? looks like pach with maybe something else in there?

Beat me to it DarkSpark ;) Bhut Jolokia seed, loph williamsii(Texana) seed VERY viable Datura stramonium and D. stramonium var. tatula When you say Naga jolokia, are you referring to the actual 'chilli' not 'capsicum' shaped version of the jolokia's (ie Naga PC1(Tezpur) )? 300k-800k scoville? These are the world's hottest actual annum species as opposed to the always ridiculously hot chinense species? If so also seed here. PM me for details on all my strains of chilli, and prob Darkspark too...hes got heaps of exotic super hots.