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The rosemary in my driveway is native coastal rosemary, and it has plenty of seed, i just checked this morning, let us know your address and i will post the seeds of this out to you.. cheers, I pmd you anyway! Damn it smells good, very fragrant when picking seed!

I think the next bilderberg convention meeting should be held under fluorescent light!

I will see what eucalypt seeds i can scout out for you, for the magrogonus seeds you were sending me, im in a cold climate surrounded by eucalypts so they will be hardy varietys. Shall pm you when i get a collection for you..this is depending on how many i can find, im going scrubland searching for you, so if im lucky there will still be seed about of various types..

growing hyrdoponics in coco coir is truely organic it is the coconut fibre from coconuts "coconut fiber is rapidly becoming one of the most popular growing mediums in the world. In fact it may soon be THE most popular. It is the first totally "organic" growing medium that offers top performance in hydroponic systems. Coconut fiber is essentially a waste product of the coconut industry, it is the powdered husks of the coconut itself. There are many advantages - it maintains a larger oxygen capacity than rockwool, yet also has superior water holding ability than rockwool which is a real advantage for hydroponic systems that have intermittent watering cycles. Coconut fiber is also high in root stimulating hormones and offers some protection against root diseases including fungus infestation. Dutch growers have found that a mixture of 50% coconut fiber and 50% expanded clay pellets is the perfect growing medium. One word of caution about coconut fiber, you must be careful when you purchase coconut fiber. There is a commonly available, lower grade of coconut fiber that is high in sea-salt and is very fine grained. This lower grade coconut fiber will lead to disappointing results when used in a hydroponic system." Using this with an organic fertilzer is truely organic.... I use sand and gravel for lophs to create an arid-oponic enviroment although my fertilizer regime is non organic...

I think that would do a pretty good job if you kept feeding it thru as would be the case with a lawn mower..have you tryed smashing the roots with a metal mallet before blending them to rupture em up abit..you know the mallets the ones with spikes on it that one uses in the kitchen for tenderising stuff, i dont know there real name im not allowed in the kitchen only to get a beer from the fridge this is the missus domain i dare not venture!...a sledge hammer would get em good also but may be messy?!

i think the nose thing was to stop em from yacking it up!

LOL, ive destroyed three blenders in my effort 2 with cactus to make a fertilizer and one with a parsley plant the missus dont let me near the blenders anymore i just thought of this edited into for ya if you got a large amount of plant matter use a lawn mower with a catcher works like a charm!

Hello sola, You can get Artemisia Absinthium WORMWOOD seeds @ the link below they come form hungary, but ive ordered from these guys i purchased lagochilian seeds and i got em no worrys i ordered 20 lago seeds and got 3 up.mind you this parcel was checked by quarantine and passed with a big ass sticker on it, so i ordered another 50 lago seeds and got them no worrys with no quarantine checks, not to much of a help but you can get the seeds here for one plant. ive been thinkin bout ordering some Artemisia seeds myself from this guy, hes a good guy to deal with also! http://stores.ebay.com.au/Gomoas-botanical?_rdc=1

Totally off the topic,did you ever get hold of the bo tree ficus relig...i got some seed if your still searching for this one, just pm me if you still havnt aquired it and want some seed!

Nice post...love my doco's was just sitting here thinking nothing to watch on TV.....

You need to find a honest chap selling his vehicle, one thing to bear in mind alot of old cruisers have been thrashed, after all they are a work vehicle...i wouldnt buy nothing over 200k on the dash,(remembering to rebuild an engine will be 10k, it cost me 4k for a new gearbox in my pathfinder) you need to find an old fellow who has looked after his 4wd and only used it to tow his boat for fishing on sundays!...gd luck with that, but they are out there seek & ye shall find!

Buy a landcruiser tough as nails my mate drove one off kuranda range bent the chasis towed it out and drove home or a nissan navara or hilux go japanese mate wranglers fall apart another one of my mates brought a new jeep(brand spanker nothing but trouble with it a total piece of crap 2days after owning it someone slashed his soft top and stole his stereo!...range rovers suck also,well from what ive heard they can be unreliable..Im a nissan man i got a pathfinder best investment ever, after writing off a honda prelude through someones fence i decided i needed a vehicle with a bullbar and have never looked back, would never own nothing but a 4WD ever again can go anywhere @ anytime which makes for great camping!

For psychotria and caapi i think use HPS as they will thrive on the heat as these are shade loving plants i would staple gun a piece of shade cloth over them, ive tried psychotria and caapi and iboga under fluoro and LED and i found they done better under HPS with distance from the light i kept them in the corner as HPS really are the best for heat also i was using a 250 watt HPS which is little less intense then 400 or 600 as i use it to grow lophs so i dont need large lumens as they dont grow tall....ive tried fluoros and LED and i always go back to HPS these are m favourite lights nothing can compare to them for heat output and growth rate.. hope this helps alittle its always about experimentation and fine tuning and finding what works best for the budget...

it grows pretty easy as long as seed is viable sand the seed either with sandpaper or on concrete till you see the orange inside then soak in warm water if they dont swell to twice there size in 24 hours you need to sand the seed casing more, change the water daily and onces it has sprouted they grow rather quick then just plant the root system and away you go ive grown em in my fishtank, but the fish love to eat for some reason, they munch em pretty quick. which is a good thing as they grow quite large quickly under a fluoro fishtank light!Also i think they prefer clayish type of soil, but i have gravel in my tank!

I had a cricket do the same to mine bit a chunk out of a tiny achuma seedling and it died, the main bug problem i have with cacti seeds especially in humidity dome is gnats & I get em with pyretheum spray, but they always reappear, so i diligently spray weekly...

I have heard of some ppl having luck with GA3.....and i think the less dormant the seed has been the better the success rate.

Interested in Rosei # 2 - 61cm - $60 if still avail..pm sent also

Buy private (trading post etc), car salesman in the yards are always marked up and dodgy and usually rip ya with a trade in, better off selling em privately perhaps....find a little granny or grandpa that has always had there car serviced with record to prove it...and then offer em reduced price for cash....cash always works for a bargain buy! Gd luck!

AWESOME GRAFTS...and an exceptional graft you sent me....quite a funny site to see a loph grafted to perekiopsis with such a long stem, reminds me of a UFO balancing on a stilt or the JETSON's house in the cartoon...a globular blob on a stick... Aaahh surely this an animated life! Thank you one happy customer!

I think you would just use water, solvent could be harmful, but I have made a homemade pesticide with moonshine, tobacco, onion and garlic,trying to kill spider mites(didnt work tho) the alcohol evaporates quite quickly off plant tissue supposedly, although I sprayed my cacti with it panicked about the pure alcohol and sprayed em with water, if you soaked the crushed leaves and strained, then just try and find the effective concentration perhaps by boiling it down, this is interesting, im interested in this also, ive started growing pyretheum for the exact same purpose to make my own insecticide, id grow a neem tree to if i could! Perhaps someone with some chemistry experience in pesticides or insecticide manufacture etc may elaborate?

nice ive never even heard of half them there...lol

Surely one would have to hope that some common sense is written up to preserve old specimens, some cacti gardens in victoria are over 80 years old the one in bendigo vic was established in 1933 and many that grow there, are even rare in cultivation to this day and is a very popular tourist attraction & surely if something like 10% of the whole cacti species contain some kinda misdeamenour precursor chemical, im sure some of the cacti in this garden would be surely outlawed. Also to outlaw lophs would in reality be a government infringement on there behalf to honour & preserve endangered species...so much for a sustainable future if they start banning endangered species from hobbyist and collectors alike who have dedicated there life to the preservation of many rare and endangered species. The whole proposal is sacrilege and written up to assume that we are all drug consuming or illicit manufacturers of illegal substances and I for one take great offense at this given accusation by the legislation, when in reality the majority just wanna grow plants to preserve there heritage and beautiful diversity and couldnt care less to there alkaloidal content, hell a crafty enough chemist could probably synthesise all kinds of illicit misdemeanors from a jar of marmalade or pepper shaker full of black pepper!

Ok, thanks for that tripsis, i searched everywhere for that delete thread, to click upon , no wonder it eluded me..cheers again.

Ive planted heaps of these this year with none up..anyone have fresh seed?