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  1. i cut the entire top head out of this caespitosa and a majority of its root system as it had some kinda rot orange corky fungi thing growing in its main root, it survived,& is slowly making a recovery with healthy pups but signs of the disease are still apparent on one side,ive just decided to leave it and let nature take its course...yours doesnt look so bad i would make a small slice with a razor and see if the inner tissue is rotting if its nice and green & healthy inside with no signs of rot then just put some sulphur on the small incision and let nature do its thing...
  2. applesnail

    problem :C

    holds to much moisture and is to compacted for cacti you want something that drys and drains quick.sandy gravel kinda soil, mix some gravel and sand with your vermicompost mix..looks like its got some kinda rot by what i can see close to the base..yet the cacti itself looks very dehydrated.
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    ebay madness

    well lets all rob and rip everyone off to pay the bills! no wonder i prefer plants to ppl & money!
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    ebay madness

    blatantly ripping people off for what is realistically a $2 graft a shitty bit of peres a tiny graft that may most likely die...and as you say the sad thing ppl pay this which makes me wonder is it morally ok to rip ppl off with ridiculously over priced products, for someone(noob) who knows no different and would love to aquire a graft they prob would pay that , i have paid top dollar for my lophophora collection myself, but they were also worth there price, gosh id hate to score a bag of weed off you darkspark.....
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    What did you do to your cacti today?

    nuke em if all else fail with chemicals..this shit works a treat for mites! i still prefer DE..only cos its natural! http://www.ebay.com....=item5d34d25b1b
  6. nice find! although i wont be using it for sand...but draining liquids from plant matter.....so i can make my super fertilizer
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    Astrophytum help

    Alot of my cacti got this kinda thing this year from coming out of dormancy, im not sure if goin outside to full sun from inside done it to them, but also i fertilized them at the same time, and they got a similiar burn kinda thing, to what your astrophytum has, i made the mistake of not using a slow release fertilizer and some crappy cheap brand trying to save a $ that came in a 5kg bag(stupid fucking me!) thinking i could get the ratio correct... Now they are permanently scarred up, but mine went orange bubbly then to black then to a hardened corky scar, which made quite afew of my cacti super ugly this year!. I have no experiance growing astrophytums btw....so maybe somene else maybe of more help.......
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    Medical Cannabis like you've never seen

    yup im always joking! the seriousness of life!
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    Medical Cannabis like you've never seen

    "and some of them deliver the medical benefits of the drug without the high." Wheres the medical value in that? by entrepreneurs! money hungry capitalist pigs!("entrepreneurs are developing all manner of new pot-infused product lines")GEE awesome, take your money but you wont get stoned! best mix yr sparkling red currant with a jagermeister and red bull! then wander down the road a score a real black market bag!
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    Top 5 reasons why I Hate women

    thought this belonged in this thread... A study of rhesus macaque monkeys found that while male DNA was lost at first, the rate of reduction tailed off. Researchers said they hoped their findings would put an end to theories that the Y chromosome was dying out after claims that its 1,400 genes had fallen in number to just 45 in the last three hundred million years. The belief was named the "rotting Y theory" and was based on an assumption that the Y chromosome would carry on losing genes until it disappeared. The study looked at the evolution of genes in the rhesus monkey and found it kept just three per cent of its ancestral "autosome" or non-sex chromosome. Older regions, or strata, of the chromosome have not lost any genes in the past 25 million years, according to the findings published online in Nature. Biologist Professor David Page, of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said: "For the past 10 years the one dominant storyline in public discourse about the Y is it is disappearing. "Putting aside the question of whether this ever had a sound scientific basis the story went viral -fast – and has stayed viral. "I can't give a talk without being asked about the disappearing Y. This idea has been so pervasive it has kept us from moving on to address the really important questions about the Y." Professor Page added: "The Y was in free fall early on and genes were lost at an incredibly rapid rate. But then it levelled off – and it's been doing just fine since." The researchers said the evolution of the Y chromosome was characterised by a period of swift decay followed by strict conservation. Lab researcher Jennifer Hughes, whose earlier work revealed a stable human Y for at least six million years, said: "We've been carefully developing this clear-cut way of demystifying the evolution of the Y chromosome. "Now our empirical data fly in the face of the other theories out there. With no loss of genes on the rhesus Y and one gene lost on the human Y it's clear the Y isn't going anywhere." Professor Page added: "This paper simply destroys the idea of the disappearing Y chromosome. I challenge anyone to argue when confronted with this data." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9099939/Male-chromosome-is-not-doomed-say-scientists.html
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    ebay madness

    Vienna white TRICHOCEREUS
  12. Forget the diamond as big as the Ritz - astronomers believe they have found one bigger than Earth. Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of our own made largely out of diamond. The rocky planet, called 55 Cancri e, orbits a sun-like star in the constellation of Cancer and is moving so fast that a year there lasts a mere 18 hours. Discovered by a US-Franco research team, its radius is twice that of Earth's but it is much more dense with a mass eight times greater. It is also incredibly hot, with temperatures on its surface reaching 1,648 degrees Celsius. "The surface of this planet is likely covered in graphite and diamond rather than water and granite," said Yale researcher Nikku Madhusudhan, whose findings are due to be published in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters. The study - with Olivier Mousis at the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie in Toulose, France - estimates that at least one-third of the planet's mass, the equivalent of about three Earth masses, could be diamond. Diamond planets have been spotted before but this is the first time one has been seen orbiting a sun-like star and studied in such detail. "This is our first glimpse of a rocky world with a fundamentally different chemistry from Earth," Mr Madhusudhan said. He said the discovery of the carbon-rich planet meant distant rocky planets could no longer be assumed to have chemical constituents, interiors, atmospheres or biologies similar to Earth. David Spergel, an astronomer at Princeton University, said it was relatively simple to work out the basic structure and history of a star once you know its mass and age. "Planets are much more complex," he said. "This 'diamond-rich super-Earth' is likely just one example of the rich sets of discoveries that await us as we begin to explore planets around nearby stars."
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    free mormon tea seeds Viridis & nevadensis

    sending you a pm zelly...i can spare some seed always for you mate!
  14. I have 5 packs of 10 seeds for the first 5 who post, there will be 5 seeds of each in the sent out package! I only have 50 seeds spare! germination rate has been pretty much 100% from these seeds the last week! Would prefer the seed to go those who dont already have these plants growing...cheers!
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    WTB: Ephedra seeds

    I have some spare nevadensis & viridis seeds, shoot me a PM.....sinensis im searching for myself....this species has eluded me for some reason!
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    Starting seeds...how do you guys do it?

    I plant as many seeds as i can get of what i wanna plant, this way some are guaranteed to grow survive the elements of nature or my clumsy catastrophe of hands i have..... i also try to read or research the type or species of seed that i wanna germinate as much as i can before planting so as to know whether scarification or any other treatment such as GA3 etc is needed. I planted 25 khat seeds last year and got none up was highly disappointed but i guess that is natures way.......
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    free mormon tea seeds Viridis & nevadensis

    i just threw these suckers in the ground and watered with warm water...some seeds came up after two/three days...as i said germination rates was exceptional! this time of year...dampening off is the tricky part with these little guys once there up... I also used a sandy gravel cacti mix type of soil....with seed raising soil mixed in sand on top...
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    free mormon tea seeds Viridis & nevadensis

    done all gone....cheers!
  19. applesnail

    free mormon tea seeds Viridis & nevadensis

    indeed shoot yr details to me via PM and i shall send out!
  20. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgMD6-86-OY
  21. "the extreme skydiver was plumetting towards Earth at speeds reaching 862 kilometres per hour. His freefall from 29,455 metres lasted 3 minutes and 48 seconds. His parachute then opened, leading to a 10 minute and 36 second descent into the desert of New Mexico." http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/07/man-goes-to-near-space-checks.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
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    Psychedelic taste in your mouth?

    The metallic taste is the mother ship calling!
  23. applesnail

    the time has come.

    I think china is doing a better job then america! http://www.smh.com.au/business/chinese-buy-up-big-in-australia-20120902-258cq.html
  24. Not exactly what you described, but cheap although shit winter climate nice in summer but crap compared northern nsw/qld but one can buy more land then one can farm for under 100k TASMANIA!.land is a steal in tassie! Grow saffron and poppies what a lifestyle! Weipa is cheap also i think...prime all year weather there and great fishing!
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