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P deficiency is very unlikely then, my best guess is underwatering.

if only we had a tricho Rosetta Stone

Could be a few things, but it's hard to say without knowing the conditions it's growing in. Either too much water, not enough water, poor drainage, too hot or (less likely) phosphorous deficiency. What sort of soil is it growing in?

that pic looks sick! Is it long form TBM?

I have experienced the same thing @wachumacallit. I had ads reported and taken down by a seller selling the same item. They allowed the other ads to remain, but any time I posted an ad it was automatically taken down. Fuck eBay. They blacklist specific accounts from selling items that others are allowed to sell with impunity.

That 'diamond shruumz' saga last year was pretty crazy. An Australian business was importing and selling gummies with muscimol and 4-AcO-DMT in em as 'lionsmane' and 'cordyceps', resulting in a few hospitalisations and poisonings. In theory they are relatively safe and have potential therapeutic benefit, but in practice all sorts of things can happen from children or animals eating them, being way too heavily dosed or black market ones containing a variety of drugs etc. etc. I think the key word here is 'unregulated'. If people who wanted to access psilocybin gummies could access them in the same way you can access safe, accurately dosed cannabis edibles in dispensaries in legal countries, there wouldn't be much incentive for opportunists to pass off synthetic tryptamines and muscimol gummies.

This thread came to mind again recently. That seller is pretty well known in the aus cactus community, their business is named after Lophs. I hope they wouldn't do this in bad faith to pump up Loph sales, that would be pretty deceptive. Buyer beware though IG. I'd like to think they genuinely expect it to be rescheduled for whatever reason. If I had fb I would ask them directly what their reasoning is

Fully colonised substrate is significantly less likely to get contaminated, but contaminants are ubiquitous in the environment. I would approach it with the assumption the most likely outcome is you'll get nothing or an underwhelming amount of mushrooms. I would just submerge them overnight in clean water and then place is a shady spot with intermittent misting. It's not a controlled environment, ambient conditions may be completely out of line with what that species needs to fruit. You might see apparent outcompeting of contaminants, but you can't consider that culture axenic.

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They can still fruit, but they become less productive after a flush or two. The greater risk of contamination vs. yield + wasted space for more productive blocks is enough for most commercial setups to throw them after one flush. Soaking and placing in a shady area outdoor that gets misted would be a good way to try to coax a flush from them. Looks like there's lionsmane there, low temps are better but it's likely still cold enough. Worst case scenario it's one of the best inputs for worm farming.

What could he be basing this on? As far as I'm aware there's been no public proposal to amend laws to criminalise growing certain cacti, and I doubt this grower has an insider in Parliament. People have been discussing whether peyote/trichos will be made illegal on this forum and elsewhere for decades now. The recent media is probably the most mainstream exposure these cacti have ever received. That is the only thing I can think of that would prompt pearl-clutchers to write to their MP about the cactus scourge destroying our youth. Even still, I doubt it would earn enough political brownie points to prioritise it as an issue. The TGA angle is possible, but I also agree the therapeutic uses in a mainstream context of mescaline are limited for a few reasons compared to something like psilocybin. The cost of a 12 hour session + burnout of practitioners etc.

Where you able to look up pharmacovigilance info? Possibly a better source

I don't get it

People like that sucked for sure. Medical cannabis will hopefully make that crappy PGR bikie bud and its dealers fade into obscurity. I dunno if those ppl would consider themselves or be considered part of the ethno / plant medicine community though

Yeah this forum is super slow compared to 15 or so years ago. I keep coming back because of how awesome and inspiring it was when I was younger.

The people I've met and interacted with IRL who share an interest in plants and ethnobotany were, in aggregate, generous and 'good' people by my standards. I have definitely met a minority of people who I found selfish or disagreeable. There's no obligation to interact with them. My experience in martial arts is that there are some bad-natured people in the mix despite a lot of good ones. Same same but different. If you are judging the ethnobotany community off Facebook posts I think you will form a biased and negative opinion. I think SAB Facebook and even subreddits for psychoactive plants are fairly toxic. People attack and post caustic comments on impressive acheivements like well-designed hydro systems, flowering plants, tissue cultures, plant research etc. etc.

looks great

+1, their distribution includes colder parts of QLD and the northern rivers. Territory boundaries are arbitrary. Any sporulated pile of mulch where there's rain or irrigation and it dips below 12 degrees C could fruit. That's a LOT of microclimates.

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I think they are quite common, although it seems to be the exception rather than the norm for most varieties. Maybe 1/25 or so have 4 ribs. A plant with >4 ribs which is cut will often throw 4-ribbed branches. Likewise 4-ribbed plants can often throw >4-ribbed branches.

haha good point, oops. what a fool 😄 I edited it. i'd like to think the ppl that come on this forum wouldn't go around killing endangered trees for their alkaloids based on this recount of an unhinged reddit post.