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booted the voacanga a' out of the RFB into the bathroom again,,,

 

added another mason bee hive to the outdoors

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along with a bird box stuffed with sphag' in the hope of creating a bumble bee hive - but won't be dissapointed if it homes some cute lil local tweeters

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- planned more bumble bee hives...

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This tri-color is 4 weeks old today and already popping out a flower... I'm guessing that's not too bad halfway through Autumn ,-)

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Wow horsey that is cool man! I'm off to research these "solitary" hives and hopefully get a few going! I have lots of euro bees in my garden (at least they aren't native) and would love to get a few non swarming types nesting here. I see small native bees around the Psychotria flowers but the big bees bully them away from the brug/basil etc

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bought some Rhizophora mangle propagules for the aquarium and planned extending it upward into a palaudarium ..

maybe with some plexiglass perspex or polycarbonate type shit :3 or whatever the .. its called

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On 16/04/2016 at 0:27 AM, theuserformallyknownasd00d said:

Wow horsey that is cool man! I'm off to research these "solitary" hives and hopefully get a few going! I have lots of euro bees in my garden (at least they aren't native) and would love to get a few non swarming types nesting here. I see small native bees around the Psychotria flowers but the big bees bully them away from the brug/basil etc

im not sure but i heard from a melbourner that Aus perhaps doesn't have mason bees ... ?

i wonder what your little cute bees are .. would love to know if you find out , bees are totally fascinating ...

not just bees but bee flies too :3 and hover flies and load of cool critters rlly..

give us a shout if you want the link to the hives at the lowest price i could find .. but i dnno what postage would be like - shouldnt be as much as it would be to have it sent from Aus to Uk or something but , also would check ya local rules n regs on housing nature n critters... for just in case..

but yeah there's so many cool mason bee youtube vids too .. , i gather theyre temperate species worked with mostly ,

but would be totally cool to know of tropical ones also ..

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emptied the Ixtlahuatl 2016-04-20 23.08.28.jpg

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will be a pretty crumbly stoney mix for some of them ,,, maybe it will help to add well rinsed wipes in case they carry something that the rhizobia for the phleboppers mightn't like ..

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Looking good horsey almost got the new pad setup? Been trialing a new seedling mix for the slow growers before the upcoming sewing fest. Got a cheapo heating pad. We shall see if it wants to burn the house down. I grafted a turbinicarpus krainzianus the came in the mail with some not good taproot. Started flowering the next day.

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gett'n there mate , bit by bit .. kinda tortoise pace while reviving/resensitizing lol ..

-hopefully I'll still have a few hares by the time it's dun :3

- Bought an Avicennia germinans for my sacred water garden today (will come as seed/propagules or a small plant), and some zeolite to grow it in for the aquarium ,.. -to go with the Rhizophora mangle propagules when they arrive from Guadeloupe... which will go in a net pot hidden in my aquascape to sprout and "germinate"

anyone wondering what they are? ... - Avicennia germinans is the black mangrove ,.. Rhizophora mangle is the red mangrove ...

the latter is the only mangrove that will grow/attach to rock or wood in the aquarium , and the former is the most tolerant mangrove of dryer air/low humidity ...  - I will be hunting the grey mangrove (Avicennia marina) too and 'tween them they will be a better water filter than anything else and love to grow in fresh water ...

They'll eventually grow to be a living functioning part of the aquascape and will be able to have more fishies ... maybe even discus by the time i combine with an Eheim pro3 thermo filter..... so long as I do well by them (keep at least their growing tip above water and don't let them get colder than 20C)

The zeolite will rip any/all nutrients from the water and release them when full ... and keep said nutrients right next to the roots (except any ariel ones that might form) and thus be the perfect underwater mangrove media/substrate (so long as it doesn't keep falling through the mesh/net pots :3 )

Anyone know the plants well or have any wisdom or experience to impart?

- would love to hear what you have to share toward the care of these magnificent aquatic trees..

I know there's some nice Aus mangroves that would love to be in an aquarium like Ceriops australis if anyone has any propagules/seeds up for grabs or wants ideas for an Aus mangrove tank/pot ..

I know Folk like their man drakes around here ... but I like my man groves :3

anyhow ... since trying some orange juice called trop50 and a flashback from one of my Seattle witches, I and the kids took a real shine to Stevia rebaudiana.. so bought 3 plug plants the other day thanks to my son and potted them up in ericaceous with osmacote today 2016-04-21 20.49.56.jpg

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and added a sand layer later for a soil cap beneath the humidity dome ..

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Did a 30% water change in the aquarium,..2016-04-22 03.24.41.jpg

 

fed the RFB , the Caapitarium, plus a few cactlets...

with some osmacote and rained in fully with the olde water from the aquarium..,

 

removed the virola seeds from the aeropod (i think its too cold in there at 24C) and plonked them in some ericaceous and sand in the RFB .. at 26.9C and flooded the pot .. , then decided to swap it for a viridis in the Caapitarium ..2016-04-22 04.41.11.jpg2016-04-22 04.41.33.jpg2016-04-22 04.41.42.jpg

 

-sowed 10 Psychotria poeppigiana in the Caapitarium ..and added humidity dome..

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drained the swamp from the Virolador, re-flooded the pots, drained again ... , checked a few seeds just before re-flooding and they've gone strangely irregular shaped and a few had a nobble poking out ...

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-no they aren't Virola sprouting btw if your eye is that good - it's dart frog substrate with various beneficial plants like ferns and the like germinating here and there

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found a more local propagule of Rhizphora mangle for a fiver - wooohooo!

..so as to speed up the journey to the "mangrove forest"

 

and 15 seeds of Laguncularia racemosa (white mangrove) for £1,59 !!! 

so its been grab a bargain for the water garden this week :)

 

i sure hope i can germinate them or maybe find/make a "tek" perhaps with the aeropod if I can get a better heater for it...

 

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"potted up" 5 rhizophora mangle propagules from Guadeloupe ,

to go with the "sowed" laguncularia racemosa seed propagules -also from Guadeloupe..

and to also go with the rooted single rhizophora mangle that I got from Exeter ...

 

oddly enough the Tunze Avicennia germinans is still absent

... I wonder what the ..

 

but anyway ... also sourced replacement Rodriguezia lanceolata to add to the moss pole in the RFB

 

tried to hunt through loads of packed stuff from the house move for the phlebs I'm supposed to be sowing : /

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Good stuff horsey.

 

I reckon theirs 5 or 6 different mangrove species growing around here, the mud-crabs sure do love living round em :) I wonder how your gonna keep those mangroves in that tank haha.

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well my plan is to do the impossible (lol) and have discus in a tank that is only manageable for maybe 2 discus maximum under regular best of the bizz heating filtration (eheim pro3 thermo)

 

but i found out i cant necc' fit an eheim pro3 thermo into a juwel vision 180 cabinet...

so seeing as many mangroves die from not enough nutes in an aquarium ,

outcompeting eachother and draining a tank of its nutes in just a day ...

 

I figured what better way to keep discus water immaculate seeing as they need food like fkn beef heart and spirulina and lol sunday roast type shit ... and several times a day

(something even the eheim mightve struggled at)

 

and possibly i can match super nute rippers with super nute makers ...and balance it out nicely

 

:3 and fit more cat fish and tetra in all at the same time :3

 

i gather 1 mangrove in an aquarium per 10us gal/ 40 litres for a regular well behaving stocked setup ..

means i can have 4.5 mangroves as it is now in my 180 ...

i accounted for some fails but not on getting five free white mangrove propagules/seeds :3

-nor on how fast the white ones  germinate (2 already in 24 hours)

so i wanted all three species, at least ..

but if they're so easy to grow and i get many ... I might have some to spare :)

-so as not to "bust" the tank system ...

but ultimately I should probably start concentrating on saving up for more kitty fishies that the kids have been banging on at me about for a while now :3

and doubling up the shoal tetras too which should take a few months or so before any risks of discus can be further contemplated

 

-failing that ,.. getting a juwel vision 240 out the paper ads or on sites like craigs list

.. and tryna find room for it

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replaced my bower vine over the back roller door with a hbwr... had to enlarge the small hole in the footpath to ensure full removal and a bit of extra watering space... hoping that she settles in for some fast spring growth in a few months time... this seeding was double the size of its nearest sibling so I have high expectations ,)

 

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taken a couple of weeks to hack and slash/my back\a partition into both outdoor jungles to be able to have some room for plants I wanna facken see

... still a tad more to cover... , or un-cover as it were..

planted a nice white brugger arborea ... and dug a hole for a vampy brugger sanguinea that's on it's way...

and another for a dealbatacacia to try outside when it arrives...

put a datura metel seedling outside with humidity dome ..

chucked a load of hyoscyamus niger seed out along with some argemone mexicana ...

some cunt thought it would be absofknlutely hillarious to post me a wheel barrow kit with 4 handles and no frames so the eden garden woodchip mulch is on twin terbo hold for now ...

why don't they make spades that don't bend anymore?...

still on the hunt for a live already born passiflora incarnata ... and various choice clematisses...

turned an old frying pan lid into a bird bath that balances nicely in the boughs of one of the trees... , added a bird feeder which was largely ignored, by all but 2 bluetits, for live food ..

opened up the floor to reveal all the tasty juicy morsels from their sneaky refuge... like slugs n stuffs :3

....had a cuppa and a breather while watching the birds do their awesome thing to the tune of anti inflams and persp'...

found some hidden soil in a bucket to start a few cool , appropriately timed seeds off ... 

stuck a bridgesii and a pachanoi in the dirt , full sun, ..to see what happens ..

could do with a new huasca petcheretanius (or whatever the fk they're called) ..

found a supplier of latua pubiflora so grabbed 2 of them fast... and sowed some just in case along with some extra indoor hyoscyamus niger...

sprayed mangroves ....

chizelled a tree to an interesting shape ...

 

 

 

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The seeds are hidden inside the kawakawa fruits. Once they ripen and turn mushy yellow squash them up and have a look for the little black flecks.

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Hopefully this flowers for me this year, looks promising :lol:

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13 hours ago, inwould said:

The seeds are hidden inside the kawakawa fruits. Once they ripen and turn mushy yellow squash them up and have a look for the little black flecks.

 

Maybe we don't have the pollinators here, I'll try and give them a tingle 

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4 hours ago, theuserformallyknownasd00d said:

Maybe it's a male/female senario? 

 

Actually it turns out that they do have male and female plants.

http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Pollination/Sci-Media/Images/Kawakawa-flowers

I guess I never noticed before. They're so common here I didn't pay much attention.

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planted two caapi's in the ground (got another one in pot, and plenty others left)

in some newly developed beds with cacti and haworthias

I hope the cacti dont etiolate too much as its a relatively shady spot. 

 

I also wonder how fast caapi's grow, nothing to do with turbina/argyreia/ipomoea for sure.. I hope they start climbing soon! Anyone knows how soon should I expect flowers? 

 

also put some tiles, stones and shit for cat protection (cat shit a lot in my yard) 

an on going work, lots of stuff to do more will add pics eventually 

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Yoohooo! 2/4  c.edulis seed are sprouting, very excited.  each in its own pot.... 

 

also I got 3x  e.nov  seedlings  going  , they're  month+ old or something.  I suppose the later will be far more difficult to manage to get to maturity, with my dry and warm climate, but some people say they can be trained to tolerate drier places, perhaps in shade, filtered sun.  the seedlings like the occasional spraying with water.. 

 

I also sew some Atropa belladonna a nice saber sent me, but I am not seeing any sprouts yet.. 

 

I would like some moar c.edulis seed if someone has fresh seed to offer.. 

 

I could trade with fresh seeds of ephedra foeminea, caapi, mandragora, trichocereus, lopho, chilli (30+ varieties)   or simply buy the seed, as long as its fresh... 

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