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looking good.  sometimes tab's can be little bastards to germinate.  what was your procedure?

i have to agree, i cant stand durians!

are those longyan or lychee in your first few pics?

thailand have any cherimoya?  they are one of my favourites!  i am working on a brown fruit variety now, hope it breeds true


teo i have some of what you want, email me if you are interested.

they stretch for light.  much like a morning glory grows up and up with few leaves until it reaches the "canopy" where it will spread and send out dense foliage under the full light....obviously cacti are much less obvious, but similar idea.

you can grow peyote really fast without making them stretch.  They are C4 plants so if you keep their temps lower and the light not too intense they wont close their stoma, or as many, and you can grow them in slightly moist conditions with 24 hour light.

you will get 5cm plants in 2 years...which is amazing!  but these plants are worthless and weak as hell as they are bloated and susceptible to bugs, disease and basically the wind.  whether they are as potent or not, that would certainly make for a good experiment as it would certainly help make peyote commercially sustainable, but as far as collecting or keeping the plant long term, its a really shitty way of growing them!  the feeling of loosing a 13cm plant because its so weak and grew so fast, hurts a bit  :cry:

there was a paper (i cant remember its name or author, im sure MS does!) that showed that grafted plants were still active.  i remember them being tested on myrtillocactus geometrizans and... (my memory is below par).  i have tasted my grafts on myrtle, pedro and stenocereus and all taste similar to seed grown plants.  i did try some steno grafts, and got the beginnings of a feeling -call it enlightening-, but that was with only 15-20 grams dried, so maybe not enough.

thats awesome in korea!  i heard they had a big orchid display too.

i never saw that big penis in taipei before, must look next time.  people here (taiwan) often think that placing a carved wooden penis is the room the pregnant mother is in will help get a boy.  i myself have a nice penis bottle opener and ash tray  :smoke2:

that is called etiolation, and is caused by too little little light.  this is generally considered a bad thing.

lophs that are getting enough light will often be a lighter green and will grow flatter than taller (usually).  water also plays a huge role in this as well...many diffusa tend to grow tall even under full sun when watered a lot.  lophophora with good light should grow out and up about the same...if your getting towers, they need more light.

one may think this is good, but it creates weaker plants that die easier.

blue light is good, but there is no doubt that they need red light as well.  i'll try and get a pic of a paper strip i did showing the different pigments (acetone)

peace

no bad considering its a crest, its size and seed grown!  just wish i could afford it!

do you think it may be too cold at night?

mine are good, last for 1-2 days then start to die.  none have fallen off yet, but its still early.

great work!  do your flower/buds look anything like these?

once they are about 4 inches or so i put them in FULL sun outside.  I am getting about 1.5 inches a month right now.  pretty quick once they get moving.

simple lesson....if you dont have friends and grow big, you will have someone visiting you...  stay small or pay up.

peyote seeds warm, humid, not strong light.  use whatever cacti mix you feel is good but put 1 cm of fine sand on top and sow seeds on top of sand...burying looses seeds.  use a humidity tent and keep humid.  then wait.

i have found little worms, snails/slugs, even some kind of beetle/true bug eating leaves on "wild" ones here.  i think a lot of animals (insect types) eat these plants....i am often surprised how often my deadly type plants are eaten more than my edible ones.  crazy world.

no no.  i mean they constantly are making up shit to cover their asses.  things like not complying with WHO and bird flu.  lying about what products are made of etc etc.  not what you said, that i know is true.  i live quite close to china and learn more than i care to about their shitty politics.  bit of a hot subject for me and my family, not exactly friends with china (as a country, im not a bigot).

ya that guy is certainly dead.  its weird how they respond so swiftly and harshly with something that afflicts their bigger international interests, yet still make up and falsify many things to cover up things from them.

to me it seems like they want their government drones to do things, not necessarily this, but once they find out, you get the axe...shit deal.

the status quo.