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The shop where I used to buy rye closed and because I am too lazy to look for another one I just use Popcorn from the supermarket. Any grain will work as a substrate.
A picture from my latest grow. The substrate is popcorn and wheatstraw.
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Free Sex for instance. In the past they could not live like this because who would have taken care of the children. Today we have the pill, condoms etc..
For people who want to eat more than is godd for them, there is light food. For people who want to smoke there are cigarettes with filter, to lower the health risk. Everything must be possible. If there is a problem, a solution must be found. Don´t adapt to the world, adapt the world to us.

I do not know what motivates the individual magician/scorcerer. Nor do I believe they are all nice and good people. The difference between religion and science is that science believes that mankind is free, while religion does not. I don´t belief that we are free, that our intelligence enables us to understand the true reality, the true nature of things. We can never be in charge of the world, the world is in charge of us. Therefore freedom is an illusion. Our efforts to create a better world, wherein we are free to do what was forbidden in the past, brought us only more problems and is more and more a threat for the whole of nature, including ourselfs.

I would not say that magicians try to manipulate the world. I would call it playing. As with playing cards where every player wants to win. They don´t try to manipulate the natural flow of energy and matter in order to get products that have a value on the market.
Magicians, or better religion, is wright when it comes to how to deal with what these scientists call ´´collective intelligence´´. These scientists are like Adam and Eve who let themself convince by the snake that, if using their intelligence, they could become like the gods.

As far as I understand it, manipulating the cosmos for personal gain is the way of science and technology. They belief in human intelligence as the only way to welfare and wellbeing. They are some kind of humanists/rationalists, not religious or magicians. The knowledge humanity possesses doubles every 25 years. One has to learn more and more to stay ahead of the problems manipulating the cosmos brought us. The more we learn, the more brain capacity we need, the more we lose perception of the spirits of nature. Therefore the industrialized countries are not religious or belief in magick. Christianity today is no more than a joke.
Like ants the human individual is a semi autonomous unit. Most of the ant behaviour is determined by their genetics. Since genetics can´t predict everything (where food can be found or what specific circumstances the ants will face) ants have a limited space to make individual choices. Since they do not have a humanlike intelligence their knowledge is not expanding and they stay under the influence of the spirit of the antnation they belong to. This spirit(collective intelligence) guides them and let them build their things without a central command-and control structure.
Magick is the old way when there were no scientists. Like today where the less ´´developed´´ nations are the religious nations.  According to the article these scientists also believe humanity has a collective intelligence. If one understands it´s ways one can predict automobile traffic and so on.  I don´t think ´´collective intelligence´´ is the wright term to describe this phenomen. In earlier times these tings were called gods. Magicians/sorcerers/shamans tried to get in contact with them to know the future and avoid trouble. There are different ways known to get into contact: drugs, transcendental meditation, bringing oneself into a trance etc.. These scientists, who do not belief in gods, try to do the same what magicians did/doe. The magician thinks of collective intelligence as gods/spirits, honours them and tries to get things done by them. The scientists think they can get in charge of the strings we are attached to (whose puppets we are). Like a puppet who is puppet and puppetmaster at the same time. A logical impossibility. That´s why I think that they are wrong, that magicians were wright and that these things are what magick is about.

Isn´t this what magick/the spiritual is about? We are not only controlled by our intellect. We are not like robots with a computer in our head. With our intelligence we can think about the ideas that pop up in our minds and make choices. Our ideas however are not the product of our intelligence. In a way they come from a similar scource like the ideas from the ants that let them work together without a central authority. Magick is trying to get in contact with the mechanics/centers/gods of our ´´swarm intelligence´´ and base our choices on that information. These centers/gods are of course connected to the whole of nature.

Some people claim they have higher yields with rye than with rye grass seed. (with Mexicana A). Rice also seems to work. May be even better than rye grass seed, because rye grass seed is said to dry up easily while rice does not.
About new strains: There is a new (actually not that new) strain of Psilocybe Atlantis. Atlantis also forms sclerotia.

Yes, I read a lot about growing cacti under artificial light. But at the moment the cacti, including the seedlings, are quite small. Therefore I think using MH or HPS lamps would be wasting my money. When the cacti get larger these lamps are definetely an option.

2 more cacti, which I forgot. Besides only the cacti from the stumbs grow 1 inch a month. The seedlings grow slower.
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I am growing cacti under flourescents at the moment. They are growing quite fast (1 inch a month) but stay skinny. I think one should not give them more than 4 inches growing space, for optimal yield on a given growing surface.

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tray with seedlings 1 small peyote on the upper left side

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another tray with seedlings
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I also want to grow cacti indoors under artificial light all year around. Does someone know how many cacti (Pedros) in what size of plantcontainers per square meter produces the largest yield?