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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Thanks DMT! What are the purple and white flowers? They look wonderful.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Mesembs from South Africa, related to Ice Plant
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dr F, what is that last wierdness?
So, Flower People, after a winter of at least average rain down here in LaLa Land I would
have expected a bumper crop of everything. The flowers have been very happy but it is a
decidedly sub-par year for the giant agaves. I guess they don't like so much rain?
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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That last plant is Conophytum burgeri
It's very rare because it's care is so difficult
It's like growing a blob of jello
it doesn't get any bigger than that
I sell seed of them, and grow them from seed.
It takes about 6 years to get that big
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Here's my favorite plant of the week
Trichodiadema fergusonii
So rare in cultivation that the only real photos of the species in Google Images are of my plant years ago
and I have 23 photos in the gallery that are not Trichodiadema fergusonii
Now look at it!
I potted it up into a show pot
We call those Nice Fat Roots
I have several plants and harvest the seeds
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 9, 2016 - 10:57am PT
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Oleander, privet, and Tree of Heaven.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2016 - 12:30am PT
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Fresh tuna for the sushi fest, Jaybro?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2016 - 06:58am PT
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In the Starz TV series, DaVinci's Demons, the concoction given to Leo to facilitate his walk among the dead as he lays dying from snakebite, in the Episode titled "The Rope of the Dead," is made from the San Pedro cactus. Needless to say, this is highly fictionalized.
I have used mushrooms which contain mescaline, or was it psilocybin? No matter, I'm here and others aren't, same as it's ever been. However, I have never been possessed by demons, so my take is limited to "recreational use" experience, not shamanistic ritual.
San Pedro cactus.
Echinopsis pachanoi and related species* is used as a tool to facilitate the shaman’s ‘‘journey’’ in order to diagnose and heal the ‘‘magical’’ illnesses, including ‘‘soul loss’’ and ‘‘sorcery’’ from which patients are believed to suffer. More recently, the use of this cactus by those seeking access to ‘‘other worlds’’ for spiritual enlightenment, or just for recreational ‘‘escape’’ from the stresses of daily living, has been increasingly popular throughout the Andes, as well as in the United States and Western Europe. Legality of the use of this mescaline-bearing plant substance in the United States is questionable, because, unlike peyote, Echinopsis/Trichocereus is not listed as a Schedule I hallucinogen by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/ scheduling.html), even though mescaline, the psychoactive alkaloid responsible for its effects, is specifically named. However, preparing, using, distributing, and selling the plant with intent to ingest is specifically cautioned against by many because of the ambiguity of the law.
Also classified as Trichocereus pachanoi,
the Echinopsis label is more recent, more botanically correct, and much less widely used.
http://www.ayahuascacommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/shamanism-and-san-pedro-through-time.pdf
edit: These are night bloomers, I believe.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Jun 10, 2016 - 08:18am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 11, 2016 - 08:33am PT
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Leaving the VA yesterday on my bike, I pedaled into the old hood.
This is north of Bear Creek in the more elite section of town, where the newer homes are built on wheat/rye land formerly owned by Huffman Land and Cattle, then by the Reinero clan, who raised some cotton and tomatoes and grazed some cattle.There is one developer who had a fixation on Yosemite place names.
Royal Arch Ct. is one such. Eagle Peak is another. Royal Arches Street, too. I think the same builders developed another hood to the west. I lived on Denver Way, which was an extension of Denver Avenue in the late eighties.
Plenty to see. This will take a few posts.
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Jun 12, 2016 - 03:32pm PT
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Jun 14, 2016 - 08:01am PT
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Last weekend along the PCT.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jun 14, 2016 - 05:36pm PT
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Cactus have great flowers
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2016 - 05:45pm PT
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Cacti from Live Trends.Let me say how fine your shots are, CF...you prickly old buggerer. :0)
You are really a softie, dude.
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Jun 14, 2016 - 07:55pm PT
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Around my yard today.
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