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ferrel_human
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Post your fuck buddies
#14008567 - 02/22/11 04:52 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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mammilaria hernandezii.


mammilaria theresae


turbinicarpus valdezianus X pseudopectinatus with t. valdezianus

ariocarpus fissuratus

leuchtenbergia principis

myrtillocactus geometrizan. 1 from thailand and 1 from lowes.

strombocactus disciformis. gonna flower and gonna get their fuck on.

copiapoa hypogaea lizard skin

ariocarpus retusus var. furfuraceous

icaros dna seedlings. well pretty fucking big now.

sulcorebutia rauschii. one regular and one goldspine. hope they can mate.

obregonia denegrii.

astrophytum myriostygma.

thhese need no partner. they get down with themselves.

currently looking for a friend.
mammilaria bombycina

gymno of some sort.

echinopsis multiplex

ortegocactus macdougalii

turbinicarpus macrochele spp. polaskii

turbinicarpus schmiedickeanus sp andersonii

astrophytum ornatum

turbnicarpus pseudopectinatus

turbinicarpus klinkerianus.

well i had some schmiedickeanus pollen that i pollinated my turbinicarpus valdezianus X pseudopectinatus. don't know if these little guys do interracial. but lets hope they try.
some are very new to the whole orgie thing but i think they can get in there and make something happen.
wish them luck.
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Fuck mate,I'm going to start calling you CactusFerrel!!!
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: KBG1977]
#14008616 - 02/22/11 05:01 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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i've been busy man. collecting 2 of every kind.
call me NOah instead.
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Do you have any experience with Gymnocalycium? Mine just keep shrivelling up.
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: Mr E Guest]
#14008667 - 02/22/11 05:09 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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not really. but this one i had for a long time.
its been well for all the time i had it.
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Ooh! Just took a second look at your Gymnocalycium and it looks very much like an unlabelled specimen I got a while ago. Now I have more of an idea what it might be. Fortunately that one's doing fine. The other ones have suffered from things such as repotting into limey compost (they hate it) and possibly too high winter temperatures. Do you overwinter below room temperature?
Bit of a n00b, sorry! I've found it difficult to get hold of any decent Gymnocalycium cultivation info. and sorry for thread hijack! Nothing's flowered yet, so nothing really to add...
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: Mr E Guest]
#14009324 - 02/22/11 07:14 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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You been going strong eh FH Looking good! I seen Leuchtenbergia all red like that pretty often - they don't seem to need as much sun as a lotta other cacti. Even seen ones way worse off at the desert botanical garden in Phoenix. Best of luck with all your seed collecting adventures
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: PoC]
#14009517 - 02/22/11 07:48 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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PoC said: You been going strong eh FH Looking good! I seen Leuchtenbergia all red like that pretty often - they don't seem to need as much sun as a lotta other cacti. Even seen ones way worse off at the desert botanical garden in Phoenix. Best of luck with all your seed collecting adventures 
Thanks PoC.
those l. principis are in full sun. they seem to grow either way.
i looked up some on the net and they showed shots of wild ones.
mine, as natural as like to get them, don't look as bad as wild ones.
i haven't waterd those for over a year.
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Nice Mammilaria theresae!
Cryptocarps for the win. Plus they are some of the hardiest globulars I've come across. Apparently in the natural habitat they are frequently covered by snow without ill effect.
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: naum]
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naum said: Nice Mammilaria theresae!
Cryptocarps for the win. Plus they are some of the hardiest globulars I've come across. Apparently in the natural habitat they are frequently covered by snow without ill effect.
cryptocarps?
elaborate my man.
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Think he's referring to Yavia cryptocarpa.
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Cryptocarpic cacti are cacti that retain their fruit/seeds inside their bodies. Most of them are in the Longiflorae series of Mammillaria. Unfortunately it means that getting seeds is pretty difficult--I've been hesitant to try to harvest them with sharp tweezers.
There might be some more informationhere.
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: naum]
#14010836 - 02/22/11 11:17 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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naum said:
There might be some more informationhere.
well ain;t that a bitch.
i ain't gonna be diggin into my babies, so when it dies i'll look.
no time beforre that.
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ferrel_human said: i've been busy man. collecting 2 of every kind.
call me NOah instead.
This made me LOL and is also very true. Now you just need an ark.
You've got quite the collection now. Totally jealous!
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: karode13]
#14012679 - 02/23/11 10:02 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Awesome collection, you seem to have a pollination orgy, mine is more like a hareem, pack or insect colony mentality everyone mates with the boss / queen or in this case the grandfather

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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: GGTBod]
#14013548 - 02/23/11 01:25 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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She's a beauty GGT. How old is ol grandfather?
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: GGTBod]
#14013651 - 02/23/11 01:41 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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karode13 said:
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ferrel_human said: i've been busy man. collecting 2 of every kind.
call me NOah instead.
This made me LOL and is also very true. Now you just need an ark.
You've got quite the collection now. Totally jealous! 
man while i was away, all i did was collect. and 2 of each.
months and hudreds of dollars later that is most of it.
they ar emainly a present to my son when he reaches of age to take care of them.
i won't be here forever and i'll teach him what i know.
hopefully he will be smarter than daddy.
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GGTBod said: Awesome collection, you seem to have a pollination orgy, mine is more like a hareem, pack or insect colony mentality everyone mates with the boss / queen or in this case the grandfather
 
are those 2 seperate plants? how old are they?
they're beautiful. i'mm more for the natural looking lophs but those is something about them.
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Its the same plant I bought it when it was 15 years old and i have had it 17 year this year. I was originally gonna eat it as soon as I got home.The others
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: GGTBod]
#14013776 - 02/23/11 01:58 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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its hard to to do when you been with them for so long.
how come when i click on the link it takes me to my gallery of photos?
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Trippy when i click on it i go to my gallery lol i'll try again
2nd time is a charm
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: GGTBod]
#14013900 - 02/23/11 02:14 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Still doesn't work.
Third time is a charm! GGTBod's Peyote Family Gallery
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: naum]
#14013923 - 02/23/11 02:17 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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great pics! and great job!
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: cc2]
#14014056 - 02/23/11 02:36 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Most impressive. Lots of old timers there. I wonder how much a sweater would be worth if it was made from 100% Lophophora tufts?
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: Microppose]
#14014146 - 02/23/11 02:49 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Azurascender said: Most impressive. Lots of old timers there. I wonder how much a sweater would be worth if it was made from 100% Lophophora tufts?
priceless though this cacti tufts are not easy on most skins
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: cc2]
#14014185 - 02/23/11 02:52 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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cc2 said:
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Azurascender said: Most impressive. Lots of old timers there. I wonder how much a sweater would be worth if it was made from 100% Lophophora tufts?
priceless though this cacti tufts are not easy on most skins 
Understandable it is easy as soft as duck-down possibly even goose
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: GGTBod]
#14018972 - 02/24/11 09:35 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Very nice collection Ferrel, I hope you have a big orgy this season! LOL  GGTBOD, this is one of the most beautiful lophophoras I have seen, it is well kept and the tufts are amazing, how do you keep them look so lively?
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: Pacha]
#14018983 - 02/24/11 09:38 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I never ever in their lives have let the tufts get wet and as i live so far north i also make little glass-houses for them to make them feel more at home

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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: GGTBod]
#14021927 - 02/24/11 07:19 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Holy shit ferrell, nice collection! I'm gonna save this page as a cactus ID reference.
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: Sanguine]
#14071702 - 03/05/11 04:32 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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someone, or should i say somebodies, is pregnant. my guess is they could look like anyone of the 2. 
Turbinicarpus valdezianus X pseudopectinatus and Turbinicarpus valdezianus.


check out the dirty ass thumbnail. i replanted these into new pot. they were completely root bound. and to seperate the roots. it was a bitch.
kk242. 10 gallon i believe. it might be bigger.

icaro torch. this one gave me hell. and the sheer weight of the top made one of them break.

those 2 columnar cacti will breed, if they can flower simoultaneously.
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Good work!
Didn't realise how tiny the Turbinocarpus was. Your thumb puts it into perspective well.
Love your Trichs too.
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: karode13]
#14073073 - 03/05/11 09:47 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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hey k-man. i got a question for you.
my ariocarpus fissuratus is pregnant as well.
i rubbed the the wooly tufts from the top of one. there was a flower attached and it accidentally came off and there was these super dark red soft seeds. they look almost fully developed. now that the flower is not there will they be any good? i gots to be less smothering with my lovelys.
i put them back in the wool and i wanna see if they would still be viable.
what do you think?
anybody else got a clue?
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Awesome ferrel! me when you wanna donate all your babies. haha.
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: OdinSun]
#14073743 - 03/06/11 12:25 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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OdinSun said: Awesome ferrel! me when you wanna donate all your babies. haha.
had you been around sometime last year i gave away astrophytum asterias and epitheltha micromeris seeds.
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If you removed the seeds whilst they were ripening they probably wont mature seeing as you removed them accidentally. I'm not too sure if this is what you did as I can't make out if you seen the seeds still on the cactus once the flower was removed or if the seeds were on the end of the flower once removed.
If you're getting what I mean.
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: karode13]
#14073814 - 03/06/11 12:50 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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yeah the flower actually was on its way out.
i actually just brushed my hand agaisnt it and there were like 7 or 8 seeds at the base of the flower.
i'm good at making them have sex.
harvesting fetuses is still a foreign subject.
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Plant them anyway. You never know.
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had you been around sometime last year i gave away astrophytum asterias and epitheltha micromeris seeds.
D'oh!
Hey these things happen right? Which is why a cactus will make more seeds. I kind of plan on making an ark of various entheogenics that are helpful, can be done in my zone 5 area, and fun to keep around. 2 of each or more depending on how many buddies they like to have to secure a good for them.
still eludes me but it is only a matter of time... like 50 days... haha.
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: OdinSun]
#14158232 - 03/21/11 07:43 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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well seems my strombos have been getting down too. this has been a good adventure so far.
the first has 4 pollinated flowers w/ pods.

this second one is tiny and has only one shriveled flower w/ pod.
 
the sad thing is i was not here to see the white flowers. but the reward is great.
check it.
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Definitely beautiful collection you got, those little ones with your thumb in are pure class
Here are some of my spring children from all that end of season cluster fucking with the boss last season
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Post deleted by OdinSunReason for deletion: misplaced in the wrong thread, not needed.
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Shit Ferrel what a cool collection good stuff mate.I will be checking in on this thread again.
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: OdinSun]
#14158418 - 03/21/11 09:11 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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OdinSun said: Got two bareroot LW babes!! Will have pics soon!Ferrel, GGTBod, reccomend anything not in the teks for going from bareroot to safely secure in their medium? I was gonna go for mostly diatamaceous earth, perlite, and a cup (literally) of microwave "sterilized" sifted sandy compost. I have medium/large grade perlite instead of rocks to make a barrier layer...saw some folks doing that and myco buddies seem to have no problem handing over a few sacks of coarse perlite when asked haha. Also...I don't want to have to repot for a while, 4" terra cotta with bottom watering holes? Or Plastic 4" pot that I bottom water? They are just under 1.5" when full on water, about 1" right now from having been on a journey-so I thought the 4" size would be the way to go for a year or two?
When you repot, do so into a dry mix and don't water for a couple of weeks. Plastic or terracotta.. depends on your growing environment, humidity, rainfall if outside, and so on. With your mix, plastic would most likely be ok. Grab a fistful when damp and see if it remains held together, or falls apart easily. You want it to come apart easily. Lophs wont outgrow any pot in a hurry, but overpotting isn't always good practice with some cacti, especially slow growers, but again that will depend on your soil mix and conditions.
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Sorry, just realized I jacked thread pretty bad there, deleting it and will put the pics up soon!
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: OdinSun]
#14161190 - 03/21/11 07:58 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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correction.
only 2 of the 4 flowers on the first strombo have seed pods.
still a good score, i'll say.
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: GGTBod]
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GGTBod said: I never ever in their lives have let the tufts get wet and as i live so far north i also make little glass-houses for them to make them feel more at home
 
I live in wales .. i have these little domes , do u think i should put them on ? wales and england are as far north ?
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: sniffy]
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Im in Newcastle a bit further north, if you do use them do it gradually and on very hot days (even tho rare) remove the domes, with a dome you are raising the temps quite a bit, make sure you have plenty of ventialtion holes in the domes, i lost 2 diffusa variety to sunburn in domes as they are not as tough as willliamsii and just could not acclimatise. They definitly grow better in our cold climate under them but if they ahve been used to normal UK temps you definitely gotta get them used to the higher temps bit by bit, good luck.
What cacti you got? Load some pics up
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: GGTBod]
#14165537 - 03/22/11 04:23 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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hey GGTBod, what exactly are you using those domes for?
too much humidity may cause them to rot. just a heads up.
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GGTBod
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I live in the 55th parallel north sun is not so bright up here even on our hottest days, the domes are to intensify sunlight like a mini greenhouse, i only water from the bottom and inside the domes is very arrid (I monitored them with digital humidy/thermometer same type i use for shrooms when i first started trying out different styles of them). It is an attempt to create a more desert like Texan style environment instead on my windowsill that is level with Alaska on the globe, sort of trying to replicate the natural environment without it having to survive and hide from hippy scavanger hunts to get to maturity.
Zoom on the map i live on the red line

On my hottest day i get the inside of my domes gets up to 32 degrees celcius maximum without the domes is 28c and in winter on my coldest days they get down to -7 degrees celcius and without domes -10.
Like yourself my first thoughts when having the idea was it is no good if it increases humidy but the combination of the white stones reflecting the light rays and then the domes stopping them escaping so easily just gives me that little bit more temps.
I've been using them about 3 years now and they just look so much happier especially in the dormancy as the atmosphere was just too damp and cold without.
I may not need the domes in my new pad as it has double glazing, this shithole is like living in a wind tunnel and at the moment my cacti altho on my windowsill they are not exactly protected from any elements except rain
Edited by GGTBod (03/22/11 04:45 PM)
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: GGTBod]
#14165717 - 03/22/11 04:53 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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well that seems reasonable. i did not know exactly where you were from.
mine don't really grow at the begining of spring. its only when the sun is straight over head and its like 105f is when they grow.
but that is pretty cool setup.
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I would love to be able to grow them outside big problem is i would need to live in a house with some serious air conditioning system and a limitless amount of electricity to run the fucker. My genetics are far too used to this climate, I am most comfortable at 18c - 21c (64.4f - 69.8f) any hotter than that and i am out my league like a fish on the land out of water, so then i'd be sitting there viewing my Peyotes from inside my refrigerated house.
I am only so aware of the temps around me because all over my house i have digital readouts, next to the "Grandfather Lopho" there is a constant monitor system setup with a digital min and max temp setup so i even know what it has been like when i wasnt there right now he is sitting at 12.4c (54.32f) air humidty level 88% soil completely dry as he hasnt had a drink since start of November
Over the next year with all the seeds i've been planting I am moving the whole collection under artificial lighting and i'll definitely not be needing the domes anymore after that
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: GGTBod]
#14191458 - 03/27/11 10:36 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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My lopho's don't believe in safe sex it is against their religion, problem is all the children

Granpa don't know what to do

I tried to tell him that if they were not all hemaphrodites nd would stop inseminating each other these things wouldnt happen
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Re: Post your fuck buddies [Re: GGTBod]
#14756317 - 07/12/11 11:10 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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from thailand.
aztekium ritterii

for my other aztekium ritterii graft.

i feel like there is not any others that i want at the moment. for now my craving has subsided and i'm in a cacti stupor. 
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