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DESTINATION UNKNOW ..............................
#7833631 - 01/04/08 09:12 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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HELLO ALL HAPPY NEW YEAR i was having a vacation , to be honest i was dying to see mushrooms , so we set the course and hit the road destination unknow, we just drive to the desert lands where only the yucas and cactuces live and stand ,the cactu was happy to be back....... ww were in the middle of the earth as indial call the dessert the tropic of cancer pass close ,



 then we head to the mountains , here when all beging to change every 50 meters of altitude the nigh fall , the star brig almost all night , in the morning , a few shot. efhedra sp.




 then we take the road and pass the sierra , we beging to descend in altitude until we hit the valle or valley , and we take a bath in the beutiful manantila de la media luna , where crystaline water flow,






 then we head to the mountains again passin a new state , more river flow here , and la husteca was close it was time to rest.


the mornig is no mornig if you dont have your atole in jalpan , then we begging to climb the sierra gorda of queretaro, the diferent vegetations of this place always overwell me , first the pine forest and oaks appear then the pine dominate, and then a unique vegetation of liquidarmbar,alnus,platanus,populus trees grow as in canada and east of usa, here in wher caerulipides, live in mexico and many more , only in the state of hidalgo, queretaro,tamaulipas san luis potosi birch grow in mexico ,million year ago the vegetation of easth usa was in mexico because of the glaciar age now only this tree live to tell the history that happend many centurys ago in pleistoce age, the vegetation is increible, simple amazing, for me is like the best i have to do study my next hunting grounds enjoy i was .........










 then we where running out of gas so we head down to the jungle from 2000 meters to 600 meters , we stay there for 3 days, and visit some friends ,


 solandra sp.}


 next day we try to dycover what edwar james missed . we head to there .

 very good choice since there was when i found most of the mushrooms from this trip, marasmiellus sp.

 schizophyllum comune

 maybe some poria sp.







 marasmiellus sp.
 will post more later all my best vibration to you all my hand shake too much sorry for the blurr.
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7833675 - 01/04/08 09:25 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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Cool ephedra plant. Does it make a good tea?
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7833708 - 01/04/08 09:34 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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Awesome pictures, you need to work on that drinking problem, get the shakes down :P
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7833753 - 01/04/08 09:49 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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i especially like the mountain images
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#7833828 - 01/04/08 10:17 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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Las especies de Ephedra del altiplano potosino son: E. antisyphilitica, E. aspera, E. compacta, E. pedunculata y E. trifurca. El género se distribuye desde los 22° 02/`, hasta los 24° 13/´ de latitud norte y desde los 100°15/´, hasta los 101°45/´ de longitud oeste, la distribución altitudinal es desde los 1115, hasta los 2850 m. La mayor presencia de recolectas se registró en el clima tipo BS, en sitios con matorral desértico micrófilo. Los resultados confirman a las especies de Ephedra en San Luis Potosí, como elementos florísticos propios de las zonas áridas y semiáridas.
aparently not as good as asian species..

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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7833929 - 01/04/08 10:43 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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i will try implee i´m using new antishake prescription..
- -i especially like the mountain images
me to GGreatOne234 i love those mountains so especial if you like to see more from the area but in the rainy seasom see this links http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/7400578#7400578 http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6439859#6439859 http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/7400220#7400220
i will post more tomorrow , peace,
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7834490 - 01/05/08 04:10 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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Nice photos, I wish I was there!!! I especially like the one with you reflection in the water.
Lemme give you some tips on your photos. We have the same camera.
Your scene shots are spectacular, but the mushrooms are all fuzzy.
http://www.digitalreview.ca/cams/pics/Sony_DSCW30back.jpg
the dial in the upper right hand corner should be set to the green camera icon, as seen in the photo.
below it, make sure the macro (flower symbol) setting is on.
To take photos, you must hold down the button half way, you will see the image on the screen try and focus, and then it will beep twice when it thinks it hase focused properly, if so, then without releasing the button press the button down all the way and release quickly. If the shot did not come into focus the first time, try releasing the button after it beeps twice, and refocusing until it looks clear. Tips for focusing are moving the camera in and out, or trying different angles, and using something (your hand) to change the background of your focal point so that it focuses on the subject.
What you do NOT want to do, is simply press down the button completely, and then release quickly. The camera was not designed to work like old cameras.
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: CureCat]
#7834515 - 01/05/08 05:08 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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macro/micro Flower symbol not slower :P i got the dscw80 model they are pretty nice cameras
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: implee]
#7834626 - 01/05/08 06:52 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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Amazzing shots as always cactu! must be nice to live in an area where most things you look at could be a beautiful wallpaper for your computer.
I wish i were so fortunate
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: implee]
#7834634 - 01/05/08 07:01 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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thank you cc, for the tips, i really preaciated, but yeah i did not put enouf time to take good pictures sorry , i was really not in mushrooms hunting i fell like a tourist, but i was on vacation sometimes you have to make millions move to get in nice focus , i did´t , people was waiting for me and i fell like they where holding enouf . haha , i was more amaze to be theere, and always in the future,thinking i was more recording in mi mind road and towns vegetation,and altitude.
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7835143 - 01/05/08 11:28 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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hola, looks like a nice trip. That river looks very nice. I'm surprised it's so clear. Is it totally spring fed? Great vegetation. That sounds like a unique habitat for that far south (hidalgo). And, those mushrooms do have a lot in common with the plethora of fungus I found in Hawaii. What is the annual rainfall like in areas near the coast, say up to 100 km inland?
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: landsnorkler]
#7835889 - 01/05/08 02:38 PM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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you mean la media luna spring river , yes the area is a total desert ,but the spring bring life to the area , the water are blue in fact i have never seem so much crystaline water as all the rivers, springs , manantial, lagoon , damp over here, the constand rain in the many sierras bring lot of water to the deser valley of rio verde i guess the name is self explinatory, but as this this state of san luis potosi , la sirra gorda de queretaro , tamaulipas are full of rivers of water from color that range to blue,turqueise,green,esmerald, cristaline , traslucid, white, shit is dificult to find a comom river here all have a glow an brig aura . the water of this spring in a bit warn not to much but enouf many acuatic plant are endemic here also some fish , are unique. in rainy season copes and cubes grow near. is amazing how all this sierra capture all the rain of the gulf coast ,so the humid air hit here and rain fell , almost all year, in fact rainy seasom is beggining there when i left where 2 days non stops rain , i almost got there for the subb and copes a few more day and iwill be a dung lover again. the cold north is what fed this places in the more warn and humid part the north easth part and below 600 metter of altitude are where the rain get as much as 2000mm a year that is where i find all the mayoroty of mushrooms this time a true tropical enviromente here are 3 level of tropical jungle lowere , middle and high jungle, all are unique and interbredd with each others and with other vegetation in highert part as the mesofitic forest where the more neoarticflora exist, oaks pines,liquidambar,populus, ptseudotsuga,alnus, arbutus, etc, in lower and dry part with desert areas and shrubs and more dry lands. so this give you a pletora of more than 14 types of vegetation , for me is orgiastic all this undestand flora, is like a climax , is total sex for mi mind , i was having fun undestanding jalisco , now i get this , well is big , rainy seasom is beggining there it have like diferent peak the seasom there for area below 800 mettes are 3 peak the rainy seasom from may to october sometimes november if huracan come from the atlantic, then a rest of a month and the cold front beging to bring rain all front cold bring rain here and sometime snow in higher part more of 2800-3100 meters. so this give you january and febrary for few mushrooms that appear as dung lover and wood lover not active of course well maybe some gym. then a rest and in end of april -may few rains and finally at the end of may all is flow . in higher area is a mark station in some places and a more long in other the sierra have crazy microclimate, the sierra run in a north-south position , this act as a condenser and trapp all the rain given the effect is call shadow so the other side the south wester side is the most dry and the north easth and east side the more humid and fullof vegetation . . the near coast is the port of tampico tamahualipas , and over there are other secret as reserva de la biosfera del cielo but that another story. all my best i will post more i promise
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7845718 - 01/07/08 09:05 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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why i love mexico , i know only i guess 10% pecent of it , and i can´t wait to know the rest if i can know at leat half of mexico i will be delighted , is so big so amazing . i will edit later are so many pictures than i will let you guys enjoy this one seem to be coroiolopsis polyzona.
 same
 trichaptum perrottetti
 pleurotus djamour var djamour
 landsnorkler you have better pictures of this one .spore print to the right side in one specimen yeah anti shake , forgime ...coprinus or coprinopsis. [ same
 is not shit maybe be some old decating trametes.
 sotano de las huahuas

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 buterfly of la huasteca genus Pteronymia sp.
 same
 i really don´t know any will be esplendit
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 i pass docen of this type of river but i have to stop and take a picture more close here .
 i can imaging indias huastecos bathing here, , you can see the stairs , really i wish that was the stair of my back yard it is for that person that live there i envy him ....

  buterfly of xilitla.?
 maybe Daedalea microsticta
 same
 some lichen and maybe Chiodecton sanguineun
 heliconius charitonius.
 the dance of sex of mechanitis polymnia
 shadow
 Mechanitis polymnia
 Heliconius erato petiverama
 musa paradisiaca
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this is the firt time i see something like this maybe a lichen or a mushroom any help will be great.
 be mi guees 
 conocybe sp maybe lactea
 salvia sp maybe mexicana
 ascomycete fungus jelly cup, so minute
 sorry for the blurr you can see the minute pin of the next mushrooms and a cup there
 this minute coprinus the mayority of this mushrooms only last 2 hours here
 i suspect this to be marasmius was to dry to know for sure
 same
 mostly all this mushrooms where photograft here

 when later in the night a celebration of love was set,

 in the midlle of the night right in new year a marakame a shaman huichol indian made a ceremory and we give thank to all the spirit of all the four point and wish good for all the people, and then party continues-----------

    
    
    
     the next day the rain came and don´t stop for 2 days .
 few more tomorrow . chao
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Edited by cactu (01/08/08 08:57 AM)
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7847174 - 01/08/08 09:24 AM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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hello all well did left o yeah the rain came and don´t stop for 2 days how i wish i was after that but i have to go .
 we left las pozas amd hit the road
 after a while on the road the rain stop and i try my luck in a local grass field came empty handed but at the end i found this poliporus tricholoma

 night fall and we take a rest next day we are know in the desert areas my radar was on
 since i came here in a personal guest i will only tell you this i was looking for hin .
 my first quest was unsuccesfull but i found a mushroom o boy in plain dessert in a log pycnoporus sanguineus one of the best especiemn i have found and best picture i have of the species, you can now add this to the desert micoflora.

 ok search number 2
 la tercera es la vencida
 coryphanta sp.
 i forgot sorry maybe i can put name later
 and this one too

 when you found cactus this big of obrogonia or echinocactus,sp, call asiento de suegra here is that you are in a wild desrt not disturbed ,and this give a good felling i was in the right way,
 and si el abuelo peyote was there waiting for me.
 this is my experience but i like to share with you don´t judge me i have a deal with the grand pa.
 do you like to see my yucca knife
 the beuty of mexico is for everybody , also for tourist here are few location if you got lost in the road 

 and more in the road next home

 we are back thank you great spirit , thank you gram misterio. all my best vibration to you all.
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7847180 - 01/08/08 09:27 AM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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sorry dooble post
Edited by cactu (01/08/08 09:36 AM)
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7847196 - 01/08/08 09:38 AM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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I like the peyote and the butterfly pictures, butterflies never let me get that close =-O
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: implee]
#7847291 - 01/08/08 10:27 AM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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the trick to get the butterfly , is to go real early in the morning , since they heat their body with the sun ,are more, slow to reaction a that time, but you still have to approach with caution i try many times but i got some of then , others are too shy to share, and bird i need a better camera with a telecopic zoom glad you like it , i realy enjoy it. i can not put all my pictures but i have a real good time there, learn a lot,
all my best ...
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7848184 - 01/08/08 02:16 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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That little yellow mushroom is probably Bolbitius rather than Conocybe, but I can't say for sure.
Wow, beautiful butterflies!!! They let you get really close!
Oooo, that little stemmed polypore with the hair is fucking crazy!! Woah!
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: CureCat]
#7848288 - 01/08/08 02:35 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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-That little yellow mushroom is probably Bolbitius rather than Conocybe, but I can't say for sure.
I GUEES YOU are totally right , i have observe that bolbitius tend to be more big and less conic , this mushrooms only last few hours or 1, i left two and come back and was notting
-Wow, beautiful butterflies!!! They let you get really close!
now you know another of mi passion buttlerfly , you will see many post like this from me , but maybe i will have to post it in some place else well see if i can still find mushrooms there.
-Oooo, that little stemmed polypore with the hair is fucking crazy!! Woah! here are very commond alan also point that to me, for me are very commond , i guees you will call it frensh poliporus, in david aurora books mushrooms demystified, i do´n´t remenber .
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7848843 - 01/08/08 04:25 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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Nice Cactu! Your threads are worth waiting for on my slow connection.
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: georgeM]
#7848870 - 01/08/08 04:32 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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At least it's not dial-up....
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7849498 - 01/08/08 06:08 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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cactus, that is a lot of photographs!
for some reason the last few dozen of them only appeared as white boxes with red x's in them
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: GGreatOne234]
#7849694 - 01/08/08 06:49 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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Quote:
GGreatOne234 said: cactu, that is a lot of photographs!
for some reason the last few dozen of them only appeared as white boxes with red x's in them
really that´s too bad i have a slow conection and sometimes if not always have to hit reload many times , i check then and their are fine i can see then someone else can all my best.
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7849751 - 01/08/08 07:01 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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Looks like a wonderful road-trip! Do you think that Loph will pup from where you cut it? It may be best to leave an aureole, but I'm not sure... Nice pictures!!!
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: Knoa6]
#7849828 - 01/08/08 07:19 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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Knoa6 is a honor to have out of the entheo here in the shrooms .hello i guees you don´´t know how to harvest lophophora , lophophora have most of it body underground like more than 80% of the body is the tap rot, the huichols indias show the way to harvest plant for years , for centurys, the meristeme of lophophora is very deep and sometimes can regenerate from there , but if you cut down the meristeme the wound will healt and then side head will developed , in ceremonial area of the desert where most people get to cut peyote and indias made ceremony you can find that exactly and you can study year after year the fenomenon, you see where the central head was cut and few more developen in the side if you buried the sand you can see the scars , of it, peyote is a perenial plant, that can live for centuris i have seem carpet of peyote family of more that 50 together old monster but to get to those places is another story , this was a random find in a polace that is been colonice resently you see the peyote distribution is amazing they really grow and distribute by seed for the dessert last year more rain are falling in the desert and this seem to be affecting in a posite way the distribution they fallow the rain rives that water form , is amazing to see in person , how a cactus move in the landscape in years and centurys, , they need special condition to survive even that people look the desert and think all is the same, is not they need very importand the nursery plants, micorrizal play a good role still not undestood, so they need plant protector, they need special condition in the soil not all the soil in the desert is the same, when you find that is very likeli to find peyotes , for me it was matter of 3 intented, and work , all my best vibrations. i wish you could see how many botton the indias take , haha all my best.
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7849925 - 01/08/08 07:39 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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sweet pics cactu, I wish to someday try my hand at peyote hunting. Unfortunately they are pretty rare in south texas... keep the traditions alive man. you are a modern age version of the shamans that inhabited mexico eons ago, but im sure youve already made that connection.
peace.
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7850121 - 01/08/08 08:10 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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What are the peyote indicator species?
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#7850347 - 01/08/08 08:44 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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No, I've never harvested Peyote or even seen it in the wild and I have looked before around Nuevo Laredo. It is good to know that the plant you harvested will probably survive. I would imagine a higher level of lime in the Lophophora's soil in the north shade of Acacias. It has to be exciting to find them in the wild, even if only to photograph. Did you see any Ariocarpus or Astophytum on your expedition? I have never seen a cactus pup out of the meristem after cutting it, but I have if the meristem is damaged ,so I'm sure it is possible. I just thought the chances would be better if an areole was left, but I'm sure there are some left under the surface of the soil. Take care Cactu! I plan to explore more of Mexico myself, although Peru is my next expedition to look forward to now.
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#7850374 - 01/08/08 08:47 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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the peyote indicator species are several depend on tipe of soil and rock aroun can range from some tree very rare like mesquite, and the most commond and most easy to detect are governadora plant la governadora is a plant that grow only in the untouch desert from i guees is call creosonte bush , this is the mother nursery bush it made a special enviroment for peyote you see peyote are not a total open light they like the shadow and protection of the bush , another tipe of plant is sangre de drago i guees scientific name is jatropa sanguinea, agave sp, specially agave lechuguilla forgot the specie. anothe plant are hoja seen forgot scientific name.then sometimes in really conserve habitad the yucca trees , , what you have to look in the terraing are slighty high elevations , with alcaline rock, limestone, and the presence of other cactuces as well , i will tell you this and is not secret but is amazing to wacht it the peyote when you are in a guest apart of all the bilogical reference you have to took to it , to speak out loud you are looking for it, i guees sound weird but all goes more easy when you do it. is true , you sake hand with him fell equal, give respect, and he will find you not much diference as mushrooms sometimes, but a another world, the peyote is old , the mushrooms is new more like a child , the peyote ia and old man he know all because the experience have teach him , something very importand for peyote, always leave a gift , give him something make offers , and the first one you can not cut i repeat , not cut the first one , this one you speak to him , thank and give your offer, the peyote give what you give if you give a lot it will give a lot , so not cut the first one a tradition for centurys, we have to respect even we don´t undestand the consep of it, and the next thing you see believe , and believe me good , you will find then all , is like than you find one qand you find then all , amazing then you move and find familys, in flower seed , the rock are very importand and look for rivers in the dessert, those combination have made undestand the desert i have took me more than 10 years to undestand all that i just say to you in few words, the first time i was in the desert i was like what this is the desert but is full of plant , i was waiting a dry sahara desert, but know you can even find water if you know where to look, so the basic ,the soil alcaline not all color are the same look for white brown color , then the structure rock , elevation depresions, now the vegetation , you see yuccas good they can be seeing in the distance, then , look for la gobernadora is not any this place is been disturben here a some let get there, ok i beging to see other cactuces and more of the globose cactuces and not columnar or prickly pearl cactus you know the one that grow big , then what people always mised , peyote is hidden not in the open , you see somethin hard but with out spines is not a peyote but ariocarpus, or astrofitum very few cactuces don´´t have spines. hey i think i saw something, , ok friend let´s pray , where in his domains, spectacular i could cry just by remenbering my first time so magical, as the book said, some day i will tell you my experience, i really wish you could make some time out of the rainy seasom to experiment the desert, and other curiosities in the forest, my dear friend alan this is something you, all ,have to live a path we have to walk .
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7850472 - 01/08/08 09:00 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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wow, what beautiful pics and wisdom
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7850644 - 01/08/08 09:30 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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quote]Knoa6 said:
I have never seen a cactus pup out of the meristem after cutting it, but I have if the meristem is damaged ,so I'm sure it is possible. I just thought the chances would be better if an areole was left, but I'm sure there are some left under the surface of the soil. Take care Cactu! I plan to explore more of Mexico myself, although Peru is my next expedition to look forward to now.
too bad mi picture of the cut peyote is blurry but in the center you can see another coloration , what happend with lophophora is that the genus have the meristem buried in the flesh inside not exposed as all other cactuces, is like is nature undestand that will offer part of his life , but can reborn with time and rest, in a pot everithing happend so slow i know i also grow my own , that why i said and other scientific micorrizal fungi play a ´special role in nature, help plant in many ways , some peyote tap rot can go long as 30 cm if the condition permit that type of grow , also if the meristem is cut the plant have many facilities to produce head shot more that other cactuces i have seem there my theory is some phentillamines sorry in spanish can act as fitohormones, as some triptamines do, well if you by change cut ones of the hairy ones you will see it you can still replant the part you took , some time my head are rest for long time and they begging to developend roots even are flat disc , i know you will undestand, the ability to grow of peyote is amazing but for sure , don´t get me wrong is so easy to do it wrong , and damage to if you cut specimen with more than 4 centimeter wide and more than 6 centimeter long tsp root they wiill survive with not much harm i tell you is like peyote know it will be cut it his destiny and is prepared to give part of his life to you , he undestand that, oohh i was forgeting in that place i found a astrofytum you would not imaging how dificult is to find astrofitum very , very very dificult almost to extincion no kidding , ariocarpus are very easy to find in some location and many types people call it peyote brujo and is something you don´t like to mess with it, is a nasty stuff, almost like deliriogens or atropina, very not undestood all that quimical in some species, but for sure psicoative, but para los locos people said, now astrofitum are use in folk medicine , and are something no one use recreational ....i know you where not asking that just sharing cactuces are other of mi pásion , mi other is orchids , i dedicate mi life to know all i can about all but this i dedicate more. list as this mushrooms, all of it, cactuces,orchids and buttefly , then the rest of the world . that i also like i also like people but not too much,i like more plants.. one thing i will desmistified for all of you and specially mi own is the secret cult of l. diffusa, all my best vibration to you all
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: georgeM]
#7853551 - 01/09/08 01:07 PM (16 years, 23 days ago) |
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awesome pics. always a pleasure.
thanks for sharing!
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: Wiseguy]
#7859155 - 01/10/08 12:20 PM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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also,
Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby Soho.
Sorry... I'm sure no one even gets that.
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: Wiseguy]
#7861197 - 01/10/08 07:30 PM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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L. diffusa cults??? Tell more please! I have been very interested in the effects of Diffusa as I have never heard a report of the use...
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cactu said: ariocarpus are very easy to find in some location and many types people call it peyote brujo and is something you don´t like to mess with it, is a nasty stuff, almost like deliriogens or atropina, very not undestood all that quimical in some species, but for sure psicoative, but para los locos people said n
I have read contrary reports. Which species of Ario's are you referring to? Apparently smoked A. retusus has quite pleasurable effects, and synergizes nicely with mescaline-this is only from reports I have read ;no first hand experience.There many more species of Ariocarpus than Lophophora and I would bet the chemical make-up varies greatly from species to species. I suppose you refer to A.fissuratus, which is felt to be more powerful than Peyote by some native tribes. However I have also read reports of fissuratus having a stimulant like quality in very low chewed doses.
A.fissuratus in cultivation
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: Knoa6]
#7861524 - 01/10/08 08:36 PM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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hello , well ariocarpus fisurattos does not grow in san luis potosi , i guess more to chihuahua arizona, the ones that grow most common around here is retusus and many of is varietys , agavoides very rare, i personally have smoke the ariocarpus but is a real bad taste with intense cotton mouth and really no noticeable effect, now if you eat only like 6 spines is another story , i tell you those shit are not for me, the indians say the ones from here are not good there is however one specie , that some chaman use but are mostly use for dark shaman and also many other cactuces, and other plants, too, that people call peyote in fact peyote mean medicine in aztec lenguage , the word the nahualt peyolt. mean medicine, so many peyote exist ariocarpus are call peyote brujo , other aricarpus peyote simarron, peyote del corredor, hikuri, the species of ariocarpus have diferent mix up , theree are some phenetilaminas very active but the effect is some how very strange , toxic, body load, more than peyote, many have the estimilating effect in low doses, as some mammillaria , , but not really as psicoactive as peyote and other tend to be more drowsy, and aroicarpus retusus of san luis tend to be deliorogen , i ate a smal freaction but friend where rol in a party for 3 days they almost kill thenselfs and don´t remenber notting, that the wort you forget most of the experience, and you are not in control ever try solanaceaos(datura,brugmansia) don´t. i guees the ariocarpus in the north part have more good quimical make up . well everithing sinergece when you are ther and you have no weed i guees that was the number one reason people begging to smoke this cactus in the dessert , some even smoke lophophora imaging the waste then they decide to chage to the only other thing they could smoke of the desert they may have try , everything until decide to use ariocarpus, i tell you that the only reason people smoke it this is not a custume we learn from indias, indias don´t smoke notthing apart marihuana and tabacco, what the reason to smoke everything else since they already try it all, the peyote is for every body the other cactuces is secret knolegehe of shamans , still not well undestood , i have see preparation for runner and are extremely full of pharmacobiology of cactuces they use many mamailarias and some tuber in the wood where they not find peyote, many indias come to the desert just to collect it but they live in the mountains very far fron where peyote is so they somethimes run out of it, they use many plant instead even some orchis as oncidium cebolleta, all thi is still not undestood for sciencie.
now, the use of l. diffusa , until know there is no good report of the use of l. difussa the cult seem lost in time, and was change for the most better l williansii, but still l. difussa have few tales to tell, some claim is week , some is diferent, some is a letargic stade , some say is a dream, when you speak to the old gran peyote, you see even the scientific said that difussa is like a past or ancester of williansii , indeep a common ancestor , was the one that rule the dessert valley and then the poblations got separeted, , this is what happend to every specie the process of specialitation and speciation , begging and changes ocuurr in next generations, in mushrooms we se this more fast but imaging the peyote most of the sierra that sepárate this 2 places are the one in this trips , the poblation of difussa of queretaro is not well undestood even is a more smalll place that the poblation of willianssi and others that rules more up north,fricci etc. in fact all the other are consider variation of the williansii or sub species of williansi, all have the same alcaloid make up only difussa are with less mescaline and more peyotine and other pheniltilamine, but peyotine the main alcaloid , being peyotine a somiferum, is pretty well undestood the story of people saying you fall sleep and you trip in your dream , also peyotine was use for long time legally as a somniferum ,, but some other people claim that difussa is stronger or a diferent effect pretty strong more that williansi is more know locally as peyote de queretaro , so what i believe is that some platn have the main peyotine alcalods and some are not well undestood and have a diferent mix up of alcaloids, maybe be the misssing link betwen williansi and difussa, , so what i will do next time, it will take 3 month but be patience, maybe less , to probe this ,to recod this i have try very few difussa only 2 with some strange effect, so something is there, i was like in sort of stage of opiod , well this page will tell you and show you good ´pictures of ariocarpus in mexico http://server3.foros.net/viewtopic.php?p=1507&mforum=JardinMex
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7862397 - 01/10/08 10:50 PM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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 WOW those are awesome Ario pictures! and thanks for the Retusus clarification, I always enjoy your posts
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