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[Trichocereus.Rex]

Hey Nexians,
Been a lotta years since I've posted here, was more active around 2009ish and life's changed pretty substantially
Spent the last 5 solar cycles tuning into cactus cultivation and extraction more than mimosa.
When I was posting back in the day, I was just barely a legal adult and hadnt extracted anything myself.
Did about ten years in medical cannabis working open blasting and cold loops until that all crashed. Didn't get into that line of work to be involved with corporations or cartel's so I bowed out some years ago
These days I mostly tend to cacti. I am responsible for somewhere in quadruple digits of cactus, a majority ones I started from seed.
I recently learned cielo from the lovely folk over on Reddit and decided to focus more effort socially here than reddit. Lots of nonsense about provence and pricing that'd I'd rather just avoid. Looking forward to genuinely kind people who actually eat the medicine they grow.
I hope to be able to offer some of the poly culture, regenerative farming practices and general psychedelic history to the group. Always open to trying to help troubleshoot unhappy cactus or plants in general
Any questions feel free to ask in a thread or privately.
Thanks and you matter

 

[blig-blug]

Welcome back to the Nexus!

If you remember your old account name and want to get access to it, let a mod know. But it's also fine if you prefer to come back under this new identity.

Your cacti look absolutely beautiful, and so do your mescaline crystals.

I recently learned cielo from the lovely folk over on Reddit and decided to focus more effort socially here than reddit. Lots of nonsense about provence and pricing that'd I'd rather just avoid. Looking forward to genuinely kind people who actually eat the medicine they grow.

While the Nexus is not as active as a subreddit, in my biased opinion it's much more worth it being here. I find the old-school forum culture to be much more conductive to a high quality of conversation. And I'd say the Nexus is special even amongst the old-school drug forums.

I hope to be able to offer some of the poly culture, regenerative farming practices and general psychedelic history to the group. Always open to trying to help troubleshoot unhappy cactus or plants in general

It will be much appreciated. I'm just getting into cacti myself (before I actually know where I'm going to be living for the next few years, ha) so I'm personally very interested in anything cactus-related right now

Again, welcome to the Nexus and check out the chat if you have time at some point.

 

[taita]

Wow, beautiful cacti! Obviously well loved
Can I ask roughly what bioregion you're in? I'm curious if cacti would overwinter in a greenhouse at my latitude

 

[Nydex]

Awesome pics, you have a lovely garden and obviously care about this stuff, so I think you'll fit right in no problem. Always lovely to have experts join our ranks

 

[Trichocereus.Rex]

Welcome back to the Nexus!

If you remember your old account name and want to get access to it, let a mod know. But it's also fine if you prefer to come back under this new identity.

I do remember it and although it would be cool to have early join date, I am essentially a different person so I'm gonna just let those posts lay where they are. 18 year olds often think what they're saying is more profound than it actually is

Your cacti look absolutely beautiful, and so do your mescaline crystals.

Thank you

While the Nexus is not as active as a subreddit, in my biased opinion it's much more worth it being here. I find the old-school forum culture to be much more conductive to a high quality of conversation. And I'd say the Nexus is special even amongst the old-school drug forums.

Yeah I miss that sort of dialogue and will happily trade quality over quantity. I could go on a diatribe about what I think is wrong with internet cactus culture but I'll wait until someone asks.
Someone described me as "long horizon, low noise type person, living in a short horizon, high noise reality"
Like the cactus I tend to move slowly these days

It will be much appreciated. I'm just getting into cacti myself (before I actually know where I'm going to be living for the next few years, ha) so I'm personally very interested in anything cactus-related right now

Again, welcome to the Nexus and check out the chat if you have time at some point.

Feel free to ask anything and I'm happy to chat with you. When you land where ever home ends up being I'll send you some seedlingings as a house warming gift
And I'll get my computer turned on and check out the chat later today!

 

[Trichocereus.Rex]

Wow, beautiful cacti! Obviously well loved
Can I ask roughly what bioregion you're in? I'm curious if cacti would overwinter in a greenhouse at my latitude

I'm in Southern Oregon rogue valley adjacent.
The original idea when I sowed 15-20k seeds five ish years ago was to find one pheno that would grow full exposure in Oregon.
Haven't found it quite yet but getting closer. They can handle a mid 20s freeze pretty easily. At least the ones that are still alive, lost a bunch in various freezes.
The main thing is keep em dry when it gets cold and I've been surprised what they can handle with that in mind
Thank you for your kind words

 

[Trichocereus.Rex]

Awesome pics, you have a lovely garden and obviously care about this stuff, so I think you'll fit right in no problem. Always lovely to have experts join our ranks

Thank you! I deeply care about this slice of society. I'm trying to figure out how to start interviewing various elders in my area and trying to document a few undocumented things that most likely would be of interest to anyone here... Oh if I had more funds
I hesitate to call myself an expert because I am mostly self taught and still learning!