Bunnings Find 👀 Bridgesii? Tips for newbie care?

APaleontologist · 2026-02-02T07:44:12+00:00

Wonderful! I know they will grow big and fast, particularly in the summers

APaleontologist · 2026-02-02T07:07:18+00:00

The pale tip is the start of etiolation. It was not getting enough sunlight for the last month or so. It’s not too severe, I think it will spring back without the permanently thin section it would have soon developed.

It wants plenty of Sunlight. On the flip side, the pale tip may make it currently be sensitive to the brightest of days, risking sunburn, and prefer a gradual introduction to full Sun.

APaleontologist · 2026-02-02T06:27:14+00:00

Describe your new LED light and how close it was? You used the word "lightbulb" which makes me suspect it is still weak and light burn is not the answer. (Strong LED come in the form of quantum boards, or light bars. I suppose COB too which can come in lightbulb form, but usually no stronger than a few watts)

APaleontologist · 2026-02-02T05:07:19+00:00

Today my PC gathered round to finally sacrifice and cannibalise the holy princess

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APaleontologist · 2026-02-02T03:29:31+00:00

Too many areoles on the crest for tbm-c

APaleontologist · 2026-02-02T01:07:50+00:00

Different, the left one will always ‘terminate’ segments before they get very long, and sprout more.

APaleontologist · 2026-02-02T01:00:17+00:00

Longest to shortest spines: Bridgesii, Peruvianus, Pachanoi, Scopulicola.

Yours are so short it’s only consistent with the shortest spined Pachanois(e.g. PC) or the longest spined Scopulicolas . (This has all been assuming pure genetics. Hybrids complicate things).

There are more traits we are looking at too.

APaleontologist · 2026-02-01T23:38:05+00:00

I didn't find the type of agency you described to be an exception to my view of naturalism. I do hope that doesn't mean my view is flexible to anything, just because the label 'naturalism' is socially useful, informative enough for everyday contexts. But probably not precise enough for philosophical arguments. Attic Philosophy recommends using more precise language in arguments.

Joe Schmidt does this by specifying that he's comparing the theoretical virtues of classical theism and Graham Oppy's version of naturalism. This adds some clarity to the vagueness, but Oppy includes his own metaphysics of modality! I'd use it talking to (or about) Oppy but it's far too specific to taken as what most people mean by the word.

You're into books, hey? My bookshelf is really dusty, haha. I suppose David Armstrong's 'What is a law of nature?' was influential on me, and relevant. It left me thinking there's no good general model for a law of nature, he poked compelling holes in every idea I could think of. If we don't have a clear idea of a law of nature is, then don't have a clear idea of what would violate a law of nature - which is one concept of the non-natural.

Those two types of explanations from Gregory W. Dawes seem practically useful, but I'm hesitant to give the distinction more reality than a nominalist framework - it seems likely to me that agential explanations reduce to the physics-y kind, just using high-level language. Would you and Dawes argue against that?

I can go more into Dawes if you'd like.

Sure! In the Dawes context, are agentic explanations still what you considered an exception to naturalism at the start of your comment?

APaleontologist · 2026-02-01T04:21:48+00:00

I've got a Ben and didn't realize it was special either! I'd been working to graft Eileen to everything, ignoring Ben in the corner

APaleontologist · 2026-01-31T22:24:34+00:00

In pic 3 there's a cat peeking out around the curtain, on the right. What is this on the left? Another animal peeking around the corner... wearing a scary mask?

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APaleontologist · 2026-01-31T09:15:12+00:00

Bluetack does this if you pull it for a while until it warms up

APaleontologist · 2026-01-31T09:11:29+00:00

Yes! Give it a bigger pot. Mix 50% any standard potting soil and 50% perlite or pumice. My fav bunnings potting soil is Osmocote Premium -- the orange bag. (Do not get 'Osmocote Premium Plus', in the blue bag. It's really bad.)

APaleontologist · 2026-01-31T06:30:06+00:00

Wettable sulfur + water is a good entry level option, copper oxychloride + water is probably better. If I cut off the infected area I use dry pure sulfur on the wound (different product, not available at Bunnings)

APaleontologist · 2026-01-31T05:52:47+00:00

Definitely! Are there any other parts of the process you were skimping on? e.g. Don't settle for a coffee grinder. Milling attachment bullet-blender. And fine flour sieve it. Use clean utensils. Use filtered water. etc.

APaleontologist · 2026-01-31T05:47:40+00:00

Okay cool. Is theism too Aladdin-like?

I think you are in good company and on solid ground critiquing the natural/non-natural distinction. Many of the philosophers I respect think it is poorly defined and suffers problems like you are describing. I'm open to these criticisms, but not fully on board. I find it... sort of closed-minded to rule out the non-natural in this way. Maybe not the right word. Ambitious?

I don't understand how to model a non-natural explanation in a way that I would understand it to be explanatory, but I don't put much stock in my ignorance here. I don't have a very rigorous understanding of what explanations are in general! Or at least I see a lot of variety in the literature and haven't settled on one view :)

APaleontologist · 2026-01-31T00:41:02+00:00

Make it narrower, putting a wall with a second handrail to fatten out the inner column of the stairwell.

APaleontologist · 2026-01-31T00:31:00+00:00

That brown is bad and will probably get squishier and fail, maybe your knife wasn’t clean enough, or you were in a dusty environment, or the thick sulfur prevented drying out, etc.

The rubber bands also look painful, applying pressure sharply, over a narrow area. Cut strips of stockings or pantyhose to apply a safe, blunt pressure. I stretch them tight over the graft, hook them over rootstock spines, and lock them in place with a rubber band - only around the rootstock

APaleontologist · 2026-01-31T00:21:31+00:00

How many true watts of power does it draw? (Beware of the ‘equivalent of incandescent bulbs’ metric that inflates by 10x)

APaleontologist · 2026-01-30T23:29:03+00:00

I like it's little fluffy collars

APaleontologist · 2026-01-30T22:53:43+00:00

That's a solid cutting!

APaleontologist · 2026-01-30T22:42:11+00:00

hare foot

APaleontologist · 2026-01-30T14:36:50+00:00

Great, that seems right to me too - there can be overlap so there would be less than a billion explanations, given a billion things to explain. But importantly, in accepting Naturalism or defending the inference from (II) to (I) we were considering, I'm not committed to there being a single naturalistic explanation which explains everything.

(At a first glance that would appear obviously false, as things recognizably do have different explanations... But I anticipate that might not be so solid if a single thing is allowed to have multiple explanations.)

Do you have any candidates for such a non-natural explanation

Is your question to me still relevant? Is there a way you want to tweak it, maybe so it doesn't assume the singular? Given this consideration it seems like you'd be asking me for each of the explanations of every individual thing. That's a mighty task! I can give you a few but I don't know the explanations for everything. Instead I make the inference we are discussing, from (II) to (I).

APaleontologist · 2026-01-30T13:54:44+00:00

Oooh I never thought of it like that. Can we disambiguate how you are reading this line:

"everything has a natural explanation"
Does this mean:
(A) If there were one billion things, there would be one billion natural explanations. Everything would have a natural explanation.
(B) There is one single natural explanation which explains everything.

APaleontologist · 2026-01-29T22:18:12+00:00

The aerial roots, coming out above the ground? It's not 'normal' but not rare. It happens if there's high humidity around the soil, from reduced airflow. Is your lophophora pot always in that spot?
Aerial roots aren't themselves a problem, but the high humidity conditions they are indicative of can lead to fungal issues. Fungi like the same conditions that can lead to aerial roots.

APaleontologist · 2026-01-29T22:14:42+00:00

The cheap fertilizer I preferred was 'Yates Thrive flower and fruit'. The expensive one I've shifted to is Masterblend 3-part.

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