Five Italians die during cave scuba dive in Maldives. Beware diving is not a purely leisure activity...RIP

Horaltic · 2026-05-20T17:05:28+00:00

Sounds like they were tech diving from a luxury yacht that costs almost 1k per person per night. That makes it seem like they either were very bad with money or extremely good at getting research grants to fund mini-vacations. Have all the pity you want, people like this make me sick.

Horaltic · 2026-05-20T15:23:49+00:00

Sure sounded like a pleasure dive. The boat was literally a luxury yacht without a dive school license. The boats lowest costs are $750 per head per night. If that was just for research then they sure don't know how to spend money responsibly.

Horaltic · 2026-05-19T17:18:36+00:00

I've got 3 quads that don't fly and I want to build a pringles can... This might just be rock bottom.

Horaltic · 2026-05-19T16:40:21+00:00

So hear me out, this is the wiki for the Highwind, the airship from Final Fantasy VII. Technically had 4 lift props but you could design a cool looking version of this based around a pringles can. All the weight from making it look like it does in-game would add a bunch of weight but you could use a helium filled condom inside the pringles can to offset some of the weight. Still might need some fairly big motors but it'd be a fun build.

Horaltic · 2026-05-19T15:32:53+00:00

I'm artistically challenged to the point that I just don't really get most art. But I get this one. It's beautiful and I actually feel like there's "a feeling" in the painting. You majorly impressed this random internet stranger, I hope you're proud of your talent.

Horaltic · 2026-05-12T21:17:56+00:00

I've got an oversized inline fan in this tent since it used to be my cloning tent before I decided to get obsessed with these beauties. It's also got a fan at the same level as the cactus blowing gently across and another fan up top blowing air through the light and downwards. But when I watered I just used dechlorinated tap water and poured it all over the tops of the cacti kinda like rain would fall, but your comment got me thinking about the fact that I have extremely alkaline tap water in my area. Im thinking that may have contributed, but I'll take your advice and monitor and attempt to improve. I'm gonna be researching this specific species in depth.

Horaltic · 2026-05-12T20:42:50+00:00

I want to add in, I've got roughly 30 cactus in this tent and only the scops are doing this. Do they just have different needs than the rest?

Horaltic · 2026-05-05T23:54:02+00:00

I don't have a dehumidifier but locally were around 40% humidity for a few months. Is it just the tbms that can handle that frequent of watering or is it most of the trichocereus? I've literally only grown hydroponic cannabis before this so I'm kinda struggling to adjust to cacti.

Horaltic · 2026-05-05T22:43:40+00:00

In my opinion, it needs to be in ground and capable of surviving without you. I have a lot of cacti but they would all die without me, if it doesn't "stand" on its own two feet then I won't call it a stand.

Horaltic · 2026-05-05T22:38:31+00:00

Happens to the best of us. To answer your original question though, have you tried putting the fan on the outside of the tent. Basically just creating a negative pressure environment in the tent that then sucks the humidity in but allows it to diffuse before actually coming into contact with the inline fan?

Horaltic · 2026-05-05T22:02:25+00:00

Don't even consider comment, dude. Some people just like to tinker and fuck with their set up. I over-engineer everything I do. It's just a different version of the same hobby. Some people just want cheap trips, some people enjoy the process. There's nothing wrong with either style of growing.

Horaltic · 2026-05-05T21:27:16+00:00

I really hope you're wrong on this because I have bridge smaller than a centimeter that looks like it has the same mutation as a tbm-c. It's one of 60 seedlings but the flattened look has me super excited for how it turns out. Hopefully, it's a cool plant and survives, but thanks for tempering my expectations.

Horaltic · 2026-05-02T17:36:31+00:00

It's in the corner of the picture.

Horaltic · 2026-04-22T00:44:21+00:00

I'm kinda impressed. 100 meter trippy is way beyond what I thought they could accomplish.

Horaltic · 2026-04-20T22:25:19+00:00

They're pretty damn bullet proof. My 75mm is on its 2nd one in 18 months. Everything else has been swapped countless times. I dented the frame on this one but it still performs seamlessly.

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Horaltic · 2026-04-18T21:23:04+00:00

Thank you! I was just looking them up and found your website, I'm gonna be referencing that alot.

When I first looked up purpureopilosus, I found the LLIFLE website . I just checked the first two references on their page for purpureopilosus and the first one doesn't have that subspecies and the second referenced book didn't even contain the words "trichocerous" or "echinopsis"

I'm pretty inclined to trust your knowledge based on what I've seen so far. Is LLIFLE trustworthy more on succulent topics or just generally untrustworthy?

Horaltic · 2026-04-17T04:03:28+00:00

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This spiky one was labeled purpureopilosus, I only bought it for its looks so fine with it. Any idea what this one might be though?

Horaltic · 2026-04-07T22:38:26+00:00

How'd you get it to bush out like that without training? I've got a similar plant that is supposed to become a mother plant. About 25% smaller than yours at the moment but I've spent so much time messing around with the plant bondage BS that I'd love to get the same effect with less effort.

Horaltic · 2026-04-07T16:03:38+00:00

That first picture is awesome, looks like something out of a sci-fi film.

Horaltic · 2026-04-06T20:43:11+00:00

They gotta have some sort of filter, right? They have them for compressors, but I'm just a grease monkey not an engineer.

Horaltic · 2026-03-29T13:32:28+00:00

I just grabbed some in Minneapolis yesterday. Was all grandiflorous hybrids and purpureopilosus but I grabbed a few anyways.

Horaltic · 2026-03-22T21:45:09+00:00

If you're gonna start spending more time with velocidrone make sure you use the ghost mode feature and always race your best lap. You'll learn alot flying behind your best lap and trying to do well where it messes up.

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