Damascus San Pedro Farm - A field trip with Liam Engel

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Damascus San Pedro Farm - A field trip with Liam Engel
In this insightful tour, Dr. Liam Engel takes a closer look at their personal favorites-the Beasts taquimbalensis’-unveiling the intricate beauty and diversity within the Damascus Cactus Farm.
The video also reveals a somber reality as a destructive fungal infection wreaks havoc on numerous plants, capitalising on the hot and humid conditions prevalent at the farm. The devastating impact serves as a poignant reminder of the challenges inherent in cultivating cacti, yet amid the losses, resilient plants stand as testaments to their strength and adaptability. While disheartening, the infection also acts as a natural selection process, emphasising the most promising specimens for propagation and further breeding, the foundations for maintaining the legacy of Damascus.
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:15 Trichocereus taquimbalensis
00:04:35 Tall blue spikeys
00:07:03 Beasts
- Bio Liam Engel -
Dr Liam Engel is an ethnobotanist, drug science researcher and communicator. Liam’s unique perspective draws on skills in health and medicine, communications and social sciences, as well as botany and horticulture. Liam is a world-renowned expert on psychedelic cacti and Acacia trees, founder of The Mescaline Garden, an educational psychoactive plant nursery, and core contributor to Entheogenesis Australis, an internationally influential ethnobotanical charity.
Liam has published many scholarly works and a wide variety of other health, harm reduction and botanical publications concerning psychoactive plants. Liam has acted as an expert ethnobotanical consultant for numerous organisations including The ABC, the Conversation and the Sydney Royal Botanical Garden. Liam is currently completing a second PhD in Medical Science, on a scholarship funded by Natural Health International, who are working together to study tryptamines in plants.
To find out more about Liam's work, visit www.themescalinegarden.com, www.liamengel.doctor and www.patreon.com/DrLiamEngel.
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[@alpineflauge909]

sweet

[@BushyHairedStranger]

So these Suffer severe fungal attacks or “predation” by root fungal diseases. How can that be addressed? Are there any plants that grow symbiotically with San Pedro? Other types of Cacti or plants that can influence or repel the fungal predation?

[@danielpotter9629]

I like the idea of growing other plants with the cacti to aid their healthy. at this farm the cacti appear to growing almost as a monoculture, whereas the natural habitat photos I have seen show other plants and cacti growing in close proximity.

[@BushyHairedStranger]

@@danielpotter9629..healthy plant ecosystems cannot be monocultures. Forests made up of mixed Tree species, bushes, ferns, flowers & animals defend against predatory tree diseases & blights. The variety prevents fungal root rot from wiping out acres of one species. Laminar Root rot, Phelinis Weiri can decimate acres of the tree species Douglas Fir unless the root systems are braided underground with Cedar, Hemlock, Spruce, Alder, Maple Oak etc.. The unique tannins, nutrients, pitch, resins, all have protective or anti-infective properties & characteristics useful to these other more vulnerable Species. Mycelial root diversity supports Tree health which is a disruptors for funguses like Laminar Root rot-Phelinus Weiri.
This Same principle might apply to Cacti, as long as the other plants or cacti used are Native or local to the region they’re helping within…bringing in outside plant species can create more problems and introduce new or worse funguses so one must be cautious.

[@Lmalarki]

How come no weeds?

[@CurtsCactus]

Without knowing anything else. My guess is poor soil. Not enough nutients, and not enough biodiversity within the soil. Also shows with the amount of growth they Have in one season you can each seasons growth and its not much. But fantastic collection regardless.