u/3rdEyeDyes

Hello everyone! Was trying to get some input for best practices for winter regions. I’m over here in CO and getting some of my gardens prepped to start the winter grow cycles. Needed some advice for this pink princess cutting I’ve been growing since July. I do have tents and lights that I put my cactus and plants under for the winter. I know currently this only gets morning light, so I’m trying to figure out a way I can possibly use one of my tents with possibly lower light intensity throughout the day. I can’t put this inside my house sadly since I have cats and dogs. Any advice would be appreciated!!!

Ran out of my 50" taps so I had to step up to my 72". Noticed immediately that with more fabric requires extra creativity to achieve the shibori. I went with larger 60° folds, which I need to work on scaling down the size to of triangle to allow more spots to add detail to really make the pareidolia pop! Overall very pleased with working on it at this scale, will be working a new one to attempt more detail and better saturation.

Hit with HWI using the colors:
Kaleidoscope eyes
Sugar plum
Shiitake mushroom
Iron rust

Hope you’re having a great week!

Falling in love with HWI more. Love being able to knock out bigger projects and see results the same day. 30° shibori. Hit this with Dragon’s Heart, Sherwood, summer green, dreamy night, & Avalon on a dancing Robin 6’.

Soooo I probably should have been doing homework, but that stuff makes my brain hurt, decided to spend the day making this 6’x6’ HWI Psychedelic Spirit. Packed in those colors are hard as I could. I used Dharmas Hot pink, tangerine, lemon yellow, psychedelic Sunshine, lime pop, robins egg blue, grape, and blacked out with Gratefuls charcoal black. Need to invest into a UV projector light. Anyone have any recommendations?

So here’s my first shot at HWI on a dancing Robin 50”x50”. Played with lots of colors which I was aiming for a cool earthy with some bright colors to provide a little contrast. Used lots of colors on this one. Iron rust, sugar plum, mindbender extreme, Sherwood, moody blue, sweet violet, sultry, phoenix flame, sunspots, & Aticas Lunas. Had some nice imagery pop on this one! Let me know what faces and creatures you see!

Hello! I finally got my first fruits after many blooms on various lophs. How long do I need to wait until I can remove the fruit. Can anyone point me in the right direction for separating the seeds properly? Thank you!

Continuing down my little path of learning with the HWI. Decided to revisit this style, and it’s slowly climbing up to my favorites for the chances of pareiodolia. Decided to rock some solo colors again and a few newer combos. Colors are listed for each tank below. Take a closer look and let me know what type faces and creatures you see! Have a rad week!

Colors used.
1- dark star, interstellar, & stormageddon
2- Rattlesnake
3- pillars of creation
4- Candypop
5. Alchemist & warrior princess.

At this point I think HWI might be replacing ice for me. I’m starting to get my more desired splits, starting to have a better understanding for reading the materials. Finished up the rest of my women’s slim fit v necks and restocked some xls. Had 3 that I I wasn’t the happiest about, but onto more practice to dial it in better!

So I decided to revisit my reverse mandalas and psychedelic spines. It’s been a long time since I’ve practiced any mandalas, which they are showing improvement, but still need more practice. Overall had a few flops, especially with some of my additional shades of UV dyes falling completely out. So I think it’s time to lay low on the UV for a bit. Had some that turned out super killer for where I’m currently at for my skills. Now onto more practice!

After almost 2 months I finally got around to mixing some liquid dyes up and finished my homies gift for his new baby. Even made up a matching asymmetrical fire-style.

So I have been having some fun with tweaking the glitch pattern. Which I’ve posted my first versions, here are my second and 3 variants. 2&3 share similarities, but have different ending steps. Liking that I’m getting more and more faces on glitch patterns. Will be excited to see how these look with liquid dyes.

Colors are

1. Purple twilight, Elysian, mindbender extreme, and interstellar.
2. Dalula Dyes Oopsie peach & mystery plum brown.

Hello! Was hoping someone might be able to help with ID from these flowers. These were all my seedlings sold as LW…… these were about 1 year old before grafting and have been on there for about over a year or so since graft.

Pics 1-6 is flower 1, pics 7-8 are flower 2 of 1 button in question.

Pics 9-11 is second button in question and it’s 2 flowers.

Last pics are of my fricii that has been sending off flower after flower and then my last button that’s getting ready to bloom. Hoping to eventually find a LW.

I’m almost thinking that the first 2 in question might be diffusa from the shades of petals? I’m not seeing any definitive pink stripes. Any help would be appreciated!

So here’s my firsts for HWI. Had a lot of fun learning the basics and now time to learn how to fine tune this side of the art!

Noticed I was running low on some of my sizes and decided to do a larger batch of ice dyes. Was happy that I was able to create this many pieces in a period of about 4 days. Struggled on the first few pieces with saturation, but still came out ok. Thanks for checking out my work have a wonderful week!

Hope everyone is doing well or at least just sticking in for the fight! Been on the fight side for me, but here’s some of the work I’ve attempted to complete this past few weeks. Finally feel my spirits coming back and have some heavy batches in the works!

Hi everyone, wanted to share and also ask for some tips! Here’s my first ever cactus flower! I’ve been growing cactus now for about 3 years now. All of my lophs are grown from seed, I’m pretty sure this is 4 of them that I allowed to grow for a year before I learned that’s silly and just graft them.

My questions are: will I be getting a second flower, or would that possibly be a pup to left of the flower?

I did read that I need to get a sterile swab or brush and push the pollen onto the stamen once opened. I saw that I need to do this during the day time. To play it safe I was going to attempt a few times or until I can observe the stamen closing up.

For those who self pollinate, any tips for highest chances?

I was also going to try to save some pollen on some swabs for crosses later on once I can figure out where they came from by flower. What is best long term storage for pollen? I plan on resealing my swab packs once complete and just possibly leave in dark cool place.

Last pic is where I started my love of growing all medicinal cactus!

Can’t wait to get flower pics to see if you can help me with ID!!! 🥳🥳🥳

Hi everyone! Was hoping for some help identifying some issues. Started noticing a lot of black marks on my cactus. I have been applying DE to the bases and I have sprayed with dr zymes a few times. Is this pest damage or something else? My minds telling me it is, but would appreciate those who know better. Also with my current IPM would you recommend anything else?

So here’s my largest ice dyed tapestry. It measures 14.4’ x 4.5’. I made a pretty fun video of making it but wasn’t able to share on this platform. I’m ready to make number 2!

So I’m getting ready for my next grow and sadly have seeds popped. I’ve been noticing these outside my home and now I’ve been noticing them sneaking through my screen and have them on my back slider. Are these thrips? If not can anyone identify. I noticed what looked like these on my outdoor cactus which ive been spraying with dr zymes.

This was a fun one, refilled my deity’s, a double fanfold shirts. My first attempt at a psychedelic shibori on leggings. Then my first play with my rayon skirts!