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Hi all, I am about to start a course of daily doses of caapi to assist with treating anxiety and depression. I brewed up 50g of vine today, and plan to space this over a week, taking the equivalent of around 7g of vine daily in a tea. My brew was a simple water brew with only a tiny squeeze of lemon added at the start, and it was made with love and attention, I sang a few songs to it while cooking and also blew some palo santo smoke over it at the end. My hope is that it helps me break free from some bad mental patterns that are plaguing me lately, and I'll assess progress after a week. If things are going well, I will extend my course. Does anyone else have any experience with this? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts, and I'm happy to receive PMs or you can post them here. I also have Rue, but I am starting this experiment with Mama Caapi as I wish to develop a close working relationship with her, and have heard some good results. I'll try to post daily here as to how I am feeling and I hope this may eventually serve as a resource for others who may wish to try this path. I have taken SSRI's in the past, but they leave me feeling hollow and mediocre, like the feeling I used to have days after heavy Raving. I plan to make other changes in my life to complement this path, but one step at a time. Let's do this. I have a good feeling about it. Lots of love, G.

Hey folks, my parter jess is being part of a local art exhibition here in northern rivers at lennox head on Thursday. Any support would be most welcome. This is the event: https://www.rawartists.org/northernrivers/radiant This is Jess: http://www.rawartists.org/jesssaunders If you would like a cheap ticket just let me know we can sort it out

You got it all wrong man, it's the word 'Dick' that sends 'em mad.

Pan sp growing out of decomposing elephant dung, banks of the Nam Khan river, Laos Couple of diff sp growing in bamboo debris, Pha Tad Ke botanic garden, Laos end of the wet season so not many fungi about

I'm thinking a Tesla coil would be much safer and better suited to the task.

All I need is a kite and some string then i should be sweet guys http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100409-lightning-mushrooms-japan-harvest/

so i hear weinsteins company was set up for 1billion and is now worth only 1 million. pretty interesting how a certain group of people will tolerate basically anything but as soon as you start losing them money, whoo-boy watch out

Tie a key to the kite

Try to get photos of flowering and seed if you can .. from motherplants if poss.. see if tests on the material you have are runnable .. maybe diplop has different forms - and maybe some equally sexy sisters .. try to see if folk you can ask know anything about tetrapterys methistica if poss? MG I contacted a supplier of the leaf in Canada about that a few years ago, wondering just the same, and they said they didn't know and weren't able to get live plants or cuttings or seeds or info .. damn it took nrly 4 hours to get this to allow me to reply.. anyhoo :3

I'm growing with a view to making a tincture. I found this recipe when I was searching: Wild Lettuce; Lactuca Virosa Preparation Here is a recipe for making a strong Lactuca, Wild Lettuce, tincture. It is prepared differently than a more traditional way to increase the effects of it’s sedative anodyne qualities. This plant is also known as Lettuce Opium or Wild Opium. With preparing this form of Lactuca; Wild Lettuce tincture, it is important to have all aspects and equipment prepared beforehand such as knowing where there is a stand of Lactuca growing, having your equipment ready, and knowing that you have enough time during the days it takes to make it, which aren’t much, less than 2 hours per day for about 5 days. Read on. Basically, I use this form of preparation to condense the latex in the plant which I assume contains most of its nervine qualities. Otherwise one ends up with a weak medicine due to all the ‘roughage’ that is a part of these stately plants. The goal is to maximize the concentration of latex. This is a bit of a challenge with Wild Lettuce, Lactuca, as there is a lot of plant matter to work around to get the latex without the mainly inert cellulose and other plant matter. Always you make sure you identify the plant correctly before picking. Picture shows a botanical of Wild Lettuce Tools needed for making Wild Lettuce Tincture 1.Pruners-to cut plants 2.Tincture press 3.Ethanol-95% 4.Blender- a good sturdy one 5.Stove 6.Stainless steel pot with a lid Preparation of Wild Lettuce Tincture 1.Find a stand of Wild Lettuce plants. I have used a number of species and they all seem useful, though some more careful observations of species may help figure this out. I have not used any close relatives that also yield latex, such as Sonchus. 2.The best time to make this tincture is when the plant is at its maximum latex yield, which seems to be around when it is just going to flower. It is easy to see the amount of latex, remove a leaf and the white milky latex should flow freely. 3.While all parts of Wild Lettuce contain this latex, I just make the medicine from the above ground parts, as it is just easier to not have to wash and cut up the roots, though I may be missing something here, as the roots do exude a fair bit of the latex. 4.Cut a few Wild Lettuce stalks 5.Bring them right away to where you will be processing them into tincture. 6.Cut them up into blender-size pieces Picture shows the latex from the Wild Lettuce plant 7.Put them in the blender, and cover with ethanol 8.Blend 9.Add as much ethanol and material as you can to get a big wad of blenderized Wild Lettuce stem, saturated in ethanol 10.Let sit overnight (or longer) 11.Press tincture in tincture press 12.Cut more Wild Lettuce 13.Cut into blender-size pieces 14.Put in blender, add the menstruum that you recently pressed 15.Add this into the blender, along with enough 95% ethanol to cover and blend. 16.Let sit overnight. 17.Follow this process for a few days, cut, add menstruum from previously pressed tincture, blend, and add enough ethanol to get the juice out. And then press this for the next batch. 18.After a few days of this you should have a fair bit of fluid (menstruum) 19.Put this in a stainless steel pot with a lid on it 20.Bring to a high simmer 21.Evaporate and reduce the fluid so it gets more black and ‘tar-like’ 22.This is your medicine 23.Be aware, that as you simmer, ethanol evaporates at a lower temperature than water, so make sure there is enough ethanol in your final product to keep it stable 24.Enjoy and let me know the results.

Added more cactuce

Did nothing but look at them

Hi Skellum, This one came from Dawson's in Bendigo, Victoria Most likely the same clone as the macrogonus from the Field collection.

Flowering....I will check on that....

The weird thing to me is that there seems to be a steady supply of dried leaf to many smartshops of supposed D. cab which does seem to contain DMT in good amounts judging from the reports of bioassays and extractions on some forums. Anyone knows if the foliage that is sold as chaliponga is actual D. cab, and/or who supplies those shops? If it's not diplopterys then what is it? From what I've read it does look different from chacruna and seems more potent. Surely if the supplier is harvesting kilos they might be able to provide cuttings.

Would you settle for some root and ball medicine?

Lol

I start sowing in oct. when autumn comes here in europe. I use the following approach, documented in the pics. Then let them germinate at around 25 celsius. Transplant them after 6 month in spring, distance between plants like one to 2 fingers wide in other boxes. See pics. A lot of work. Then let them inside for 3-4 weeks and put them outside in may, when its warm and sunny here in europe. The following spring they come in the ground.

Sulfur won't kill it. like mentioned you need a systemic fungicide , Some fungal problems can not be treated but if you use the sulfur and the systemic spray it will control outbreaks.. If you don't want to use systemic sprays best bet is it use copper based sprays and isolate the sick ones..

MUSHROOMS! something else that helped me that seems small but its burned into my mind was writing down on a piece of paper on 1 side "the person i want to be" and on the other side "the way i am behaving" i used to have issues with opiates and alcohol, mushrooms have really helped me think a bit more deeply/differently about the way i behave and why which in turn gives me a bit more breathing room to make choices based on how im thinking rather than being so emotional and fucking myself up to deal with it, for someone like myself the biggest thing is to try and stay neutral, not to get overly excited when things are good and not to get maniacally depressed if shit isnt working out , im not saying be a robot just let the emotions take a bit of a back seat to the thinking brain... so i agree with sagi, microdose mushrooms (sub perceptual dose) and i would also just like to say quitting anything cold turkey can be dangerous, my mum recently tried to go cold turkey on her valiums and we almost took a trip to the hospital cos her blood pressure went through the roof... plz be careful, i hope this helps somehow..

I can send a few packs of berries if anyone missed out ? i like the idea of gold coin donation to server costs so ill stick with that idea but yeh not nessasary : )

I found the label still attached to the grafting stock beneath the earth. Its a Psyho0 x Lumberjack. For that cross the spines are extremly short. Has anybody pics of that cross to compare? Thanks in advance.

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My understanding is that millions of people join the rat race basically because they want to, plus they can buy a bunch of fancy crap they think will make life better. For those who want to exit it can be very difficult, it can take a lifetime of effort. That's where a trip to a developing country can open the eyes and broaden the mind for many. But you can't enjoy a plane trip to another country without some kind of income. It's just a question of balance. If you're lucky enough to not be living in abject poverty, just be happy with what you've got. Stay out of debt and all the other pitfalls of life, get a dream and work towards it. My dream was a big block of land beside the bush where I could grow fruit trees. I got that now and I can honestly say I'm much more content than when I was being ruled by abusive people. Nothing in life comes easy and the hardest thing I found was buying land without going into debt. It was a shitty life for a while but that's the trade off. Making short term sacrifices in order to benefit in the long run. If you want something enough to actually work for it, you will actually find yourself getting off your ass every day and working for it. A couple pearls to remember are 'Work smarter, not harder'. 'Make the most of opportunity'. Be a 'already did it' person rather than a 'gunna do it' guy and my personal fave, don't do anything to impress others, do the things that bring you happiness regardless of what others might think of it. I believe there is not a problem that you cannot solve with just the power of your brain alone. But I also believe in higher forces. Everything in life has a balance.

I have been trying forced etoliation with my loph seedlings with some good success. What I have found is that once the seedling reaches say 1.5cm or over in height, I can cut the top of the seedling (apical meristem) and subsequently graft this as per usual and am left with a rooted section which I ensure includes several aeroles which will eventually produce pups. This can then be re-cut and grafted once more onto the pereskiopsis root stock. Essentially I can get 2 or more grafts from a single seedling. Its my 2 for 1 deal!