Strontium Dawg

Chinese eBay vari Peru.

Ok, I have heard nexus is about half as strong as regular viridis, and for viridis you'd need 100-120g. So probably 200-250g of nexus per serve.

Now that's an ethnobotanical double entendre if ever I heard one!

Oh yeah forgot about the drying part... I cut vine into sections that are about a finger length then just let them sit around. Sometimes in the sun, sometimes in the dark. There's no rules. You can leave it in longer sections, it will just take a bit longer to dry. Dried stuff tends to break up into finer pieces or even powder. Fresh stays stringy and fibrous. You probably get a more efficient extraction with dried due to this. Personally though, if I'm making a brew, I like fresh. You could freeze fresh stuff then thaw it to lyse cell walls a bit, but not sure it's terribly effective seeing as it's quite woody.

Jeesus h. $50 for 30 grams! Mate next time hit me up, I'll fill a bag for you for the price of postage. Harvesting vine, the thicker the better. Anything around a finger thickness is fine for a brew. I find fresh vine makes a sweeter tasting brew than dried, but either is fine. Dried is easy to measure doses, say 90g dried per serve. Fresh, you need to estimate what the water content is, and I usually go for 150g per serve. You can make an extract if you're wanting to capsule it or for other uses. Vine is MUCH MUCH easier and less messy than leaves, even though by weight leaves contain more active alkaloids. Brews made with leaves don't settle as well as vine. You end up with a very fine suspension. Not really an issue if you just want a brew. If you're extracting, you might find adding a clearing agent like gelatin might help clear your solution before basing. All theoretically speaking of course... You can cut your vine right back to a stump and it will shoot again, faster and thicker. I mostly wait until my vines fall off their supporting trellises and cut. This wind usually helps. Even small tendrils are worth saving for use.

The sun rises. The sun sets. Repeat.

Could be from vaporised thujone? What temp was your dehydrator set on?

The fact that tbm registers so low does not tally with anyone's experience with it!

Thanks, I'd read the paper but that was a long time ago and I couldn't remember a lot of detail.

Of more importance to the whole test saga is the question of what was tested. What's it just outer green part, or whole plant. If it was just outer part, I'm sure there are many Aussie clones that will test at similarly high levels. If it was whole plant, well, then that is extraordinary.

None of my huizache seeds germinated when I bought them. I have a couple of grafted ones and degrafted ones that a mate gave me, I can't say I've noticed they're any more difficult than any others. But that's not much of a sample size.

Run your finger along the margins of obtusifolia phyllodes. You'll feel a characteristic rough, almost serrated edge in comparison to longifolia which will be smooth as a baby's proverbial. And yes, you can often see a red crusty outline on them.

They still look very small to be in adult sizes pots and full sun. Some individuals will tolerate and adapt to it. Some will show stress reaction and growth will stall, possibly followed by dieback if no action is taken. This plant is telling you it's not happy, so as a first step I'd put into a more humid environment and under shadecloth (30-50%). I'd give it some nitrogen feeding, half strength and a few applications of seasol. They bounce back and it's coming into the growing season so there's no reason it won't recover and become healthy relatively fast.

I could save them a bit of trouble. My findings are: mdma and lsd together are pretty darned great.

Send them to me if you want them tested...

Thanks for your beautifully written and thoughtful response. I will re-read it a little later when I'm more awake. I think in the last 6 months I've made significant progress in regards to my thinking on this topic but I'll wait until the words are clearer in my mind before I attempt to articulate them.

So you never had success with cuttings of the NL? I just made a tubs worth as I needed to trim it anyway. I used hardwood red clonex. The cuttings still all look fresh, but I imagine rooting might take a long time if at all...we will see and report back.

https://medium.com/@johnw_whitehead/attack-of-the-tomato-killers-the-police-states-war-on-weed-and-backyard-gardens-c89c05eb68f4 America. Maybe not such a paradise for growers...

I don't know if I can say there are any tricks for flowering. I just plant them in the ground and let them be. I don't water them, I don't fertilise them, they just grow and after a few years they flower. I had seed pods forming late last year but the brutal hot dry early summer made them abort. Hopefully this year. Pretty sure @Psyentist got seeds from his last year...

I wouldn't feel bad about butting heads with folias, he's a chaos agent, loves a bit a bit of discord. You're in now.

Maybe a health check might be worth adding too. Eg have any trees been affected by galls, borers etc. Are any trees experiencing die back etc.

I always used to pick cubes around mullum in November. Yay for la niña! Mostly for the guerilla season...

I'd want to make sure your dad's heart was in good shape before giving ephedra. It's quite hard on the ol ticker.

To be fair, Sallubrious came in with all guns blazing, and quite a hostile aggressive tone, calling anyone who doesn't subscribe to his point of view a lot of names. That's not usually a very good way to start a discussion, unless you're looking for similarly defensive responses. We are not your enemies. As far as this all being one big coordinated scheme to usher in draconian measures, I would ask one question. Have you ever been involved in project management before? Have you experienced how fucking difficult it is to get anyone to agree on anything? Let alone actually make it happen? I am sorry to hear your situation is so dire Sallubrious. I wish there was more support for families who are hurting right now. Let us know if there is a go fund me or something that people can contribute to to assist.