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cheers for the link, time to go hit a library and ask the wife to help with some chinese books. that sounds so interesting. site worked using tor, but now back on windows and normal internet i cant load it. just me?

I have been there before with the wife, and enjoyed it, but stayed around the capitol mostly adn took a day to go motor about the coutnryside. this chiense new year we are goingto most likely be back there and this time want to jsut motorbike our way around as much road as we can. Anyone else been there or studied the region for plants? A working list of plants i am hoping to find and at least get pics of, finding seeds would of course be a treat. Acanthocereus pentagonus (i collect teh genus, and its grown there apparently) Annona marcgravii (fruit) Artabotrys uncinatus (fruit) Erythroxylum cuneatum (anyone know much about the potential of its species?) Erythroxylum novogranatense (mentions being used as hedge plant in Luzon, anyone confirm this? source: hxxp://www.philippineplants.org/Families/Erythroxylaceae.html) Mangifera altissima (fruit) Myristica sp. Spondias sp. (fruit) Will also be looking out for various things, but not paying too much special attention to finding htem Tabernaemontana sp. Voacanga sp. ________________________ some stuff i just started looking at in case others are interested. http://www.kent.ac.u...awan_screen.pdf The endangered plants of Palawan Island, Philippines (cant find full article) http://journals.uplb...icle/view/258/0 Flora of the Philippines (only some families up) http://www.philippin...t%20Proper.html so far the most useful sight i have found for certain famiilies http://www.philippin.../Rubiaceae.html

i use weeds adn cut the roots off with machete, put them ou tin the sun, then jsut layer the ground. mulching is the way IMO, but i dont grow annual plants much, mostly trees/shrubs/vines. i am starting to forget exactly how long, but in the area of 4 years since i last ferilized or watered my farm. mulching is the shit.

ditto, in fact in larger cuts i often foudn it slowed them as it sometiems made teh callous very hard and rigid adn i watched as roots grew underneath and sideways as they couldnt crack the callous (L. koehresii). i dont ever use it anymore on lophs or most cacti for that matter.

well, this is news to me. the gov here must have done a decent job hiding it as no one i have asked has a clue. Mitragyna is not native to the country you are in nor the one i am. if you look at a map of SE Asia, its in the southern right hand big island (Mindanao?). now looking at the range of speciosa which is southern Myanmar/thailand down through Malaysia, then into the Indonesian mess of islands and Borneo and east a bit in PNG and the area. when you look at the Philippines its REALLY looks like, to me at least, for kratom to get to Mindanao (right name?) it would make sense to hope through Palawan as its really close to Borneo, and seems to be known for its closer relation to Bornean flora than that of the rest of the Philippines. So I am hoping that it really is on palawan, i personally would expect it to be there given kratoms distribution, but i dont really have a clue. i struck out the first time i was there, but this time will be nicer as we are comfortable there now, have much more time and can just rent bikes and store our stuff in a cheap hotel. We, meaning not my wife, are thinking of also skipping over to Davao if the weather is too crappy for boating in western palawan, adn if that happens, i am really hoping to find some. Well, we all know kratom, any other gems anyone might think of? i have all kind sof info on plants there now, but when i get into travel/plant mode i dont sleep and am so completely unorganized and messy its embarassing, so i will post useful stuff once i can sort it out a bit. I have never heard of its use there, but anyone know if kava is present in the area?

google images of hawk moths look right for sure. I have no idea about moths can oly really tell them apart form butterflies, adn tahts the extent of my knowledge of them, so cant say what species or anything. bu ti see them darting in and out of flowers. just wondering if maybe caapi needs to be pollinated by something special, even if it is self fertile. lots of platns can self, but may need specialty third party assistance. such as my HBWR that i mention with this moth, jujube with flies or brugmansia withmoths and bats and many more. jsut throwing out thoughts, my caapi have yet to flower so i have no experience with them and breeding.

nice, you notice mostly day time or night time pollinators? I only just realized the reason one of my other vine species wasnt setting seed because there is a type of moth (forget the name, long, sleek and SUPER fast) that wasnt around my other areas and where i planed some new ones ther eis, i saw them pollinating them at night and that is the only plant setting seed (not caapi)

any reason it wouldnt just be light/seasonal changes? seems T and Col were in october, in southern hemisphere. if i remember right stonehenge was in summer in the north, and zaka just has a wicked climate closer to the equator....seems likely to be a summer thing. great pics guys, they really look nice

i love Jstor, but those looking around tha tnew feature you can get a lto from it but in teh end need to be signed in to see thign sliek large photos. you know of any way around that without a connection taht can get in? more often than not when i am trying to learn about something plant wise i often find the most information in regional texts discussing the plant(s) from a given area. here is some free stuff inclduing books (entire floras), herbarium specimens etc all online free to public. this is almost all for Taiwan and some of the outlaying areas from Japan down to teh Philippines. hxxp://tai2.ntu.edu.tw/ebook.php

I would personally be very interested in Psychotria suerrensis for ornamental purposes (no idea about its chemistry). Its from Costa rica, so not sure if you would find it in panama, but its possible. Edit: there may be some interesting tabernaemontana species there too.

very exciting! there are a bunch of things there. not sure if the ayahuasca culture is there, but some plants are. http://www.botanicus.org/item/31753003566376

first time i did it i did that way as well. 30 seeds only have 1 large tree now to show for it. now i am using sphagnum moss with great success. when the tap pokes out place it in a mineral cactus seed type mix and a little coco to loosen it up a bit.

When making botanical specimens what MUST there be? what are the rules exactly? i assume there should be a rib section, areole, cross section and flower. what about roots? fruit? seeds? should there be both whole and cross-section (flowers & roots)? Should one voucher be of only one plant? this one seems like it obviously should be. How does one dry and preserve these things, especially seen as how thick and juicy cacti cross sections would be.....use formalin solution? many also seem to have a scale...is metric (cm/mm) standard? photos are good? what about notes? it would seem to me that things like stamens would be very quickly damages, so would notes on these be useful? or do you want to keep the thing clean and clear of written stuff? what about slides (pollen)? this pic has me thinking, it seems pretty rough.....is this how it is all done? http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/inde...ost&id=6985 any info would be good also found this link http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herbarium/voucher.htm edit: also found this link that is nice, have not finished reading it yet. http://ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca/risc/pubs/tebiodi...cherb/index.htm

thats spider mite damage, note the webs too

I have had these L. nepetifolia growing for about 2 years on my roof. To begin with i am aware there is a massive spider mite infestation there, but as its the roof and i dont grow anything terribly important there anymore, i couldnt really care less Just to get that out of the way This weirdness has been spotted over about 1 year, not too common but they come up now and again in the middle of normal ones, and i dont think it has anything to do with nutrition or pests, despite what my pictures below show of a lone infested plant growing in a pot in the corner without water/food etc. i will search for a healthier plant for pictures in the daytime, i have this bad habit of taking scissors to them all for composting. So these L. nepetifolia are from the Philippines and they have been growing and reseeding themselves for 2 years. Grow well and basically i only use them to cut and add as a mulch to the soil, they serve that purpose well. About 3-4 months after my Salvia divinorum flowered i got a bunch of different L. nepetifolia plants growing. Now i dont think they are a Salvia hybrid at all! But the flowering time of the salvia is a good point of memory for me, so i only mention it as a way for me to remember and also as a just in case. The difference in these plants with the "normal" plants that grow there are the texture, color, fuzziness and thickness of the leaves. the normal ones are soft, but these "hybrids" are fuzzy, just short of velvety. The leaves are also a darker/duller green unlike the brighter more vibrant green of the "normal ones". Leaf thickness, without actually measuring, seems to be about twice as thick for the "hybrids". The scent is also slightly different but cannot explain it. I can say they dont smell like any of the other mints i grow. Here is a list of other species in the mint family that have flowered at the same times of them within a 10m radius (many often touching as the L. nepetifolia just grows everywhere up there). Coleus blumei (about 5 different color varieties) Melissa officinalis Mentha x piperita Plectranthus amboinicus 3 varieties including one "wild type" which isnt scented. Salvia divinorum Salvia officinalis If it were to be a hybrid, and im not sure it is, my money would be on the unscented wild Plectranthus amboinicus or the Coleus (im not convinced they are synonymous with that massive Plectranthus lumping!). I fit helps i will get pics of the other mints around to see. Photos of the 2 types. "Normal" L. nepetifolia as has always grown from original seed. the different one Anyone have any thoughts. These are for sure from the L. nepetifolia as i pinch all other flowers, only these are left to flower as i enjoy the look.

a couple years ago i saw a photo of a burugmansia in the paper and a short story talking about how a chinese herbal doctor wsa giving this to his patients for some kind of illness, i forget which. Long story short, he was fined and their hospital visits got the word out about angel's trumpets in this country. For me personally, aside from all teh obvious dangers, i dont feel i have a good enough friend to be there making sure i stay alive during the experience

cheers, thanks. any reason coco coir couldnt be used instead of sand? sand is ehavy and expensive here so i like to avoid its use when possible. coco is light and fluffy and dirt cheap (har har). Few months, roger on that. Better safe than sorry. one its dug up it will be replanted ina predug hole with water waiting, shouldnt be more than 20 mins between being pulled out and having dirt back on it with a soak.

I have a row of 5-10 m. hostilis. been in ground for 2-3 years i think. i cut them down 2-3 times a year, so i will cut them down now a month before moving. but any suggestions for moving established plants? they are right in the middle of where i want miracle fruit growing, so they got to go but i want them around still. I am planning to cut the stems right down and let them start regrowing a bit. then cut the main large woody roots to about 20-30cm long and bury again with coco (as its easy to uproot from) to let heal and have new roots grow from them. after one month then i dig them up and put into new spot in a big hole. any thoughts? i generally have bad luck transplanting trees from this family, so hoping someone else has done this and has some suggestions

for dragon fruit hte trick is to grow your own. they are like strawberries. commercially they are pumped up large to get more KGs adn they are picked early. home grown can be fed good nutrients adn picked when ripe. they are pretty sweet actually. purple is often sweeter than white. myrtillocactus i like but too much work as they are small (for me as when i eat i want to do it fast and get it over with ) I lik eO. ficus indica fruits, when i go back to canada now and then i see them in boxes from mexico in the super market sometimes. Like $3 for a box of at elast 30, not bad. but the big seeds make it a treat not a food in my mind. O. coch. and dillenii are used here for dye adn food/drink coloring. nothign much to eat, but good color. so is red/purple hylocereus. other than that i have nto tried any others i would consider a food. but lots are tasty though, Saguaro fruit sounds great, wishi had some to try

setup good (prevent water loss and auto watering). nothing beats a good friend/family member. every vacatin i take (only 4 weeks, not 10!) i estimate i lose 5-20% of everything i grow due to not ahving it automated and lacking a human who can actaully handle watering for me. fidning someone who can kleep plants alive for long times is actually very hard to do sometimes.

cool, thanks for settling that one. I get LOTS of flowers from feb-nov usually, but jsut not seeds. I am working on getting more bees in the area, but people spray even kms away adn they wipe them out. strange. our dry season is also our cold one, but dry is a relative term...our farm dirt is no longer ever dry at any point and we do zero irrigation. on topic, your cuts look really nice

great plants man. I see you used some myrtillocactus

on the squash front. loofa greens are my favourite gren vegetable hadns down. its eaten a lot in asia. the new growth is used, not old leaves which are harder/prickly. fried like any other green usually. plus the fruit is edible or dried ot be used as a aponge. one of my favourite annual vines.

cool thanks. im not sure but i am going to go and guess they are not self fertile (hbwr). i had a plant flower for a couple years on its own and nothing at all. with 2 growing together i sometimes get something. i wonder if its water related....here in summer htey are eitehr moist-wet all the way to 1 meter high flood. so they get loads of water all year, never dry.

i like antlers too, but they are not as good, at least unless we are talking about decoration biggest i have found is the one above, about 30-40cm wide. that massive one on flikr is just amazing and probably beyond exensive! Thats something the west should probably try and catch up on, the absolutely massive market for assumed good quality. people pay huge money if it meets their criteria of quality. i have yet to figure out their logic myself though. Anyone have thoughts on G. lucidum adn G. multipileum differneces? Here both can be singular or multibranched apperantly.