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  4. Posted

    Hey Kada, 

    Just did a bit of a hunt around online re kava in Aus.. I didn’t realise we had made the sale legal within Australia now.  Very cool.  
     

    While searching for plants though I came across an article discussing making the commercial quality plants a pacific only item, as in no exports of commercial quality plants to Australia as the fear was the valuable market might be diminished by Australian growers.  I came across this group: https://m.facebook.com/groups/902202100270368/ which might be a good place to ask for plants.. it’s apparently a pretty decent community.  I don’t have fb so I can’t really vouch for it or anything but might be worth a shot.

     

    If importing internationally isn’t an issue as you say I would be trying to get some sweet varieties from the pacific!

     

    Looking at all this kava stuff has got me hungry for a numb tongue :) 

     

    All the best for your search! 

     

     

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  6. Posted · Edited by kindness

    I rescued a scop from there a while ago.  Was in one of those tiny little pots..  can’t remember what they charge for them, maybe like $10.  Saw one when I was there about a week ago.. usually found near the orchids and other small succulents/cacti indoors, (the shelf below the pachs in fyzygy’s photo)

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    Sounds good.  Just had a read of the Phleb raising thread.  Some good info there.  Wish mine had survived… also just found this concerning culture of rhizobium, (or is it rhizobia?  I dunno..) anyway.  I’ll just leave it here coz I found it interesting:

     

    Culture 

     

    Sample Preparation 

     

    • Carefully uproot a leguminous plant (sweetpeas, beans etc)
    • Gently wash the roots using sterilized water to remove any soil, mud etc.
    • Using a clean knife/blade, carefully remove/detach the nodules (which are visible to the naked eye) from the roots and place them in a container with clear water
    • After washing the nodules, place them in a container with a solution of merculic chloride for a few minutes - this helps disinfect and remove any microorganismon the surface of the nodule
    • Wash the nodules using alcohol and then wash with clean water several times
    • Place the nodules in a test-tube and add a few drops of water (distilled water)
    • Using a glass rod, crush the nodules to release the bacteria into the water

     

    Culture Procedure 

     

    • Gently pour mannitol-agar medium into 3 sterile test-tubes
    • Add a few drops of the sample (rhizobium water) into the test-tubes using sterilized droppers
    • Mix the contents thoroughly
    • Pour the contents into different Petri dishes and incubate at 45 degrees Celsius
    • Turn the Petri dish when the medium solidifies
    • Allow the culture to incubate for about 3 days

     

    * Sample may also be collected from soil surrounding the roots of leguminous plant for comparison

     

  8. Posted

    Thanks for the info :) I’ve got a bunch of acuminatas and obtusi’s here that I’ve potted on a bunch of times.. they’re sitting at around 2/3yrs old.  None have the nodules on their roots.. I’m keen to see if giving them some makes a difference to growth.

     

    I might get some of the tree lucerne stuff from eden seeds then..  they have a few options and I assume that would be the closest to Acacia?

     

    Here’s the link:

    https://www.edenseeds.com.au/?name=Category-Info-General&category=Inoculant

  9. Posted

    6 hours ago, jahliveforever said:

    Can you use any rhizobium from an acacia?

    I’m not sure.  My guess would be different acacias have relationships with specific bacteria but I’m also thinking that any is better than none?  I would love to buy some meant for natives but I can’t find any.. 

  10. Posted

    Yeah cool.  I’ll give it another few days and see if anyone can help.  Not in any rush.  Gotta get hold of some rhizobium.. was looking around for it online but I think I’ll just dig up some mearnsii roots and make some brew with that.

  12. Posted · Edited by kindness

    Yeah I saw that, thanks :).  
     

    Was hoping someone here had a few seeds.  PD gifted me some back in the day but the ones I started died off and I lost the rest.  If all else fails I guess I’ll spend the $40 for 20 seeds but hoped to find cheaper or swap here first.

  13. Posted

    Hi all,

    just wondering if anyone out there has some home grown Phleb seed they are willing to share with me.  I have a a few things here I could trade or if $ are preferred could also do that.

     

    Hopefully some of peoples trees out there are producing seed now and I can join in and do my part to assist with the preservation of this special plant.

     

    cheers

  19. Posted

    11 hours ago, fyzygy said:

     

    Pity the poor cattle graziers and rabbitohs, eh?

     

    Yeah, gotta be a market collecting the seed and selling to middle eastern shops I’d think… maybe too labour intensive to make a buck though.

     

    Interesting that harmaline is being looked into as a herbicide.  That would be interesting to see on a bunn1ngz shelf lol

  20. Posted · Edited by kindness

    Nearly 12 year old thread… Originally started because PD shared some seed with me.  None of mine made it unfortunately. 

     

    It’s great to see others have had success and are now managing flowering and seed collection from home grown plants.  Wonderful!

     

     

     

  21. Posted

    My caapi has bounced back nicely.  I’m in the process of taking picture a day to do a time lapse video - but that’s gonna take a while.  Attached is it yesterday.

     

    Amazingly even though it lost nearly every leaf the green aphids are still maintaining their little Ayahuasca home.  I have been brushing them off by hand which squashes them when there are leaves with little population outbreaks.
     

     I don’t really want to spray it with chems although am not so opposed to an organic contact pesticide like pyrethrin….

     

    Anyhow.  Glad I didn’t completely stuff up. Nearly time to take some cuttings as insurance!

     

     

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  23. Posted

    Repotted the vine in a lovely big new pot with some sweet sweet soil.  She’s settled in nicely over the last few days.  It’s got loads of new growth sprouting from nodes all over the place.  Looks like it’s going to be just fine :)

     

    I’ll post some pics when the growth is a little more substantial.

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  24. Posted

    Yeah the little green buggers have been a real pain to get rid of… when it was smaller I could wipe them off the leaves and stems by hand which killed them a plenty being so small and soft…. As it took off though that wasn’t much of an option.  Anyhow, cheers, might give the Dustbuster idea a go.

     

    The root system of the vine seems as vigorous as the above ground part, it has very quickly grown into its various pot sizes.  Definitely not one that is happy to sit in the same sized pot for long!

     

    Ill keep the thread posted with recovery pics if that’s the way it plays out!

     

    cheers again

  25. Posted

    Thanks mate, really appreciate that.  I’ll pot it on tomorrow  and prune it back a bit.  Hopefully with a bit of ICU treatment it will pull through.

     

    Such a beautiful plant to grow.  Amazing the amount of growth it will put on in just a day or two.  It’s taken over the blind it’s in front of a few times now!  Would be very rewarding growing in the ground but that isn’t possible here.

     

    thanks again :)

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