Red Savina is starting to boom under the shade of a Brunfelsia americana
Smogs gave me this damaged button on condition I graft it as soon as I got home! I kept my word. ^_^
Young Hyoscyamus albus responding well to blooda&bone. I have some H. niger too! :D
Borage flower with a few cacti in the background.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/f...lines-frontpage
`The Czechs do like their weed. A 2005 report by the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction found that 22% of Czechs between 16 and 34 had smoked marijuana at least once during the previous year, the highest percentage in the European Union. The nation's cannabis culture is imbued with the whimsical ethos of the hippie movement: guys growing dope in fields, on balconies and in bathrooms, and sharing with friends. [..]
"I've never paid for pot and I never would," said Filip Hubacek, a university student majoring in social sciences. "I don't mind paying for my gym, but not for my pot."'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3543394a11,00.html
`Impotency drugs Viagra and Cialis may increase the risk of sudden blindness in men with a history of heart attacks or high blood pressure, research suggests.
A new study published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology is the latest to suggest a link between impotency drugs and a condition which could cause sudden blindness in one eye; non-arteritic ischaemic optic neuropathy (Naion). The authors recommended doctors discuss the risk with their patients.'
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,700...tw=wn_tophead_1
`When Kevin Herbert has a particularly intractable programming problem, or finds himself pondering a big career decision, he deploys a powerful mind expanding tool -- LSD-25. [..]
"When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing," said Herbert who intervened to ban drug testing of technologists at Cisco Systems.'
http://www.saskurbex.prairiepast.com/main/...urn/weyburn.htm
A tour outside of the famous Mental Hospital
"The Weyburn Mental Hospital opened in 1921 and quickly became one of Canada's most notorious psychiatric institutions. It was the site of lobotomies, electric shock therapy, and some of Canada's controversial LSD experiments. It was here that Dr. Humphrey Osmond coined the word "psychedelic." Virtually anywhere across Canada, if you mentioned you were from Weyburn, there would always be somebody who would know about the hospital and say, 'Oh,' and make some comment about either your own mental health or the mental health of the community, or just a joke about mental illness," remembers Schultz. In 1971, the Weyburn Mental Hospital closed its doors and patients were transferred to other institutions."
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Mucuna pruriens v. utilis & Mimosa sp (still unidentified) on the left.
Lemon Myrtle. Nothing special, but I really love mine, my friend at State Forests NSW says he has never seen one with leaves so big.
3 A. colubrina in the same pot and my B. caapi (oh how I love it).
You can see a row of germinating Mimosa hostilis seed pots (from brian) in the background.
Lobelia sp. "Blue Eyes".
Any idea what it is?
Red Savina seedling. These have to be the least vigorous seeds I have ever grown of anything. Germination is slow and prone to dying, and until the last few days of extreme heat growth was slow and pale. Hopefully it'll pick up now.
Argemone mexicana seedling. Lucky to be alive. I think the soil might be infected with something, ants seem to love it in there.
Seed Available for Trade
Possible Cuttings Available: (notice will of course be needed in order to propagate cuttings if rooted ones are desired)
Psychotria carthaginensis
Sceletium tortuosum
Sceletium spp. (a much more dense and compact species)
Brugmansia candida
Hemia salicifolia
Calea zacatechichi
Catha edulis (Red Leaf)
Trichocereus pachanoi
Wanted List:
Passiflora incarnata
Psychotria viridis
Banisteriopsis caapi
Salvia apiana
Trichocereus peruvians
Pereskiopsis spp.
Theobroma cacao
Brugmansia suaveolens, B. aurea & B. sanguinea
Serenoa repens - Saw Palmetto
Tribulus terrestris
Nymphaea caerulea
I have always loved these plants... Brugs and daturas seem to have a spell over me.
This Brugmansia I raised from a small cutting, and now it is bearing it's first flowers so I figured some pictures were in order.
I have PDF copies of a 1979 Waters manual outlining the selection of solvent systems when upscaling from TLC to PrepLC. Not being the scientific type I don't know whether PrepLC is any different to normal LC.
The document is about 30 pages long and outlines what sort of Rf's you want when doing TLC and LC to achieve the best separations- and how to select a solvent suitable for silica column PrepLC once you get good results with your initial TLC separations- it seems you can't just upscale to PrepLC using the same solvent system you used in TLC.
It's pretty easy to read and understand, well, so far for me. I need a closer look at it if I was going to do any actual work with it, but it doesn't seem to be rocket science
If copies are of any use to anyone I'll send them out on CD as a trade. Two files will be on the CD, an OCR .pdf so you can word search it on your puter, and a normal non-OCR .pdf so you can print it out and use it as a manual: a couple of the graphics details etc were ever so slightly compromised during the OCR so it's only fair to have an original document you can print as well.
Dunno what I want to trade that anyone might have- anything that's on my trade list in my earlier blog entry- or maybe sterile cultures of Oyster or Reishi mushrooms. But even if you don't have that and you think you might have something to trade that I'd like, just PM me.
I like to grow cacti and use a combination of compost and perlite in equal parts for my mixes.
I also use other things like sand and gravel in the mixes, but only as minor parts.
Syrian Rue startin' to get big, considering it was just a tiny shoot a few weeks ago.
Lobelia 'Blue Eyes' first flower.
Coleus blumei purple cutting shooting new leaves, Hyoscyamus niger seedling.
Perilla magilla growing all awesome like after pruning.
I love big brug leaves!
Can you just see the energy?
Have been watching this areola getting ready to pup for a couple of days now. Then look what greeted me on todays "has it pupped yet" inpection. you can see the brown fluff that appears before the pup.
another angle
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