what am I doing for xmas? absolutely nothing. It's the busiest time of the year for us and we don't believe in all that commercialism anyway. We'll take it easy for a few days and then go wild for New Years
This list is always fairly up to date
Updated: 23/11/2013
Wanted Cactus
Pilosocereus pachycladus (cuts)
Astrophytum sp.
Harrisia fragrans
Echinopsis backebergii (lobivia_backebergii)
Cactus suitable for building of things (furniture etc)
Cerus Sp. with good fruit
Freaks!!! (anything cool)
Wanted Plants
Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum
Laurelia novae-zelandiae (Pukatea)
Glaucium flavum (seeds)
Althaea officinalis
Star Jasmine
Mucuna pruriens
Wanted Fungi
anything Bioluminescent
Wha
3 October 2010
Blogging desmodium cultivation:
Seeds were germinated using light scarification with a razor then submerging in boiled water (not boiling) for 24 hours. Seeds increased size by ~50% and turned slightly reddish from original tan colour.
Then placed in medium with sprouts emerging after several days.
No cultures available atm, sorry.
. species / variety strain / source origin
1.Agrocybe aegerita / the strain / long time cultivated in Aust./
2.Amauraderma rude / SAB member - wild collected Aust.
3.Calocybe indica / Shroomery member- India
4.Calvatia sp. / SAB member clo
I'm in Australia and on the lookout for;
A flowhood or the HEPA filter and fan to construct one.(really, really want a flowhood!)
A large Pressure Cooker (prefer all american model)
Any gourmet mushrooms, spores/cultures.
Stuff i have lots of;
Earplugs for injection ports
Tyvek overalls
PP Test Tubes with caps
Sterile disposable petries
Large T3 Spawn bags
Beef Jerky in 4 great flavours
Species i already have;
Hypholoma Sublateritium (cinnamon cap, Bricktop)
Hericium Erinaceus (lion
If i think about it i really dont know the interest in ethnobotanicals started. Probably riding in a car with a african and a friend of mine is a reference. When we pulled over they started eating a tree called juma. It was catha edulis.
Meanwhile back in 99 when i had a primitive computer i recall gomaos garden, even emailed him enquiring re hbwr. My parents also scared me a bit when the story of fred was retold. Back in the 70's fred who was a good friend of my parents ingested 4 datura flow
I'm in the US.
I HAVE: (please note that this is the list of all the plants that I own. They are cuttings/pups in early rooting stage at this time except pc pach & monstrose/crestate which are already rooted.)
Trichocereus (T) Lumberjack
TBM A and B
T Pachanoi (PC)
T Pachanoi Crestate A and B
T Pachanoi "Kimnack"
T Peruvianus "Serra Blue"
T Peruvianus "Southwestern"
T SS01
T SS02
T SS03
T Juul's Giant
T Bridgesii (standard)
T Torres and Torres
T Juuls/Peruvianus hybrid x SS02
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Back home, Bledsoe (not his real name) felt angry almost constantly. Nightmares haunted him
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'You know that psychedelics are making a comeback when the New York Times says so on page 1. In “Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In,” John Tierney reports on how doctors at schools like Harvard, Johns Hopkins, UCLA and NYU are testing the potential of psilocybin and other hallucinogens for treating depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, alcoholism—and for induci
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=dmt-is-in-your-head-but-it-may-too-2010-04-16
'You know that psychedelics are making a comeback when the New York Times says so on page 1. In “Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In,” John Tierney reports on how doctors at schools like Harvard, Johns Hopkins, UCLA and NYU are testing the potential of psilocybin and other hallucinogens for treating depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, alcoholism—and for induci
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=dmt-is-in-your-head-but-it-may-too-2010-04-16
'You know that psychedelics are making a comeback when the New York Times says so on page 1. In “Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In,” John Tierney reports on how doctors at schools like Harvard, Johns Hopkins, UCLA and NYU are testing the potential of psilocybin and other hallucinogens for treating depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, alcoholism—and for induci
When I look at a seed one of things that goes through my mind is
how can I help this along?
It's a question that I've been trying to answer for decades.
i know that all seeds really want to germinate
otherwise the mother plant would have committed her resources into something else
than to go through all the trouble of generating a seed... right?
The problem is that they can't tell us directly,
we've got to be good listeners and thinkers
most people have problems not because of bad se
