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If you cover my cost for postage - I can send you cutting of Sceletium tortuosum Sceletium emarcidum Delosperma bosseranum Delosperma echinatum Trichodiadema stellatum Lampranthus spectabilis (red) Mesembryanthemum (Aptenia) cordifolium (purple) Message me if you are interested.

Doing lots of cuttings of this at the moment, if someone wants to grow it get in touch here. No WA/TAS. Tea has been prepared from the leaves, rich in antioxidants. Iresine herbstii (Amaranthaceae), traditionally called “cimora se˜ norita”, is used in black magic (De Feo, 2003) and in association with San Pedro for magic rituals (Friedberg, 1959; Dobkin De Rios, 1977; De Feo, 2003), to diagnose illness, and to take possession of another identity (Cruz-Sanchez, 1948). Its leaves are claimed, for external use, a skin depurative, whereas the aerial part decoction is known to be an antipyretic (De Feo, 2003). - anti-inflammatory, cytotoxic and apoptotic activities and antioxidant activity - affinity for the 5-HT1AR - affinity for 5-HT2C receptor and for D1 receptor (MeOH extract) - lower affinity for D1 and higher affinity for D2 receptors (Aq. extract) - presumable antagonist action on D1 and D2 receptors by Iresine (both extracts) Leaves: 2,5-Dimethoxy-6,7-(methylenedioxy)-isoflavone; acylated betacyanins Roots: oleanolic acid and its saponins. An alcoholic extract of the root showed the presence of amino acids, steroids, triterpenoids, alkaloids and coumarins. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2005.11.022 https://doi.org/10.1076/phbi.34.3.184.13212

Does erowid still add things to their experience vaults? Might be good to document given it's traditional use, even if the experience is "no effect"

I tend to water and feed my Trichocereus heavily, however my soil is mostly inorganic and drains quickly. The cuttings had no roots until recently and what it now has now is the bare minimum, so I do not think that it could suck up enough water to split. Therefor I suspect that the cutting had the split in it before I got it - I just never noticed before.

Sometimes I have had a cactus split by receiving to much water, creating a cavity. It has callused over and had no bearing on the health of the plant.

No experience with consumption myself either but maybe I need to expel some bad spirits....

I've been propagating this for a while now, but have no experience with consumption. How does it taste? Grows well from cutting, but not from seed, in my (limited) experience.

There's no need to repot those seedlings. I'd wait until after winter.

Now that spring is almost upon us I thought I’d share the method I use to germinate Acacia Phlebophylla seeds. It has taken a few years of trial and error but now I have it down pat. I’ve got it to 90%+ germination rate all in the first month of spring. It certainly isn’t the only method but it works for me and I thought sharing might encourage others to give it a try. I like to start the process early August (as it takes about 4 weeks for them to start germinating) to take full advantage of the spring/summer growing season. I use a razor blade and take a tiny nick off the hilum end of the seed, this is where the root will come through. Be careful not to take too much off you only need to get through outer coat. Once they are all scarified I then soak them for 24hrs in previously boiled but COLD water. Boiling water at this point will kill your seeds if using this method. After 24hrs and seeds have swelled up, I now put them in a plastic Chinese container between two sheets of damp paper towel (I like viva brand as it holds a lot more moisture than cheaper towel), all spaced out so they aren’t touching. I put the lid on and place them in the fridge.  They will germinate in the fridge and throw out a tap root but it normally takes about four to six weeks for the first ones to start. Once they grow their little root (2 or 3mm, don’t let it get too long) I pick them out of the container and put the rest back in the fridge, checking them every few days. It normally takes a few weeks for them all to germinate once they’ve started. I then very carefully with a pair of tweezers peel off the outer coating of the seed and plant them in a seedling tray just under the soil with the root facing down. I put the seedling tray in the hothouse watering daily as seedling trays dry out quickly. Your little seedlings will be up in a few days.  soil mix used is pretty simple, 3 parts Bunnings native potting mix to 1 part river sand, with a handful of soil from the base of one of your local acacias as a rhizobia inoculant mixed in to every seedling tray. They take a couple of months to get their first adult leaves but once they do they grow fairly quickly. I also then start fertilising them with swift grow (swiftgrow.com.au) every couple of weeks. Happy gardening 

The nutrients in that mix might be counter-productive for the purposes of germination. I had a batch of A. phlebophylla seedlings that I killed (wilting, shrivelling, and dying pretty much as you describe) because I accidentally fertilised them. Seeds in general, I reckon, are self-sufficient and have no need of additional nutrients. So I tend to avoid fertiliser at this stage, as a rule of thumb. For potting on, once established, native potting mix from Bunnings gives good results. Bunnings also sells coarse river sand for propagation, your best friend. Here's what Simmons recommends (scanned pages with info here) Seed growing mix: 3 parts washed or sterilised coarse river sand 1 part peat moss or aged crushed pine bark or 3 parts perlite 1 part peat moss Potting on mix: 3 parts coarse river sand 1 part peat moss or old milled bark 1 part loam or perlite or 2 parts sand 1 part peat 1 part gravel with old manure or compost added Cutting mixture: 3 parts coarse river sand 1 part peat moss or old crushed bark 1 part perlite or a soil-less mix 3 parts perlite 1 part peat moss

kratom use will certainly not ruin your life, there is a saying in malaysa, saying woman, marry a kratom chewer and not a pot smoker, the chewers are working, the pot smokers are lazy. i predict a future when most psychotropic plants, will be legal again, because the sience will proof us sab'ers right. people like john howard and his advisors, are uneducated, and made there decisions, not understanding the ethno community's knowledge. a lot of doctors and psychiatrist are already on our side!

In recent years the WHO and FDA both determined that Kratom was not a drug of concern. So that's encouraging. There have been copious studies on Kratom's (relative) safety since the TGA scheduled it as a poison in 2003. Not to mention, a synthetic opioid epidemic. I think it's only one of two active alkaloids, mitragynine, that's included in the poisons schedule.