BillyThKid
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I've had absolutely bad/average results from them.
Out of 100 Loph. Will. only 20 germinated. Aztekiums 100 seeds - Zero germinated. I've ordered many many different species from them and had no germination.
What other sites can you guys recommend?
Thanks!!
Agreed that the germination rate is bad for his plants but im suprised you could even see or not see the Aztekium because most people cannot spot them until they are around 6 months old due to being smaller than sand.
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It's not yopo, there are no tryptamines
I know its not yopo, i can tell by the name. and you already said there were no tryptamines in the OP.
so how about this, WHY do people use it. what is the effect. what IS it. i know how you apply it, i just want to know why you would use it
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Is the bottom little pup attached ? Looks like two seedlings, one having germinated recently.
It is fully attached and sprouted at the same time as the main head 10 months ago. the seed was probably a double embryo. i know it is attached because i transplanted this one and saw where it was attached. I dont know why it is so much smaller than the other but i think it is because it has a not-so-good attachment to the watercore or something.
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Sounds a lot like Yopo. any idea if there is a relation?
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Interesting article, something I hadn't read before. Makes sense, but virtually no one actually refers to their plants as such (I can think of only 1 exception at the moment). Why not use it yourself, when referring to your seedling here?
there is nothing wrong with shortening it to ariocarpus trigonus for the purposes of a post or in conversation. But when you specifically brought up the issue after i mentioned it, i felt the need to offer information that might change you mind.
most of the time if im making a forum post or on my Instagram i use the full latin name of Ariocarpus retusus ssp Trigonus. but when others involved already know about trigonus and retusus it becomes kinda crazy to keep saying it.
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@ Billy, I grow nearly all my plants from seed, this plant was grown from seed and grafted to Hylocereus after 20days. It was degrafted last season and is growing on its own roots now.
Im with you. i have a huge little green dot collection. 10 month old ariocarpus from 4 different species/subspecies.
De-grafting ariocarpus has been reported to be very very hard. what was your method? with aztekium hey actually require a slight amount of moisture to root and not shrivel up. WB ariocarpus?
how many ariocarpus plants do you have roughly? if my count is right i have at least 25.
I have an Ariocarpus which i want you to take a look at. It is a natural Twin ariocarpus trigonus. it came up from seed with a little side shoot dwarf twin. it has grown some. this picture is about 2 months old making the plant 8 months old in this picture i believe.
I had minor sun stress in the early months of winter while i was working under artificial light, but they recovered fine.
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Thanks HH
Answer to your question is too many, that's why I need the peres
I need grafting stock other than peres. Im grafting quarter sized grafts of aztekium ritteri, and i just ran out of myrtillocactus to graft to.
I have tried one aztekium pup to pereskiopsis and its alive still, but i dont know if its attached still or not. the root stock started to pup with is sometimes a sign of a failed graft but my ariocarpus seedling grafted to peres did the same thing. i just cut off the graft and it did not produce another one.
but i have at least 6 pups of aztekium i need to get grafted and a main head as well. the root stock is on its last leg and i need to remove the pups so i dont cut them when i cut the main head for re-grafting.
so i have the option of using peresiopsis which i really dont want to do with my aztekium as they tend to split on peres.
we all have out current issues. they are not bad issues, just challenging.
Good luck on your grafting, do you typically use plastic wrap technique?
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restricted to live our lives to the fullest
thats what freedoms are, allowed choices. but when we are not free to do what we want(so long as its not harming anyone) than we are not free.
Freedoms are not freedoms if they can be given and taken away.
The only way i will live my life is how i want. grow what i want, and do what i want. is that so much to want?
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Hello all, i know this is a forum from another country but i know there are american, and other people here from countries who CAN trade with me, so here is some of the seeds i have to offer. I hope some of them interest you. i also will be offering up some cacti and succulents. not for sale, trade only.
Because i have a lot of some of the seeds I can offer trades on just the plants you would like and im more than happy to trade with more than one person. Just know that the Peruvian torch, san pedro, and ariocarpus seeds are few in number and i only have one or two trades worth of seed. PM me or ask in here for added detail.
i have 500 Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds of the highest quality. they are hawaiian strain.
Calea zacatechichi/ternifolia(aka dream herb) seed
Valeriana officinalis (aka Valerian) seed
Basil seed
Ariocarpus Retusus V. Trigonus seed
trichocereus peruvanus seed
san pedro seed
Aztekium Ritteri seed
Astrophytum asterias seed
Parsley seeds
Pink ruffled poppies and i have thousands and thousands of these, not to be confused with the oriental "ruffled poppy".
two watermelon cultivars one with leucistic fruits though its only a first generation mutation i have no idea if it was passed onto the seeds. i have like 10 of the possible mutants and 50 or more of the normal melons.
West virginia naturalized Dill seeds(grown there 40 years in the wild, reaches up to 6 feet or more)
dutch poppy seeds
blue flax seeds
lemony catnip seeds Nepeta cataria var. citriodor
summer savory seeds
money plant seeds lunaria annua
seeds of a random Aquilegia species aka combines.
buck wheat .
LIVE PLANTS
Delosperma cooperi rooted cuttings shipped in soil
the mother plants
I offer these species independently or together in a starter clump
the leafy one on the left is Sedum Spurium, the blue sedum and the yellow sedum are both types of Sedum Reflexum, and the one sedum on the bottom i do not know what it is.
This is suppose to be Pereskiopsis Spatulala but i think its a different species of Pereskiopsis. reason being these areoles are much more hairy and the spines much longer, produces an inch long red spine on the old growth.
I MIGHT offer this peruvian torch cutting in a trade if it is a good trade. This one has had its spines trimmed back for shipping purposes. It is producing pups now and i have been rooting it for a month, no roots yet but there would be by the time it got to you.
The developing pup as of today
I have more cacti and seeds, just PM me with any questions or trade offers.
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Hey Mate
Sorry not possible as I live in the most restricted place on the planet.
Thanks for the offer.
Oh well, that sucks. And Hey now, america is not much worse. you guys take a lot of the restrictions from us. Plus i here america will be banning all trichocereus cacti and mescaline containers. They will be put on the schedule 1 drug listing along with most of the other currently legal plants here like mimosa hostilis, woodrose vines and more.
At least thats what i hear from the people i go to for this sort of info.
Hell i had an aztekium ritteri graft get held by customs for almost a month while they debated if it was a lophophora or not.
The true crime here is that humans are banning nature. that should be the part that is illegal, the banning of nature.
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A few things: first off im not sure if Iboga is legal in your country but it is not in most of the world so good luck finding seed. Second is Kratom seeds are viable for about 36 hours after they are taken from the plant, after that they die and wont sprout which is why you cant find Kratom seeds.
so i cannot offer you any of what you wanted but let me know if any of these interest you.
Calea zacatechichi/ternifolia(aka dream herb) seeds 25-50 depending on how many are in the pod i would send. dont want to send without the pod with this species.
Valeriana officinalis (aka Valerian) 20 seeds
Basil 10-20 seeds
Ariocarpus Retusus V. Trigonus 5 seeds
20 trichocereus peruvanus seeds from Koehers cactus place in germany
10 san pedro seeds
40-60 Aztekium Ritteri seeds
8 Astrophytum asterias seeds which had the name Kultur after it on the name label. it was also from Koehers in germany. Kultur translates to culture but i have no idea why it was listed after the name
20 Parsley seeds
500+ Pink ruffled poppies
two watermelon cultivars one with leucistic fruits though its only a first genoration mutation i have no idea if it was passed onto the seeds. i have like 10 of the possible mutants and 50 or more of the normal melons.
i have at least 300 heal-all seeds to offer aka prunella Vulgaris.
good god, at least 100 or more dill seeds taken from the west virginia Mts where it has grown wild for over 40 years.
dutch poppy seeds at least a got 20 or 30.
5 blue flax seeds
20-50 lemony catnip seeds Nepeta cataria var. citriodor
50+ summer savory seeds
50-100 money plant seeds lunaria annua
20-50 seeds of a random Aquilegia species aka combines.
And buck wheat 100 seeds or so.
Anything interest you? im interested in 95% of your list. and more.
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@ Billy, The Bravoanus is also a hybrid and I don't know what the father was unfortunately
Here is a nice Ariocarpus Retusus CV Cauliflower, which is starting to show the trait more as it matures, I hope it continues in this fashion.
Hey i saw cacti like this for sale like MAD on ebay but they all got insane priced within a day or two. Where did you get yours?
When my A. Fissuratus graft flowered the first time, it produced 1 flower if I remember correctly. I hand pollinated it and nothing happened. The following season three specimen flowered from 2-6 flowers each and I also hand pollinated them. 6 months later only the grafted to Stenocereus (not the oldest one) produced 4 seed pods.
I read that after pollination it could take them a whole year to produce the fruits.
I heard it depends on growing methods. Flowering happens in the fall in their natural habitat, Then they go dormant.
I think maybe the plant needs to be dormant to produce proper seed and flower. maybe not. we shale see
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Hello All
Just bumping this topic.
I am still keen to buy some bulk Hawaiian Baby Woodrose.
Happy to pay cash or trade seed/cactus/cuttings.
Thanks all.
I got 500 seeds, though i cant offer all of them. im most interested it cacti and other shamanic plant seeds for trade.
Though, i am in America so i dont know if i can mail you seeds or not? im not sure about your customs agents there.
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I was going to ask what seeds did you have to trade but he got to you already.
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yeah i knew that their all part of the Nicotiana tabacum sp.
I just didnt know cowboy lite was under the burley tobacco catergory, if im correct?
Cheers for the bit of information mate.
What would you recommend as another good variety for ciggies i.e. Virginia Gold, Turkish etc?
Any of the Virginia Strains are really good. I especially enjoy those which fall under the brightleaf category, thats one of the first kinds of tobacco which was brought over to America and was grown in virginia along side Hemp.
This website has many good listings of brightleaf. My personal favorite strain is cherry red.
http://sustainableseedco.com/bright-leaf-tobacco-seed-types/
Its funny that the best tobacco comes from my home state
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I only have one - approximately fifty year old Ariocarpus Fissuratus. It flowers every year in the fall - if it produces seeds I haven't been able to find any.
Some ariocarpus are self fertile but not all of them. Personally i collect pollen when my cacti flower and store it in glass slants and it keeps good for a long ass time. Some get good results by just self polinating the single flowers by rubbing a cue tip around inside of it to fertilize it.
The flowers form berry pods like most plants and in nature they typically shoot out the seeds, though i think this is from them sinking into the ground more and pressure is put on the dry seed pot which then bursts.
ever notice any berry seed pods? what happens to the flower after it is done?
This is my only one, an Ariocarpus retusus v furfuraceus. It's a bit bigger than this picture but was the most recent one I had.
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Thats a damn big ariocarpus retusus, furfuraceus taxonomy is an interesting one. So many ariocarpus are sold as that which are not actually that Var of cactus.
where did you get this one?
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@myeloblast You have an amazing collection. Your Lloydii look almost like haworthia plants haha. on the note of Trigonus and confusus though: To my understanding they are both sub species of retusus. At least according to E. F. Anderson, read the first paragraph which is the summary it says trigonus is a sub species of retusus
http://www.living-rocks.com/anderson.htm
That website has the most up to date info i can find on Ariocarpus other than a few minor things.
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Smart man nailed the source on the head.
On the seed packet it says Cowboy Lite and the other seed packet says Burley Lite.
Had no idea they were of the same genus. But im assuming good for cigarettes.
All good man should get a fair amount that'll last me a few months anyway.
Technically speaking all tobacco plants are in the same genus of nicotiana which is in the Solanaceae (nightshade) family of plants.
What you were thinking of is species name. like Nicotiana tabacum.
Here is a basic rundown of the known or used "species" of tobacco though they may not have any particular latin name.
Your cowboy blend falls into the Burley category of smoke.
from Wiki
- Aromatic fire-cured is cured by smoke from open fires. In the United States, it is grown in northern middle Tennessee, central Kentucky and inVirginia. Fire-cured tobacco grown in Kentucky and Tennessee are used in some chewing tobaccos, moist snuff, some cigarettes, and as a condiment in pipe tobacco blends. Another fire-cured tobacco is Latakia, which is produced from oriental varieties of N. tabacum. The leaves are cured and smoked over smoldering fires of local hardwoods and aromatic shrubs in Cyprus and Syria.
- Brightleaf tobacco, Brightleaf is commonly known as "Virginia tobacco", often regardless of the state where they are planted. Prior to theAmerican Civil War, most tobacco grown in the US was fire-cured dark-leaf. This type of tobacco was planted in fertile lowlands, used a robust variety of leaf, and was either fire cured or air cured. Most Canadian cigarettes are made from 100% pure Virginia tobacco.[12]
- Burley tobacco, is an air-cured tobacco used primarily for cigarette production. In the U.S., burley tobacco plants are started from palletized seeds placed in polystyrene trays floated on a bed of fertilized water in March or April.
- Cavendish is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type. The processing and the cut are used to bring out the natural sweet taste in the tobacco. Cavendish can be produced from any tobacco type, but is usually one of, or a blend of Kentucky, Virginia, and burley, and is most commonly used for pipe tobacco and cigars.
- Criollo tobacco is a type of tobacco, primarily used in the making of cigars. It was, by most accounts, one of the original Cuban tobaccos that emerged around the time of Columbus.
- Dokha, is a tobacco originally grown in Iran, mixed with leaves, bark, and herbs for smoking in a midwakh.
- Turkish tobacco, is a sun-cured, highly aromatic, small-leafed variety (Nicotiana tabacum) that is grown in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, and Macedonia. Originally grown in regions historically part of the Ottoman Empire, it is also known as "oriental". Many of the early brands of cigarettes were made mostly or entirely of Turkish tobacco; today, its main use is in blends of pipe and especially cigarette tobacco (a typical American cigarette is a blend of bright Virginia, burley and Turkish).
- Perique, a farmer called Pierre Chenet is credited with first turning this local tobacco into the Perique in 1824 through the technique of pressure-fermentation. Considered thetruffle of pipe tobaccos, it is used as a component in many blended pipe tobaccos, but is too strong to be smoked pure. At one time, the freshly moist Perique was also chewed, but none is now sold for this purpose. It is typically blended with pure Virginia to lend spice, strength, and coolness to the blend.
- Shade tobacco, is cultivated in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Early Connecticut colonists acquired from the Native Americans the habit of smoking tobacco in pipes, and began cultivating the plant commercially, even though the Puritans referred to it as the "evil weed". The Connecticut shade industry has weathered some major catastrophes, including a devastating hailstorm in 1929, and an epidemic of brown spot fungus in 2000, but is now in danger of disappearing altogether, given the increase in the value of land.
- White burley, in 1865, George Webb of Brown County, Ohio planted red burley seeds he had purchased, and found that a few of the seedlings had a whitish, sickly look. The air-cured leaf was found to be more mild than other types of tobacco.
- Wild tobacco, is native to the southwestern United States, Mexico, and parts of South America. Its botanical name is Nicotiana rustica.
- Y1 is a strain of tobacco cross-bred by Brown & Williamson in the 1970s to obtain an unusually high nicotine content. In the 1990s, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used it as evidence that tobacco companies were intentionally manipulating the nicotine content of cigarettes.
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Im growing cowboy lite tobacco and burley tobacco.
Thats a great tactic to eliminate weeds by making the soil malnurished. The soil i have is just straight up garden soil been there for as long as i can remember and just dropped some all purpose fertiliser and compost in there weeks before planting.
The plants look quite healthy and im only growing 8 as i smoke socially and a maximum of say 2 or 3 a day, got one of those ecigarettes which really killed my habit.
Im hopining i get around 200 grams for the 4 big ones and the other 4 are smaller in pots as a test for winter.
Any estimates on harvest wise for 4 full grown plants?
Just so you know "cowboy lite tobacco" is a Burley Tobacco and burley tobacco is not an exact genus or species but a general type of tobacco most popular in its use for smoking. If you know the exact species it helps.
With my searching for your named cowboy lite tobacco i came across an amazon page which sold it so i assume you bought it there?
And TBH i dont know how much 4 plants would yield, most of the work i did was with fields of the stuff and we never gave 4 plants much thought.
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I cannot bring myself to say i am a Shaman, because im not. i am but an acolyte training under a shaman, but even still i have gleaned some shaman wisdom and words.
Shamanism to me means many things but the following helps put some of it into words: Shamanism is the belief and realization of the spirit world around us and its importance in everyday life and how to best understand that spiritual world of sorts. However, the human brain has long since developed barriers in the brain which prevent us from seeing or interacting with the spirit world around us. It is the use of Psychedelics by a shaman to "spirit walk" which helps break down that barrier in our minds to allow us to see what we are intended to see for a time. It is a Shamans "job" to make heads or tails of what he or she has seen. depending on if the shaman is spirit walking with a patient or not changes many of these factors.
Shamans (as i know them) are "witch doctors" of sorts though i dont really like that term. They practice Natural healing though the use of plants from psychedelic to herbal. I myself practice in natural healing of myself and others. It has been an area of great interest to me. While Psychedelics heal the mind, they only do so much for the body, so it is important to know how to care for that as well with the hundreds and thousands of plants which have medicinal properties.
Being that i still consider myself an Acolyte i have focused on practicing the Medicinal healing more than the spiritual healing because i do not feel like im ready to take on the responsibility of another persons spiritual being or anything related to that. I can hardly make sense of my visions much less someone else's dream.
Shamans are the bridge between our world and the spirit world, it is said that a blind shamans vision beats the vision of a thousand seeing men. that would be because a shaman looks at things with his spirit and not his eyes.
Im sure not everything i have said lines up with "shamanism" or what everyone thinks shamanism is, but this is just how i have come to see it, and i see it in many other ways as well.
Also, shamanism is thought to have been the very first religion dating back more than 80,000 years.
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So you must be very experienced
I will definitely take that advice for next year. I do have a plant which i have topped from the begining and will continue to top her.
Will be a good comparision as i can tell it makes more leaves but they are smaller.
Ive also read the leaves are getting close to harvest when they are sticky? Another good sign other than the yellowing of leaves.
I can imagine this plant could grow just about any where, quite a strong plant once established and no real predators
Most tobacco i have ever had the leaves 3/4 the way up are normally the "best" because they were developed right before natural flowering where as the ones towards the bottom were used for getting the plant much larger, and the ones after 3/4 up are normally malnourished from flower development or the possibility of development.
anything from halfway up to 3/4 up should be your grade A crop, everything else is just side product.
What kind of soil is it in? Tobacco thrives in the worst soil conditions, and does not so well in organic full soil. Here in America we grow them in pure clay with no other soil, in fact we remove nutrient from the soil as best we can to make it the worst possible conditions for any other plant. wild flowers and any kind of flower weed are used to grow in the fields during off seasons or years where it was not grown in that field. its a good tactic to get the nutrients out.
it also really depends on what kind of tobacco you are growing.
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So, have you had any sprout? these seeds/nuts are mighty expensive, though i have found no shortage of places selling them.
a very interesting plant, it seems the sap of the tree may have been used to treat tooth aches and head aches much like many other mimosa/acacia trees. wonder if there is any "blood" between the plants that might explain that.
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Start picking the lower leaves now and keep picking them over the next few weeks. Be prepared to get your ams covered in sticky goo.
I wouldn't worry about removing flowers, the leaves they develop before they flower are the best ones & picking flowers won't really make them produce many more large leaves.
wont get covered in sticky goo from just pulling a few flowers, that takes all day pulling leaf in the field.
TBH i would not worry about removing at this point either as it only makes a difference when you catch it early. But it does matter when caught at the right time.
Lived in one of the largest tobacco producing states in america for my whole life, it is about the only thing that grows in the dirt around here because all we have is red clay. Been working on tobacco farms for my whole life.
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well first off if you are looking to harvest it you need not let it flower. when you let it flower you take away some of its nutrient that goes into leaf production
In you are planning on collecting seed you only need one or two plants for that.
Harvest time depends on a few things like when you planted it. But so far as i know you should do it around 40-60 days after its transplanted from its seedling container you should start harvesting from the bottom up. you can harvest it for a few weeks at a time.
Aztekium ritteri flowering pictures.
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So my aztekium started to develop flowers yesterday, well i assume before then but i could not see it until yesterday.
First picture shows the faint pink color of 3 flower buds early yesterday morning.
Today when i got up and looked at them i was supervised to see how close to opening they were and how small they are.
Almost open now. Triplet Aztekium ritteri flowers, really cool to see.
and this is one of them fully open i think. at least they have not moved in the past hour, funny how small the flowers look. if it was only one, or maybe two flowers they would be able to spread out and open fully. but the three of them back to back crowded in there and bloomed at the same time.
Several of the pups on this cactus are producing flower pods as well. I have collected pollen from the first three flowers and hand pollinated them with a tiny tiny tiny paint brush used for fine details.
If it keeps on flowering i will continue to post updates but just enjoy the cactus porn for now.