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  3. Posted

    cheers thanks Torsten. i think if its like iboga i should be fine. we are right in the middle of our annual cold snap and its about 14C right now (3am). the iboga are not dieing, but certainly are not the happiest plants in teh garden. i have seedlings from SAB fruit growing now as well, which are growing inside unheated very well.

    Mindperformer, not sure if you were thinking of me or not, but i didnt go there, i traded with someone who lives there. I have never been to that continent (yet). when you go, can we expect some seed collections and photos while there?

    Update on the seeds. they are germinating within 24 hours, all are outside right now in the cool winter weather and doing fine so far. i did 3 batches. 1 tray in vermiculite 1 tray in expanded clay pellets and 1 bag of sphagnum moss. seems though that fresh seeds just germ super easy regardless. I almost regret putting down about 1000.

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  4. Posted

    good to know, cheers. We are in the middle of buying new land further south and from what we have seen it stays a few degrees warmer than our current spot.

    Iboga and Durian both grow here through winter outside, is A. peregrina more cold sensitive than them? i was reading some old posts here about the cold. do you guys have any growing now that have withstood outside temps in the cooler times?

    Will be keeping a few, should i be so lucky as to get lots of sprouts, in the greenhouse where 20 is about the coldest temp possible anytime. Will they be able to withstand temps up to 55C? i have had a number of leafy plants growing in there up to 60 without much trouble surprisingly. the sides are screen and half-3/4 open all the time so good air flow.

  5. Posted · Edited by kadakuda

    great thanks for looking. they look different in that way from teh ones i had gotten previously as well, but i cant be sure fo teh ID on the ones i got before either. the ones before were "active", these ones are yet untested but traded by peopel who use them for this purpose there so should be good.

    some herbarium shots if anyone else is into it.

    http://fm1.fieldmuse...ge=25&x=76&y=10

    if anyone has access, can enarge teh photos.

    http://plants.jstor....imen/k000504690

    ana_zpsbb00014f.jpg

    these are my old seeds which came from some north american reseller which i now forget, about 5-6 years ago. my platns now are from thses seeds, but thought i would put up teh seeds pic in case its useful. htey all had the ridge adn center indents, but no where near as pronounced. i have agood number of seed an dit seem pretty consistant in the new oens to all look like above photos. also these ones from Colombia are smaller than what i rememebr previous ones from the states adn brazil being. will have more pics as they grow.

  9. Posted

    put it this way "too slow growing, too pretty, too rare"... Also: "The signal attribute is that it promotes a feeling of

    tranquility by calming nervous irritability. Resulting sleep is without twitches, worries, bad dreams. Surely there are common herbs

    If it worked as stated, it would seem to me that it could probabyl be put through the commercial machine and propagated large scale. The Asians would do it if it promised $. or more liekly they might find ways of synthesising its magic juices. rarity and slow growth are not always complete killers of ideas when it comes to mass producing plants though.

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  10. Posted

    peat moss does that, but it along with other simialr things like coco do WONDERS for making caly soil AWESOME. you cna dig it in a bit, or jsut dump it on top fo rless effective but saves time. i used to dump waste peat/coco in parts of my farm adn jsut let weeds grow over it. 2 years later it is by far the best soil on my land, and it goes down a solid 10" ( i jsu tspread a good 4" over teh dirt and walked away).

    I wouldnt buy it fo rhte purpose, but if its around and in teh way, i like it.

    I am seeing a lot of farms here now instead of drying the spent coco fruit to make powder (its liek a recycle program here for various things liek this) they are jsut cruching it and spreading it as is in big chunks over the farm (mostly other coconut or betel nut trees). it wouldnt do a great deal for nutirtion but it would certainly help protect teh bare soil from light and cut down weeds some.

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  12. Posted

    i use weeds adn cut the roots off with machete, put them ou tin the sun, then jsut layer the ground. mulching is the way IMO, but i dont grow annual plants much, mostly trees/shrubs/vines. i am starting to forget exactly how long, but in the area of 4 years since i last ferilized or watered my farm. mulching is the shit.

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    well, this is news to me. the gov here must have done a decent job hiding it as no one i have asked has a clue.

    Mitragyna is not native to the country you are in nor the one i am. if you look at a map of SE Asia, its in the southern right hand big island (Mindanao?). now looking at the range of speciosa which is southern Myanmar/thailand down through Malaysia, then into the Indonesian mess of islands and Borneo and east a bit in PNG and the area. when you look at the Philippines its REALLY looks like, to me at least, for kratom to get to Mindanao (right name?) it would make sense to hope through Palawan as its really close to Borneo, and seems to be known for its closer relation to Bornean flora than that of the rest of the Philippines.

    So I am hoping that it really is on palawan, i personally would expect it to be there given kratoms distribution, but i dont really have a clue. i struck out the first time i was there, but this time will be nicer as we are comfortable there now, have much more time and can just rent bikes and store our stuff in a cheap hotel.

    We, meaning not my wife, are thinking of also skipping over to Davao if the weather is too crappy for boating in western palawan, adn if that happens, i am really hoping to find some.

    Well, we all know kratom, any other gems anyone might think of?

    i have all kind sof info on plants there now, but when i get into travel/plant mode i dont sleep and am so completely unorganized and messy its embarassing, so i will post useful stuff once i can sort it out a bit.

    I have never heard of its use there, but anyone know if kava is present in the area?

  15. Posted · Edited by kadakuda

    I have been there before with the wife, and enjoyed it, but stayed around the capitol mostly adn took a day to go motor about the coutnryside. this chiense new year we are goingto most likely be back there and this time want to jsut motorbike our way around as much road as we can.

    Anyone else been there or studied the region for plants?

    A working list of plants i am hoping to find and at least get pics of, finding seeds would of course be a treat.

    Acanthocereus pentagonus (i collect teh genus, and its grown there apparently)

    Annona marcgravii (fruit)

    Artabotrys uncinatus (fruit)

    Erythroxylum cuneatum (anyone know much about the potential of its species?)

    Erythroxylum novogranatense (mentions being used as hedge plant in Luzon, anyone confirm this? source: hxxp://www.philippineplants.org/Families/Erythroxylaceae.html)

    Mangifera altissima (fruit)

    Myristica sp.

    Spondias sp. (fruit)

    Will also be looking out for various things, but not paying too much special attention to finding htem

    Tabernaemontana sp.

    Voacanga sp.

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    some stuff i just started looking at in case others are interested.

    Mambog

    MITRAGYNA SPECIOSA Korth.

    Nauclea speciosa Miq.

    Stephegyne speciosa Korth.

    Local names: Lugub (mand.); mambog (Tag.); palapupot (Ibn.).

    Mambog is found in forests at low altitudes in Cagayan Province in Luzon; and in Mindoro and Mindanao. It also occurs in Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, and New Guinea.

    This forest tree grows from 10 to 25 meters in height. The leaves are elliptic, 8.5 to 14 centimeters long, 5 to 10 centimeters wide (smaller at the ends of branchlets) pointed at the tip, rounded or somewhat heart-shaped at the base, and hairy on the nerves beneath. The petioles are 2 to 4 centimeters long. The flowers are crowded in round, terminal inflorescences (heads) 3 to 5 centimeters long. The calyx-tube is short and cup-shaped, with rounded lobes. The corolla-tube is 5 millimeters long, smooth without, and hairy within; the lobes are 3 millimeters long, smooth, and revolute in the margins. The fruit is oblong-ovoid and 5 to 7 millimeters long, with 10 ridges.

    Field isolated from the leaves an alkaloid, which she named mitragynine (C22H31O5N). She quotes Dr. Laidlaw, who states that mitragynine is used in Perak as a local anaesthetic. This alkaloid distilled in vacuo unchanged at 2300 to 2400 C. Burkill say that it is not absolutely proved, but it may be assumed that this is the active substance; for the addict takes it into his system whether he inhales the smoke or drinks a decoction.

    According to Burkill the leaves are chewed, or a preparation is made from in different ways, or they are smoked as one smokes opium in Malaya. Opium-smokers substitute them for opium when the latter is not procurable. As a drug the leaves are swallowed either in a cup of cold water or infused with hot water and drunk as if tea. The syrup may be smoked, somewhat in the manner of opium, in a pipe. Burkill an Haniff say that in Perak, the pounded leaves are applied to wounds, and whole, heated leaves over enlarged spleens. Burkill quotes Wray, who records the use of a poultice of the leaves for expulsion of worms from children, the poultice being carefully applied to the upper part of the abdomen.

     

    http://www.kent.ac.u...awan_screen.pdf

    The endangered plants of Palawan Island, Philippines (cant find full article)

    http://journals.uplb...icle/view/258/0

    Flora of the Philippines (only some families up)

    http://www.philippin...t%20Proper.html

    so far the most useful sight i have found for certain famiilies

    http://www.philippin.../Rubiaceae.html

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  16. Posted

    google images of hawk moths look right for sure. I have no idea about moths can oly really tell them apart form butterflies, adn tahts the extent of my knowledge of them, so cant say what species or anything. bu ti see them darting in and out of flowers. just wondering if maybe caapi needs to be pollinated by something special, even if it is self fertile. lots of platns can self, but may need specialty third party assistance. such as my HBWR that i mention with this moth, jujube with flies or brugmansia withmoths and bats and many more.

    jsut throwing out thoughts, my caapi have yet to flower so i have no experience with them and breeding.

  17. Posted

    nice, you notice mostly day time or night time pollinators?

    I only just realized the reason one of my other vine species wasnt setting seed because there is a type of moth

    (forget the name, long, sleek and SUPER fast) that wasnt around my other areas and where i planed some new ones ther eis, i saw them pollinating them at night and that is the only plant setting seed (not caapi)

  18. Posted

    any reason it wouldnt just be light/seasonal changes? seems T and Col were in october, in southern hemisphere. if i remember right stonehenge was in summer in the north, and zaka just has a wicked climate closer to the equator....seems likely to be a summer thing.

    great pics guys, they really look nice :)

  19. Posted

    i love Jstor, but those looking around tha tnew feature you can get a lto from it but in teh end need to be signed in to see thign sliek large photos. you know of any way around that without a connection taht can get in?

    more often than not when i am trying to learn about something plant wise i often find the most information in regional texts discussing the plant(s) from a given area.

    here is some free stuff inclduing books (entire floras), herbarium specimens etc all online free to public. this is almost all for Taiwan and some of the outlaying areas from Japan down to teh Philippines.

    hxxp://tai2.ntu.edu.tw/ebook.php

  20. Posted · Edited by kadakuda

    I would personally be very interested in Psychotria suerrensis for ornamental purposes (no idea about its chemistry). Its from Costa rica, so not sure if you would find it in panama, but its possible.

    Edit: there may be some interesting tabernaemontana species there too.

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  24. Posted

    a couple years ago i saw a photo of a burugmansia in the paper and a short story talking about how a chinese herbal doctor wsa giving this to his patients for some kind of illness, i forget which. Long story short, he was fined and their hospital visits got the word out about angel's trumpets in this country.

    For me personally, aside from all teh obvious dangers, i dont feel i have a good enough friend to be there making sure i stay alive during the experience :)

  25. Posted

    I have had these L. nepetifolia growing for about 2 years on my roof. To begin with i am aware there is a massive spider mite infestation there, but as its the roof and i dont grow anything terribly important there anymore, i couldnt really care less :) Just to get that out of the way :) This weirdness has been spotted over about 1 year, not too common but they come up now and again in the middle of normal ones, and i dont think it has anything to do with nutrition or pests, despite what my pictures below show of a lone infested plant growing in a pot in the corner without water/food etc. i will search for a healthier plant for pictures in the daytime, i have this bad habit of taking scissors to them all for composting.

    So these L. nepetifolia are from the Philippines and they have been growing and reseeding themselves for 2 years. Grow well and basically i only use them to cut and add as a mulch to the soil, they serve that purpose well.

    About 3-4 months after my Salvia divinorum flowered i got a bunch of different L. nepetifolia plants growing. Now i dont think they are a Salvia hybrid at all! But the flowering time of the salvia is a good point of memory for me, so i only mention it as a way for me to remember and also as a just in case.

    The difference in these plants with the "normal" plants that grow there are the texture, color, fuzziness and thickness of the leaves. the normal ones are soft, but these "hybrids" are fuzzy, just short of velvety. The leaves are also a darker/duller green unlike the brighter more vibrant green of the "normal ones".

    Leaf thickness, without actually measuring, seems to be about twice as thick for the "hybrids". The scent is also slightly different but cannot explain it. I can say they dont smell like any of the other mints i grow.

    Here is a list of other species in the mint family that have flowered at the same times of them within a 10m radius (many often touching as the L. nepetifolia just grows everywhere up there).

    Coleus blumei (about 5 different color varieties)

    Melissa officinalis

    Mentha x piperita

    Plectranthus amboinicus 3 varieties including one "wild type" which isnt scented.

    Salvia divinorum

    Salvia officinalis

    If it were to be a hybrid, and im not sure it is, my money would be on the unscented wild Plectranthus amboinicus or the Coleus (im not convinced they are synonymous with that massive Plectranthus lumping!). I fit helps i will get pics of the other mints around to see.

    Photos of the 2 types.

    "Normal" L. nepetifolia as has always grown from original seed.

    Leo-nep1.jpg

    Leo-nep2.jpg

    Leo-nep3.jpg

    the different one

    Leo-hyb4.jpg

    Leo-hyb1.jpg

    Leo-hyb3.jpg

    Leo-hyb2.jpg

    Anyone have any thoughts. These are for sure from the L. nepetifolia as i pinch all other flowers, only these are left to flower as i enjoy the look.

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