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I have a row of 5-10 m. hostilis. been in ground for 2-3 years i think. i cut them down 2-3 times a year, so i will cut them down now a month before moving. but any suggestions for moving established plants? they are right in the middle of where i want miracle fruit growing, so they got to go but i want them around still.
I am planning to cut the stems right down and let them start regrowing a bit. then cut the main large woody roots to about 20-30cm long and bury again with coco (as its easy to uproot from) to let heal and have new roots grow from them. after one month then i dig them up and put into new spot in a big hole.
any thoughts? i generally have bad luck transplanting trees from this family, so hoping someone else has done this and has some suggestions
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for dragon fruit hte trick is to grow your own. they are like strawberries. commercially they are pumped up large to get more KGs adn they are picked early. home grown can be fed good nutrients adn picked when ripe. they are pretty sweet actually. purple is often sweeter than white.
myrtillocactus i like but too much work as they are small (for me as when i eat i want to do it fast and get it over with
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I lik eO. ficus indica fruits, when i go back to canada now and then i see them in boxes from mexico in the super market sometimes. Like $3 for a box of at elast 30, not bad. but the big seeds make it a treat not a food in my mind.
O. coch. and dillenii are used here for dye adn food/drink coloring. nothign much to eat, but good color. so is red/purple hylocereus.
other than that i have nto tried any others i would consider a food. but lots are tasty though,
Saguaro fruit sounds great, wishi had some to try
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setup good (prevent water loss and auto watering). nothing beats a good friend/family member. every vacatin i take (only 4 weeks, not 10!) i estimate i lose 5-20% of everything i grow due to not ahving it automated and lacking a human who can actaully handle watering for me. fidning someone who can kleep plants alive for long times is actually very hard to do sometimes.
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cool, thanks for settling that one. I get LOTS of flowers from feb-nov usually, but jsut not seeds. I am working on getting more bees in the area, but people spray even kms away adn they wipe them out.
strange. our dry season is also our cold one, but dry is a relative term...our farm dirt is no longer ever dry at any point and we do zero irrigation.
on topic, your cuts look really nice
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great plants man. I see you used some myrtillocactus
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on the squash front. loofa greens are my favourite gren vegetable hadns down. its eaten a lot in asia. the new growth is used, not old leaves which are harder/prickly. fried like any other green usually. plus the fruit is edible or dried ot be used as a aponge. one of my favourite annual vines.
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cool thanks. im not sure but i am going to go and guess they are not self fertile (hbwr). i had a plant flower for a couple years on its own and nothing at all. with 2 growing together i sometimes get something. i wonder if its water related....here in summer htey are eitehr moist-wet all the way to 1 meter high flood. so they get loads of water all year, never dry.
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i like antlers too, but they are not as good, at least unless we are talking about decoration
biggest i have found is the one above, about 30-40cm wide. that massive one on flikr is just amazing and probably beyond exensive!
Thats something the west should probably try and catch up on, the absolutely massive market for assumed good quality. people pay huge money if it meets their criteria of quality. i have yet to figure out their logic myself though.
Anyone have thoughts on G. lucidum adn G. multipileum differneces? Here both can be singular or multibranched apperantly.
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interesting, any thouhgts on polliantors there? mine rarely set seed, they do but poorly. they also have been flwoering for a few months, i think here with us its lack of bees, as in there are almost none. but zaka has them, wierd.
mutant, ho wdry are you in hbrw flowering time? sometimes i wonder if its possible that heavy watering is the cause too as they live in flood area here.
the few seeds i get take about 2 months from flowering i think. turbina also take 1-2 months, maybe your winters are jsut a touch too cold?
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good idea, but inds/rains would move it constantly. this is why i am going with logs in dirt under hoops i think. I liked how some would even grow through living plants and leaves while the plants kept living. the mushroom didnt seme to eat them either.
check out this puppy
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Been picking ganoderma a lot an dgearing up to grow it on a asmall commercial scale. the last couple years have had me reading, but it seems the last 2 and now are big turning points in Ganoderma taxonomy.
Any other people interested in the topic?
One thing i am interested in finding out is a way to ID them without a lab. Here in Taiwan a couple species are said to overlap as far as morphology goes.
I am looking mostly to culture wild types and farm them on logs at a farm. when land is signed for we will be building amushroom house for bags, may try them in bags as well, but for now the cheap and easy way of preparing fresh logs beats out expensive equipment for sterilization of bags.
Here are some pics of one of the types i find here.
Growing from Acacia root (dead) and up through a small bunch of Alpinia. Hvae found numerous reishi here growing from teh ground (burried dead roots) and making hte typical farmed style with a stem.
This tree was covered with fabric to try and improve moisture, and it did. problem is they grow through it, not around it and these are just left to spread spores as its riddled with plastic and unusable.
more from Acaia trees.
here are some Related things people may find interesting (im using this post to also keep a record of the titles as i lose thigns easily)
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Species clarification of the prize medicinal Ganoderma mushroom “Lingzhi”
by Yun Cao, Sheng-Hua Wu, Yu-Cheng Dai
Abstract
“Lingzhi” is a mushroom that has been renowned in China for more than 2,000 years because of its claimed medicinal properties plus its symbolic fortune. “Lingzhi” has high economic value mostly as a dietary supplement in the modern market especially in East Asia, and its medicinal functions have become a hot study topic. For over a century, the highly prized medicinal fungus, known as “Lingzhi” in East Asia, has been assigned to Ganoderma lucidum, a species originally described from Europe. Molecular studies in recent years have revealed that the commercially cultivated ‘G. lucidum’ (“Lingzhi”) in East Asia is a different species from the true G. lucidum. The present study aims to clarify the species identity of “Lingzhi” based on morphological studies and analysis of rDNA nuc-ITS sequences, and additional gene fragments of mt-SSU, RPB1, RPB2, and TEF1-α of “Lingzhi” were provided. All Ganoderma species that mostly resemble “Lingzhi” in phylogeny and /or morphology were included for analysis. We propose a new species G. lingzhi for “Lingzhi”, which has an East Asia distribution. The most striking characteristics which differentiate G. lingzhi from G. lucidum are the presence of melanoid bands in the context, a yellow pore surface and thick dissepiments (80–120 μm) at maturity. G. curtisii is most closely related to G. lingzhi in phylogeny and is from North America. Ganoderma flexipes, G. multipileum, G. sichuanense, G. tropicum and ‘G. tsugae’, are also closely related with G. lingzhi and are reported from China. These species are compared and discussed. ‘Ganoderma tsuage’ reported from China is determined as conspecific with G. lucidum, hence the distribution of G. lucidum extends from Europe to northeastern China.Ganoderma — Lingzhi
by Prof.em.Dr.Dr.h.c.mult. Hildebert Wagner, Prof. Dr. Rudolf Bauer, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Dieter, Melchart, Prof. Pei-Gen Xiao, Dipl.Kfm. Anton Staudinger
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Ganoderma lucidum and Ganoderma sinense can be easily identified by TLC and HPLC based on the characteristic features of triterpenoid and the presence of ergosterol which is a characteristic constituent of many mushrooms. A discrimination of G. lucidum and G. sinense is only possible by a macro- and microscopic analysis.The Species Identity of the Widely Cultivated Ganoderma, ‘G. lucidum’ (Ling-zhi), in China
by Wang, Xin-Cun
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Ling-zhi, a widely cultivated fungus in China, has a long history in traditional Chinese medicine. Although the name ‘Ganoderma lucidum’, a species originally described from England, has been applied to the fungus, their identities are not the same. This study aims to clarify the identity of this medicinally and economically important fungus. Specimens of Ling-zhi from China (field collections and cultivated basidiomata of the Chinese ‘G. lucidum’), G. lucidum from UK and other related Ganoderma species, were examined both morphologically and molecularly. High variability of basidioma morphology was found in the cultivated specimens of the Chinese ‘G. lucidum’, while some microscopic characters were more or less consistent, i.e. short clavate cutis elements, Bovista-type ligative hyphae and strongly echinulate basidiospores. These characters were also found in the holotype of G. sichuanense, a species originally described from Sichuan, China, and in recent collections made in the type locality of the species, which matched the diagnostic characters in the prologue. For comparison, specimens of closely related species, G. lucidum, G. multipileum, G. resinaceum, G. tropicum and G. weberianum, were also examined. DNA sequences were obtained from field collections, cultivated basidiomata and living strains of the Chinese ‘G. lucidum’, specimens from the type locality of G. sichuanense, and specimens of the closely related species studied. Three-gene combined analyses (ITS+IGS+rpb2) were performed and the results indicated that the Chinese ‘G. lucidum’ shared almost identical sequences with G. sichuanense. Based on both morphological and molecular data, the identity of the Chinese ‘G. lucidum’ (Ling-zhi) is considered conspecific with G. sichuanense. Detailed morphological descriptions and illustrations are provided in addition to discussion of nomenclature implications.Fingerprint analysis of Lingzhi (Ganoderma) strains by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with chemometric methods
by Xian-Min Shi,Jing-Song Zhang,Qing-Jiu Tang,Yan Yang,Rui-Xia Hao,Ying-Jie Pan
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A high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-based system has been developed for generating chemical fingerprints of Lingzhi (Ganoderma). Data were evaluated statistically using hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) and discriminant analysis (DA) in order to classify the samples and to identify key categorizing parameters. Fifteen representative Lingzhi strains (13 Ganoderma lucidum strains and one strain each of G. sinense and G. resinaceum), were separated into three groups using HCA at a rescaled distance of 10, thereby confirming divisions based on morphological characteristics. Furthermore, the 13 G. lucidum strains were separated into three groups at a rescaled distance of 5, which was consistent with previous results based on antagonism tests. Two types of discriminant functions were generated using six selected predictor variables. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of the feasibility and advantages of employing chromatographic fingerprinting, combined with HCA and DA, for the accurate identification and validation of feedstock strains used in the production of Lingzhi-based health foods and supplements.Applied modern biotechnology for cultivation of Ganoderma and development of their products
by Xuan-Wei Zhou,Kai-Qi Su,Yong-Ming Zhang
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A white-rot basidiomycete Ganoderma spp. has long been used as a medicinal mushroom in Asia, and it has an array of pharmacological properties for immunomodulatory activity. There have been many reports about the bioactive components and their pharmacological properties. In order to analyze the current status of Ganoderma products, the detailed process of cultivation of Ganoderma spp. and development of their products are restated in this review article. These include the breeding, cultivating, extracting bioactive component, and processing Ganoderma products, etc. This article will expand people’s common knowledge on Ganoderma, and provide a beneficial reference for research and industrial production.Enhancement of mycelial growth and polysaccharide production in Ganoderma lucidum (the Chinese medicinal fungus, `Lingzhi') by the addition of ethanol
byHai-long Yang, Tian-xiang Wu, Ke-chang Zhang
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Methanol, ethanol, 1-propanol and 2-propanol, at 1.5% (v/v), enhanced the growth and polysaccharide production of Ganoderma lucidum. Ethanol was the most effective at 1.5% (v/v) for increasing the biomass production, however, the maximal polysaccharide concentration was produced with 2% (v/v) ethanol in the medium. There was no new polysaccharide component produced by the addition of ethanol.Some others:
Bazzalo ME, Wright JE (1982) Survey of the Argentine species of the Ganoderma lucidum complex. Mycotaxon 16:295–325
Hibbett DS, Donoghue MJ (1995) Progress toward a phylogenetic classification of the Polyporaceae through parsimony analysis of mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences. Can J Bot 73:S853–S861
Hseu RS, Wang HH, Wang HF (1996) Differentiation and grouping of the Ganoderma lucidum complex by random amplified polymorphic DNA-PCR compared with grouping on the basis of internal transcribed spacer sequences. Appl Environ Microbiol 62:1354–1363
Qi JJ, Ma RC, Chen XD (2003) Analysis of genetic variation in Ganoderma lucidum after space flight. Adv Space Res 31:1617–1622
Cultivation
Tang YJ, Zhong JJ (2002a) Exopolysaccharide biosynthesis and related enzyme activities of the medicinal fungus, Ganoderma lucidum, grown on lactose in a bioreactor. Biotechnol. Lett. 24: 1023–1026.
Yang FC, Liau CB (1998) The influence of environmental conditions on polysaccharide formation by Ganoderma lucidum in submerged cultures. Proc. Biochem. 33: 547–553.
Medicinal
Chen RY, Yu DQ (2001) Chemical components of Lingzhi species. In: Lin ZB (ed) Modern research of Lingzhi. Beijing Medical University Press, pp 158–172
Ding P, Zhang DY, Xu HH (2001) Determination of ganoderic acid B in different parts of Ganoderma lucidum. J Chin Tradit Herbal Drugs 32:310–312
Kohda H, Tokumoto W, Sakamoto K, Fuji M, Hirai Y, Yamasaki K, Komoda Y, Nakamura H, Ishihara S, Uchida M, The biologically active constituents of Ganoderma lucidum (Fr.) Karst. Histamine release-inhibitory triterpenes, Chem. Pharm. Bull. 33, 1367–1374 (1985)
Koyama K, Imaizumi T, Akiba M, Kinoshita K, Takahashi K, Suzuki A, Yano S, Horie S, Watanabe K, Naoi Y, Antinociciptive Components of Ganoderma lucidum, Planta Medica 63, 224–227 (1997)
Min BS, Nakamura N, Miyashiro H, Bae KW, Hattori M, Triterpenes from the spores of Ganoderma lucidum and their inhibitory activity against HIV-1 protease, Chem. Pharm. Bull. 46, 1607–1612 (1998)
Min BS, Gao JJ, Nakamura N, Hattori M (2000) Triterpenes from the spores of Ganoderma lucidum and their cytotoxicity against meth-A and LLC tumor cells. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 481026-1033
Mizuno T, Wang G, Zhang J, Kawagishi H, Nishitoba T, Li J (1995) Reishi, Ganoderma lucidum and Ganoderma tsugae: bioactive substances and medicinal effects. Food Rev. Intl. 11: 151–166.
Huang SM, Yang XL, Wang BW, Zhu HS, Xu J, Antitumor activity of ethanol-soluble and acidic components from Ganoderma lucidum, Nat. Prod. Res. Dev. 16, 146–148 (2004)
Wang XM, Yang M, Guan SH, Liu RX, Xia JM, Bi KS, Guo DA, Quantitative determination of six major triterpenoids in Ganoderma lucidum and related species by high performance liquid chromatography, J. of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis 41, 838–844 (2006)
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coco works great for coffee and hydro.
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I was in malaysian borneo, including near eth border. Not sure if they would be different but i had my fair share while there.
They are decent, but the cure on the tobacco is odd. they also have cool rolling methods.
one thing that will always stick out is live band, outside bar, $2 per platter of scallops, hookas and cigars = entire shower stall filled/plugged with puke.
When you inhale those fuckers, you get spinned right the F out. but im not a smoker, so maybe if you smoke its normal?
my all time favorite tobacco: Burmese cigarettes. really nice taste. dirt cheap.
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i use thick, black plastic pots and never anything else anymore. need things that dry fast, withstand UV well, dont break when dropped, good amount of drainage holes and are cheap.
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i grow grafted plants too. I find them harder to graft though. i water once weekly without problems. water dried in 2-3 days. not had a split that i remember. i use M. geometrizans, have sen lots fo split plants for sale on hylocereus.
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very cool thanks poison. Also interested to hear if yuou have success.
-e- messaged. this trip i have been planning since i was 6 years old. It has been a dream of mine, the only other palce i must see liek here is madagascar. So we will be replanning ASAP. no drama just very very sick, mostly better now though. So i am going to be redoing it probably in Feb next year, if not then...summer 2013. I may make smaller more numerous trips to specific spots in the area as well.
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my mimosa hostilis stand in meter deep water for days sometimes. they should be fine, but they dont like transplanting if your cutting roots bonsai style (i find).
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In Australia, if a governemnt funded/written document is blatently wrong (ie. those weed status of various plants like Lophohpora), can the general public do anything to hold them accountable? inlcuding reimbursement for any possible losses (say you had a farm of plants that they deemed weedy adn had destroyed onyl to find out they arent weeds).
I love OZ, but you guys get some pretty funky legal BS!
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only give up if you are out of space and its needed for new things. some seeds take years to germinate. have had tabernaemontana and pandaus happen over 3 years after planting )i had given up and the soil was being used for other plants but they came up in it). many species can lay dormant for longer.
if there is a known and somewhat reliable way of treating seeds for better luck, i would do it.
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without shade for palnts that can hack it, you REALLY need to remember to water. here after 3 weeks of no water, disaster strikes, but i dont use shade cloth anywhere in there except one corner for new plants/seedlings/fresh grafts.
one other thing to keep in mind if where you live has extended heavy cloud, when those clouds disperse and the sun unleashes its hatred for all living things on your greenhouse, burn is everywhere. shade cloth is a fricken miracle for preventing that.
if i were to do things properly and get aroudn to it, i woul dalso be putting 50% shade cloth inside my greenhouse and making a false ceiling type thing over the benches. always put it on wire or something, its really nice to be able to spread it out or take it way in less than 5 mins.
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i make boric acid traps, never looked further.
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i am just going to assume those iwll be pretty much anywhere. But, so are jails.
just looking for legal fun and collecting of seed.
EDIT: had to cancel trip, so no luck this time.
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does kava grow there? or have seeds?
kava is always on my list, but i didnt think it grew where we were going, now im intrigued.
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OK guys, getting serious now. i have worked out the palces we want to go based on lovely topo maps form us miltary via a texas university. they have all kidns of old maps if peopel are interested in that sort of thing. i cant find anything newer except a few colorful new renditions adn google earth type photos.
Anyone here know of interesting plants? I really hope we get into some smaller villages and get talking to some local plant folk.
some of the plants on our list include:
Durio species, wild ones.
MItragyna species, any.
Psychotria species, any. Still looking these up but an article stated that P. malayana tested postiive for alks. so we will swing bya known location for that and hoepfully score some seed.
Piper species, almost any.
Voacanga foetida has anyone read about this one?
some snippets and links etc for others interested in the region.
From: Initial Studies on Alkaloids from Lombok Medicinal Plants
Psychotria malayana Jack. This small tree, locally known as ‘lolon jarum’, and which grows to aheight of 1-4 m, is largely distributed in the west Indonesia archipelago. In Java, there have been no
reports indicating local uses [14], however, people in Lombok have utilised this plant (aqueous extracts
of either leaves or bark) for protecting skin from infection from open wounds and for other skin
diseases. The alkaloids are concentrated in the leaves and bark. Further separation of the crude alkaloid
extract from the leaves (0.9% based on air dried material, 100 g) by the use of preparative TLC (silica
gel; solvent system CH2Cl2: CH3OH: NH4OH/ 90 : 15 : 1) showed at least four alkaloids to be present;
hodgkinsine 1 (Rf 0.56), a trimeric Nb-methyltryptamine alkaloid, was the major constituent. It was
readily identified by electron impact mass spectrometry (EIMS) with three principal peaks at m/z 172,
344, and 518 for the trimeric structure (Chemical Ionisation HRMS m/z 519.3200, calc 519.3236 for
C33H38N6+H). The other minor alkaloid found was chimonanthine 2 (Rf 0.63), a dimeric Nbmethyltryptamine,
having two main fragments at m/z 172 and 130 (Chemical Ionisation HRMS m/z
347.2224, calc 347.2235 for C22H26N4+H) in the EI mass spectrum. Polymeric tryptamines are
commonly found in Psychotria species [15-18]. Two other constituents with molecular weights of 186
(Chemical Ionisation HRMS m/z 187.1230, calc 187.1235 for C12H14N2+H) and 574 are currently
under investigation and will be reported separately. Alkaloids with these molecular weights have not
been reported from Psychotria previously.
Some books tha tcan be foudn free archived as pdfs here: archive.org/
A Flora of Manilla, E. Merrill
An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants, E. Merrill
BibliographicEnumeration od Bornean Plants, E. Merrill
David Fairchild books are also packed with great stories and you actually get some decent info that would otherwise be passed by in more scientific texts.
Iff anyone knows of other good FLora texts, i would really apprecaite getting them. I have downladed a lot, but not looked at any others, so will come back to this and update as thigns progress.
Also interested in tree cutting technique in teh field, all my methods have proven poor the last 2 weeks i have been trying here at home to prepare. i have setup 3 addresses to ship seeds back this time, so i dont need to chance customs at teh airport. so all seed will be sent clean to either a friend or a family member who will keep/care for them until we get back. cuttings will be trickier as we will be carrying htem for 1-2 weeks once we get out of the mad rush.
Best way to relocated large in ground Mimosa hostiilis plants?
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cheers, thanks. any reason coco coir couldnt be used instead of sand? sand is ehavy and expensive here so i like to avoid its use when possible. coco is light and fluffy and dirt cheap (har har).
Few months, roger on that. Better safe than sorry. one its dug up it will be replanted ina predug hole with water waiting, shouldnt be more than 20 mins between being pulled out and having dirt back on it with a soak.