Happy Cadaver

lol, too many scars and wrinkles on my hands planthelper but if you've got a plant you want me to model for you then just do it yourself smartarse.... bodo mind control action once again.

Welcome! my chillis ^_^

lol, rub it on the starfish, that's the female part, the stigma. the fruit took about 6 weeks to mature, it really starts to swell in the last few days. Came out one morning and it had split and dropped off. Be carfeul though cause things will eat it at this stage, there were ants on mine. I had a cage around the whole plant, just cause it's so small. check out the 'scop pollen wanted' topic in the seed exchange, some good tips in there. good luck!

One little seedling has 3 cotelydons, hope he's a freak ^_^

wau, wot a scoop . nearly lost my lunch to the bodo monkey.

if you've had them in there for over 6 days it will be ready, it really gets to a stage where you won't notice that it goes any further, it just sits at it's stinky, brown, sloppy mess stage Keeping it in there for over 8-10 days and I imagine nasties may start to breed (esp. if you open it a lot to check it and fungi/bacteria slip in), but i'm not sure. Open it and get a sense of the smell, it will help with later fermentations you make as you can recognise the 'ready smell'. The darker/cooler days slow things down, just like with home brew.

Reserpine is in the roots not stem bark.

I just received Ed Dunkel's alkaloid bearing plants book (thanks ed ) and it list Alstonia constricta as containing both reserpine and alpha-yohimbine. I knew about the reserpine but not the alpha-yohimbine, although it does not state in which plant part they isolated it from. Searching for this compound i came up with the following: 5) Yohimbe alkaloid is a MAOI An alkaloid found in both yohimbe and East Indian Snakeroot (Rauwolfia serpentina) named rauwolscine or alpha-yohimbine (an isomer of yohimbine) was found to inhibit the enzyme monoamine oxidase. The mild MAOI type effects of yohimbe bark have been anecdotally reported for years but now a specific alkaloid has shown measurable activity in the rat liver. It was found that the MAOI activity of alpha-yohimbine works by its association with a specific type of receptor called an imidazoline I-2 site. This appears to be distinct from the more typically recognized type of MAO inhibition such as that caused by harmaline or pargyline. Just made me think of Folias talking about unknown native MAOIs...

mine are from Richters, they claim that they are viable but who knows. they sell 100g batches too.

lol mine don't smell like that, only a very faint musty/tryptamine type smell. where did you get yours from Mr. Corymbosa?

Good viability after 1 week.

it was a cutting planted about 5 months before that picture, nearly next to the monky bodo shed of hate.

i'll try some peres grafts when the seedlings look ready. i tried my first graft with one of your icarosDNA seedlings about 2 weeks ago, but it failed. I should have put it in a bag. anyone have good hints for successful pereskiopsis grafting? i started a separate topic in cacti forum to keep updates coming.

one i soaked from the start was green in colour, all the rest were brownish/black, not very funky at all, only that slight smell, not as funky as what tomer's sound like.

I haven't seen it mentioned as being produced before. I don't want to go down the PBR path at this stage for any plant, it'd have to be a pretty special beast. LEt's say i pick a scopXbridge monstrose out of the batch, that may be worth it just to get a name on it. But apart from that and any unusual beasts, it's really only for the benefit of ethno peoples that i've crossed the two.

it sort of smells like Anadenanthera seeds , must be the 5HTP. As a coincidence, i've got some soaking in warm water right now as well ^_^ Keep them hot i hear...

ps. i hope Dodie's cactus wasn't a peruvianus ^_^ , sounds painful.

That section can be a bitch if you haven't driven it loads of times, plus when wet its a shocker, hope everyone's ok.

they'll love it in a nice big pot with plenty of root space, part shade and a heap of fertiliser over the warmer months, to keep those flowers coming.

MG Yohimbe I don't know whether they actually have them but it could be quite a risk...

About all i have is plants of the Artemisia and the Tabernaemontana. You'd be wanting a standardised extract of either to make sure you get the proper cover, no use f'ing around with malaria.

:saufen2: btw we've got heaps of A. constricta growing on our property and the local area if there is some interest in the bark. I tried it recently and it is unbelievably bitter, leaves a lingering bitterness. Was good for fevers and influenza evidently.

almost there. with that book Ed, how accurate do you think it still is? It seems to be pretty good, a lot of good work was done from the 50's - 70's in reagrds to alkaloids

I think i'll just go for my 1000 post now....

I love to sit down and read a good reference book ^_^.