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  2. Posted

    Fuck trying to recover > 100 ug of acid from a litre of smelly piss. And you could only guess what it was that was ingested in the first place. Also, it wouldn't remove the body chemistry factor from the equation and would therefore defeat the purpose.

  4. Posted

    TLC could settle this debate fairly quickly. Trouble is... who would be willing to donate their top-notch crystal clear acid to chemical analysis??

    [ 15. June 2004, 23:24: Message edited by: Fractalhead ]

  7. Posted

    I don't have the guts to pack a live scorpion in a conepiece and smoke it. A dead scorpion... hmmm... Risk/benefit ratio does not look good. TLC would be interesting. In any case, the redback finished him right off leaving me nothing to work with

  10. Posted

    Ok it took a bit of mucking around but you should be able to see the photos now The temperature around here now is about 15-20 degrees C during the day and drops to around 2-7 degrees C at night. It rains a fair bit every few days.

  11. Posted

    Some time ago i posted an urgent request for some fresh trich pollen because my pedro cutting was producing a flower bud while laying around waiting to be potted up. The cutting was about a metre long and a solid diameter. I got it from a 8ft tall well established parent plant around the corner sometime in late summer. I lay it down horizontally on some bricks in the backyard until i had a pot to put it in. After several months, the growing tip started to do a 90degree turn and start growing upwards. what looked like root shoots started growing out the side of the cutting near the growing tip and a hairy lumpy thing appeared near the growing tip (the flower bud). That's when i asked around for some pollen. Ed sent me a generous selection of pollen [THANKS ED!] but the bud stopped growing. I started to suspect the flower wouldn't develop properly until i put the cutting in the ground and it started to get some water. I mean the roots shooting out everywhere suggested it wanted some water. I stuck it in the veggie patch and watered it in well. plenty of rain came after that and within a couple weeks of planting, the flower had developed and opened up. Bloody beautiful! My partner took these photos of the flower the night it opened up. In one of the photos you can see me pollinating with some of eds unknown trich pollen.

    BTW... I collected plenty of pollen on the first night so if anyone wants some fresh T. pachanoi pollen, let me know. Ed, i need your details

    Cheers

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    [ 13. June 2004, 13:26: Message edited by: Fractalhead ]

  13. Posted

    Ahh yes. We should get to the bottom of the victorian obtusifolia story very soon. Unfortunately, things were a bit rushed while i was there so no real in depth training went down. It simply takes practise. Ferret won the kit and has a chem background so he might be able to pass on the skills

  14. Posted

    I'm not sure whether there is a difference between the germicidal UV and the 254nm lamps designed for viewing plates but i suspect the germicidal ones are much more intense. I'm going to buy a handheld 254nm light and some UV protective glasses. beyond that, keep exposure time minimal and never look directly at the lamp. Personally I wouldn't use the germicidal lamp until i checked with a UV lamp expert

  15. Posted

    Just grab any 250um thick silica gel G60 F254 plates. Get the F254 if you have or might gain access to 254nm UV to detect spots by quenching of the plates fluorescence uner 254nm. You can choose from different backing materials such as glass, plastic and aluminium. Aluminium is good if you want to char. Plastic is better if you want to use corrosive detection reagents and milder temperatures. Glass is a pain in the arse unless you've got a glass scoring apparatus or want to do big plates and scrape bands off.

    Run the b-carbs using DCM:methanol (3:1) or even just ethanol or acetone. It pays to try a few solvent systems and do a small 2D plate to get an idea of exactly how many compounds you're dealing with before trusting a 1D separation. You'll probably find one solvent system won't separate ALL the spots well. Visualise under blacklight. Will email reference to u to help ID spots by relative Rf.

  16. Posted

    Cool. I'm glad you have some chem knowledge. I was a bit worried someone who has no clue or interest would win it. Concise... hehe.. Unfortunately I had to keep it concise this time and leave out the nitty gritty. I spoke for over two hours at EB3 last year Give me an email whenever you want to chat about TLC or anything else.

  18. Posted

    Well I just made it back to Perth and am still buzzing with Entheogenesis Australis spirit! I had a fantastic time and am proud to have been involved in the event. The melbourne crew is strong and full of passion. I would like to say a massive thanks to the following people:

    Ronny - You should give yourself a big long pat on the back. Your efforts towards making the conference happen were incredible. Between fending off a million mobile calls, SMSs and emails per minute, making me feel welcome in your home, driving back and forth over the state of victoria a few thousand times, drinking beers and showing me some mindblowingly beautiful parts of vicco, i'm surprised you managed to get any sleep. Oh yeah that's right... you didn't.

    Karen - you did a great job on the Earthpod Sux T-shirts. It was obvious that you were projecting your deepest feelings onto the fabric.

    Adrian - thanks for taking me to the enchanted garden and giving me the chance to meet its sneaky little inhabitants Your generous contribution to the raffle prizes were no doubt a major force driving people to spend big on ticket purchases thus making the whole thing economically viable. After all, who wouldn't proudly wear an Earthpod Sux T-shirt

    Morph-Man - thanks for your 'liquid refreshments', donating your top-notch wine to the raffle, technological support, great presentation and taking us to your secret cave for chill space after the show.

    The Bock Family - thanks for bringing me into your home. that saturday morning soup was absolutely delicious! Michael, you officially take the cake for not only being the person to get me started on this whole ethnobot obsession some 9 yrs ago but also for introducing me to the highest number of never-seen-before-in-the-wild entheogen specimens in a three hour period ever. Also, thanks for donating a piece of your ridiculously comprehensive entheogenic library to the raffle!

    Excellent Edges - thanks for the donation of the ultra high precision choppers to the raffle. May they chop in style for hundreds of generations.

    Oscar - Thanks for allowing the conference to go down at Ruby's. You've supported a great cause.

    Also, a huge a thanks to all the other speakers and people who supported the event by coming along, buying raffle tickets, making donations, asking questions and creating a warm buzz in the conference room! Your support will make the next event even better!

    This event is growing rapidly and will hopefully inspire other states to coordinate their own entheogenic mycelium into their own unique and potent fruiting bodies!

    [ 07. June 2004, 10:27: Message edited by: Fractalhead ]

  19. Posted

    Just observed another leaf sample from another source and at a different time of year under UV and total green glow action going on. tetrahydro b-carb glows blue under UV and has an Rf of 0.05 in chloroform:methanol (9:1) on silica gel G TLC plates according to Mc Isaac et al. (1967) Journal of Chromatography, 31, 446-451

  20. Posted

    Hi everyone,

    I would like to say thanks to the Entheogenesis Australis crew for having me over to be part of the action on saturday!

    I'll be presenting material along similar lines to my seminar at EB3. The talk will be focussing on Thin Layer Chromatography as an accessible technique for the chemical analysis of ethnobiological samples. I'll be demonstrating the technique and there will be opportunities for interested people to have a go. People are welcome to bring any mysterious Unidentified Psychoactive Material (UPM) for TLC analysis, time permitting.

    For the raffle, I've put together a beginners TLC Kit which includes everything you need to get started including TLC plates, glassware, a UV lamp, instructions and lots of other bits and pieces to get you exploring the phytochemical world on a whole new level But you've got to be in it to win it so grab a ticket or three... It's money well spent!

    Can't wait to see you in Melbourne!

    Fractal

  21. Posted

    Nice work Tiapan. You must have been stoked to find E. ellipticum and E. ecarinatum! I've been wanting to make the trip to Laura for ages. I wonder how well distantly related Erythroxylum spp. cross pollinate? What do you mean when you say:

    "Other related active alkaloids that are not yet entheogenically discovered are Methyl-Ecgonine 3,4,5-Trimethoxycinnamate (Australian Cocaine), Methyl-Ecgonine Tiglate."

    Do you mean that these compounds haven't been discovered in any Australian species, or at all, or do you mean they haven't been bioassayed in humans? Am I correct in my understanding that no methyl-ecgonine moieties have been identified in Australian species?

    [ 31. May 2004, 22:56: Message edited by: Fractalhead ]

  22. Posted

    Back in the legal days, I found that creating a mini hothouse over the plant out of clear plastic sheeting stapled into a rectangular sleeve, supported by four bamboo sticks around the edge of the pot and tied around the sides of the pot with rope to create a fairly tight seal eliminated the malformation and browning of the leaf tips and edges. Also, watch out for worms in your potting mix. Sally demands efficient drainage and worms can turn nice well drained potting mix into heavy mud in no time. I once lost a plant to this and the symptoms were browning from the tip back down to the bottom. The stem basically rotted down to the bottom and when the roots were examined they were completely rotten.

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