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  2. Posted

    Vanuatu, kava has got a very good reputation as well, but even more important than locality, is from which parts of the plant the kava comes from.

    it's simple, the young (thin roots) are the best, followed by thicker roots, and the thickest, fattest roots (in diameter) are the weakest.

    from than onwards it's, the very bottom of the plant which get's used, but this type of kava get's refused already by serious drinkers.

    unfortunately, this above ground kava, is very often the only kava, which we can get our hands on.

    this happens as well because of the price difference, many traders are not willing to pay a premium for the good stuff.

    once the kava got pounded, it's close to impossible to say, from which part of the plant, the kava came from, but mostly the good root kava get's sold, as dry roots, and not in powder form, so one can see it's the good stuff.

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  3. Posted

    katus idea with the, Californian poppy is a good one, and on top of a tea, you could smoke a bit of it, on top.

    wild dagga, or leonotis, is another good, and very mildly sedating herb one can smoke, but as always, the smoking experience will suffer if the herb is not well cured.

    giving pot a break, at least for me, is a really nice experience, sure there might be some withdrawl sensations, and it's almost impossible to sleep, but don't focus on that, focus on the fact that suddenly, you will have far more energy.

    if you change your routine as well, a bit, than you will hardly miss the herb.

    this forum has got some excellent, threads regarding quitting weed, maybe you search and find them.

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  5. Posted

    photo of the acer computer design fault.

    this vertical cd drive, swallows small cd's, whilst the computer tries to eject the very same! :BANGHEAD2:

    I am sure this designer got the sack, from acer, but how can a flaw like this make it all the way to mass production?

    it happens without any human interference, but they said it's my fault, and want to charge me 160aud to get the cd out of the casing!

    I said, but it will happen again, because it's a design flaw, but acer said, "we don't see it this way".

    ACER = NO GOOD!!! :devil:

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  6. Posted

    just finished talking to acer tech support, and they want to charge me 160aud for, removing a small cd, out of the casing of the acer tower X3990!! :ana:

    who ever designed this acer product, must be a total idiot, because the cd drive on this acer pc, is installed VERTICALY, and small cd/dvd's just simply follow newtons law, and will just fall down into the computer. :BANGHEAD2:

    the tech support person from acer, tried to to, say that I just lack the skill to load and unload those discs, but the truth is, THE CD FELL INTO THE COMPUTER, WHEN THE ACER COMPUTER, TRIED TO EJECT THE VERY SAME!!

    whats the world coming to?
    people design something totally wrong, and instead of admitting there fault, THEY EVEN TRY TO ENRICH THEMSELVES.

    if you people know websites, which discuss exactly those type of issues, please post me a link, as I want lot's of people to know, how poorly ACER treats it's clients. :devil:

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  7. Posted

    I can only talk about lactuca virosa, and it certainly shows some marked effects, if one smokes the resin. I also seem to remember reports here of people falling asleep after prolonged sessions, but this report, could as well have been regarding the prickly (Mexican) poppy.

    the results might vary for people with a tolerance to opiates, for obvious reasons.

    prickly lettuce and prickly poppy, definitely are very active, but how shall I say, not as nice a somniferum. let's compare those two effects to the clouds in the sky, somniferum, is all a sunny cosy day, with a few fluffy white clouds, and wild lettuce and more so Mexican poppy, is a bit like, being held down, and watching dark clouds all around you.

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  9. Posted

    but, there is as well a chance that, your plants are not hostillis, but something else.

    hostillis, does not fold down the leaves much when they go to sleep...

    are the leaves as well sensitive to the touch?

  12. Posted · Edited by planthelper

    EILEEN, ~8cm diameter, cut's made to order, 60cent per cm.

    PC, ~10cm diameter, cut's to order, 50cent per cm.

    ROSEII, ~ 13cm diameter (very phat!!), cut's to order, 1.50 aud per cm.

    BUTTONS, various sizes available from seedlings to grandfather.

    ARIOCARPUS, only a few young grafts available.

    VIRIDIS, healthy plants, size ranges from 30 to 70cm.

  13. Posted · Edited by planthelper

    IBOGA:

    I got 7 ripe iboga pods for sale (prefer to sell in one lot), which are still on the bush right now.

    I don't know there exact value, so make me offers, by pm'ing me. :)

    on average one pod will contain 11 seeds.

    PSYCHOTRIA VIRIDIS SHIPIBO:

    got heaps of seeds, try to sell bulk, was self pollinated.

    also, I want to reduce my entire collection of plants and cacti.

    there are two way's, how we can work out the details,

    either just pm me asking if I have what you are looking for, or you pick from a list, which hopefully, i will post tomorrow.

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  14. Posted

    maybe your elder's energy giving leaf was, either Catha edulis or erythroxylum coca, both have been in cultivation in oz since, I guess 100 years ago.

    the british, tried to cultivate coca plants in Australia, in hope of making a big buck, but the plantations failed. Catha or beter said, qat or mira, have probably been introduced by Arabian people, into oz, the biggest trees are said to originate from the perth area...

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  15. Posted

    I googled ephedra viridis and wiki, say's viridis is nevadensis, but I think it's wrong.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephedra_viridis

    important to know is, that one chooses the right ephedra plant, for the right location, for example:

    Ephedra distachya, is the most frost hardy and can survive even -25 deg C.

    ephedra major, can withstand high temps, but gerardiana for example hates high temps and did die at my place, but I am sure it would as well survive even a place much colder than Canberra...

    sinica unfortunately suffers a bit as well from too much heat.

    on a site note, diego maradona suffered a while from ephedra addiction, so did probably john smith who founded the Mormon faith.

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  16. Posted

    ok, let's try to make sense of all of this...

    aboriginals, never used kava (piper methysticum) in the distant past, but have and still use it now, since we Australians have good contact with the people of the Polynesian triangle.

    kava did never grow in oz!

    but, maori of nz, have used another piper (piper auritrum?) for medicinal properties...

    the leaves you mention, which give aboriginal hunters energy, is pituri (dubiosia hopwoodii), a plant native to oz.

    if aboriginals in the distant past, have used sida, I don't know, neither do I know if any of the sidas are native to oz.

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  17. Posted

    add, brunfelsia pauciflora, solandra maxima, petunia, physalis, cestrum, solanum dulcamara, or change the family to, malvaceae (so you can collect sidas if they are around) or poaceae (were there is a serious chance to find 7 different ones, within a small walk!).

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  25. Posted

    yep, still plant vertical, if using the accordion method.

    do you say in the opening post, that the "more successful" cuttings, originated as well, from larger leaves?

    anyway, like with pretty much all forms of cuttings, the rule is, "larger cuttings will produce, larger plants more rapidly.

    in other words, a whole viridis leaf, just trimmed at the bottom, will produce bigger plantlets, in the same given time, than the same size leaf cut in halve...

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