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I noticed that it was one of the holdings at the Kew Seedbank at the Royal Botanic Gardens, in W Sussex GB. They said the germplasm are avilable freely for "specified research, breeding & trialling." I don't know what would qualify as such, (My grad degree is in creative writing, not botany). I'm in the US, though, and if I can figure out the right presentation to aquire the germplasm, I'd be happy to disseminate it.

I've heard about damping off, but I never thought it would happen to me! Yeah, I had them in the same environment as South American tropicals to germinate. Didn't pull them out in time I guess. Torsten, I'm guessing from your exclamation mark that you have some evidence/experience as to the activity of Lago?

BTW Stoney, I pulled one of my seedlings out of the humidity dome and put it in a window (below a heat vent actually) and it is doing well. Now that I think about it, the ones that keeled over did so at a point on the stem where either before or after they bent, the stem went from white to brown. Maybe it was a humidity issue inside the dome.

Square stem with a circle in the middle? Anyway, I'm interested that an extracion of Lago would be so profound an experience. I really didn't get that reaction, but my experience came from a water based extraction. It would be good to figure out where the "active" strains of Lago are coming from. Mine was mildly anxiolitic (sp?), but not overwhelming. Maybe there is some synergy with other plants...

I have never been super observant about when to harvest Datura pods, but that species grows wild all over the place where I live. The pods seem to mature pretty fast. I have grabbed spikey pods off of plants that still had robust flowers going. The trick seems to be a definite line present between the three segments on the pod. If you can see deep divisions on the pod, pop it off, let it dry and open, and scrape the seeds for future planting. PM me in late summer (northern hemisphere) if you want a bunch of seeds.

yeah, we're weird. All hail celcius.

Hi Stoney, unfortunately it's too cold where I am to put my Lagos outside. Another month and I should be able to move them out during the day.

I'm not sure I would buy seeds separately. They are usually kind of expensive. I bought 28g dried plant material for 15 USD from Bouncing Bear. I got bored with pulling seeds after twenty pods/calyxes and there were probably a hundred more of them with 2 to 3 seeds per pod. The seeds were still tinted green. Do it this way and you get to try the bitter stuff and see whether it is worth planting the 150 or so viable seeds in the bag.

Hi Stonehenge, I'm talking about Lago. How weird that rhodiolas would branch the same way. Curious coincidence. As far as getting the seeds to sprout, the only stratification that happened was when I accidentally left the bag of dried plant material in my car overnight when the temperature dropped below freezing. I separated them from the base of the pods (not really a pod, is it a calyx?) and sprinkled them over a soil with 30% coarse sand. I popped them in a humidity dome and kept them misted until they sprouted. I'm tired of screwing around with them, though. If one survives I'll hang onto it as a curiousity, otherwise I'm going to focus on trying to get my Mytragina cuttings to root...

That sucks. Will SAB be in a position to provide proper documentation (even at extra cost) should I, say, want to order a T bridgesii "Dick plant" unrooted segment?

All but four (out of 20!) of my seedlings have fallen over and died, but the ones that are left are short stemmed and holding up pretty well. One thing that I wasn't expecting from this species' seedling was that the stem branched before the cotyledon. I haven't studied botany extensively, but that seems kind of peculiar. Kind of like two little antennae, each with a cotyledon on top.

Hi there. I've recently sprouted some seeds that I removed from the pod of some dry material advertised as L. inebrians on a US based ethnobotanical site. It turned out to be more worthwhile than ordering the seeds separately. I was hoping to get viable seed since the material was advertised as freshly harvested (04) and it is usually harvested after it has flowered. Turned out to be right, but the viability of the seedlings seems to be poor. I probably have them under too little light (10cm from a 30 watt flouro)because they are pretty leggy, but then again the mature plant seems leggy in the wild from pictures I've seen. As far as activity goes, not very impressive. 28 grams boiled down in H2O & Lemon to a concentrate produced mild "calming." Felt sort of like high blood pressure meds, which makes sense since it seems to be advertised to work that way by some ayurvedic guy on the web.