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catha edulis "planthelper strain"


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though i might get your mouth watery, haha.

took me a few years to achive this, but i am happy as larry about it!! <___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_uzi.gif

plants will be available in one or two years. <___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_newimprovedwinkonclear.gif

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planthelper, now that is just absolutely awesome! Hats off to you man.

I still remember chewing wads of Catha (just one of the many shaman plants in my system at the time) in my visit there and a couple wacky buds try NLP on me trying to convince me that somehow my flight back to the US would cause some kind of shift in the time space continuum.

Wish one could make it here (State-side) alive, and through customs. While I'm at it, could someone offer a few tips on rooting clippings for propagation for those who might have Catha?

You folks in Australia are so much more botanically minded than most I'm used to talking with here in the US.

~Michael~

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they are self fertile, x breeding means to avoid that from happening.

it's hard to say anything about the taste, as the taste depends aswell very much on the growing conditions.

i mean a well cared, pounding away plant will have sweet tasting leaves, while a unhappy slow growing one will mostly produce bitter tasting leaves.

anyway the leaves tasted very sweet and produced the typical qat sensation (like a sour tasting fruit pulls your gums...) aswell as some numbing. there was definately some rocket boosting sensation felt....

the plant hasn't been clipped, all the branches (note the parallel, pinnate, leave formation!) are naturaly occuring. in contrast the main upright stems display alternate leave formation...

i had some frosts a while ago, but all the catha's showed no signs of damage at all!

michael broad leaved catha edulis is a very easy cutting, take one 30cm long stem and cut it into 3 node cuttings and leave one (ore two) halve size leave per cutting. the tip cutting naturaly will have more than one leave left but is pruned back a lot aswell.

semihardwood is a good source, it might not strike as fast as tip material, but it never damps off either.

just put the cuttings into humidety dome for a while and wait...

for just a few cuttings the pet bottle glasshouse works very well.

good luck!

anyway one time i will try a red and narrowleaved cross, unfortunately my reds have never flowered yet, so maybe somebody will beat me to this task. it's easy but a bit of mucking around and one has to be patient.

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ROTFLAMO

what id give to hear planthelper talk abou t thsi isn person!

especially when he says 'emasculation'

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good to see p/helper

now u know how PLEASE X the red leaf and the narrow leaf

thatd make a plant worthy of widepread distribution as an ornamental and even the somalis wouldnt recognise it!

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Has it ever considerd using a hydraulic press for fresh on the spot quat juice? Suich it around in the mouth a couple of times before swallowing! ;-)

Fun to see new cultivars coming into existance! nice job PH!

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Superb Planthelper! they look soooo healthy and happy!

i look forward to a nibble in a few years time :D

ms smith re cuttings, ive found that as long as the feet of the cuttings dont get too wet (ie moist rockwool cubes that are not sitting in water), and you are very patient, you will (eventually!) get cuttings of both broad and narrow to root with a fairly good strike rate. they just take ages to root.. IME

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