Hieronymous
Rising Star
Does anyone know of any analysis of juvenile roots of M. tenuiflora ?
Recently after reading a thread someone posted here I decided to transfer some Jurema seedlings into a passive hydroponic system. It is a very primitive setup in normal pots filled with expanded clay sitting in small plastic tubs for a reservoir. I've been feeding them a solution that my worm buddies brew up for me.
After about a week they started to show roots coming out of the bottom of the pots and look like they will produce a considerable amount of easily harvested biomass. Obviously the biomass will have a very high water content and won't weigh much when dried, but it can be trimmed very easily and replaces itself with new growth every few days. I have trimmed some and didn't seem to affect the plant at all.
From what I've observed Jurema grown this way is very tolerant of "wet feet" that is the roots coming out of the pots are completely submerged. The plants look very happy in this setup considering the recent drop in temperature around here. Other plants from the same batch of seed growing in soil have started dropping foliage where the hydro ones haven't.
I did a web search on alkaloids in juvenile roots and found a paper (that I can't access) that seems to indicate that alkaloids are present in high concentrations in the juvenile roots of Papaver somniferum but nothing specific to Mimosaceae.
If there's magic in the roots at that early stage then this could be adapted for a system with a perpetual harvest.
Recently after reading a thread someone posted here I decided to transfer some Jurema seedlings into a passive hydroponic system. It is a very primitive setup in normal pots filled with expanded clay sitting in small plastic tubs for a reservoir. I've been feeding them a solution that my worm buddies brew up for me.
After about a week they started to show roots coming out of the bottom of the pots and look like they will produce a considerable amount of easily harvested biomass. Obviously the biomass will have a very high water content and won't weigh much when dried, but it can be trimmed very easily and replaces itself with new growth every few days. I have trimmed some and didn't seem to affect the plant at all.
From what I've observed Jurema grown this way is very tolerant of "wet feet" that is the roots coming out of the pots are completely submerged. The plants look very happy in this setup considering the recent drop in temperature around here. Other plants from the same batch of seed growing in soil have started dropping foliage where the hydro ones haven't.
I did a web search on alkaloids in juvenile roots and found a paper (that I can't access) that seems to indicate that alkaloids are present in high concentrations in the juvenile roots of Papaver somniferum but nothing specific to Mimosaceae.
If there's magic in the roots at that early stage then this could be adapted for a system with a perpetual harvest.