G'DAY EVERYONE! 😁🇭🇲

[Ozzy_Chronik]

Hello all

Big Red here

Qualified horticulturalist
Aspiring botanist

Well well well I fallen into a rabbit hole here haven't I.

Ok so bit of a short back story,
34 male from south east Qld, I grew up in the UK until 18 then moved to Australia.

Occasionally had a dabble with chemicals/compounds while growing up. Nothing serious just a bit of recreational fun. I'm an open guy who is open to most things for an experience.

I was introduced to some obtusfolia spice back in 2017. Wicked stuff, never had the balls to just send it but always watched in awe as my fellow friends stepped into their rocket ships and set off to orbit.
Small dosed myself a few times to the point of weak hallucinations and better body feeling but that's about it.

Fast forward to 4 weeks ago: BOY 'O' BOY am I sick. I've apparently picked up an Acacia bug and CANNOT get it out of my head looks like I have some work to do.
I've always been a take it apart and put back together kinda bloke, so I think this whole thing is going to be a great experiment/challenge that I may be able to contribute something great to.

Quick breakdown of my goal:

Pick up where others have apparently left of, in localising some of these alkaloids of acacia on the east coast of Australia. There is simply too many species here with the informative contents being just a massive grey zone.
I will move genus to genus of every common Acacia in my reach, doing my best to add a NEW 2024-2025 alkaloid report for everything I get my hands on.

Cheers for having us here

And Cheers to Acacia



Here's a Mutant maidenii from wide bay region for y'all to take in.

 

[ChrisMMcD]

Nice plants! I'm looking forward to read through your experiments and see your results!
Welcome to the rabbit hole

 

[Ozzy_Chronik]

Nice plants! I'm looking forward to read through your experiments and see your results!
Welcome to the rabbit hole

Cheers Chris! First target is Acacia. leiocalyx, just about the most common Acacia on the mid east coast. It's statistically impossible for there not to be more heavily active Acacia in Aus

 

[acacian]

Hey @Ozzy_Chronik

Great to have another Acacia head here! If you haven't already, I'd suggest reading through the Acacia info thread .. you'll find some interesting info on many acacia and their alkaloids there... including Acacia leiocalyx, which has already had a few positive reports. Very much looking forward to your findings... and be prepared.. the Acacia bug never goes away .. I know I get more obsessed by the day

Just a side note in regards to embarking on research.. you may already be aware but avoid taking root/trunk bark from wattles. Thoughtful pruning can provide you with a good test sample, while avoiding a death sentence for the tree. Twig/stem/phyllode is all perfectly good for tests.. a fallen branch will do well.

 

[drpotato]

yeah, the thin twigs are pretty much mostly bark by weight, and the leaves are plenty active too anyway.

Have you been able to descern between the active and inactive maidenii variety yet? theres a limited amount of information though afaik, really big leaves and being kind of silvery-grey looking seems to be either a really low yielding or inactive variety, according to the few that have done enough extractions to determine anything.
Im interested in knowing how far up the coast active maideniis or leiocalyx extends, according to simple maps ive seen brisbane is about the end point. I have also observed, the maideniis differ a bit south of brisbane vs north of brisbane.