Happy to have found this community!

[Serotonika]

Hello everyone

It's very nice that a community like this gets to exist.

I'm very interested in DMT, but have no experiences so far - aside from reading way to many trip reports, threads on extraction, documentaries and scientific work.

I have some experience with other Tryptamines and a (hobby) background in Mycology

From this summer on I'll have some more time for hobbies again (finishing my part time study), so I'll be happy to try and contribute a thing or two. I'm especially interested in sustainable growth - after conquering the Kingdom of the Fungi to the Plantae to grow a fully fledged ethnobotanical garden

The Phalaris research is my current big obsession and super interesting to me. When I was told to touch grass I maybe took it a bit too literally. This is likely where I'll try to contribute first - I'm also into coding if that is of any help. So much to learn, which is beautiful! Awesome to have so much information shared on here I don't mind it taking a bit of time to do progress, for me the journey is more important than the end goal - and the people you meet along the way.

Looking forward to interact with you all take care

 

[Pandora]

Serotonika,

I really enjoyed reading your introduction. Thank you for sharing that.

It sounds like you have already done a lot of research and have a solid plan in place.

Do you have Phalaris growing near you or do you include it in your entheo garden? I know the Phalaris doesn't grow like a lawn but I like the idea of having a Phalaris lawn and being seen as a good neighbor who keeps their lawn trimmed, but meanwhile the trimmimgs are being used for extractions.

You sound like a welcome and fine addition to our little found family and I look forward to seeing you around more.

 

[Serotonika]

Pandora,

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Phalaris arund. is growing quite in abundance here, and I have some P. canariens seeds on the way. My plan currently is to breed it on the balcony, in small pots, until I find a desirable strain / genotype. Also I wouldn't want to set it into the outside world too much - even though not officially considered one around here, from what I'm reading it tends to be a quite an invasive species. To get to a good strain however, I feel like I'll have to get my hands dirty with some extractions and TLC, which I'm not experienced in yet. But I'm seeing a lot of great guides about it on here, and excited to learn more and experiment with it.

Either way, I'm sure it will be a super interesting ride.

 

[Voidmatrix]

Welcome, welcome, welcome!

When I was told to touch grass I maybe took it a bit too literally

This one got me

Gimme more background on that happy you so surreptitiously mention. I want to get back to cultivating myself. In due time.

I started learning Python recently. What do you code in?

One love

 

[Ajqij]

Hello everyone

It's very nice that a community like this gets to exist.

I'm very interested in DMT, but have no experiences so far - aside from reading way to many trip reports, threads on extraction, documentaries and scientific work.

I have some experience with other Tryptamines and a (hobby) background in Mycology

From this summer on I'll have some more time for hobbies again (finishing my part time study), so I'll be happy to try and contribute a thing or two. I'm especially interested in sustainable growth - after conquering the Kingdom of the Fungi to the Plantae to grow a fully fledged ethnobotanical garden

The Phalaris research is my current big obsession and super interesting to me. When I was told to touch grass I maybe took it a bit too literally. This is likely where I'll try to contribute first - I'm also into coding if that is of any help. So much to learn, which is beautiful! Awesome to have so much information shared on here I don't mind it taking a bit of time to do progress, for me the journey is more important than the end goal - and the people you meet along the way.

Looking forward to interact with you all take care

Greetings and welcome Sero! Can you share a bit about your Phalaris research? It pertains to canary grass, yes? What levels of alkaloids are you able to produce?

 

[Serotonika]

Thanks for the warm welcome Voidmatrix and Ajqij!

Gimme more background on that happy you so surreptitiously mention. I want to get back to cultivating myself. In due time.

Growing P. cubensis, though I have been a bit busy lately, so I also wasn't really that active in those regards. It feels like a very nice and peaceful hobby - my grand dad used to take me out on mushroom foraging trips, and ever since I have been fascinated in our little fungus friends. When I get back into it I'll be looking to employ some sensors and collect data on conditions - learned some things on micro controllers and I think this might be an interesting use. Also I think we got quite some information already on which conditions are ideal.

I started learning Python recently. What do you code in?

Also mostly Python nowadays. I work in the sector of Data Science and Machine Learning and there it's almost exclusively Python being used. But I also really learnt to like it. In my opinion the differences between programming languages aren't insanely big and once you find your way around in one, then learning another is not that difficult. I also have some background with Java/Kotlin, C++/C and JavaScript/TypeScript.

Can you share a bit about your Phalaris research? It pertains to canary grass, yes? What levels of alkaloids are you able to produce?

I'm sorry I got nothing to share yet, but I'll be looking forward to put some effort into it and share new findings as I discover them. I prefer to take some time and put quality over quickly stressing to get something out. Quite some research was already done, can be found on this forum.

 

[NeitherHere]

Hello everyone

It's very nice that a community like this gets to exist.

I'm very interested in DMT, but have no experiences so far - aside from reading way to many trip reports, threads on extraction, documentaries and scientific work.

I have some experience with other Tryptamines and a (hobby) background in Mycology

From this summer on I'll have some more time for hobbies again (finishing my part time study), so I'll be happy to try and contribute a thing or two. I'm especially interested in sustainable growth - after conquering the Kingdom of the Fungi to the Plantae to grow a fully fledged ethnobotanical garden

The Phalaris research is my current big obsession and super interesting to me. When I was told to touch grass I maybe took it a bit too literally. This is likely where I'll try to contribute first - I'm also into coding if that is of any help. So much to learn, which is beautiful! Awesome to have so much information shared on here I don't mind it taking a bit of time to do progress, for me the journey is more important than the end goal - and the people you meet along the way.

Looking forward to interact with you all take care

welcome home, I'm sure you will fit right in here in the nexus. if you're interested in sustainable production methods I'd recommend having a chat with Acacian. They specialize in acacia but from what I can tell sustainability is their jam. could lead to some really fruitfull discussions.

hope to see you around in the future

 

[aizoaceous]

I'm always glad to see more people chasing Phalaris's promise. I've grown P. canariensis that I suspect descends from the breeding program at Canada's University of Saskatchewan, their "glabrous canary seed". I purchased two accessions of seed, labelled as food for human consumption. I sampled about a month after germination, and analyzed by chromatography in my usual HPLC system. The first accession showed negligible alkaloids. The second showed traces of DMT, but other peaks were ~100x as big by UV fluorescence area, probably gramine and some kind of tyramine derivative. (It has a peak at the expected RT for tyramine; but ethyl acetate extracts that peak but doesn't extract spiked tyramine, so I'm not sure what's going on.) So neither seemed promising, and I abandoned those for now. Another forum member reported another mostly negative result back in 2013 with apparently similar genetics.

@neurobloom reports positive bioassays with P. canariensis, I believe a plant collected from nature. (I guess I shouldn't say wild type since P. canariensis is believed to be the result of pre-scientific artificial selection, descended from and cross-fertile with P. brachystachys, to retain its seed for ease of harvesting similarly to other grains.) Trout and friends reported good initial results with accessions from the USDA's collection, but the alkaloid profile mysteriously shifted in later seasons and they seem to have abandoned it. So I think the species has promise, but it's a more challenging first project than a known good variety of P. brachystachys, P. aquatica, or P. arundinacea.

You probably know this already, but Phalaris is more dangerous than most other plants discussed here. 5-MeO-DMT has resulted in at least one death, probably from the synthetic chemical in that case but purified extracts present equivalent risk. Some forum members here have also speculated that additional, yet-unidentified toxic constituents may explain nonfatal but serious adverse reactions that they've personally experienced with new accessions of P. aquatica. Take due care.

I know the Phalaris doesn't grow like a lawn but I like the idea of having a Phalaris lawn

Honestly it's not that far off. The pasture guidelines I've seen typically recommend mowing to something around 6". I've been harvesting my little patch of P. brachystachys monthly, cutting from maybe 18" down to 6", but I'd guess lower and more frequent mowing would be fine. I think the major obstacle to a tryptamine lawn is just the cost or time to propagate, since seed or clonal plugs for varieties with good alkaloid profiles aren't easily available in large quantities.

 

[blig-blug]

When I get back into it I'll be looking to employ some sensors and collect data on conditions - learned some things on micro controllers and I think this might be an interesting use

That is an excellent idea! I don't know how it didn't cross my mind before. Please do share your project here if or when you do it.

the differences between programming languages aren't insanely big and once you find your way around in one, then learning another is not that difficult

If you want some non-psychedelic mind expansion, I recommend you to look into Lisp, Haskell, Forth, Prolog and APL. Those are (in many aspects) radically different from the languages in the Algol/C lineage. I particularly recommend the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, a classic that uses a dialect of Lisp to teach the reader how there is actually no difference between data and code, between programs and their interpreters and compilers. It was mindblowing to me when I read it.