downwardsfromzero said:
It's particularly delightful to hear that you're an ethnobotanical gardener in the making. Do you have much in your collection so far? I hope you make space for some nice cacti if you've not done so already
It also looks as though you might have some interest in sages, perhaps? Your username is surely a bit of a giveaway.
My collection is still small, and I have recently faced a major letdown growing what I thought at the time was khat.
Turns out the worm castings I used had some active seeds of other plants, basically weeds. My bad luck, paired with my ignorance and optimism, resulted in me nursing what I've recently identified as "Lady's thumb", a knotweed that to me looked a lot like a khat seedling
Other than that, I have poppies, peruvian torch cactus, coffee arabica, salvia recognita I'm trying to germinate, a bonsai'd poincettia, and a bunch of kanna seedlings. This doesn't include the other plants and succulents/cactus I'm growing for a business I'm working on.
downwardsfromzero said:
We'd love to see pictures of your specimens and any growlogs or the like.
Here's a couple!
downwardsfromzero said:
What kindled your interest in psychedelics? What role have they played in your life - besides being a gateway drug for gardening, perhaps :lol:
When I was 12 I became fascinated with lucid dreaming, especially once I had my first. It seemed so unrealistic and impossible to me, so once I proved to myself that it was very real I dove head first into learning about altered states of consciousness. My first psychedelic trip came about 4 years later, the rest is history!
Psychedelics have been a sort of welcome perspective for me. I've always been the odd one out, and couldn't quite describe in what way, but for some reason psychedelics just clicked very strongly for me. I experienced first hand the power they had on the mind, opening me up to a new way of thinking that was both alien and very, very familiar. I felt understood and inspired.
