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[druid001]

Hi everybody.

I've always had an interest for psychedelics and hallucinogens since my teens. Tried LSD and loved it so much that I did it regularly for 3-4 years while in college. Then came the mushrooms and I loved that as well. The first time that I had ever taken it, I found myself back in a past life and it was more possessing the body of a past life than a memory because people around me in my vision were making weird comments at my remarks and asking me if I was allright lol. I found peace and tranquility in that place like I have never felt before or after. Of course the next times I took shrooms, it was always to get back there but I never could. After a very heavy dose enough to knock probably 15 people out, I had the nastiest trip ever and barely made it out with my mind intact. It was a trip that I wish nobody experiences and I may get into it later but since then I have laid off shrooms for at least 15 years, maybe 20.

Then I met the wonderful part of the system called Workers Compensation and bBeen on workers compensation since January 2007 and still going. Been on way too many opiates (which I don't mind as long as they stop the pain) and have been looking into alternative healing ways for a while. When you sit at home for that long, you also start feeling an emptiness inside you that keeps building and building and I need to get in touch with myself and cleanse myself both soul and body from whatever it is that's getting me to feel so low and empty. I've started gardening a few years ago which to my surprise I found that it is about the only thing that relaxes me. After growing literally hundreds of types of veggies and fruits, I switched to mostly Ayahuasca plants and the regular, most common green stuff which I started 2-3 months ago and which is in a vegging phase now I lived in a country which produces hashish due to my dad's position and probably smoked a matchbox size from age 13 until 16 when we moved away. Then I tried marijuana in college and which I hated since it gave me extremely horrible panic attacks and I quit it after that. I tried it a few more times in between since most my friends lived for the stuff and those times were okay but I would refuse to take more than a puff. I had an extremely strong variety in Canada and ended up having my forehead frozen against a pole when I tried to cool my head down by pressing down on the pole when it was -20 something degrees outside hahaha (it was the coldest winter in BC and going out at night was considered a "suicide" attempt which got you arrested on the spot. It was the 95 winter around Christmas and night temperatures dropped below -40's which is sufficient enough for your lungs to freeze).

Even until recently, I thought hash and weed were different and that there was one type of weed no matter where you lived in the world. Talk about ignorance

But anyway, when I got into Ayahuasca plants, I was amazed to what is available legally through regular auction sites as well as online nurseries or other stores, and I was also amazed that the FDA hasn't stuck its nose into these as yet. So I ended up with maybe 15 live plants that I am growing, and about 40 seeds which I am slowly starting to germinate.

I live in Florida so it is easy to grow things here but I'm hoping to move to Maine as soon as I can. Was married but ended up in a divorce through the WC process and don't know if I want to get back in a relationship any time soon. No kids, just dogs and a cat and basically except for the once a month doctor's appointment, followed to a visit to the pharmacy, I am a homebody. I don't watch tv, I don't have cable even though I download torrents and watch a few shows. No cell phone either since I both worked on building those in the early 90's and know the side effects but I also don't really need one since I am always home and use my regular phone.


And here I am

 

[druid001]

It seems there aren't many places where I can post so posting on the thread I started

The summer was really nasty this year where I live in Florida. The record highs never ever went to 3 digits and even though humidity gets close to 100% where I live close to the water, the temperatures normally don't go past 92-93 too often and we may get 94-95 a few times a year. This summer we had straight 95-96's for maybe 2-3 weeks. Had rains start in late June and lasted for 15-16 days straight until mid-July as well which is also unusual.

September is mild and nice with night temperatures going down from 77-78 to low 70's, even high 60's but until the last few days of September, we had 95 averages with almost 80's at night. Almost half my plants fried this summer, all the pepper, tomato and squash plants got hit, couldn't get anything except from 1 tomato plant and 1 zucchini plant (have about 14 tomato plants). My 2 caleas and 1 caapi literally fried and I had to cut the whole plants down and they are sitting in storage containers now I found a really good place to get new ones from and cuttings were between 7 and 15 bucks. I don't really like buying them since you never know what you are going to get but it wasn't much cost wise so I tried acquiring 3 plants and see what would happen. I ot them exactly as advertised and they are doing great so far. I am growing them indoors until the bodies get strong enough to handle the nasty winds outside, not to mention all sorts of damn bugs which all invaded the yard at the same time this summer. Normally it's 3-4 types you can control but this summer, I Had anything from 2-3 types of worms to crickets (which is extremely rare here) to major aphid outbreaks. Lady bugs normally take care of most and I release some 2-3 times throughout the year but I had to get 3 batches out in 2 or 3 months. I got nematodes everywhere as well but the bugs still keep coming.

Got 0 poppies, 0 tobacco, 1 sunflower out of 20 that made it to 3 feet and then croaked (the mammoths I plant usually go to about 8-10 feet at the least). Figs are standing, the pomegranate and hibiscus plants are standing along with 2 Skyfalls but I have maybe a dozen dead blueberry/blackberry/rasperry plants. Amazingly one blueberry which is supposed to be zones 2-8 is the only one that survived and that is thriving (we are zone 9a I believe). Plants that also didn't die are: Psychotria Viridis, Angel Trumpet Brugmansia(Ecuador White), Yellow Brugmansia, Hemia Salicifolia, Leonotis Leonurus (got 2 major branches, one is totally dead and the other is struggling to stay alive and I put it inside by a grow light and fan), Datura Metel, Cestrum (Night Jasmin and one survived while my large one that covered part of the fence is completely dead ), Acacia Maidenii, Solandra Maxima, Bryophyllum, Mimosa Hostilis and Daigremontianum Kalanchoe (no flowers at all though). I probably have a few more I can't remember right now.

Hopefully I won't have to deal with this crap on a regular basis or I'm going to have to grow everything indoors

I'll be starting 4 of 5 types of Salvia in a coupls of weeks along with some lotus and lillies. I got some giant sequoia seeds as well and even though I would love to be able to get them fully growing, I don't think the climate will allow me to. There is supposedly one that lives through -40's in Poland but they aren't too keen on high temperatures even though they can stand the cold. They claim the trees will live in temperatures up to 104 but those are short term extremes and they don't do well over 85 or so. I also have some cacti seeds and mushrooms spores I am going to start but the cacti will have to be under growligts with as little humidity as I can provide them with. I've been meaning to start growing mushrooms for years but finally I got some spores and am ready to go. I am especially looking forward to oyster mushrooms (the normal kind) since they usually cost an arm and a leg

I watched a short documentary on the Truffle Brothers and how they had to switch to growing truffles from mushrooms when mushrooms got banned in the Netherlands. It's odd how most banned items get a few years for the ban to start being enforced but this ban took only about one week to became effective, so they had to get everything out of their hands in under a week. They said it was really easy and there were miles long lines of people that were waiting for the free mushrooms. They supposedly got rid of everything in 2 days or so. The weirdest thing was when they were asked how much they could produce if they worked at full capacity. Their answer was that if they did 3 shifts a day, they could produce about 20 thousand tons. Not 20 tons but 20 THOUSAND tons. They only have like 10 employees and they can produce about 40 million pounds in 1 year, that's just crazy and makes your head spin if you think about how much space that much mushrooms would cover; It would basically cover a football field from edge to edge and to a height of probably about 35-40 feet.

It's funny too how they ban the shrooms but leave the truffles since they are almost the same things. The mushrooms grow outside of the earth in the presence of various nutrients and when they can't get enough nutrients, they grow under the ground by using less nutrients, and that's about the simplest explanation. Yet those are legal while their overground counterparts aren't, and the reason is because some French girl high on shrooms fell of a boat and drowned, and one guy sat in his car and skinned and slaughtered his dog, saying he was taking them both to heaven.

Anyway, that was some useless information that I shared which I tend to do a lot lol