Hi everybody

[khacorrat]

Hello everyone,

A little introduction, I'm interested by ethnobotany/ethnopharmacology for a long time, but my life took another path those last few years. Recently, I restarted to have time to dedicate to it and decided to join the community here.

I'm interested by a wide panel of topics but I really like to be able to grow my own plant and use it on my own.

I wish a nice day to everybody!

 

[Transform]

Hello everyone,

A little introduction, I'm interested by ethnobotany/ethnopharmacology for a long time, but my life took another path those last few years. Recently, I restarted to have time to dedicate to it and decided to join the community here.

I'm interested by a wide panel of topics but I really like to be able to grow my own plant and use it on my own.

I wish a nice day to everybody!

Hello and welcome!

It's great to hear of your interest in these special plants. Do you have any kind of garden started yet? What would you be putting in it? Imo, the easiest way of starting might be to get a trichocereus cactus for your windowsill.

Do you have any prior experience with psychoactive plants or other materials? And what kind of skills background do you have in general? That kind of ties into the eventual possibility of you preparing or extracting your plants - but given the vast compilation of methodology we have here, even a lack of practical skills (as we find with a few people!) needn't be an insurmountable hurdle.

Wishing you a wonderful day also!

 

[khacorrat]

What a welcome! Thank Transform!

To answer your questions, actually I didn't have any kind of psychoactive garden. I quit this hobby a few years ago as I was occupied by other occupations.

In the past I used to grow P.cubensis, which was done pretty easily but I never dive too much in it. Nowadays, I restarted my research because I plan to got some cactus. I plan to got some Trichocereus (seeds and cutting) and also some Lophophora (seeds) to start and maybe expand with other cactus in the future.

Besides this main interest from cactus, I plan to got some Salvia Divinorium because I did never have the opportunity to tried it yet and I don't want to play with some weird extracts. And also maybe some P.ochraceocentrata (I discover them last week and I am really interested by the report) to redo some shrooms because my last P.Cubensis experiments were not successful.

That's for the start but in the future, I will also develop my garden with DMT containing plants; Harmala alakaloids containing plants. I think it's a good start for it!

About my experience with psychoactive plants/other materials: I'm a daily smoker for around 12 years (first joint, then bong, now vaporizer since the last 5 years). I use psychedelics/dissociatives/empathogens since 15 years but not often. I will do maybe 5-10 psychedelic trips in a year, same for the dissociatives experiences and way less for empathogens. Also I didn't consume at this frequency for the last 15 years and have some years without any kind of psychoactive products, besides cannabis

About my skills and background: So this is an interesting one, I start to be interested by entheogens plants through shamanism which conducts me to read books in anthropology/ethnology and also ethnobotany/botanic. More generally, I'm greatly interested both by the medicinal and entheogens usage of plants by natives.
Basically I don't have any knowledge about chemistry and extracting plants, but I'm able to follow instructions pretty easily and really love to read, so it's not a big deal for me! Or I think so!

A wonderful day to you all!