My children..

[jamie]

here is the garden I created outside our apartment for minxx and I to sit in..this is why I like ground level..there is alot of wild bindweed/morning glories there that I just sort of let grow up random stick I collected and trellis..and some herbs like lavander, rosemary, mint, thyme..some wild phalaris I collected and potted..and some ferns.. and some of my salvia plants I just cut back for summer growth. The salvia's look kinds ghetto right now but they always do at the start of summer. In a month they will be bushes..more pics comming.

 

[Dreamwalker]

WOW! :shock:

That's just beautiful!

 

[jamie]

ok here are my baby mimosa's, baby caapi, some smaller torch and salvia cuttings I am rooting..

 

[Aegle]

r0m

Your peyote's are so precious, one love... ♥


Much Peace and Understanding

 

[rOm]

frac' look like a little jungle you've made here !!
MY salvia also have hard time here with wind or something making their leaves looks like a claws.
I'll post pic ..

 

[rOm]

First two pics are the salvias divinorum, then another shot of the psylocibes cubensis, Black nightshade (solanum nigrum), White henbane (hyoscyamus albus), then artemisia absynthium (wormwood), then ocimum sanctum (holy basil), mimosa pudica, then the four together (tagetes lucida-mexican tarragon, datura inoxia, datura metel, mandragora officinarum -with habanero mislable on it), then some black chili pepper, brugmansia suaveolens, then finally the kalanchoe daigremontianum along with other cactaceae.

 

[elru]

this thread is like porn.

 

[PrimalWisdom]

Great Thread!
All of your plants look so happy guys.

It really is rewarding growing all of these wonderful teachers.

I was going to take pics of my garden yesterday, but figured it could wait. I'll try post some tomorrow.

 

[Laban Shrewsbury III]

Beautiful mimosa, rOm. Mine are much smaller at about 2 months old, but watching them fold themselves up like origami each night is fascinating. Does the plant continue to do this as it ages or is it just when it's young?

 

[gibran2]

As usual, all I'm growing this Summer is salvia. These plants will be ready for harvest in another 3-4 weeks.

 

[jamie]

what soil do you use gibran? my salvia will look that green and thrive like yours all summer long outside but durring the winter indoors they really slow down and look less healthy. They always survive and give me cuttings in the summer that grow like crazy..but I noticed that the soil does not seem to get the roots proper airflow when indoors. I started to mix vermiculite or perlite into my soils now and that helps. Do you use a fan at all on them? Do you give them nutrients? I started to give mine some liquid seaweed nutrients.

 

[gibran2]

what soil do you use gibran? my salvia will look that green and thrive like yours all summer long outside but durring the winter indoors they really slow down and look less healthy. They always survive and give me cuttings in the summer that grow like crazy..but I noticed that the soil does not seem to get the roots proper airflow when indoors. I started to mix vermiculite or perlite into my soils now and that helps. Do you use a fan at all on them? Do you give them nutrients? I started to give mine some liquid seaweed nutrients.

I use a commercially prepared soil mix: Miracle Gro Moisture Control Potting Mix. It contains fertilizer, so I don’t have to feed for the first 6 weeks or so. After that, I feed every two weeks with Miracle Gro all-purpose plant food.

Over the years, I’ve tried a variety of potting soils, and the Moisture Control mix gives the best results by far.

I don’t use fans, lights, humidity tents, misters, or anything else. My plants get plenty of bright indirect light and plenty of water. Other than the bi-weekly fertilizing, I really don’t do anything with them. (Except I tie the big braches to stakes – otherwise they snap off very easily.)

The attached photo shows one of my smaller plants. It only has two branches (the third broke off). It’s hard to tell from the photo, but the plant is almost 3 feet tall and the larger leaves are over a foot long. It was planted as a cutting around April 11.

 

[rOm]

Beautiful mimosa, rOm. Mine are much smaller at about 2 months old, but watching them fold themselves up like origami each night is fascinating. Does the plant continue to do this as it ages or is it just when it's young?

Moar and moar they fold and infold ! very living, moving, expressing plant !

 

[rOm]

Gibran2 I wish my plants looked that healthy again. you only grow one sort of plat but you grow it damn good !!!!
I'll send you mine for hollidays

 

[Dreamwalker]

This thread turned out a lot more interesting than it was intended to be. It would be cool to have a subform in The Ethnobotanical Garden called "The Grow Room"

A place where members can share photos of there plants and share there knowledge of growing with other members.

Just a thought.

 

[Laban Shrewsbury III]

If not a sub-forum, at least a sticky thread of plant photos. It's surprisingly difficult to find decent images of some plants online - they're always hyper-closeups of like two leaves and a stem, making ascertaining the full size and shape troublesome. The pics in here are perfect.

BTW, is nobody else growing ololiuqui?

 

[PrimalWisdom]

Those Salvia are probably the finest plants I have seen


Well here are some ok(ish) pics of my garden so far. My actual camera decided to give up the ghost last night, so these are from my pretty decent camera phone.

I got some cacti - Peyotes, Pedro's, Torches, Macrogonus, and a few new Bridgedesii Montruosa (cuttings) Then a little kanna plant. I also got some more pedro and torch cuttings on the weekend, they are drying a bit to be potted.

And my Obtusifolia (randomly started growing in the garden) And an Acacia Sieberiana I purchased on the weekend (going to test for tryptamines) but its a pretty tree even if it doesn't have medicine in it.

Hoping to have a pretty comprehensive garden by the end of next year.

All the best with everyone else's gardens

 

[rOm]

PrimalWist, it's a nice collection of cacti you have here !
I'm just testing out achuma and big mac this week.
What's your favorite cacti workwise ?

 

[PrimalWisdom]

Thanks rOm!

I think Peruvian torch is my favourite so far. it is definately stronger than the pedros I have and just as gentle but I love them all equally, which is why I usually make a mix of the 2. I have yet to try the macro's or the bridgedesi. I recently grafted a peyote onto a pedro, so I wait to see how this turns out.

 

[rOm]

Update-lotuses (nelumbo nucifera) in a fishtank.
Brugmansia suaveolens flower closed (day time)
White henbane flowering.
Then my two baby mandrake (mandragora officinarum) which I'm very proud of.