Perpetual M. Hostilis rootball cultivation

[syntheogen]

I germinated 10 jurema seeds and they are already showing 2mm shoots. I have witnessed the invasive mimosa absolutely thrive in the right conditions here in Fl. as well as a viable seller in local nurseries. They refuse to die and will burst a cheap plastic pot when root-lock is achieved. My plan is to start the germ. in a 1gal. pot. The weedy species here will lock a 1gal. pot in under a season with heavy sun and nutes. Once the M. Hostilis has neared root-lock in the 1gal. pot, it will be removed, cuttings taken and the roots will be agitated and placed in a new 3gal. pot. He will finish the natural season and be fed a heavy nute schedule through winter. Summer of the next season water regiments will begin without nutes. Towards the end of summer I want to abandon it completely and harvest the 3gal root-ball.
This is nontraditional, I know but my means and location limit my experiments. It needs much work like figuring perpetual clones or seedlings for constant harvests.

I will post pictures as i go in this thread. I have germ. pics with new shoots!. Will up tonight.

 

[Hieronymous]

I have a similar project going. I'm growing Mimosas in a passive hydro system that is similar to a dutch bucket. It's more of a self watering/wicking system where the roots will end up in the water like a DWC system.

The next one I set up will be a dutch bucket system with a pump for recirculating the nutrient solution. I intend to have a deeper reservoir than a standard dutch bucket so the system is fail safe in the event of a power failure or pump problems ect.

Rather than harvesting the entire rootball I plan on trimming the roots periodically for a perpetual harvest.

Have you had any success with cloning Mimosa ?

As far as I'm aware they are very tricky to clone from aerial parts of the plant, root cuttings are known to be more successful.

 

[Muskogee Herbman]

What germination method did you use? I've had lots of issues myself germinating Mimosa Hostillis

 

[syntheogen]

@Muskogee HerbmanI read so many conflicting posts that i decided to go with putting them in near boiling spring water and let them soak in it for about 3 hours then transferred to seedling dome still in paer towels. I put a boiling cup of spring water in the dome with germs every day. Its day two and 5 of 10 are sprouting. It worked for me.
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Hieronymous, That sounds amazing. I swear i thought of a ginseng hydro kit much like that but never got any good leads. I would love some sound links or advice. Thanks for the reply.

 

[Sabnock]

They do thrive in this climate pretty well syntheogen, i'm one state away from you in Al. I have 3 Hostilis and 2 Ophthalmocentra plants in the ground and they are doing really good after only planting them in the ground last month. Of course though, they're about a year old, started em' all from seed except for one Hostilis which i bought, and had em' under fluorescent lighting till last month when i planted em' in the ground and they've been loving it outside

I'm hoping to one day also grow Arenosa if i can just find some seeds that aren't on STS (cuz i don't really have anything to trade).

But yeah, they love this climate, and i love that they love it.

Edit: Btw, they love plant food. I use Expert all purpose plant food that has 15% nitrogen and potash with 30% phosphate. I've noticed that if the Hostilis's leaves start yellowing and dropping off, i give them some plant food and they perk right on up and grow like crazy lol.