I stumbled across the attached paper recently, and I was surprised that I haven't seen it discussed here before, especially because the data presented are quite interesting. The authors present two lines of analyses: 1) analysis of tissues from 6-year old mimosa hostilis plants in either winter (january) or summer (june) and 2) analysis of microcultures of mimosa hostilis, especially calluses and plantlets. In their experiments they also quantified levels of tryptophan, tryptamine and serotonin .
The "meat" of the paper is not only in the seasonal variation but also the type of tissues analysed; surprisingly there is not root bark included in their analyses, but rather bark, flowers and leaves. The gist of their results is that bark contains an average of 0.35% dmt during the winter and that drops to 0.11% during the summer. Leaf dmt content on the other hand raises from an average of 0.01% in wintertime to a 0.09% in summertime. Unfortunately the seasonal differences they observed are not statistically significant, however their study is seminal in that it deals with dmt, mimosa hostilis and seasonal variations.
Now, I could not stop thinking; doesn't this paper basically suggest that growing mimosa hostilis is an excellent candidate for self sustainability? Contrary to phalaris grasses that require a horizontal space or chacruna/claliponga that require some tropical microclimate, mimosa hostilis can be grown pretty much everywhere where there is some sun and room temperature, and it requires vertical space. And mimosa hostilis is a sure-fire when it comes to alkaloid content.
Put in in other words, if one starts growing 4-6 mimosa hostilis plants, in just 6 years he will be able to start making a fair amount of harvest in bark, rootbark and leaves per year to sustain himself for life. On the other hand I hardly believe that grasses will catch up with the ease of maintaining an upright, more biomass-producing, dmt-containing plant with clean alkaloid profile. As a matter of fact I think I should start growing mimosa hostilis as soon as possible!
The "meat" of the paper is not only in the seasonal variation but also the type of tissues analysed; surprisingly there is not root bark included in their analyses, but rather bark, flowers and leaves. The gist of their results is that bark contains an average of 0.35% dmt during the winter and that drops to 0.11% during the summer. Leaf dmt content on the other hand raises from an average of 0.01% in wintertime to a 0.09% in summertime. Unfortunately the seasonal differences they observed are not statistically significant, however their study is seminal in that it deals with dmt, mimosa hostilis and seasonal variations.
Now, I could not stop thinking; doesn't this paper basically suggest that growing mimosa hostilis is an excellent candidate for self sustainability? Contrary to phalaris grasses that require a horizontal space or chacruna/claliponga that require some tropical microclimate, mimosa hostilis can be grown pretty much everywhere where there is some sun and room temperature, and it requires vertical space. And mimosa hostilis is a sure-fire when it comes to alkaloid content.
Put in in other words, if one starts growing 4-6 mimosa hostilis plants, in just 6 years he will be able to start making a fair amount of harvest in bark, rootbark and leaves per year to sustain himself for life. On the other hand I hardly believe that grasses will catch up with the ease of maintaining an upright, more biomass-producing, dmt-containing plant with clean alkaloid profile. As a matter of fact I think I should start growing mimosa hostilis as soon as possible!
