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What's in your entho garden this spring?

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Morning Glory
HBWR
Peruvian Torch
San Pedro
Achuma
4 different Kinds of Caapi.

All from seeds/cuttings for the first try been waiting for Spring to get my stuff :). Hopefully most of it is successful and I can start doing my own cuttings in years to come. Need to get the caapi going strong before winter comes! I think the rest should be fine.


Also have a ton of veggies my wife and I are growing from seed this year for the first time on our deck as well as the usual stuff we will buy from the local plant shops. We should have like 4 types of Tomatoes, Carrots, Potatoes, Beets, a bunch of lettuce, A Blueberry tree, Green beans, Strawberries and a bunch of herbs. Tons of stuff for a small urban area with no yard :)
 
This is my first time starting a garden, but I have decided to go ambitious.

I have a lot of seeds that I'm waiting to plant. We're still not past the final frosts in my area (around The middle of April).

Lobelia inflata
Leonurus sibiricus
Hieracium pilosella
Nicotiana rustica
Ipomoea violacea
Desmanthus illinoensis
Solenostemon scutelarioides
Acorus calamus americanus

I just ordered 3 salvia plants and three calamus that I'm waiting for.

And I still want to get the seeds of these plants before the end of the April:

Verbascum blattaria
Petunia violacea
Haemia salicifolia
Phalaris aquatica AQ1

I might also try my hand at growing some psilocybe cubensis if I have time.
 
Where do you guys recommend purchasing salvia cuttings from?

Other than Salvia I plan on growing:
San Pedro,
P. Torch,
T. Cuzcoensis, (already sitting outside in the sun),
Ipomoea Tricolor,
Ipomoea Purpurea,

Maybe some others as well, haven't fully decided yet.
 
My garden has a mix of entheos and not. My enth plants & seeds are
Cactus seedlings & pereskiopsis for grafting
miracle fruit
hbwr
morning glory
phalaris grass
poppies
coleus
artemisia sp.
peganum harmala
catnip
e novo
b caapi
m hostilis
peruvian torches
san pedros
bridgesii
l. nepetefolia
kanna

<3
 
elru, have you successfully gotten peganum harmala to grow from seed?

I tried a few times last year and had no success. If you know how to get these guys to grow please let me know, I would be very appreciative if you could.
 
I've got three P. Harmalas (Syrian Rue) growing atm. They are about 1 inch high which is about where everyone says they stall in growth, fall over, and die. We will see. I used regular miracle grow potting soil and germinated them in moist soil with plastic wrap over the pot. They were on a table by a window though I read to germinate them in the dark if I remember. However they seem to have sprouted just fine in daylight.

I will post back if they live or die but I will try not to hijack the thread!
 
I have my second attempt going right now. The first ones did grow but the seedlings dried out and died when I went on a trip a few weeks ago. I soaked the seeds overnight in a cup of water and then sowed a whole bunch of them about 1/2" down in a mix of soil, sand, and perlite. I can't remember if I nicked the seedcoat but probably not. The seeds had been labeled as viable but my germination rate was pretty low - around 10%. Maybe try gibberellic acid if you have any?
 
This spring my indoor entheo garden (ok, it's a bay window) contains four little Lophophora Williamsii that I bought as buttons last year, three Trichocerous Pachanoi (I think - could be Peruvianus), two enormous but rather tatty looking Salvias who are due a trim, and one little caapi seedling that I grew from seed last year - the sole survior of about 30!

So there you go; The Four Plants of Easter* (similar to the Twelve Days of Christmas but with fewer leaping lords/partridges/etc.)

And I've just sown some Morning Glory + Papaver Somiferum outside :)
 
What strain of Papaver Somniferum are you all using? I have Papaver Somniferum seeds that I bought at a garden centre but I know they won't be a high yield hair dye strain.
 
My papaver s. was "Paeony Black" from a local garden centre (pack of seeds)...I dunno about the dye-making qualities of this one - the picture on the front of the packet looked pretty, but "Hen & Chickens" is one of the top rated for dyeing.

Did you plant seeds or seedlings Elru?
 
Seeds. <3

Interesting to hear that about the hens. I just grow them miniature in the window, never tried doing anything with them.
 
when i moved into my house it already had some Heavenly Blue Morning Glories growing along the fence out front. There was also a lovely Passion Flower vine which i always thought of as the "Butterfly Vine".... how little i knew a couple of years ago. I DO enjoy seeing all the butterflies every summer though.
We recently got a cutting of Salvia which was half dead when we got it and is doing OK now, after giving her much love and attention - although there's some kind of gnat in the soil now that i have to deal with.
We also have 2 San Pedro cactus growing. One is about 5 feet tall and it has 2 pups that are around 4 feet, one around 3 feet, and it just popped out another pup that's just a few inches tall. The other San Pedro is around 28" - he is the newest addition to our garden. Where i live in So Cal, there are San Pedros all over the place... seems like all my neighbors have em - some are quite large too.
I am planning on planting some cannabis, but i plan on attending a grow class first - i lived in apartments all my life so i am new to this gardening thing!
 
HBFrank - I had the same issues with some kind of knats with all my plants including my salvia. I finally brome down and applied just a little bit of generic insecticide. I'm hoping this will not come back to bite me later somehow affecting the purity of the entheos. Smoking insecticides is not somethi.g that seems fun. However the bottle said you could apply it the day of harvest including herbs and veggies. Hoping a good wash will be all that's needed.

Just an update. Unfortunately as I expectex all my Syrian Rue seedlings dried up and died. :( I didn't give them any special care though, just planted them and waited to see what happened. Better luck next time.
 
Thanks Psikotrope - i feel a bit better knowing it isn't just me. I was sure i must have done something wrong. What, i don't know LOL.
i found a pesticide made from chrysanthemums that's supposed to be perfectly safe. I guess since it's made from a flower it pretty much must be. It's called Pyrethrum and it's the main ingredient in several brands you'll find in the stores. It might even be in the one you're using.

I also just read something about the gnats having some kind of larvae in the soil and they supposedly eat at the roots of your plant. To get rid of them you're supposed to use something called Thuricide. It is a larvae/worm/caterpillar pesticide. You dilute it (1 tbs to 1 qt water) and wash all the soil in your pot with it and it kills the larvae.
I just found this out earlier today - so i hope it helps you as well as anyone else finding these little buggers in their plants...

sorry to hear about your Rue... next time'll be the ticket!!
 
HBFrank - Yea! Thats the main compound in my insecticide. Thanks for bringing that back to mind. I had read once what your saying about the natjral source. That puts me at ease. I was having trouble believing the claim that it was safe yet caused genocide on insectoids, lol. If I repot my sally I will look into treating the soil as you say. I've also heard sterilizing by first baking the soil in the oven for a time is a good idea to kill all the dormant nasties.

No big deal on the Rue. I had a large bag for harmala extraction so I thought what tbe hell I'll plant a few and see what happens. I wasn't even sure theg were viable. Now that I knkw they are their valhe has went up! :p
 
no worries on the typos.. i didn't see any spelling police here today ;)
i felt pretty good knowing it was from a natural source too, but i also wondered if it would be effective. it must be though it's in a lot of products.
Good idea on baking the soil - but it's too late for that now. If i repot or do another cutting however....
I also saw something else interesting on another site (specific to Salvia cultivation, which is down right now for maintenance or something) and on it someone said you could top the soil with sand - like aquarium sand - and then the little buggers can't get into the soil in the first place. Once i've gotten rid of them, i'm thinking of trying it out. but first a trip to my local home improvement store is in order so i can get some of that Pyrethrin.

Hmmmmm.... i have some Rue seeds as well, and it IS Spring - i may have to try to see if they'll germinate!
 
Today I added two thujone medecinal plant to my collection:
- Salvia apiana (smells great !)
- Artemisia absynthium
Plus some fresh peyote seeds !
 
So I decided to throw a few grams of Syrian rue seeds in a pot, wet the soil and covered them with a piece of plastic. They sat on my window seal (north facing window) for a couple weeks, and I forgot about them. Today I saw the pot and decided to look in it. To my surprise there was two little seedling stretching for the sun, and I have never even gotten these bad boys/girls to sprout before. Now they are enjoying the full sun outside.

I sowed the seeds in 'FoxFarm Ocean Forest' soil, burying some of the seeds deep, some shallow, and some on top of the soil.

Lets hope they don't die on me now.

Click for bigger version. My cat happened to work her way into the shot as well.
 
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