Know anyone from mexico? It would be nice to talk to them and acquire some from them if they are better then the commonly used P plant -- of course, not by the use of this site.

Niacin -- Not niacinamide, but niacin is a good vasodilator, isn't it? It at least causing flushing, and histamine release and rumors of it being used to abort LSD trips.

Right, but one causes a flushing, while the other does not. So it acts differently, and also has fairly different pharmacological activity. Niacinamide acts as the Anti-resveratrol and turns off SRT1 and causes you to age faster -- at least in concept/theory.

I very much imagine it would be considerably easier to absorb a dangerous dose of assorted ergot alkaloids from a submerged culture than via artificially inducing the parasitic lifestyle in cultivated rye, the sclerotia themselves appear reasonably safe to handle, but grams of alkaloids per liter of festering culture medium all in solution, theres the potential for exposure to a few ml resulting in absorption of a fair but unknown dose of assorted ergoloids.

Now I don't know about the rest of you but I live in a city, woefully, and I do not have a farm to plant a few damn acres of rye and go ergot farming, so its submerged culture in bubble column reactors or shit all for this particular bent biochemist.

Has to be a lot friendlier though than say, working with anhydrous NH3, cyanides, chromyl chloride, organometallics, azides, hydrazine etc, any of which have the potential to take the face off an unwary chemist or cause fatal poisoning.

At least its not a case of 'hey, what went wro..arrgh shit, hey jesus, what the hell am I doing falling towards a lifetime supply of SO3 and SO2.......' one has time to administer an antidote by the time symptoms may be noticed and vasoconstriction is easily reversed.

RE safrole, I think it IS likely to be a carcinogen, its certainly highly likely to be a strong hepatotoxin, due its forming a very reactive epoxide in vivo which of course has nothing else to react with, but one's precious flesh and blood.

I never obtained P. Auritum.  So sorry I cannot help you there.
Perhaps you can scratch the shell of the seeds, to allow moisture to get in? I know many seeds often need to be scored (or whatever it is called) before they will germinate at any decent rate -- but you could just give them time - I know Sida Cordifolia will take forever to germinate.

Damn I could have sworn you had listed it as what you were growing...

The seeds are tiny (<1mm dia) s0 scoring would be difficult but rubbing on sandpaper may work. Perhaps I can get some GA and treat them it works with some species to increase germination. (belladonna sp.)

Maybe I'm being too impatient. I think I will also try flooding the seeds its said that it likes water.

If anyone else has got this to germinate from seed please do wade in. If I have any luck I will post results.

@embezzler.... I thought Vesp had said he had Piper Auritum as well. I posted in this thread a month ago or so and had just found some at a local nursery. My money was funny and I just asked the lady if I could just have a few cuttings and she obliged. I got a few with a little of the root systems still attached and a few cuttings. The ones with roots have three to four lilly pad sized leaves and the other cuttings are moving a little slower but have sustained themselves. Maybe you can look where you found the seeds and get a few cuttings as well. Stuff grows really fast and is worth a few bucks if you really like mole'.

And I do some tissue culture (micropropagation) experiment and i was a successful. Now i have 20-30psc, babyfood jars full of clones of salvia and pereskiopsis. Next i try to grow roots of them. Then i move them in balcony to grow. I put peyote seeds too but i forgot to put sugar in the growingmedia. now the germinated seedling dont grow.  But now i know something from TISSUE CULTURE and next i try clone something cool.
Do everyone have suggestion???

Okay. I try to do tutorial/thread of tissue culture, but now im busy. I promise to do in a few weeks. "My english not good" so i think it gonna take a few momets to do it.

I put the both plant seeds in the little 25cm *30cm green house. there was a 15pcs of peatpots or what they called? little square ones. I mix cactus soil(sand like soil) and vermiculite 60-40. I put the seeds about 0,5-1cm under surface.  Dip the pots in water on 5 minutes and drip the acces water off and then seal in the little greenhouse. I have a succeed. In a ten khat seeds the seven germinated. i was surpriced because so many grow. But later i kill the all. When my khats was 15-20cm high they suddenly died. I dont know what happend? I do the same whit belladonna but i put the seed 0,3-0,5 under surface. If i member correctly belladonna can germinate 150 days before turn in to a seedlings. My belladonna take 2-3 month and ten seeds i have three plants in one died. i hope this help you but i think i have a luck in the process. So i think, Not the best way??? 

I hope they do to embezzler but if they don't I copy/pasted from fleabay. A nice specimen cost five dollars plus handling. I will never do any thing with mine except enjoy them as ground cover. i took another wasp' advice and got some just to chew a leaf and smell what safrole actually smells like. 
Piper auritum (P. sanctum)
Also known as Hoja Santa and Root Beer Plant - the latter from the scent of the large heart-shaped leaves. The leaves are used to wrap fish, tamales and other foods in Mexican and Indian cooking. Can be invasive in tropical areas, but it is an easy container plant.

This is a picture of the actual plant that is up for bid.

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I want to say theres a market of decent size in exotic flowers and such.

http://www.kaleialoha.com/store/cart.cgi?action=search&category=Specialty%20/%20Species

Other than trees I'd think flowers of a rare variety fetch the most money relative to work(Couldn't actually say).  Just be sure your greenhouse located in a tropic region.