I thought this might be a fun topic to start, despite the feeling I get that very few people here actually grow plants. Hopefully a few do.

Anyways, what sort of plants do are you growing, or plan on growing this year?

Right now I have the seeds planted or the plants growing of..

Nicotiana Rustica = 3-9% nicotine (about to flower, wtf? Its only like 12 inches tall +/- a few inches)
Nicotiana Sylvestris = low levels of nicotine. Anyone know the concentration?
Nicotiana Tobacum  = 1-3% Nicotine
Ephedra Viridis = Mormon Tea" contains some sort of alkaloids that are stimulants/apatite suppressants.
Echinopsis pachanoi  = San pedro - contains mescaline
Ipomoea violacea = Heavenly blue morning glory = Nasty chemicals + lysergic acid amides.
Papaver Species of some sort  = some sort of isoquinoline alkaloids I believe?
Sida Cordifolia = .8 to 1.2% Ephedrine
Sassafras albidum = safrole and other aromatics in the root.
Ginkgo Biloba -  they're rumoured to work as nootropics.
Aesculus hippocastanum = Horse Chestnut = contains blood thining compounds that when in an acidic solution will fluoresce blue under UV light.
Delosperma nubigenum = contains MeO-DMT, DMT, and mesmeberine, as well as some salt of oxalic acid, or the acid itself. Mesmeberine is a potent SSRI.
Peganum Harmala = Syrian Rue = Contains Harmala Alkaloids which are MonoAmine Oxidase Inhibitors.
Datura Inoxia
Datura Wrightii
Datura Tatula
.. all of the datura are often called angels trumpet, thorn apple, jimsonweed, etc and contain atropine, scopolamine, and a few other little bizzare chemicals.
Phalaris Arundinacea = low levels of DMT with various toxic chemicals in it.
Hydrangea Sp. of some sort, contains cyanide.
Also I have a tomato plant growing, and planted some "giant bell peppers" as well as some dipper gourds, which seem like mother natures RBF w/ reflux condenser.
Lactuca Serriola = Opium lettuce/wild lettuce = contains the enkephalinase inhibitors lactucopicrin, and lactucin (maybe others) that have analgesic effects equal to or greater then ibuprofen if administered properly (according to the tail flick test on mice)

I am planning on also planting some of these plants:
Artemisia absinthium = thujone? used in that one alcoholic drink
Mimosa hostilis = DMT
Desmanthus illinoensis = DMT
and the mescaline containing cacti:
Trichocereus bridgesii
Trichocereus pachanoi -- a few different strains
Trichocereus peruvianus
Trichocereus macrogonus
Verbascum thapsus - contains rotenone and coumarin. I think the indians used it to catch fish, and it is also smoked to help the lungs. Considering it has two toxic compounds in it, and generally smoke isn't good for you, I think this a bit strange that people still smoke it.
Hopefully I'll have near 100 of those, but It is hard to say since so far only 1 seed, out of the 50 San Pedro seeds I have planted has germinated. Hopefully it will live, and many more will sprout.

I hope I can get some more interesting seeds to plant, but I don't know what I'd grow really. I have spotted a Hops (Humulus lupus?) plant growing in someones yard, hopefully I can get a little clipping of it. I think it would be fun to have.

I think out of all of the plants, I want the Sida Cordifola to grow into some nice beautiful bushes 1.5 meters high and let off a lot of seeds! Boy that sounds like a neat plant.

Anyways, you guys growing anything? I hope so! It can be pretty fun and can have its benefits!

Cool, if I had more space I'd grow some more of the food plants, but my garden space is very limited and most of my plants have to be kept in pots. Plus everyone in my house enjoys destroying stuff.

Sassafras albidum - some small suckers in the garden, and few more i'm going to plant this year
Atropa belladonna - perennial in my garden, this would be the 3rd year and i think the rhizome is already big
Datura inoxia (going to soak seeds now)
Leonotis nepetifolia (probably, i have some old seeds and don't know if they will sprout)
Whitania somnifera (Ashwagandha, adaptogen and mild stimulant)
Yucca filamentosa - small, frost hardy yuccas

Turns out the soil I used last year has changed enough that it won't drain this year and it is causing some serious problems with my plants. How disappointing! Many are still doing good though, and I can always plant more.
Sida Cordifolia will not germinate, so that's a bitch I wanted that plant.

Here is a picture of one of the many Syrian rue plants I am growing. I am using cactus soil, and it seems to be working the best.

+ some datura inoxia I need to transplant that are between my tobacco.

Looks pretty interesting. Anti-Cancer things are always nice when you occasionally deal with carcinogenic material.

My Sida Cordifola seeds never germinated. What a bummer. Plants can some times be really hard to get from seeds.

I never really transplanted my datura, so they're suffering.

some of my current grow results:
1,2 - sassafras sucker. already >60cm, not bad for 1st year seedling!
3 - sassafras seeds are sprouting in vermiculite
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Yes, you're quite right - the bigger(deeper) pot, the better growth. I grow it in a 1.2-1.3m plastic tube for toilet drain. If there is any frustration for roots going deep down, it slows in growth. I think it could grew even bigger if there were more oxygen in the lower parts of the drain, because when i screwed it in order to provide an access for air there, there was an odor of decay. I hope if i let air inside, it will continue to grow in the rate it was gowing last months.
I am cutting all side buttons and sprigs in order to leave only one direction for growth, in that particular plant. That is an experiment, but unfortunately i dont have what compare with(it is only one plant on the photos). Last years i had much poorer results, anyway.

Your sassafras seems to be suffering from the same desease i wrote about in some topic(help to acquire sassafras seeds or smth like that in acquisition). What soil is there where you planted it? How it looks like?  If it is ideal for gardening, it does not mean it is ideal for sassafras. My plants were also very sick on usual soil, and the leaves looked like attacked by snails or beetles, but all that is probably because of soil, on propper soil it would not have been attacked.

Another update, just for fun.

The plants in the picture should be obvious from other pictures I've posted and labeled except for picture 369. 369 is Sida Cordifola.

Awesome, You can take the extract dissolve it in alcohol, and fill old axe bottles full of it.. making your own dangerously disguised pepper spray. Pressurizing it with butane afterwords is easy and allows it to spray out very easily.
I've used syringes to add the reagants to the axe spray bottles... of course this is off topic, but I figured I'd mention it.

There are certain things you can do to increase how hot the peppers are, I think exposing them to bacteria,water/lack of water, high nitrogen, and stuff like that can help but I am not to sure as I haven't read about this in a long time.

I was growing "giant bell peppers" but I forgot about them and they died. My tobacco and datura covered them up and I never saw them again.



 

Interesting, got a pic? Mine didn't grow at all
Maybe inside it will be much better!