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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #20 on: January 07, 2010, 04:17:50 AM »
This should be a good year.  :)

I bought a bunch of seeds that I'll germinate when spring comes around. Right now, I'm germinating some T. pachanoi and T. peruvianus indoors.

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Artemisia absinthium
Salvia divinorum
Trichocereus bridgesii
Trichocereus pachanoi
Trichocereus peruvianus
Papaver somniferum
Datura inoxia
Calea zacatechichi
Catha edulis
Ipomoea tricolor
Nelumbo nucifera
Nicotiana rustica
Nicotiana tobacum
Nymphaea caerulea
Peganum harmala
Psychotria viridis
Syrian Rue
Trichocereus terscheckii
Mimosa pudica

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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #21 on: January 07, 2010, 05:05:43 AM »
Where are you from Seuss?

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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #22 on: January 07, 2010, 06:18:13 AM »
Peganum harmala and syrian rue are the same thing :P

Best of luck to you on that plant though! I can grow it, but I can't get the little sucker to flower or produce seeds.

You ought to add Sida Cordifolia (sp) to your collection, it is a plant worth growing!
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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #23 on: January 11, 2010, 07:21:54 PM »
Im doing a 2 acre garden this year,so far i just have a few seedlings plated and im placing this years order very soon. ill post what im ordering then. I plan on dong a rainbow theme this year!

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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #24 on: March 28, 2010, 12:41:18 AM »
I figured I ought to start of this thread again, as I've started to grow other plants, and perhaps others have started to grow things as well?

Thus far, though you can count on their being more soon!

I am growing:
Sida Cordifolia -- Bala
Not to many yet, I've got a little bushy plant of it, and I am trying to germinate some more of its seeds, which has always proven to be pretty difficult since my seeds are old, and they seem to be hard to adjust to the sunlight

Helianthus tuberosus -- Jerusalem artichoke
I haven't planted these bulbs yet, but I will eventually. I hear they grow really tall, pretty fast. They might have some sort of use when it comes to hiding various things from other things that might be looking. I doubt I will grow many, just enough to get some seeds and bulbs for other years incase I ever really want to grow them.


Cacti
I am just starting to germinate various cacti seeds, but I have three others that have been growing for a while. I am not sure of the type, but I do believe one of them is a San Pedro, and all of the others are closely related. I have also recently obtained some wild cacti -- I am not sure what type they are, but I believe they are prickly pear that have over wintered. They don't have the typical flat shape, and have a more bulbous shape to them, though some of them do resemble the flat lobe to some degree. They look dehydrated, small, and very spiky.

I would really like to practice grafting cacti this year, hopefully I can do that -- I think it would also be cool to get some pereskiopsis and attempt a hydroponic grow of some interesting cacti out in the sun.  I can't even imagine how huge this would allow a cacti to get in one grow season.

Peganum Harmala -- Syran Rue
Despite having almost killed the guys on many many occasions, some have made it through the winter, alive but not looking well. I hope to bring these back to a nice bushy little plant and get them to flower and produce a bunch of seeds. More then likley I will kill them by over-caring, or neglect.

Sassafras albidum
Ah! The tiniest little guy that barely survived last year has sprouted a new shoot and has began to grow this year! Hopefully I will get a nice little tree this year that hasn't been stressed from the shipping, transplanting and climate change.

Nicotiana Tabacum -- Virginia Tobacco
This guy I started to grow last year in a pot in the begging of summer - it is now about 6ft tall, and it is still flowering! I've got a bunch of seeds from in, and hopefully this summer he will be taken outside and become huge, with tons of the pink flowers it has. I'm really surprised it looks as well as it does just living in my window over the winter. How big do you think it will get?

Nicotiana Rustica
I have two little guys of this plant, pretty boring, I have zillions of its seeds though from the crop I grew last year though.

Brugmansia
This guy, who almost died last year from aphids, made a poor recovery this summer, and then almost died again this year from aphids, is now starting to make a great comeback! It is about 3-4 feet tall, and is getting some larger leafs on it. It has a very thick and woody stem/trunk on it. Hopefully it will grow a few more feet this year and branch out. It should flower by now, and I will probably make a few more cuttings of it to get to root.

I ought to look into growing a plant that contains a large amount of eugenol in it, what one do you think is the best, and most practical? I could even make a decent sized steam distillation set up. This would be fun, I guess. Pretty pointless though...

I plan to grow a bunch of others, but I am not sure what to start to grow, I have nearly over 50(?) different plants, but most are lame or not of much interest to me at least.

Are you guys growing any interesting plants that might inspire me to grow others?
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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #25 on: March 30, 2010, 02:36:08 AM »
A few fledgling poppy sprouts, but it's moreso for fun than for production so I'm enjoying the experience.

I'm jealous of you guys with big gardens! I'd love to just have an entire garden dedicated to cactii.

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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #26 on: March 30, 2010, 02:59:46 AM »
Yeah. I mostly keep my plants in pots though, very few make it into the ground. However, I am thinking this year is going to be different -- I plan to grow something in a large garden area, I'm just not sure what yet...

Good luck on the poppies!
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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #27 on: April 05, 2010, 04:56:16 AM »
Also now growing some more wild cacti ~ 100+, all very small, haven't rooted yet but will as the last ones I got did so in a week or two.. unlike my other one I like better..:(
I hope to sell the wild cacti  later this year and I recently got some lemon balm, and am going to get sweet basil soon, hopefully..

I am starting about 500 right now ( might end but to be more 700?) little 3oz plastic cup  to have cacti, tobacco (Rustica & normal) as well as datura inoxia and datura stramonium var tatula, then I am going to attempt to sell each for 2 dollars as a source for "college money" .. in front of my house. Epic fail? Probably, but its worth a try and if not, I'll just plant them all over the place, and give out for free. It should be fun!

I'm trying to come up with other plants that would be good to attempt to sell to the locals, but I think tobacco is probably going to be the best, as it makes a great flower, and has an exotic/cultural interest -- plus others may think they are going to do something else with it. Who knows...

Anyways, thought I'd just update. Oh and apparently in this thread I didn't mention that I got some hops seeds, and some roots of hops.. so I'm going to be growing these as well. Hopefully the hops seeds should germinate, but if not I have the others.

Anyone ever germinate hops seeds before?

Edit: I've uploaded a few photos of two cacti I am trying to graft -- hopefully I'll succeed! :D
And when I get the time.. I'll toss a few more pictures up here as well...
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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #28 on: April 08, 2010, 03:45:26 PM »
I am on my third season with Sassafrass Albidum. Got one that is nice size and i am about ready to put it in the ground.(about three feet tall, by about three feet wide. The stem is about the size of a mans thumb) The other one is stunted like one of my asshole friends pissed in the pot and stunted its growth. The leaves havent even busted yet while my other is furishing. I had trouble with it all last season and at the end of the season it was about 8 inches tall. Got a few camphor trees but they have been around longer than me so maybe they are raising me. I also am the proud parent of hoja santa, day 2.

Quick question, when does sassafrass become mature enough to flower and produce seeds?
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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #29 on: April 08, 2010, 05:15:11 PM »
Around 40 little T. Bridgesii pups are smiling at me every morning, a nice ephedra plant (a bitch to keep alive), several poppies, and soon some reed canary grass, piper nigrum and auritum and perhaps even I will try a strychnos nux vomica...but I dont hope on it surviving too long. A few peyote and san pedro there too but I dont think I will ever bring myself to kill the peyote, hopelessly attached to it at this stage. I have some belladonna seeds that I just cannot get to germinate - anyone ever germinate these?
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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #30 on: April 08, 2010, 10:30:39 PM »
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Quick question, when does sassafrass become mature enough to flower and produce seeds?

No idea, but if it helps I know a lot of fruit trees take a good five years - their may be ways to cheat this, however.
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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #31 on: April 28, 2010, 12:52:50 AM »
For those of you who have ever tried to grow Syrian Rue, you probably know how incredibly hard it is to do. They almost always die -- but some how I managed to get them to grow into fairly large plants, and even live inside over the winter.

But now I've really done it -- I've grown these desert plants that thrive on lack of water, and often die from watering, to also grow with some mushrooms.

It doesn't drain nearly as well as I thought the pot/soil did -- perhaps they will die.

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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #32 on: April 29, 2010, 01:01:46 AM »
hey does anyone know "where" the seeds from Morning Glory plants ARE??  i've been lookin for years and have never found ANY!!! :'(
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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #33 on: April 29, 2010, 01:04:11 AM »
Do you mean you cannot find them on the plant, or you cannot find them sold?
Perhaps you mean something entirely different? I am confused at the fact that you'd have a hard time with this, I am probably misunderstanding something.
lemme know.
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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #34 on: April 29, 2010, 03:31:39 AM »
i cannot find them on the plant---i have looked everywhere :o and they are flowering as we type ;D
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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #35 on: April 29, 2010, 03:44:33 AM »
The flower will form a pod after a while. Those will have several seeds in them each. Make sure it gets pollinated?

When the flower falls off, and after a while you should see something like this: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Ap0tOVRAr-s/Sse4NRErBII/AAAAAAAACs4/MoEn35V_bP4/s400/Morning+Glory+seed+pods+setting+seeds.png

this will eventually turn into this:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Ap0tOVRAr-s/Sse3nkZG2FI/AAAAAAAACsw/BUk14Wce-p0/s400/Ripe+Morning+Glory+seed+pods+on+vine.png

at which point should be cracked open, and the seeds gathered.
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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #36 on: April 29, 2010, 04:40:43 AM »
thanx waspman ;D 8)
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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #37 on: April 29, 2010, 05:15:17 AM »
hey does anyone know "where" the seeds from Morning Glory plants ARE??  i've been lookin for years and have never found ANY!!! :'(

Go to the store and buy heavenly blue morning glory seeds.....

We use to steal them by the messload and toss them in a blender with everclear. Filter and enjoy the evaporated junk....

Kind of like LSD on heavy sedatives would be the best way to describe it I guess.
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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #38 on: April 29, 2010, 05:18:24 AM »
Except for don't do that-- they coat them in nasty stuff (so I hear) and you will really regret eating them. I'd only ingest them if you knew they were clean.
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Re: What are you growing this year?
« Reply #39 on: April 30, 2010, 01:37:03 AM »
i hear you,,,its just i cant believe that after fuckin years and years of lookin at morning glory "colonies" (they're quite a pest actually in the jungles of nth NSW) huge groups of plants that can fill a small valley.....i have yet to 'find/see' one seed!!!  go figure??? they cant all be sterile,, can they??? ???
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