Quick question - My friend has come across a fair few Heavenly Blue seeds which he plans to extract the LSA from. Only problem is they are commercial seed. He just wants to check that the extraction will rid the seeds of any nasties that the seed company coated them in as well as the nausia causing parts of the seed itself.

He plans to wash with water once first, then do the naptha wash, then IPA pulls for his tek.

Plant them? Its getting near to spring man, march could be a good time to plant them. You could have plenty of good seeds.
I didnt think they would do anything to the seeds, maybe pesticides? I dont know, but growing them would be cool.

I'm going to plant some, but I have literally thousands of them, so unless I want to start a plague of Morning Glory in London, I am going to have some spare.

I read that seed companies treat the seed with something to make them even more nausiating when eaten, to discourage ingesting them. (not sure what is used) I do not know if mine are treated, but I will assume they are.

If treated seed cannot be extracted from, I will grow them and use the 2nd generation seeds, but as I said I have waaayyyy too many for a garden my size. (and I am impatient )

The company's don't care if you eat the seeds. The reason they coat the seeds is to prevent fungus from growing on it, so yeah, it's a sort of pesticide maybe.

Besides, london seems the apropriate place to start a morning glory plague.

I was thinking that myself - I feel a spot of guerilla gardening coming on!

So does that mean they can be used to extract from, or not?

Can anyone help with this?

Maybe wash the seeds off before you attempt to extract? That'd probably be the best bet I'd guess.

You could always contact the company that packages the seeds and ask whether they're treated with a fungicide.

This will be a revolution!
I can see the headlines: "flocking fleet of flowers floods the city","what's the story? morning glory","bankers putting flowers in their hair","singing lesbians convert the queen".
It will be fantastic.

I don't know about extractions but don't use treated seeds! couple years ago, used 950. one of the worst nights of my life. didn't trip. thought I was gonna die. blacked out and my friend said I was convulsing and turning blue. don't know what the fuck they treat them with but people should know not to use treated ones.

Typically they use methylmercury. It's a fungicide. In humans, it's a neurotoxin.

Dear god. I just see the word mercury and I cringe when I think of ingesting it.