Hello and good day me olde china's!

Thankyou for having me *emits grattitude and a little bit of light*

I'm sure we will get along lovely

I initially joined to search for reputable "rare" seed/plant/vine stockists because im spending far too much on ingredients (in the uk) that are either not the species advertised, just dont germinate or work at all or are extortionate prices for a 3 inch tree and the like... and trying to get a supplier in usa to finalise a seed order is just turning out to be a spirit crushing process... also to find out where to put polite word out to the entheogenic community about the rip off vendors without having to go to trading standards and give the trade a bad name before it even takes off - so long as this complies with the nexus

I've researched from this site for at least 2 and a half years now maybe 3?...so i trust you guys, now I feel time has come to build rapport and forge alliances

Bliss wishes, awesomesauce blessings and much respect

horsey

hi & welcome to the Nexus


It is a shame when vendors give the ethnobotanicals trade a bad name, especially since there are so few retailers to choose from. I remember when a retailer I had used for years changed hands and shortly afterwards went out of business, it was galling, especially since they had their own forum and some very knowledgeable people lost touch completely because of it. There is a retailer who I trust though, has a good range of stock, and whatever I've ordered has been of high quality. Can't share that at the moment though because I don't have access to the vendor area.

But anyway, sorry to hear you've had such problems trying to locate someone reliable.

Thankyou kindly indeed :], it's a pleasure to be here

After an all out 5 day internet blasting it's already looking up so far...
I managed to source a fantastic cacti nursery here and since my intro post, a few live plant hobbyists on private listing booths... which is reassuring and very exciting - resulted in 2 beautifully grown Calea zacatechichi so far, a Holland truffle farm resulting in success with breaking a migraine cycle and also anxiously anticipating the arrival of 3 new (to me) species of Acacia (seeds) from usa that I've been itching to grow for years: simplex, confusa and maidenii - which I'm sure will look the biz next to the tepezcohuites - time to reassemble the homemade propogator :]

maybe the Nexus has turned out to be a lucky charm *emits even more light*

Greetings Thunderhorse,

Welcome to formal Nexus membership. It's always a pleasure to have a longterm lurker sign up. Hopefully, you have already read everything like the links above (wiki, Attitude, etc.) and basically know the ropes. But, please don't hesitate to ask questions if they come up - I should not make assumptions.

Hopefully, you have already found and extensively explored the Sustainable plant and seed Suppliers subfora . . . https://www.dmt-nexus.me....aspx?g=topics&f=108 .

It sounds like you should mesh well here. So many of us grow as many entheogenic plants as our spaces allow. We love the idea of growing and extracting our own, whatever it may be, .

So, do you have much experience with entheogens to date? Or are you mainly interested in botany? I just realized that hadn't really come up yet. . . .

Looking forward to seeing you around. Again, welcome to the Nexus.

Greetings and blessings Pandora....

Being a migraine sufferer (Cluster right thru to hemi plegic - the whole spectrum) and other "disorder diagnosis animals".....having just disposed of ten years of hardcore Drs medicines trial and fail rubbish after finding nature has all my cures far surpassing anything "they" want me to know.....

My experiences first began with mary jane age 13 and alice age 16 - a total one off as she is rare as rocking horse muck here and havent seen nor heard of her since and I'm 33 now, coupled to that about 17 experiences with both eve and molly before giving up on human interfaces and their wormy tactics and 20 years of mary having (just stopped 3 months ago again due to the same reason)

I spent 7 years of hunting psillies literally everywhere imaginable (after reading medical trials results that they are one of the cures to clusters) and simultaneously researching mycology out of general interest and fascination from 2004 ...which resulted in a total of less than 14 libs ever on a university campus (apparently the most common species here.. pfft!), 4 strictipes and in 2011 found my first cyans - 300 wavy caps at my old primary school of all places! - I had read they were head teacher caps - (Also the last 4 of those years I had been spending every autumn and winter drinking fly agaric skin tea until 3 months ago when i found i could smoke the whole caps dried and ground which was absolutely out of this world)

so...being a newb at the time i read dose instructions for libs and ate a hundred wavys XD which pretty much put me in direct contact with my ancestors who were emitting light and very proud looking indeed. From there on I began researching ayawaska and as many entheogens/ethnobotanicals as humanly possible... failing to get that contact with the ancestors back in later journeys I did however see the earth was marked with luminous green grid light/lines and whole lot more.. never laughed more in my whole life... freedom is bliss

Last years experiences with wavys were after learning about the potentiating effect of syrian rue and i finally had a face pulling and giggling match with an... elf? after quite a startle initially

At the end of last fall I began compiling an extensive collection of juvenile (definitely not ready) visionary cacti with a view to collecting every last species - the count is now at 6 species and three of those species I have several different cultivars of

After a desperate search to find something that looked even romotely as beautiful as the visuals hoping to find where they came from I eventually found them to be Aztek/Chavin/Mayan themed (by accident through google image searches etc) I began deeper into the Aztek entheogenic complex, studying the Mexica and Xoxipilli etc....

I had prior to this scratched the surface of a few ancient works of Alchemy, Witch Herbals and the legendary chemists Alexander Shulgin and Albert Hofmann also super heroes: María Sabina, Terrence and Dennis McKenna, Andrew Weil and of course Paul stamets and been very intrigued by the documentary "the spirit molecule" also learning all about maoi interactions and which things not to use them with

I've been a horticulturist (teaching me botany) since age 4, fascinated by herptology since visions of a toad god (lol) age 2, an aquarist (teaching me basic chemistry) since 2003 and studied sciences at uni anyway; coupled with having avid gardeners for grandparents and growing up with them till the last one died when i was 12 (the ancestors i actually met through wavys) and regular trips to wavy land ever since discovery (until storage ran out each year) and having also self taught pharmacology basics from personal anger toward ridiculously widespread enforced incompetence in the medical profession...

I also began experimenting with smoking various entheogens and botanicals with the giving up of maryjane... garden herbs such as mints lemon balm sage and more gentles but also blue lilly not lotus yet, common/syrian rue and wild nightshades

- in desperation over more clusters after a failed all night aya brewing sesh :/- White caapi and psychotria v -
I managed to find a truffle farm in hollandia whom with my first experience was last weekend and was instant release and so visually stunning, less potent than waveys by far but entirely different and the experience lasted up to 6 hours (as opposed to 3-4 usually on wavys) ...and will be again tonight but enhanced with 3 grams of ground hermesius/syrian rue seeds, 1.5 sat looking at me and 1.5 of them so far swallowed I'm just passing time before hitting the final pack of hollandia, Luckily after the wavy finds it turns out theyre growing everywhere now I know what to look for, unless they spored me and wherever i went they did too.

So.... fairly nubile yet somewhat experienced in the same breath, and looking forward to being around too and thankyou for the pleasure of your warm welcomes *wishes a bliss power moon weekend*


*glows*

Welcome,

I enjoyed reading your essay. There was one part of what you wrote that especially resonated with me.

Thankyou kindly Moniker, glad to be giving good vibes :] and awesomesauce Pandora on the link it's world seed supply who i ordered the acacias from , after reading the reviewsposted here I'm extatic.... yaya!

Wow I've come quite far since then :3
Incidentally world seed supply helped me germinate confusa and simplicifolia
and they're now 6months old plus
the only things i had from them out of some 15 or so species that didnt work
were cacti seeds and white ayawaska
the alicia were awesome
the muricata were awesome
the tunkunaka were awesome
so were the maidenii
and all the others i got were awesome that i cant recall off the top of my head atm
except for lol umm ..hemia salicifolis and hemia myrtifolia and nelumbo nucifera and nymphaea aquatica, tagetes lucidum ...

I had been so ripped off in uk with appauling quality viridis (alba) 2" yellow measly half dry wavy leaves wth a B-I-G petiole with NO-LEAF-MARGIN
non-viable peregrina (colubrina) seeds
and been sent datura stramonium labelled as metel and had to teach them so they would change it on their site, and ended up completely doubting anything they sold and never buying from them again and telling every one who came to me asking where they could get these cool plants from I made sure to warn them about, - all that was just one seller! - it wouldn't surprise me if they weren't a member here

not just them but while learning, 5 times since; I bought uk viridis plants from different sellers and every single one is an alba/carthagenensis
there are a few who are actually honest and sell them as an alba nowdays

there's only one uk source of true viridis I found , and that was in the form of 3 very large leaves (one was over 7 inches!) and they cost the same price as just one of the mush-room's I mentioned earlier, and these came with friendly helpful customer satisfaction,
had the domatia on the underside of the leaves, weren't wavy in the slightest
and the petiole reminded me of nicotiana tabacum , it was that covered in leaf margin there was no way it could be misidentified, just there's no more stock for now.

Thank fk I found the international ethnoplant scene and managed to rid myself of the time wasters in the uk, I did find some gems in uk but so few that I can count them on one hand.