Greetings fellow travelers!

Long time lurker here, (seriously a L O N G time), but I never felt I had much to contribute to the grand scheme of things, so I simply enjoyed soaking up information over the years, from the shadows.


Well, the times, they are a changing.


As I traverse the third decade of my existence and look back; at my care free pre-teen youth, at my never ending quest for legal and illegal intoxication/altered states as a teen / well into my 20's, and at the journey for personal growth, inner-peace, and personal understanding that I find myself currently in; I am starting to see and understand with greater clarity, which elements of each of those sections of my life engaged me the most, and led to the most real feelings of contentedness, and a feeling of true inner euphoria.

Without going to far down my own personal rabbit hole, I have began to realize that I have long had a passion for plants and botany, even before I understood any fraction of it.

Going back to being a very young kid, playing out in the fertile fields where I grew up, collecting unique plants and bringing them back to our "forts", "dissecting" them, and usually finding some tender little inner part of the plant that was determined to be the "food" of the plant, and would eat it. It is a wonder that as a young child I didn't poison myself!

Fast forward to the intoxication seeking teen segment of my life, and I was doing much the same thing, but my interest had shifted to wild psychedelic mushrooms, and smoking random wildflowers, investigating and trying every "legal high" I could, and attempting to discover my own. Once again, I was very lucky not to have killed myself consuming poorly identified plants and fungi.

In my 20's, I focused more and more on rare and unusual chemicals, and not so much on my long standing passion for botany, in fact at this point, I never really associated botany with enjoyment itself, it was always just a means to get intoxicated/altered.


Well at this point, I have kind of come full circle.

I now realize that, deep in my core, few things make my feel as happy and content, as learning about, tending to, and using / learning from, the many amazing medicinal and psychoactive plants that are all around us, and their traditional uses.


I am in the process of building up my own little ethnobotanical garden, a goal I have long dreamed about.

As I write this, I look to my left, and see 6 beautiful little Desmanthus illinoensis sprouts that just showed themselves this week.

Off to the side of that is 10 of the notoriously difficult to germinate Banisteriopsis muricata seeds, with their little wings reaching above the surface of the soil, but no signs of life yet.

Another glance around, and I am looking at a couple of beautiful, happy "Wasson" strain Salvia divinorum plants that are ready for transplanting to a bigger pot, and a handful of "Blosser" strain cuttings attempting to shoot out some roots in cups of water.

A little further over in the corner, and we have the hardy "non-bitter"variety of Calea zacatechichi, a recent arrival that is rebounding from it's dark journey in a USPS box, showing lots of new growth at all nodes!

In front of that is a tray of Ipomoea violacea seedlings, rapidly growing and needing to be replanted, they ultimately will find a home outside in lots of sun.

In addition to all these wonderful allies, I have some "Catnip", Nepeta cataria, and some "Broad Leaf Sage", Salvia officinalis, sprouts happily growing bigger every day.


As soon as I get a little more time, the next round of germination and planting will happen, which is set to include (seeds ready to go);

Acacia Acuminata spp. Burkittii - Sandhill Wattle
Acacia Simplicifolia (Simplex)
Peganum harmala - Syrian Rue
Psychotria viridis - Chacruna
Silene capensis - African Dream Root
Heimia Myrtifolia - Aztec Sun Opener
Heimia Salicifolia - Aztec Sun Opener


I am really looking forward to landscaping my yard with Acacia's, Bundleflower's, and Syrian Rue, all of which should absolutely thrive where I am.


Spending time with my little humble garden is probably one of my most enjoyable activities, and I cannot wait to learn the lessons that these allies have to teach.



I suppose I have rambled long enough!

If you have bothered to read through all this, you may have realized that I have not really touched on the topic of my experiences with DMT itself, simply put, I have not had the opportunity to learn it's ways yet, but that will be changing in the near future.


Thanks for reading, I hope to be a positive contributing member to the amazing pool of knowledge that bursts at the seams of this site!

That garden of yours sounds like it'll be pretty amazing. Plants and fungi are amazing things. I hope one day to have a collection like yours. I believe I'll order my first Salvia plant soon, and will hopefully do some fungi cultivation this summer. Did you order your Wasson online?

hi furhenden
Welcome & thank you for the introduction!
Sounds like you have a nice collection of seeds and plants and you have a nice home for them

Please keep us updated and share any information on your growing progress.
Pictures are always appreciated by members like myself.

Hope to see you around
And once again a big warm welcome

Thanks mondo!

Yes all of my S. divinorum plants came from an online vendor.

The blosser and the wasson actually came together, as fully rooted cuttings, with two stocks for each variety, about a foot high.

Both stocks of the Blosser almost immediately broke right at the soil when I un-packaged them, the Wasson survived in-tact.

I immediately made cuttings from the broken Blossers, and kept the pot they came in (now with virtually no visible life above the soil) covered with plastic and under light.

I wasn't so sure that the root ball of the Blosser would actually put out any new life, but sure enough, a week and a half later, there is a couple little tiny leafs forming from the 1 cm of stem that was above the soil!

Let there be life!

Thanks boogerz!

I will add some photos to this post asap!

That sounds like a great story of success furhenden! I am very glad they survived. Salvia divinorum might be my favorite plant! I've had some really cool experiences on plain leaf so far and a couple of experiences using extract. My tolerance is already very low!

Yes thank you!

Salvia Divinorum is truly a unique plant in every way I can think of, it makes me smile just knowing that I am in the presence of such a strange and relatively rare plant.

Welcome furhenden!

I also have a passion for Botany but it is not nearly as cultivated as yours! It sounds incredible to have so many plant allies around you which you nourish.

In the end I have chosen a different path and I have yet to have the proper facilities to nurture such life. My attempts to grow mugwort for example never reached past small sprouts. Someday I hope that will change.

I too look forward to seeing pictures of your garden!

Pictures will be coming soon, I have been a little distracted in the last few days...

Many things needed replanting this last weekend... Including putting my Blosser cuttings into soil yay!


Since my intro post, I hypothetically completed cyb's tek on some ACRB, with good results...

Have a couple 10 mg (+/-2mg), piles pre-set aside.

My brand new sherlock GVG was delivered today

I found some chore boy locally...


Now the universe must continue to conspire with me, and provide me with a good point in time with which to dip my toes in the water so to speak

If u haven't done so may I recommend a
arc turboflame lighter.

Like many nexians before me have advised its a great lighter for the gvg and many smoking devices.

I wish I had gotten one a long time ago. Much safer than my previous torch which couldn't adjust to a small flame --slightly burning my wooden VG

Ah yes, I have seen much mention of the Arc.

I will keep it in mind, as it is, I have a quite reliable little adjustable pocket torch already.

It is a relatively cheap-o one, but it has been quite reliable in my dealing with it in the past.

Thanks for the pro-tip though

Welcome aboard furhenden! Glad you decided to step out of the shadows and join us. If you haven't yet check out the Share the Seeds site. Lots of dedicated planty types to make friends with there.

Welcome to the Nexus ! Botany is a very fine approach to the realm of plants. Did you extract or partake already into tryptamines ?

Thanks all!

I will definitely check out the share the seeds site, thanks for the heads up!

I have not yet dabbled with DMT, but all the pieces of the puzzle have fallen into place for it to happen,(in fact my brand new gvg is sitting at home loaded with an introductory 10mg) now I am just awaiting a time that fits.

Unfortunately, my lady friend whom I live with, has been having some bouts of deep depression the last few days, so even though I have been in a great mood, and ecstatic to get my toes wet, it just has not felt right...

I have had past experience with LSD, LSA, Psilocybin, 4-ACO-DMT, and some of the 2c-* chems, to name a few.

you must have a great feel for plants.
amazing collection must be pretty complex to manage.
different watering times and so on.
if i may ask, do you find similarities peculiar to physchoactive plants?
poppys and rue....
larch and chucruna...
im sure thier are many,
but do you intuit thier are characteristics typical of a physchoactive plant?
thanks.

Thanks 8x8!

I am certainly not going to claim to be some kind of professional green thumb, but I like to think I have a pretty good sense for what they need.

My entho garden is a pretty recent endeavor, so I am still in the early days of what will hopefully be a long term rewarding journey.


I have long felt that certain plants do seem to almost "call out" to us humans on some level, to be learned from, healed by, whatever the case may be.

The more experience I get directly with living psychoactive and medicinal plants of different varieties, the more I feel like I can kind of fine tune my sense for what makes, or may make, an unknown plant special. I do think they have similarity, in that they all call to us some how or another.

I tend to be a quite rational, science and facts based person, but having said that, I try not to discount any possibility when it comes to nature.

Had a chance to test the waters this afternoon

Experience report here; https://www.dmt-nexus.me...aspx?g=posts&t=62991

I think I have found what I have been longing for in more ways then one

Huzzah!

That's great that you have such a productive passion! Enteobotany and gardening in general look like they are very rewarding. I would love to have a (entheo)garden one day and get to work with amazing plants and give them loving care! I haven't seen your other posts but do you have a growlog for any of your plants? Happy journeying!

Welcome furhenden!

The first thing that psychedelics showed me at our introduction many decades ago was:

The plants.

The plants are what's important.

Keep up the good work.

I woke up one day and decided to become a gardener because of psychedelic mushrooms and plants.

Now I am a professional gardener, have a certificate in organic horticulture and starting a 4 year apprenticeship with my boss who has bio science and hort degrees so I can get my red seal horticulture trade ticket..

Thanks psychedelic plants! I might be working at walmart if not for you...