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Great pics Boomer2 & right next to the road!

One imagines a keener on the reindeer path.  The bitter cold.  Slippery Ice.  A spine of forest into a new world.  All for a glimpse. 

I read somewhere (Pendell, poss) that the global & iconic red-capped muscari vary immensely in strength.  Delicious in the SW, by which I mean culinary

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has Luna strain, among multitudes of other salvias. you may have to click on any item & then find the "view all items" link...

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the once-fertile greenstranger (theatrum botanicum) used to have many different strains, but I believe that it has closed after original owner packed up & moved to mexico.  He now runs Xplanta which has much info on our companion plants, but
does not seem to have any of these salvias for sale now.  cool site anyway... 

most other places (ie Daniel Siebert's reputable sagewisdom.org) either do not identify the strain or offer the Palatable (aka Blosser) strain.

good luck!


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Thanks, Kemp

Insightful & thought-provoking topic.

My take is that we've been given a story that serves as a corruptive jading & callousness ... for life!  The demonizing renouncements of the reality of life on Earth.  The walk in the woods that is delighted in a strangely beatific version of nature, careless of the real danger of the Puma.

I submit that is in the honoring of the Jaguar, not slaying the dragon, that apes can then appraise and enjoy the wonder and awe of our existence, as likely our psyche, formed of millions of years of living on this planet instead of against it.  What good is a centenary life if it is caged in an antiseptic story, an enduring infantilism, a square life that says you are not of the earth? 

Thus when faced with the reality of dying come seconds of gratitude, the possibility of an engaged livity, before crashing headlong onto the rocky shore ...

according to the rangemaps (see tools in my post above) both occur in Harney County (just enter the latin, or, for the usda map, set to state search and fill in state and plant name, then you can click on the state if the plant is present - green - and it will break it down to county), but it is possible if not likely that they occur elsewhere nearby (Malheur, Lake, others).  the good thing about these tools is that they are based on experiential knowledge, so can and do update as reports come in; also given that everything on the planet is on the move!  also the bonap seems to be a little better, b/c even though by county, it uses gradations of occurence that indicates more of a geograph than a polital graph ~ cheers!

Greets Jamison and interested individuals ~

yes 2 ephedras, including E. viridis, grow in Oregon's dryer areas.

Good range map sources for any plant in the United States are www.plants.usda.gov and www.bonap.org

at least one good online source for herbal constituencies is the South West School of Botanical Medicine, www.swsbm.com.

Icarus

Icarus

McKenna's book reached the 80K advance order goal and will be published and available soon.  It will be interesting to read about personal insights into these Brothers during such a fascinating time in plant/human consciousness.

Greets!

like some other friends, this is slightly off subject:

though never a heavy cig smoker (including rollies), I started to grow
Rustica several years back, just a few plants that germinated at the
edge of the garden & encouraged to grow.  harvested the few leaves
in Nov & smoked them in Dec & Jan.  Point being that such potent
Nicotiana forms actually helped to discourage heavy use, made
wintertime a little warmer, created the satisfaction of full circle, & I could
understand with such reverence
for this plant that prior to colonization, indigenous use never got
to the excessiveness we see in the modern world  :smoke2:

Irie,
So here's the tray of seedlings.....I really got to find some space to put them down....
Respect,

Maybe Johnny Appleseedling some    in a local park for futures to
discover in awe!

I hope this story reaches publication; Dennis's story of his relationship with Terence & their unique world of plants & fungi seems to me essential to our enthusiasms here.  

The pledge is through Amazon with no risk if funding amount is not reached.  As of now they are almost half-way, with a little over a month left.

much appreciation Zaka for your continuing pictorial.  all your plants look healthy & appreciate your love.  I am curious about the outside conditions that they enjoy, like average humidity, night & day temperatures, and general latitude (tropical, sub-tropical, temperate).  thank you Zaka!

a tip from JLHudson seedsman suggests for storage of most solanaceous seeds that keeping them in the raisins until planting helps with viability.  I've always just planted solanaceous with the raisin/berry material only slightly squashed into pieces just under the soil.  this results in clumping germination that can later be separated.  there is nearly 100% germination.

As i was warned by my mentor, a knowledgeable sitter is essential for first-timers,  and, i imagine, more experienced users if they feel the need.
The mind is not a joke - recreational drugs are not a joke - this is serious business deserving respect and safe location.

When will we realize that education provided by qualified educators would upgrade our collective experience a millionfold....

exactly: casual society doesn't bother to understand the plants and then demonizes them when something happens.  looking for reasons, looking for something to blame.  this is similar to the gun argument (if guns kill, then outlaw guns).  I noted also the slip in reference to Miley Cyrus's claim to legal use as "caught" which is comparable to someone being caught drinking coffee (although after seeing the video I'm not convinced it was Salvia.)

yes I've experienced the same; it's the point of too much, but bc of tequila's delay, the warning always too late! feel jilted of time even tho' can't blame anyone.  on the brightside, t in the right dose isn't just distilled liquor to me, much more psychedeliclike.  much respect for Agave!