Tabernanthe iboga Grow Log

[Ryparosa]

Thanks for the kind words stoney, I am just a humble friend of the plants.

For seedling media i use coco peat with perlite and a tiny bit of compost to add some good bugs. Infact i use coco peat for all my propgation until i put plants in the ground. I keep the medium moist at all times, When i say moist i mean just moist, not soaking wet.
They dont like drying right out when they are babies, some will bounce back, others wont.
Get a mister bottle and just spray the surface of the media to keep it the right level of moisture if you follow. A daily spray should be enough to keep you out of trouble.
The dehydrate/rehydrate trick i was more referring to getting seeds to sprout more than after. Get a hort tray, or a kitty litter tray, fill it with spagnum moss (this really is the best medium of all for iboga seedlings)  just through your seeds in and mix it around and put some towel over the top, every few days check for new sprouts and do as above that i stated before.
Ive noticed if you let the moss and seeds dry out a bit until half of the outer coat is looking dry, then re wet them again moist it triggers fast germination. I hope this all makes sense, I can write up a nice tutorial with pictures if you like. Theres lots of seedling pics in my photo gallery on SAB if you have membership there. Even a tripoid iboga seedling
Regarding die back, Generally if iboga starts dropping leaves its to cold, or not humid. If its caused by sun the leaves will yellow from the veins out and start getting burn patches THEN they drop their leaves. So its very easy to work out which one it is. Iboga will tolerate full tropical sun once trained to. But it has to be a older plant with a decent root system and it has to be gradual.
Iboga really likes a constant 25 deg Celcius as a minimum. It gets way hotter in its homeland of gabbon, Think around 35-40 C temps.
In PNG it takes around 2 -3 weeks from open cotyledons until 3rd node on average. The first year is very slow, in the ideal enviroment they get to about 50cm, then in the second year they really take off and grow like troopers!
Any other questions stoney please feel free to ask, Im sure i can set you on the right path.

Regards, Cas

[Stonehenge]

Here is a close up of one of the seedlings someone has. You can see the true leaves and the seed leaves. I just got some seeds in. I tried uploading to the gallery the other day but it didn't work. I'll keep trying.

[Stonehenge]

Here is a new pic of a couple ibogas. They seem to like moderate light levels and enough ferts though not a huge amount.

[Stonehenge]

A little update