No worries, many people accidentally miss it!

I have now upgraded your account to "Member". With this, you can now send Personal Messages, Access the Trading Area and the Suppliers and Resources Area in the forum and access the site Chat and give Karma votes.

Thanks again for joining, and happy growing!
SallysMintGarden

Can't believe I forgot to do that! LOL
I've just gone in and fixed it up.

A big welcome to the new members.
SunthornBotanicals and clavier have now had their accounts upgraded to "Member", with a PM notification sent.
A notification has also been sent to SoilNerd42 as a reminder to complete their profile before their account will be upgraded. We look forward to welcoming you fully to the forum shortly.

Warm wishes and happy growing,
SallysMintGarden

Hey plant friends,

Thank you for this wonderful community. I'm in zone 10B and have been enjoying cultivating and studying various medicinal and edible plants over the past fews years, from hop bines, to rustic tobacco, cacti, edible fungi, sugarcane, and fruits and veggies.

Looking forward to learning and sharing knowledge with you!

-B

Hi everyone, thank you for the generosity of knowledge and experience here. I wanted to contribute a propagation log.

A variety of beautiful leaves from multiple plants around the greater Sao Paolo area were collected, some standouts including a variety that was said to display red veins in high-magnesium soils, and a narrower-leaf variety that was likely colorata.

Tragically, in transit the leaves were quite damaged and partially dried out, and the experiment has become to see if it is possible to propagate from the surviving small 1-2" pieces of leaf midrib. A neighbor was kind enough to provide 2 fully intact and healthy leaves from a young plant which are being used as the control, so to speak.

The Setup:

-A Shoebox filled with 1:1:1 Potting soil:Perlite:Vermiculite (small amount of starter fert mixed in), the medium is kept quite moist but not soaking.
-The box is kept at ~85F & 85-95% RH using a temperate probe connected to a seedling heat mat, indirect sunlight.
-The full leaves were snapped in multiple places using the accordion method and also scored shallowly along the midrib with a razor. They have been placed in the soil using the 'horizontal' method outlined in this thread.
-The midrib pieces had any brown ends freshly cut off and were dusted with rooting hormone.

Before putting the midrib pieces into the medium, a handful were showing signs of browning already, likely where they had partially dried out. As of writing, the box has been going for 3 days and many of areas of browning have spread. Holding out hope that a few will survive but thus far its not looking promising, but 'Life finds a way!"

Here are the photos and I will update with any progress along the way. I'm of course open to any observations or suggestions. Cheers!

Welcome back to the hobby!

Hey,

I used to have quite a collection of harder to find trees, plants and cacti about 20yrs ago and gave them all away for work and travel, but I'm finally settled down and ready to start my garden again and am excited to learn and hopefully share with you all.

- Iam

I posted my introduction about 9 days ago and I don’t think I am a full member yet, if you could promote me to a full member I would much appreciate that, thank you!

welcome mushrooms are facinating ,

have you been on the DMT NEXUS ? They have a mushroom area

Greetings STS!

Although my username on here is Xerxes, I usually go by Tickle (Ticklenutts) online.  Anyway, I have been growing mushrooms on and off for around 27 years.  Over the past 2 years I have really committed to the passion.  What I mean by this is that I run a mushroom cultivation supply website and spend a lot, A LOT of time doing advocacy and educating individuals about psilocybin and its therapeutic use.

I regularly read academic papers and studies on topics including psilocybin, psilocin, pharmaceutical issues in the space, as well as many other topics.  So feel free to AMA about psilocybin mushrooms or mycology and I will be happy to answer or point you to where to find the answer.

I look forward to getting to know the community!
-Tickle (Xerxes)