Hi Alice,

Welcome to STS!
I hope you have a good growing seasons and are able to replace some of the plants you lost before. I love Brugmansia and Daturas too. The giant flowers and the amazing scent some give off are lovely. I hope the Acacia grow well for you too!

Hey all, I’m Alice! It’s nice to meet everyone. I read about the forum on Reddit and decided to come say hi!

I’ve been growing plants with interesting biochemistry for about 15 years now. My special interest is poisons, but medicines are extremely cool as well. I live in the Midwest, but the goal is Oregon in a couple years.

Unfortunately, much of my collection didn’t make it through last winter. I’m looking to restart some datura and brugmansia, and Ive recently started some Acacia seeds.

Looking forward to getting to know everyone!

Hey all, I’m Alice! It’s nice to meet everyone. I read about the forum on Reddit and decided to come say hi!

I’ve been growing plants with interesting biochemistry for about 15 years now. My special interest is poisons, but medicines are extremely cool as well. I live in the Midwest, but the goal is Oregon in a couple years.

Unfortunately, much of my collection didn’t make it through last winter. I’m looking to restart some datura and brugmansia, and Ive recently started some Acacia seeds.

Looking forward to getting to know everyone!

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