Welcome to sharetheseeds! What usda climate zone do you live in? I've just started getting back into this and my focus has shifted from trying to grow mostly tropical plants to ones that will grow in my climate without assistance. Phalaris, autumn olive, and cold hardy acacias are some of the first candidates on my list of plants to look into.

Your English was great! Hopefully we can learn something from each other.

Hello people!

Great place here, stumbled many times over this forum the last years, but never figured out how it works haha.
Now i finally registered and am happy to share seeds and cuttings.
My interest is mainly in Phalaris and Cacti atm, but through the years i grew other interesting plants as well.

My has always been to grow my plants myself and be self-sufficient in colder climate. I know this is possible, thanks to inter-species variation of alkaloids and some horticultural techniques

Nice to be here! Sorry for any mistakes, English is not my native language.
Have a great day!

I came across it a little while a go whilst I was searching for a new Piper methysticum plant myself.
'Bright Eyes' definitely doesn't look like Piper methysticum to me, although I'm no expert. I'd still say I'm 99% sure it's not from comparing it to photos of actual Piper methysticum plants, and from memory of my old Piper methysticum 'ISA' plant. I found very little information about it online too, and the few other comments on it I came across also believed it to be a different species of Piper.

I agree it appears much more similar to Piper betle, in both its morphology and growth habit.
There's a lot of different Piper species so it would be very difficult to try and fully ID it, I certainly wouldn't be able to. However I have seen someone else call it Piper betle aff. 'Bright Eyes', which I also think is the best fitting name for it currently.

If it looks like whats shown here http://www.ukhouseplants.com/plants/piper it looks just like it should to me, maybe different in a way that can definately be in the range of 'cultivar different'.

Has anyone ever heard of Piper methysticum ‘bright eyes’? I found a deal on one and ordered it. I haven’t received it yet but, after trying to do research on it, it seems to more P. Betel than P. Methysticum. I can’t seem to find much in the way of info on it, just a few pictures. It looks like it is more of a vine than a shrub. Anyone out there with any experience on this plant that can provide some clarification? I’ll provide some pics once it comes in.

Have you thought about the tea plant Camellia sinensis or, another caffeine containing plant, yaupon holly (Ilex vomitora)?

I’m in zone 8b. Winter before last we got down to 17 degrees for a low and temps never climbed above freezing for a week. I was surprised by what didn’t come back but, equally surprised by what did. A friend down the road a bit had a kratom in ground (don’t know the variety) that died to the ground but resprouted in the spring. Justicia pectoralis took a beating but is doing fine as well.

Acacia maidenii can't remember the specific temperature but it remained below freezing for over 24 hours. This happened two years ago. I thought the plant was done. Ended up pulling down a dead tree. It broke off a couple inches above the roots. Next spring it started sprouting back from the roots.

What was your soil mix for germination and growing out?

Heya, welcome to the forum! I'm not sure what the issue was regarding your activation email, but us mods are trying our best to work out the kinks of the forum as of late and hopefully this doesn't happen again.

At any rate, glad you're here 😊