Anyone think theres still time to plant out a field of poppies? got a nice big pot full of seed and I want the plants ready for working with later this year if possible. Poppy alkaloid-mix, minus codeine, or most of it at least, going by the histamine release from the product, is nice enough on its own, but the dipropionylmorphine that comes from cleaned up 'kompot' beats the bejeezis out of anything that comes from a pharmacy, with or without such alterations.
Going from the pharmacology of the natural opium alkaloids my guess is that the thebaine is the responsible portion, something at least makes opium, be it as tea, or as shiny, de-codeine-ized white crystals really zippy, perky zingy, peppy stuff, stimulating in a very different way to opioidergic (at least via MORs, I've never tried a selective delta agonist, although if I do, great care is needed, for some, but not all DOR agonists are convulsants at higher doses. Presumably has to do with subtype selectivity for DOR1 or DOR2) Mitragynine pseudindoxyl is meant to be a DOR agonist (subtype selectivity if any unknown to me), and kratom is certainly stimulating. But thebaine (and MAYBE oripavine although I'm uncertain as to that one way or the other) is an antagonist at strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors (not to be confused with the glycine binding site on NMDA receptors, which are completely different and totally insensitive to strychnine, brucine or thebaine), thebaine's targets, like that of strychnine/brucine are glycine receptors located mainly at the spinal level and mediating tonic inhibition.
For those who like gardening and growing psychoactive plants, one I recommend are yopo trees, Anadenanthera (IIRC A.peregrina produces more alkaloids within the pods, although its less available as seed than is A.colubrina.
Quite fast growing, lovely looking little treess when they are young, quite fine, compound pinnate type leaves, with lots of smaller leaflets arranged axial to a central spine twigs. One should nick the seedcoats or dissect them off with care using a sharp surgical scalpel and then place the seeds, denuded of their testae upon pads of kitchen roll or bog roll (DON'T use it beforehand, don't be a cheapskate, fresh roll should be used, which has never been on that most terminal of journeys, betwixt hand, rancid just-beshatten chocolate starfish and bog hole
) soaked in water that has just been boiled in order to kill any microorganisms present. Leave it to cool first obviously.
Question-anyone got any experience with khat, specifically growing it from seed. Got a fair few seeds and would love me a nice khat bush hedge round the front garden
Also, anyone know how to get belladonna (Atropa belladonna, otherwise known by the name deadly nightshade) growing from seed? as IIRC the seeds contain a germination inhibitor of some kind, and I have a quantity of the normal, purple seeds, harvested from a handful of ripe berries plucked off of a fruiting deadly nightshade bush I saw once growing by a canal towpath. And got something a little more special too, a rarer blonde (whitish-cream to pale yellow flowers) color morph mutant. But I've never managed to get the seeds of either to grow, bloody well difficult as hell.
Anyone grown belladonna before, have any tips for germinating the seed?
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