Reynard the Gardener

Learning and growing--adventures in psychedelics, ethnobotany, horticulture, and nature.

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hey are you still in ohio? you're living my dream life! i'm in awe! that indoor brugmansia is killing me. i found you through your propylhexedrine bioassay post googling propylhexedrine before taking some. recently got a shrooms grow op busted. plants are lit, organic chem is lit... someone in ohio thinks your life is really cool...

ahh, ty! credit for the propylhexedrine tek has to go to @thelabrat1990 , and the brugs is sadly no longer with us (altho I've grown enough datura since then to have far more scopolamine than I'll ever have use for.) That sucks you got busted! I recently got busted too, in a pretty major way, altho that's another story...

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Missing your blog mate! Hope the plants are doing well. Hope you're healthy and free.

Indeed they are! Hope you're doing well too!

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So a few people have asked lately--'why don't you post anymore??' and the answer is I've mostly been posting plant updates on my IG stories

And here on tumblr, I'm mostly more active on my everyday photo diary (nsfw, ask me for url)

Say hi if you come by either of those accounts!

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It finally happened, you guys. The four-year saga is nearing its conclusion.

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Got lazy, forgot to clean the marimos, cleaned 'em, discovered they'd taken on a new form??

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Summer to-do list:

Grow a bunch of plants, see a bunch of concerts, work on that novel, do a couple more site-specific installation pieces, build some cool furniture, one or two li’l roadtrips, do some fun drugs, make some more memories.

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Check, check, check, nope, nope, check, check, hella check.

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i would give anything to make this work

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Settling into their winter home.

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Ever wonder what a cactus looks like after it comes down with an infection? It ain’t pretty.

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er... I wouldn’t recommend it.  Although, really, there’s no reason to suspect that bacterial metabolites would degrade mescaline, so theoretically this could still be purified through a standard acid-base extraction.  

For as much as I work with plant matter, and as sloppy as I am doing it, I should really know more about common molds / mildews / etc and their metabolites, but I don’t...

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Was cleaning out some junk in a cabinet and about to toss an old vitamin bottle before I thought to look inside. Glad I did.

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Ever wonder what a cactus looks like after it comes down with an infection? It ain't pretty.

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A sudden and unexpected freeze warning meant I found myself outdoors in the cold, wet, dark, wresting these guys from the muddy spots they've occupied all summer and carrying them up three runs of stairs to my apartment. But here they are, safe and warm at last.

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This is what we call the 'style over substance' tek

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What a time to be alive.  Thanks to the efforts of activists, the DEA passed on scheduling kratom and it’s still legal in most of the United States--and ordering  this powerful plant teacher is as simple as placing an order online!    @bottleandbloom​ introduced me to the benefits of kratom way-back-when, and I’m looking forward to trying this particular strain.

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Found my very first home-brew evap rig.  We’ve come a long way!  (Okay, not that far.  But at least we’re no longer glueing uninsulated hairdryer pieces to tupperware.)

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Return of smol bebby cactus -- planted these guys yesterday after the requisite period of airing out the cuttings so they form callouses on the bases.  Hope they take!