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Oggy
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What is your story? How did you fall into ethnobotany?
#22488592 - 11/06/15 10:11 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I am just curious how everyone here found their way into ethnobotany.
I myself started with wild strawberries. I became obsessed with them and puts lot of time into breeding attempts for the largest berries and most fragrant leaves. I wanted to turn the leaves into fragrance oils because the smell of a strawberry plant has always soothed me.
Here was my "monster". Normally these are 2-3xx smaller. here because shroomery doesn't like linking to .jpg files apparently?
I also wanted a Salvia Divinorum for the longest time because of the lore behind it. I had/have no intentions to use the plants other than to grow it.
Edited by Oggy (11/06/15 10:34 PM)
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Chemical Addiction



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Re: What is your story? How did you fall into ethnobotany? [Re: Oggy]
#22488691 - 11/06/15 10:36 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Oggy said: I am just curious how everyone here found their way into ethnobotany.
I myself started with wild strawberries. I became obsessed with them and puts lot of time into breeding attempts for the largest berries and most fragrant leaves. I wanted to turn the leaves into fragrance oils because the smell of a strawberry plant has always soothed me.
Here was my "monster". Normally these are 2-3xx smaller.

I also wanted a Salvia Divinorum for the longest time because of the lore behind it. I had/have no intentions to use the plants other than to grow it.
Fixed. Somehow an extra s ended up in the image code you posted.
Also to answer you question when I was 16 I was landscaping in the summer before school years and a guy I worked with pointed out a san pedro and told me it had mescaline in it. I had no idea mescaline was in anything except peyote. I didn't have high speed internet until I was 17 and with AOL dial up I wasn't on the internet much.
With high speed I started learning about more drugs and eventually signed up here after getting a L williamsii as a B-Day gift, have learned a lot since and have been mostly interesting in ethno/entheobotany.
-------------------- Vegetation has crawled for miles towards the cities. It is waiting. Once the city is dead, the vegetation will cover it, will climb over the stones, grip them, search them, make them burst with its long black pincers; it will blind the holes and let its green paws hang over everything. —Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
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El Torcho
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Re: What is your story? How did you fall into ethnobotany? [Re: Chemical Addiction]
#22489290 - 11/07/15 05:42 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've always been into growing plants. I always helped around the veggie garden with my dad and the flower beds with my mom, since I was a baby. Ever since I can remember I would try to get things to grow. I can remember getting some ivy to grow in a pot in my room when I was about 10 or so. That and I've been raised around natural/plant based medicines my whole life.
Then I got into weed when I was 15. Then shrooms. More recently cacti. . .
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Matt87

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Re: What is your story? How did you fall into ethnobotany? [Re: El Torcho]
#22489334 - 11/07/15 06:34 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I was working on a house and every time I went to my car I walked past a bright purple mushroom in the yard. I looked at it longer and harder every time. It just kinda snowballed from there.
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Lemnaminor
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Re: What is your story? How did you fall into ethnobotany? [Re: Oggy]
#22489383 - 11/07/15 07:09 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Basically never grew anything , and never had intrest in plants, aside Kalanchoe Daigremontiana, wich basically grows on it's own. 3 years ago i buy 4 random cacti from a gardenshop, since they were really cheap. 3 are some common ones (Matucana poltzii, e. grusoni and opuntia subulata), one pot turns out to be a bunch of T.peruvianus. I do my researches, i find this forum to ID, and start buyng columnars hoping to find more mescaline stuff. The best thing is that today i own 3 great blue Browningia hertlingiana (wich are way more valuable to me) I see people in there posting great cacti while i retrive old exemplars from family and friends, and i crave to find my first Lophophora. At that point i was already contaged by the sickness, and there was no point of return. My instrest then shifts from Mescaline cacti to rare exemplars and monstrose varieties At today i completely lost intrest for mescaline, and i don't know if i will ever consume it, despite having huge amounts of trichs. now i'm actively browsing the web for great deals, and for variegates, wich are the thing i like the most.
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Edited by Lemnaminor (11/07/15 07:14 AM)
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directexperience
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Re: What is your story? How did you fall into ethnobotany? [Re: Lemnaminor]
#22489959 - 11/07/15 10:06 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Found some terence mckenna talks on youtube a long while ago
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Spanishfly
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Re: What is your story? How did you fall into ethnobotany? [Re: directexperience] 1
#22495356 - 11/08/15 11:53 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well when I was 9 I bought a Opuntia microdasys - because it fascinated me. But I soon managed to kill it through my ignorant lack of care and water. But there was a garden shop in the small Hertfordshire town where I lived - with a selection of anonymous cacti - I bought a few when I could - and actually managed to make some of them grow !! - I still have the little book on cacti cultivation I bought in that shop when I was 13. I became a teacher, then a Naval Officer, and always kept a small collection of cacti. When I was booting the Argies off the Falklands, and kicking Saddam out of Kuwait, Mrs Fly gave my cacti a desultory drink of water, is about all. In the 90s I left the Royal Navy, and bought many of the species that I had been lusting after for a long time. Mrs Fly came into some money and we relocated to Spain. Now that was the Big Bang - wow - the Mexican desert cacti that I was cultivating just exploded into growth. I have never looked back - I always have something in flower. And they grow a quantum leap better than they ever did in the UK. Which is where I am now - growing Mexican desert cacti in the Spanish sunshine.
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Toadstool5
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Re: What is your story? How did you fall into ethnobotany? [Re: Oggy]
#22495454 - 11/08/15 12:21 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Always liked plants and gardening. Started smoking cannabis and realized how significant the psychoactive and physiological effects of some species are.
Now i have a small trichocereus garden, some opuntia, and some simmondsia chinensis. I had a salvia divinorum for awhile but they don't like dry heat and mites so it's in heaven now.
If i had more money i would grow so many ethnos!
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spaceman101
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Re: What is your story? How did you fall into ethnobotany? [Re: Toadstool5]
#22496462 - 11/08/15 04:14 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Long story shortened. My Father and Grandfather were self sufficient Farmers "to some degree" grew cotton, corn, strawberries etc. Some for sale but mainly for the family. We never went to the market much. We slaughter a calf every year for our beef as well as swine for pork. My grandfather used to pick me up from my mothers "I was a bastard child until my father claimed me" and he would slow down on the road in front of crops and make me figure out what was being grown. Also my grandfather would take me out into the woods and he had an endless knowledge of native trees that he taught me about and would quiz me on
Later in life I started smoking green and I lived in the city "mostly" with my mother. I ended up getting in with some people we all know about that I don't wanna name and they knew I had a lot of plant and chemical knowledge so they took me in when I was homeless and gave me a roof to live under and drugs to flood my veins with so I helped to grow some stock for them for sale
I had people there to help me and all but people started disappearing "so to say" and I started getting iffy so I eventually took off and went to rehab in N.O. and when I got out I moved in with fathers family that helped me get on my feet and I never looked back. I know have my own place on an acre of land "or just a dab more" and have been taking care of business for about the last 4 to 5 years.
I Love my plants as if they were my children and would never be able to completely consume any of them "Imagine eating your child and that's the feeling I get thinking about it No Joke".
I've given tours of my yard and greenhouse this season when people show up interested in what I have going on and sale a few plants to those people for cash to put back for next years garden but I plan to do some upgrades next year in hopes of making some better cash from what I have and have my job "when I decide to go back" so I'll have 2 sources of income "A lot of work involved trust me"
Anyways that's just the short version of how I got to where I am today.
BTW Love this thread and I can't wait for cRm to pop in and write his story out. I think our pasts were very similar
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Edited by spaceman101 (11/08/15 04:21 PM)
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cowsRmeat
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Re: What is your story? How did you fall into ethnobotany? [Re: spaceman101]
#22497006 - 11/08/15 05:52 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well yeah, there are some similarities in our stories. When I was young, I didn't have quite the exposure you did to farming and native knowledge since we moved quite a bit as a child and didn't ever really put down roots to have gardens or anything like that.
Then when I got out of high school, I fell in with the wrong crowd and did more sketchy stuff than I would care to share. ****Skip ahead in the story (the good parts, if it were a movie)**** After a series of attempts on my life by "the wrong crowd", I decided to basically ghost out of the lifestyle I had let myself get involved with. Changed phone numbers, got a different car, I moved, and just started over.
Not long after that I started looking into natural, legal things I could grow myself for medicine, recreation, as well as food. I started getting really interested in the thought of 'self-sufficiency'. I liked the thought of not having to buy all my produce and meats. I started growing veggies, herbs, and some fruits. Then I started reading about Kratom online one day, and sprung on a deal I found and bought a cutting. That was my first entheogen I bought and have been collecting since. I started growing the kratom, then got a good deal on some pach cuttings, I got salvia, Khat, and eventually more species I can remember... The rest is history, so to say...
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LSoares
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Re: What is your story? How did you fall into ethnobotany? [Re: cowsRmeat]
#22498950 - 11/09/15 02:57 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Not much of a story: I've been growing cacti for 35 years or so. I love Lophophoras because of what they are and because of the rich history of mystical use they have. I've never consumed mescaline in any form - like spacey says up there, it'd be like consuming my babies. That's it.
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kizatzhaddarak
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Re: What is your story? How did you fall into ethnobotany? [Re: LSoares]
#22499224 - 11/09/15 07:18 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Simple, for me.. My mother is Native American, and A shaman (Heredity), and inheritance. As voiced by some here..Although some people (dose) plants that we grow.. To me, they are Sacred. I worship them. I even have an alter of sorts for my (yotes). Even my Trichocereus plants are sacred to me. In fact, I was telling my husband that the spirits of specific plants have been talking to me. I feel I need to meditate upon this and give my plants (names). That way, when people ask what the plant is..I can give them a (name), as well as the genus and species name. Since I grow my plants from seed for the most part, my genetics are going to be a bit different from other people anyway, and giving them a (name) helps me to know they are unique and special, and have their own (spirit) that is inside the plants.
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