I know this thread is very very old. But for the sake for this species of salvia im going to comment. I grow lots of ethnobotanicals . especially ones that fuck you up.
Salvia recognita came to my attention from I think a random science direct peer reviewed journal that i read while looking for salvinorin a extraction stuff.
So naturally I bought seeds.
This is my experience from growing them in my zone 8b temperate area of the USA.
It doesnt like wet. So a high spot outside is good. It likes sandy soils loamy even. I give it almost what I call trash dirt. Leaves mixed with sand and perlite left over from shroom grows mixed with a little bit of whatever potted soil I have around .
It likes sun. It doesn't like too much rain or water. I swear it's almost a cactus . but you can tell when it's too dry ..it rains a lot here so i just keep the soil as best as free draining as possible and that works. i water it less than my others naturally .
It grows slow as fuck .
Like slower than p. Viridis slow. So you will need a lot of plants to get material . personally i found salvia glutinousa to be far faster. Like on a scale of 200 times faster. Even if it's 40 grams/1 gram of salvia divinorum ( I think ) for equal potency I'll take it bc it's practically a weed and spreads like crazy .
Loves wet and loves shade. But we re not talking about that.
Recognita seeds I put in a food tray in Dec. And it has a spraying of tap water to make it humid and wet but not sloppy wet on a sand substrait . Like I just toss 50 seeds on top of the sand and cover with the lid.
By spring in a half shade half sun all day setting they have popped all about 80 percent by spring. I keep the seeds in the freezer bc they have to be cold stratified .
I sorta baby nurse them out of the trays and into peat pots or some other bio degradable pot by spring bc they don't like the roots desturbed.
They have a long tap root. No wonder they dont like wet .
I've tried lots of different ways to sprout them and found this works best. Nicking the seeds doesn't work for me though others have said they have good results and even not even stratification as well but my way works best for me.
others say they have had easy success in high numbers . others say they get sprouts by just planting but most say they don't get many to pop. I've tried hot water shocking nicking seeds etc . the food tray method for me gets the most numbers of living sprouts.
Plus they transfer easy too ime.
ive been gardening for 27 years and a master gardener for 10 plus of that . so ....i know ok.cheers.
Also when i transplant them to peat pods i put a zip lock bag over them and mist and leave the zip lock open a crack and let them slowly acclimate to low humidity over a month approx in a sunny ish window .
I have never extracted or smoked mine but i have read a few reports of people smoking the leaves and saying that there was an effect .
Like a dreamy weak pot like high . def something there. Makes sense to me. Just needs to be concentrated imo.
Obviously not as strong as smoking just salvia divinorum leaves on their own but one report did say that the leaves were pleasurable and had an exotic salvia alpina (sp) smell and taste which in my opinion is what the leaves sorta look and smell like .
Anyway i know that this is an old post but i see very little in the E. g. Forum for salvia recognita posts and felt the thread may garner some more experience posts if i added a little cultivation knowledge . cheers
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Edited by Moth-Man (01/02/24 09:43 PM)
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