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Farewell
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KHAT propagation and ID question:is this khat or a weed?
#28602428 - 12/29/23 04:10 PM (30 days, 1 hour ago) |
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So I used calcinated clay and a little bit of worm castings, and this little guy was the only one of 5 khat seeds I planted to germinate, or so I thought..
Problem is, the clay + worm castings I used for a 4x4 humidity dome with 1 khat seed per cell seems to have sprouted little impostors. Granted they appeared after a week or so, and the little guy pictured here appeared after 2 weeks or so. Im really not sure if khat looks quite this small, even after only 17ish days since germination:

Here are the little imposters, looking similar but much smaller.

There is still hope that the other khat seeds will germinate potentially, but I've had quite the frustrating time trying to get these to come to life. Anyways sorry for the wall of text, let me know what you all think.
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Towns77
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Re: KHAT propagation and ID question:is this khat or a weed? [Re: Farewell]
#28602482 - 12/29/23 05:26 PM (29 days, 23 hours ago) |
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Those look good!
Here are some catha seedlings for comparison
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Moth-Man
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Re: KHAT propagation and ID question:is this khat or a weed? [Re: Towns77]
#28608938 - 01/03/24 08:53 PM (24 days, 20 hours ago) |
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Personally I find khat easy to prop after its grown a foot or so.
You can take green wood tips and cut them with a few leave on them and root tone plus. Peat pod and put it in that in a zip lock baggie on a sunny ledge or under 24 hour artificial light and it grows roots in a few months.
You just step up pot size and then take it out of humidity in the spring in a rain spell and it does fine after slowly adjusting to the outdoors . pretty leafed plant imo.
Ive never grown it from seed.
I have stolen it from the National botanical garden in DC when they used to have it and salvia there for thrills though right outsode the capital.
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Farewell
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Re: KHAT propagation and ID question:is this khat or a weed? [Re: Towns77]
#28611981 - 01/06/24 04:50 PM (22 days, 26 minutes ago) |
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So does this look like khat? Still pretty unsure, seems to have lots of properties of khat, but the leaves are very thin, small, and don't have the jagged look to them. Very strange and somewhat frustrating.
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Towns77
Registered: 10/08/23
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Re: KHAT propagation and ID question:is this khat or a weed? [Re: Farewell]
#28612004 - 01/06/24 05:11 PM (22 days, 5 minutes ago) |
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