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[purposefulinsanity]

It was only a plant 

[Calandale]

I thought a PLANT would be safe.

[purposefulinsanity]

I thought a PLANT would be safe.

What was wrong with it?  It didn't make me go yuck?   

[Peter]

I thought a PLANT would be safe.

What was wrong with it?  It didn't make me go yuck?   

Yes, I want to know too.

[duncvis]

khat, eh? 

[DirtDawg]

What is a cheese plant, anyway?

Dosn't cheese grow as a yeast infection in cows?

One of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstera_deliciosa

Not yuck!
I used to have a Monstera in south Texas, but I'm not sure of the species. I love them, but around here (Indiana) one as big as yours would be in a museum or something. People overwater them to death.

[SovaNu]

i looked. it wasn't yucky.

[Calandale]

It looks like moldy yuck inside the fruit.

Almost as bad as kiwi.

[Peter]

khat, eh? 

Yes, khat.   

Apparently it makes a very good house-plant, although that's incidental to why I'm growing it.

[DirtDawg]

I thought a PLANT would be safe.

What was wrong with it?  It didn't make me go yuck?   

Yes, I want to know too.

I want to know about this curiosity, from the wiki entry:


"Ethnomedical Uses

The rhizome is used in the treatment of colds and rheumatism."

[Peter]

I thought a PLANT would be safe.

What was wrong with it?  It didn't make me go yuck?   

Yes, I want to know too.

I want to know about this curiosity, from the wiki entry:


"Ethnomedical Uses

The rhizome is used in the treatment of colds and rheumatism."

I found this: "A decoction of the plant is used in arthritis. Aerial roots are sometimes used in basketry. "

http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/dictionary/tico/tico.html

There doesn't seem to be much information though.  It has a sticky latex sap, which is generally a sign that a plant should be left alone.

[DirtDawg]

I thought a PLANT would be safe.

What was wrong with it?  It didn't make me go yuck?   

Yes, I want to know too.

I want to know about this curiosity, from the wiki entry:


"Ethnomedical Uses

The rhizome is used in the treatment of colds and rheumatism."

I found this: "A decoction of the plant is used in arthritis. Aerial roots are sometimes used in basketry. "

http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/dictionary/tico/tico.html

There doesn't seem to be much information though.  It has a sticky latex sap, which is generally a sign that a plant should be left alone.

I wouldn't eat the sap.
That's a nice page to bookmark, though. Cool.
What does Monstera have to do with khat? Are similar chemicals present in Monstera deliciosa?

[Silk]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bJ-Io8Xm5UE

[Peter]

I thought a PLANT would be safe.

What was wrong with it?  It didn't make me go yuck?   

Yes, I want to know too.

I want to know about this curiosity, from the wiki entry:


"Ethnomedical Uses

The rhizome is used in the treatment of colds and rheumatism."

I found this: "A decoction of the plant is used in arthritis. Aerial roots are sometimes used in basketry. "

http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/dictionary/tico/tico.html

There doesn't seem to be much information though.  It has a sticky latex sap, which is generally a sign that a plant should be left alone.

I wouldn't eat the sap.
That's a nice page to bookmark, though. Cool.
What does Monstera have to do with khat? Are similar chemicals present in Monstera deliciosa?

They're nothing to do with each other.  I just happen to be attempting to germinate and grow some khat while at the same time heavily pruning my monstera. 

Khat is reportedly extremely susceptible to over-watering and fungal problems, so I'm using a heated propagator with a 3:1 perlite/sand mix, soaked the seeds (20 of them) in cheshunt solution, and am using a mister full of cheshunt solution to moisten the substrate, with a plastic cover to retain the moisture (otherwise I could get the cheshunt solution building up in the substrate with subsequent mistings and reaching toxic levels).  They're also on a south facing window that gets the sun from the east and west too, due to it's shape.

[Peter]

Here's a pic showing part of my monstera.  By the end, it's root system occupied one large pot, one medium pot and a large jar that I filled with water periodically.  Only the medium pot and the jar are visible in the pic.

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