Thank You, Captain Obvious
Jul. 30th, 2008 07:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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An anonymous poster felt it necessary to make a reply to a post I had about eating a Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seed (the uneaten ones did not sprout and I'm kind of piffed about that - HBW is a fantastically weird looking vine). They told me it contains LSA, a precursor to LSD. I get the feeling they may not have read anything else in my blog. Maybe they missed the point. They may have been trying to give me pointers, in which case I missed the point. It was kind of humorous, either way.
I joined the Plants community that lj was highlighting on their homepage a week or so ago, and some of those people have given me some fantastic ideas about expanding my repetoire. A lot of folk on there favor Euphorbias (spurges) which are succulents (similar to cactus), some are quite lovely, and they all contain a caustic sap. Someone else has a different variety of Solanum (nightshade family) that is covered in wickedly long spines. I think at some point I'd also like to try growing henbane, which looks like it should be far more dangerous than it is. I've also learned a lot about fungus flies via the community - a lot of people just get fly paper and live with 'em. I was under the impression that fungus flies were basically harmless to plants, but come to find out the larvae do feed on the root hairs, which may explain a lot of why some of plants didn't do so great after I had transplanted them into the infested potting soil.
I joined the Plants community that lj was highlighting on their homepage a week or so ago, and some of those people have given me some fantastic ideas about expanding my repetoire. A lot of folk on there favor Euphorbias (spurges) which are succulents (similar to cactus), some are quite lovely, and they all contain a caustic sap. Someone else has a different variety of Solanum (nightshade family) that is covered in wickedly long spines. I think at some point I'd also like to try growing henbane, which looks like it should be far more dangerous than it is. I've also learned a lot about fungus flies via the community - a lot of people just get fly paper and live with 'em. I was under the impression that fungus flies were basically harmless to plants, but come to find out the larvae do feed on the root hairs, which may explain a lot of why some of plants didn't do so great after I had transplanted them into the infested potting soil.
