BS: Datura cuttings/ var'ed mallow seedlings

Subject: BS: Datura cuttings/ var'ed mallow seedlings
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 May 08 - 08:47 AM

I have just finished putting out this year's crop of tree datura cuttings. Spectacular scented trumpet flowers later in the year. You will need to pot on into at least 18" pots. Then water and feed like tomato plants in gro-bags. Pink, yellow, and white - but I didn't label them! Not hardy below 6 degrees centigrade, so they must be cut down and brought in dry to overwinter and then they might go on the next year. Some of my pots are about 10 years old.

I will have about 15 spare.

Any mudcatter personally known to me who wants some pm or email me and I can take some to the Pig's Ear fest if I remember. Essex Girl I think you wanted some didn't you, or are you self sufficient after last year?

I also have some seedlings (up to about a foot high) of my variegated mallows - largely an almost white leaf and some of the green that is the normal colour of the specie, little purple flowers. Grow to about 6 feet high and make a spectacular and most unusual architectural plant. Self-seeding.

Agan, mudcatters personally known to me who email or PM me can collect (if I don't forget) at the Pig's Ear fest.

Subject: RE: BS: Datura cuttings/ var'ed mallow seedlings
From: bobad
Date: 25 May 08 - 09:17 AM

Don't eat the seeds.

Subject: RE: BS: Datura cuttings/ var'ed mallow seedlings
From: Micca
Date: 25 May 08 - 09:25 AM

or the root if we are talking about Datura Stramonium. (Jimson weed, Thornapple)

Subject: RE: BS: Datura cuttings/ var'ed mallow seedlings
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 May 08 - 12:02 PM

The tree datura is not the same as the shrub daturae. Nonetheless, the roots can also be made to produce a narcotic/hallucinogenic applied in shamanism, but the effective dose is very close to the lethal dose. Some never come back.

The flowers are pretty and smell very nice.

Subject: RE: BS: Datura cuttings/ var'ed mallow seedlings
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 May 08 - 08:44 PM

I have the American desert jimson weed growing in my yard. It's a lovely plant and last year they grew huge. They bloom for one night each flower, opening near dark, and have a very sharp seed pod that dehisses (scatter suddenly out of the pod).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Datura cuttings/ var'ed mallow seedlings
From: Helen
Date: 26 May 08 - 04:21 PM

or the flowers - what Richard said - some never come back.

Lovely tree, lovely flowers, lovely scent. Scary!

Subject: RE: BS: Datura cuttings/ var'ed mallow seedlings
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 26 May 08 - 05:02 PM

The drummer from my daughter's first rock band has now named his new band "Datura". No recordings or myspace page yet...

You can however hear his (then immature) drumming on myspace by searching for "youngtorniquet".

I don't think there are any available recordings of his second band "the Gilt Trip"