wsg anon. found a wee Datura plant in my yard this morning. thinking of sticking it in a pot and keeping it around.
>>5154643Why would you want poison in your house?
Pop it in your mouth
>>5154643I garden all the time as my main hobby and so in downtime and between seasons, I use my indoor setup to cultivate weird shit or make pristine plants like indoor strawberries. All the starts for the year come outside between march and may so basically may-dec I’ve got a bunch of empty space to do stuff.Last year, I decided to grow some wormwood. It went super easy because I do this shit all the time so fairly quickly I had a mature wormwood plant in one of the coveted racks and it just made no sense. I have no reason to ever need thujone and I’m sure as shit not going to set up an extraction for stuff I don’t even want. Eventually I was just like>why the fuck do I even have this stupid thing in my house?>it’s unnecessarily poisonous to basically everything and is pretty large too>and now I should probably clean this entire fuckin’ rack before I start anything I intend to eat in thereSo I think it’d probably be a reasonably easy plant to care for if you made it a priority. Really not many unique needs. I just think you would find the same issue eventually>why the fuck am I bothering with this?
>>5154688>>why the fuck am I bothering with this?Because it's kind of funny to grow a plant that can absolutely fuck you upI mean I would even grow giant hogweed because it is a beautiful plant and great for insects, but the government can basically drop a nuclear bomb on your property if they ever find it
>>5154696Alright dude so then here’s the deal kek>datura has a taproot>so one main root that goes straight and deep down>its taproot is fairly fleshy and thusly sensitive to physical damage here>lateral roots spread outwards from that tap and create the column of soil the plant “owns”>you’re going to dig -straight- down at about a 4 inch radius from the base of the plant>that’d give you a 8in diameter cylinder of soil/roots so if you have a wider pot you can expand that and if narrower you can bring it in some>dig down at least 6-8 inches to make sure you get as much of that taproot as humanly possible>preferably all of it if you have the time and will spend the effort>you are going to be cutting most of the lateral feeder roots as you remove this cylinder of material for the ground so the plant will likely recover slower than usual. That’s just what happens when you dig a plant out of the ground instead of starting it in a controlled container.>when you plant it in your own container, water deeply to set the roots and then leave it alone to recover for a while.>you’re going to want a lighted rack for it. It doesn’t really need to be super strong or expensive lights to make this one plant work but you could go for a bigger setup if you want to do other weird shit or grow this one particularly big>if you’re not particularly experienced with plants then strongly resist the natural urge to overwater>you probably won’t need any fertilizer at all until you see the growth of the plant visibly slow. If you want more leaves, get heavy nitrogen ratio. If you want blooms, then focus on the PK part of NPK.That’s about the size of it. It’s really not a hard project, you just gotta be careful moving the plant.
>>5154701Oh and also every single part of the plant is highly toxic to at least something so wear gloves and don’t touch your eyes. Just generally act like you’re in a class for lab. No horseplay. This is toxic.
>>5154644Why the fuck would anyone not? He finally has the means to wreak justice upon his foes now.
>>5154696gonna leave it in the yard for a while, see what happens. might take a cutting from it. don't know where tho.
>>5154710It’s comparatively hard to start from a cutting vs seed but take a 4-6 inch stem tip and then root in soil. You could get some indole-3 butyric acid to increase the odds of the cutting rooting successfully. Stoner-tech is a hilarious boon to other forms of gardening. They use the IBA when they clone their pot plants.
got some giant desert thorn-apples (datura discolor) growing in my backyard; love the flowers but i can't help but feel a little intimidated at how big they are while being toxic as all satan
>>5154712aye of course. gettin this little guy out of the ground is gonna be a JOB i'll tell ya that much. nothing like having an exotic weed growing in the ruins of your old shed.
>>5154643Just collect it's seeds and grow them. It's very easy to propagate.
>>5154744>Just collect it's seeds and grow them.from where doe
>>5154643whatever you do do NOT dry it then smoke it haha dont do it
>>5154788imma sell it to white trash and tell em it's normal weed lol. could do with less tinkers in our society.
>>5154792you have my blessings
