Aspies For Freedom

Old Electrical/Electronic equipment, Military equipment, Starwars books from the Imperial perspective.

I'm charmingly freakish.

I collect Pokémon (obviously! ) and Tiggers (duh... ).

I also collect books (all sorts) and science magazines.

I would love to collect an awful lot of other things, but have to be careful!

Things I collect: cool rocks I find, fossils, rough opal, information, antique Royal Daulton toby jugs, US coins, succulents of the genus Haworthia, and maybe a couple other things I am forgetting. Additionally, I used to collect stamps and Beanie Babies (I have about 250 of those).

I don't know much about lilies, but in my yard we have a bunch of Lilies of the Nile that are basically impossible to kill. I think I am technically in USDA zone 9, but it's not uncommon for temperatures to go down in to the 20s during the winter (and the lilies are fine).

Natalie, do you mean the blue/white lotus by any chance? Nelumbo sp. or blue lotus? those are interesting plants for sure.

Yeah they are, I remember the other one I was thinking of though now, Nymphaea Carulea, the blue lotus, both aquatics, look sort of like water lillies, and have some funky ass alkaloidal content, possibly opioids, amongst others.

Would love a few of those as part of my plant collection.

At the moment I have some syrian rue (Peganum Harmala) seedlings, some Mimosa Hostillis, both just coming up, and I am trying to grow some belladonna, but I can't seem to get the bastard seeds to sprout.

Lestat, Belladonna is always difficult to grow. Try this link for a sample read!

Perhaps, if you got your seed from these guys, you should sue!

Tigger, I got my seed from a huge belladonna bush I found growing on a canal towpath in, believe it or not, central Manchester, I had to walk home from college once instead of getting the tram, as the ticket inspectors were about that day, and more or less walked into it.

The word for that is serendipity...

I collect plastic screw corks (from the pet soda pop bottles). It has grown out though to include a lot of different plastic materials, usually pieces of things rather than whole objects. They're interesting as long as they're colorful.

Glass bottles that, apart from some coke bottles, are pre-1960. I found a nice cache of oldies a few weeks ago when I spotted a temporary ditch dug to lay down some pipes. Turned out to have been a garbage dump there back in the 1940-ies.

During the 1990-ies I collected names of serial/mass/spree/multiple-killers that I entered onto an alphabetical list. Then I'd go to the library and vacuum books/newspapers for new names. And I would sit and read the list time and time again or group the names and write short biographies. I'd even insert corrections in the library books that dealt with these sordid characters if I found anything wrong about the facts.

And books of course; certain authors (Jean-Paul Sartre; have him in several languages although I've never been interested in reading him), subjects (art, crime, my home town...) or publisher.

Ichtms, serendipity? I have long failed to understand the concept.

The way I saw it, I happened to be unable to jump the tram fare that time, and found something that by chance I had been after, but too stingy/hard up to pay for at the time

Tigger, you mentioned that belladonna is hard to grow, I couldn't agree more, I can't even get the seeds to germinate, apparently they contain some sort of germination inhibitor, apart from partial shade, and moist chalky soil, have you any tips or previous experience? I have a lot of seed to work with, I managed to snag a good fistful of ripe berries at the time, but every plant I can raise is important, as there is something I want to try involving large quantities atropine (which I certainly do not wish to be flagged up on any form of register actually purchasing, nor do I wish to spend money on it, and besides I actually enjoy the lab work extracting things like that, being the autie I am ) so yield is fairly important.

such a good looking plant too, I'm thinking of modelling a new tattoo off it that I want done when I have spare money, in the guise of a bat-winged vampiric looking chick bound in belladonna and flames, crying out, over my chest

Well, I stick with my opinion.

Lestat! Serendipity; I've interpreted it to mean "coincidental finding." Many a time I've been walking back and forth over a waste area looking for the coins that I know must be there. Only finding them when I've given up. To some degree I'm so focused on the object that I simply don't see it when it's right before me. It's like "quit searching, then you'll find whatever it was."

Oh yeah, now I remember to ask, why does her royal tiggerlyness have a problem with shamanshop? not that I disagree, I haven't dealt with them, I get most of my ethnobotanicals/some of my synthetics from deva ethnobotanicals or shroombay.co.uk, are these guys unreliable, for future reference?

I really could use any advice with the belladonna you could give, I try and I try, but I must have gone through 4-5 months and enough nightshade seed to drop a bull elephant without managing to coax a single seedling to poke its head out of the stacks of pot-bloody-noodle pots I have on my windowsil.

I would switch to a different solanaceous plant for this one, but its not really practical or sensible seeing as I already have loads of Belladonna seed, and want to add it to my plant collection as it is, besides, the likes of the Daturas, mandrake, henbane and scopolia contain mostly racemic atropine (hyoscyamine) or scopolamine as well, and atropine itself is needed for my purposes.

Ichtms, you posted while I was posting.

Just like when one has a phrase on the tip of one's tongue, and can't remember, it only usually comes when one stops thinking about it

Very cute!



Hello, fellow Pokémaniac!