Salvia querstions for the experienced.

If you have a Salvia plant indoors under lights where it never gets very cold, will it grow forever or will it die eventually?

Does it matter how big you let the leaves get before harvesting for potency or are they always the same?

Also if you are going to eat salvia leaves fresh what dose would you start with that will make you feel some effects but stay conscious enough that you are safe in your own room not to do anything stupid. And what dose would get you into the state where reality rips apart and such. Whatabout dry dosage for leaves?

Can you powder some dry salvia leaves and make them into gel capsules or would that make the trip worse/not work?

Also the trip takes how long to start, last, and then come down?

Also, what should be expected from eating a small piece of fresh leaf like the size of a quarter or so? How about a full sized fresh leaf just chewed and swallowed and washed down with like soda or something for taste?

I think you ought to look into making a tincture for oral administration. If memory serves correctly, it would take a good amount of fresh or dried leaves to get psychoactive results...and as far as your quarter-sized, I don't think you'd notice anything.

As far as the tincture goes, should you choose to go that route, it would be really simple. Collect and dry a good bit of leaf matter, probably at least 1/2 oz to an ounce. Pulverize your dried leaf and soak in a high proof alcohol if you can acquire some, or a standard 80-90 proof would be fine...then just let it soak, no idea how long, I'd think a day or so would be plenty long, then just strain the leaf material out and try your tincture.

Hope this helps. As far as the growing part, the only advice I have is to prune regularly to encourage new growth.

Wouldn't you need an maoi for it to be active orally,or is that just ayuahasca?

rory420420 said:

Wouldn't you need an maoi for it to be active orally,or is that just ayuahasca?

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I've taken a S. Divinorum 20x concentrate sublingually, and it was definitely doing something, I didn't take enough to trip out, but caught a bit of a high.

yea salvia can be pretty intense and weird if your not careful and smoke or do to much, i smoked to much once and my whole world turned into like this computer mechanized grid that i was stuck in and like if i want to move or look a certain way it was like being in zelda or something from the regular nintendo like how you would be on the screen but moved to the next part and it like froze and switched over to the new screen wherever you were going on zelda...lol im not sure if this makes any sense but anyone who has played the gold zelda game for NES regular nintendo will know exactly what im talking about. the screen moves in like blocks when you try to go into the castles or the woods or whatever. thats what smoking salvia was like for me lol good luck and BE CAREFUL !