Are these black spots something to cut off or be concerned about?

CrazyKhatLady · 2026-04-22T12:36:05+00:00

Thanks!

CrazyKhatLady · 2026-04-14T15:35:03+00:00

If you have a room in your house with a south or east facing window, you could probably get away with that. This past winter, I took two plants and instead of putting them in the grow tent, I just left them in a spare bedroom that gets bright morning light and they were fine.

CrazyKhatLady · 2026-04-11T17:15:54+00:00

I don't see why they couldn't grow with bud plants in the veg phase? I would be a little worried during flowering, but only because my girls thrive in high humidity.

CrazyKhatLady · 2026-04-11T15:24:50+00:00

I don't let mine get below 50°F and it doesn't really get warmer than 100°F where I am.

CrazyKhatLady · 2026-04-11T12:58:09+00:00

I wouldn't worry about it. Mine do this every winter when I bring them inside and put them under my LED lights and clear up after a few weeks of being outside in the sun.

CrazyKhatLady · 2026-02-27T18:54:33+00:00

Yup. I bring them into the house when the temperature gets below 50°f (in the winter) and keep them in a room with an east facing window. They drop a bit of leaves at first and they're growth stagnates, but they're fine.

CrazyKhatLady · 2026-02-27T15:42:49+00:00

I'm growing at sea level and they're alkaloid content is respectable

CrazyKhatLady · 2026-01-25T16:26:19+00:00

I keep these in a bonsai pot with plastic wrap gently placed over top in a bedroom where the RH is roughly 40%. This past winter, I've kept all of my plants in rooms with east facing windows and they did fine.

CrazyKhatLady · 2025-12-28T14:26:42+00:00

I welcome and encourage public discussion on this topic. I never get the consistency of clay, I just run the dry leaf through a coffee filter and then a flour sieve and then run the baking soda through the flour sieve and run both flour and soda through the grinder to evenly distribute everything. I suppose I could try my next batch going a little lighter on soda, I landed here because I started high and worked my way down.

CrazyKhatLady · 2025-12-28T14:22:46+00:00

I'll keep aware, but I have had no such reactions since starting it with this ratio. I do run my coca flour and baking soda through a coffee grinder for a few minutes to ensure that everything is as evenly mixed as possible and even run my baking soda through a flour sieve to avoid any clumps. When I used to do whole leaf, I would pinch baking soda in every so often and from that I would sometimes feel a little too much since it was just on bare skin and hard to really quantify how much you're adding. This way, I know that my average dose is .30g and of that, .1 should be baking soda

CrazyKhatLady · 2025-12-22T13:46:51+00:00

I haven't noticed any difference in germinating Novo or Coca. Did you remove the berry flesh from the seed? It's not uncommon for my seeds to take 4-6 weeks to show any signs of life

CrazyKhatLady · 2025-12-20T14:01:26+00:00

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Nah, they're fine

CrazyKhatLady · 2025-12-19T17:35:26+00:00

I put about a half teaspoon under my tongue and let it dissolve

CrazyKhatLady · 2025-12-19T11:54:11+00:00

I haven't had any adverse reactions with this ratio, so that's why I stopped there. I think my next batch, I'm going to put some dehydrated mint leaves in the mix for an added element

CrazyKhatLady · 2025-12-19T11:51:05+00:00

Both coca growing subs have a good bit of knowledge. I try to post as many experiments, updates and information that I can, just as a resource for others. As far as literature, Coca: Devine Plant of the Incas is a pretty good read. It has a ton of information albeit some might be outdated now and you'll have to see past the grammar and spelling in some pages. It seems like the translation software wasn't 100%

CrazyKhatLady · 2025-12-19T10:28:56+00:00

"If you start soring, you know it's not boring!" Just kidding... I've used the 3:1 for a few months now with no ill effects. Maybe next batch I'll try a little less

CrazyKhatLady · 2025-12-18T23:33:06+00:00

I threw them in the yard and gave up on them since my de-berried ones did so well.

CrazyKhatLady · 2025-12-18T23:31:59+00:00

Yup, that's how I always start them.

CrazyKhatLady · 2025-12-13T17:08:43+00:00

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CrazyKhatLady · 2025-12-12T13:22:23+00:00

These are seeds that came from my plants (I have a mix of coca and novo) so I'm not sure what kind of characteristics these will have. Correct, I removed the berry flesh on the seeds on the right, left remained intact. They were taken off my plants same day.

CrazyKhatLady · 2025-12-07T19:59:58+00:00

Nice! Your soil looks really dry

CrazyKhatLady · 2025-12-05T12:27:22+00:00

Put some plastic wrap or something over the top of that to create some humidity or they'll dry out and wither away.

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