Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 05:49:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: HSL123@aol.com
To: Multiple recipients of list <ibogaine@ibogaine.org>
Subject: Re: iboga

In a message dated, Fri, Jul 04, 1997 21:52 EDT
socks@concentric.net writes:

>I am wondering,

>if grown from seed, how long would it take to grow the iboga >shrub to
active age (or does it always contain near the same >ammount of ibogaine etc.
at any age of growth) / or, how fast >does it grow?

Ben,

The seeds appear quite difficult to germinate.  I have been told they take
three to six months in 90+ humidity in 90+ F. temp. to germinate and that the
plants are not harvested before three years.  Three years growth does not
produce a large plant and remember the source of the Ibogaine is in the bark
of the root and may run anywhere from less than 1% to 3% alkaloid content in
the root bark for average plants.

Howard
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