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Oct 24, 2008
In less than 2 months, the small Kratom plant that I purchased in July has grown at an amazing rate. It is easily 3 times larger than it was since my previous post, even taking into consideration my fervent pruning. I have harvested at least 30 leaves thus far, dispelling the claims that a Kratom plant must be grown for several years before it can be successfully clipped.
I have my plant hanging in a northwestern facing window, not for any other reason besides it is the only window in which my cat cannot reach and devour it. Nevertheless, it has grown very quickly, even though it only gets heavy sunlight in the afternoon hours. Being able to grow a Kratom plant this quickly in the Northeast leads me to believe that anyone with a window and water can can do the same with relative ease.
If you are contemplating the purchase of a plant I highly recommend it, although, maybe not from one of the more popular and expensive vendors. While my plant is from a popular vendor, I have posthumously read very many positive reviews of people buying their plants off of Ebay. I would also recommend buying a smaller plant, as they grow so quickly, a larger plant is not worth the extra $20 to $50.
In my next post about this plant, I plan to post a quick guide on pruning and harvesting Kratom. As you can see from the photo, it can grow horizontally faster than it does vertically, which can be controlled with pruning. Had I known more about pruning this plant from the beginning, it would easily be a foot taller now. While it is so easy to do, very little information exists online.
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Oct 23, 2008
Well, apparently, KratomForum.com is no more—it’s quite difficult to actually believe. The Kratomforum was run by Speciosa, and allegedly, the closure was inadvertently caused by the vendor taking a vacation. This supposedly caused an influx of Kratom shipments from Canada, raising a red flag with customs, then the FDA, and various other possibilities that may or may not be true. If you are interested in the source material for these conjectures, which for all I know are totally false, checkout this link.
To be honest, I hadn’t visited the forums in months, and was heading over there to conduct some research for the new Kratom Plateau Forum. In fact, I just finished the previous blog post before I was even aware of the closure. Good timing to start a forum, but I would scrap the idea in a second if it meant I could just have a cached version of the site to save for reference. I was depressed at the thought of losing such a magnificent wealth of information; the user polls alone were surely a priceless resource for so many people—myself definitely included. In any event, I sincerely hope that everyone over at Speciosa is doing well.
To reiterate, the new Kratom Plateau Forum was supposed to be a long term hobby of mine, I envisioned months, if not years, with only a handful of close friends and users; but if anyone is interested in participating, please let me know. I have always believed there was a niche for a small Kratom forum, without the heavy-handed moderation, and run independently of the Kratom vendors. In addition, so many posts on Kratomforum were not helping the cause and deeply worried me concerning the future of this great plant. Nevertheless, these are trivial concerns and I am sad to see the forum gone.
If anyone has any ideas to build a small forum, has any recommendations whatsoever, or just wants to get involved–please let me know.
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Oct 23, 2008
For anyone interested, I just wanted to post a link to the KratomPlateau forums. It’s not much yet, and definitly in the preliminary stages, but I wanted to pass the info on to the many people who email me with questions.
Due to an influx of spam, I lost many, if not all of the recent questions and comments left for me in various blog posts. If I did not respond, if your comment has been erased, I sincerely apologize. I am certain the creation of the forum will prevent this from happening again, so please feel free to hit me up with any questions.
Also, thanks to everyone for all the great comments and questions before they were inadvertently wiped out. Many were so thorough, nice, and interesting, it still bothers me they were lost so easily.
