The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center - Shroomery

Salvia divinorum Clones
Clones of Salvia divinorum
The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center
is created and maintained by
Daniel Siebert
Most of the clones described below can be obtained from: The Sage Wisdom Salvia Shop.
Seed raised clones:
Seed raised plants are valuable because they are genetically unique. Unfortunately, Salvia divinorum seeds are extremely
rare. For reasons not entirely understood, this plant almost never sets seed. Botanists have never found seed on plants
growing in their native habitat. The first published description of S. divinorum seed was that of L.J. Valdés. He had
managed to produce seed by carefully hand-pollinating greenhouse grown plants; unfortunately those seed failed to
germinate. A.S. Reisfield was the next person to report successful seed production. Many of the seeds he obtained
germinated, but the plants were not maintained.
In 1994, while examining a collection of S. divinorum (Wasson/Hofmann clone) growing at a friend's property in Hawaii, I
was fortunate enough to discover seventy seeds. This is first documented instance in which S. divinorum plants are known
to have spontaneously produced seed. This was the only time that seed had been found on these particular plants. They had
been checked in previous years and have been checked many times since. It is unclear why they only produced seed this
one particular year. Despite the most careful attention, only thirteen seeds germinated. The seedlings all started out growing
very weakly and seven died off at a very small size. The six remaining plants are now growing well.
Recently, in 1999 a commercial S. divinorum grower in Hawaii discovered seeds on his plants. Although he had been
experimenting with hand-pollination, most of the seed he obtained came from plants that he had not hand-pollinated.
Apparently they had been pollinated by insects. Many of the seeds germinated, but many of the seedlings were week and
did not survive. The ones that did are growing normally. Two of these were raised by myself from seed that the grower
kindly shared with me.
The following is a list of the seed-raised clones in my collection:
Seed parents = "Wasson/Hofmann"
Echo (DS9401 - Siebert 1994 seed raised clone)
Oracle (DS9402 - Siebert 1994 seed raised clone)
Paradox (DS9403 - Siebert 1994 seed raised clone)
Enigma (DS9404 - Siebert 1994 seed raised clone)
Mystique (DS9405 - Siebert 1994 seed raised clone)
Sacred Spring (DS9408 - Siebert 1994 seed raised clone)
Seed parents = "Palatable"
Hanau (DS9903 - Siebert 1999 seed raised clone)
Maka (DS9904 - Siebert 1999 seed raised clone)
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