any idea if this also would repel deer? I just had to do the google, I've grown the vine on a fence and it was amazing. I never knew about the datura. I'm guessing it looks about 3' x 3'?
Heads up they are incredibly toxic if you have kids around. And idiots will try to get high on them and seriously mess their world up. Happens all the time. The experience of the "high" more closely resemble demonic possession descriptions or extended low level carbon monoxide exposure then any kind of "high".
Im not entirely sure why cats wont go near these plants. Most dogs dont like being close to them either.
Not sure how well deer can smell alkaloids within a plant from a distance but i assume thats whats up with dogs and cats. Worst case you have a beautiful little bush. And yea, although both called moonflowers, and both have white trumpet shaped flowers, and both are technically psychoactive plants, completely unrelated plants and chemistry actually lmfao.
The moonflower daturas seed where they sit and grow back the following season, just cull away the ones where you dont want them in the spring, and youll always have them wherever you put them.
I have a bunch of angel trumpet tree datura seeds too. Also keep animals with a keen sense of smell away. They dont really pull insect to them like the bush daturas do. Gotta pull these in come winter. Smell incredible. You can smell these and the moonflowers both from about 50 feet if the wind shifts you way. Just dont go shoving your nose deep in them, the pollen is toxic just like every part of the plant even the seeds. If you nap under large one's during a vigorous bloom, you can actually inhale enough of the pollen to poison yourself with atropine and skopalomine. They had a reputation for killing south american natives who didnt realize they were napping under full grown angel trumpet tree's in full bloom.
Imho, daturas are some of the most beautiful things that exist. Heavy feeders, but vigorous growers. These angel trumpet tree daturas are technically bonsai-able too.
In the rainsforest, where they are extinct (the only species of hawk moth that pollenates them went extinct, and the last wild tree datura died not long ago if i remember correctly) they would grow to enormous sizes. They are a full on 50-60ft tree in their natural habitat.
This plant needs as many cultivators as it can get. These are very powerful plants to stand before when thriving. They are the centerpiece no matter where you put them. Probably the easiest to clone plant ive ever cultivated too. A cutting will root in under a week and begin taking off immediately upon heavy feeding.
P.s. do not ever even consider trying datura as a substance, you have been warned lmao.
