@roadkill Your kratom plants look very festive in their red pots with green leaves. 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
I am not convinced that they're are more than maybe 2 types of Mitragyna Speciosa, horned and unhorned. If there are, I'm not 100% sure that one would have a radical difference in alkaloid levels and profiles from the other.
In this nascent pioneering of 'all things Kratom' , I certainly haven't done any genetic studying or hplc/gcms tests on alkaloids for 'different subspecies' that are raised in identical environments. Obviously more research is needed with this rather novel plant.
Just as there are tested tried and true varieties of cannabis, there may well be with Kratom too. There may well be mitragynine/7OHM alkaloid levels and ratios that vary with genetics AS WELL AS their environs. It may just be nuture more than nature, it may just be culture more than clone, or indeed it may just be plant age, season of harvest, portion of plant (red/green vein) harvested, nutrition, water & humidity, temperature, light intensity & photoperiod, and CO2 levels that make for most of the potencies and differences in alkaloids. I may also be 100% wrong (I've been wrong before). I've made mistakes before ( I've seen me do it).
There are THC/CBD level differences and ratios with pot indica/sativa hybrids, so anything is possible.
I can only hope that the 'Malaysian', 'Vietnamese', 'Indonesian', and 'Thai' clones that I have do indeed have potent alkaloids, and are different from each other, as they were advertised.
I would be disappointed if I raised these, with high hopes (no pun intended), and was disappointed in their performance. I don't want to raise a bunch of culls.
Happy Thanksgiving to all in the kratom community. We certainly have much to be thankful for. If we're thankful for Kratom, well that just means we've prolly been through hell. Blessings y'all. 😁