Lycopodium Powder - How to get / make it!
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Lycopodium powder is a fine yellow powder, that can be used in a lot of fire-experiments as "witch-powder", dust explosions, magic tricks and more..
In this video i show you how to get it from the spores of the plant; Lycopodium clavatum.
In the 1980's I used this powder (essentially photographic flash powder) for stage effects in Christian Rock Concerts and even close up magic. Hundreds of uses and no accidents, unless you count the pots that failed to fire. We put metal flake glitter (not plastic) on top of some powder in a tuna can, using an extension cord with a switch set for normal off to control them. The metal flake glitter got red hot, looking like fire, and burned out before anything could be burned. I could give stories or details on how to safely make the pots but someone responsible will need to ask. REMEMBER - never substitute blue dot (gunpowder) or let the lycopodium compress at all or you have a bomb. I used to put it in a thumb tip with flash paper. It made a loud bang and the smoke ring went to the top of the theater every time. Although only an armature magician I was given credit by the professionals for inventing that use of a thumb tip, flash paper, and powder. I actually had a guitarist forget the pot, miss his cue to back off, and was looking into it when it went off and no injuries - I don't know how he was not hurt and we had rehearsed it.
Lycopodium powder is used in movie practical effects, it produces large scale explosion simulations that can be set off indoors and near actors with no risk of property damage . Used with a combination of an air mortar you can fill with debris and blow out resin glass windows along with the powder over a small fire rack.
Thanks for the tutorial! The method to extract the lycopodium was really good explained, and it was very interesting to watch. Good job! :D
The elongated structures he's removing from the Lycopodium (club moss) are spore-bearing "cones". Each "cone" (technical name is a strobilus) produces zillions of tiny spores. The powder that the strobili (plural of strobilus) release are the spores, which are flammable. If you only take a few strobili from each plant it can reproduce and you'll have more to pick in the future!
So like we can grow it at home?
what you picked up, those were actually strobili...and spores are the particles of the "dust" :)
He thereupon told of the following event: As a young student he and his friends had been walking in the mountains. On the path to the hut between dwarf pines he found a Club Moss rambler. In high spirits, he wound it around his hat. In the hut one of his friends got a terrible cramp in his foot, that is, the foot stood at an angle to the knee. Everyone tried to help.
We have some of this at school. When you shake the vessel, it kind of catchs air inbetween the particles and flows around like a liquid!
I had no idea! I have acres of this stuff!
I want to live in Norway. Now for more reasons than just because it's gorgeous.
This is a SUPERPLANT! Maria Treben wrote about this plant: "During a walking tour through the forest which I undertook with a small group of people in Upper Austria, I pointed out to the Botanist, Dr. Bruno Weinmeister, the medicinal value of Club Moss in regard to cirrhosis and cancer of the liver."
yup.. such a mysterious plant. it actually exudes warmth when you put it on your body
The hutkeeper brought "Franzbranntwein" (an embrocation made of diluted spirits of wine and essence) and massaged the foot without success. Following a suggestion, the young Weinmeister wound the Club Moss around the cramped foot up to the knee. In a moment the foot turned back to its normal position. Now he thought this was a coincidence. Perhaps the cramp would have gone without the Club Moss. On the way home he picked a handful of Club Moss for his landlady who suffered from leg cramps.
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Nice Journey...;p
What the name plant it is??
Would you tell me...?
jeg bare gjetter at du er norsk i hvilke fylke eller kommune fant du de plantene jeg finner ingen her i akershus men jeg er vel kansje bare i feil onråde?
thanks for the info and tutorial
or club moss, am i correct or it that only for the Australian Lycopodium?
it makes killer flash powder if mixed with some potassium chlorate or perchlorate
Coffee creamer, saw dust and many other fine particles will also act in this manner
thank bro
I think the climate might not be good enough here?
And I wouldn't know where to get the seeds :)
is it in the US?
Is it in Hunington,Pennsylvania?
Now... Isn't the yellow powder itself the "spore" and not those fluffy thingies containing the powder? I always though spores are like super-tiny-seeds or the seeds of funghi and moss...
+Clash Cornholio I believe so but when its contained in a "pod" as it is on this plant I believe that the pod can also be called the spore.
selger du? eller vet du hvor jeg kan få kjøpt/finner i bergen?
spurte pappa om planten, han sa den var helårs i finnmark, er dette riktig?
i så fall kan jeg snart imponere med pyro-skills.
bra film!!
hilsen shaman-sultan ;)
now could you heat dry the lycopodium? like put it in an oven on low heat to speed up the process ??
You are too cool!
you should also tell people not to pick ALL the tops of one plat close to each other, so that you don´t have impacts on the population of plants where you pick them.
thank you fpor the how to!
Det lokale navnet på planten her i norge er kråkefot men er det myk eller stiv kråkefot?
Og hva heter sangen?
awesome!! Do they grow in the states Michigan
Er det myk eller stri kråkefot?
i found out i have to go up to idaho to get some. i wish it was in utah >:(
Unfortunately it doesn't grow a whole lot of places in Denmark /;
its 2022 oml
It is a pity you do not sell it, as it doesn't grow anywhere near me :0(
just buy it on pyro/firework sellers on the web.
it should be legal all over the world
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or simply go to a pharmacy. It's one of those hippie-diarrhea-inducing meds... just ask for lycopodium^^
Probably be a good idea to leave some to reproduce the population.
Wha-... Ugh... That's not the only source of it in the entire world, there are loads of those plants.
for real i have like at least a few acres of these things and when i pull the spores off they regrow after a while
Where the visual bro?
im so getting some :D
Did you get it?
I have a 100 kg lycopodium powder
lol if i know what that plant is it grows EVERYWHERE in finland (i live in finland)
norske?
Nice video!
Unfortunately, in my country, the numbers of this plant (Lycopodium Clavatum) has declined and it's very difficult to find them. It's even on a red list of endangered species!!
So it's probably illegal to even take the spores.
grow your own then