Urgent: "Equisetum arvense" Wanted!

Hi,

I am growing plants, and have had recently a problem with fungus and bacteria on my plants. Therefore I decided to give them some amount of silica. There is a plant which produces a good amount of silica, it is the "Equisetum arvense" (Field Horsetail or Common Horsetail).

I am in need of its seeds or spores, can anyone assist me with it? In exchange (here it comes!) I am offering seeds of various tropical, exotical plants, or seeds of some chili varieties.

Who can assist?

 

You sure you want that? It is the most difficult weed to get rid of

 

They're right you know, it had plans of world domination till flowering plants evolved, they formed the coal measures & grew 30/50 feet high.

You'd hate us if we gave you a bit of root.

Silica is the most common mineral in the earths crust, Si 04 the silica tetrahedron.

Look on the beach, if your pebble can't be scratched with a steel blade then its probably silica. Put some goggles on & pulverise it with a lump hammer. Carefull though, it breaks into very sharp bits.

 

Blimey, living off the remains of its 300 million year old ancestors !