DetritusTheEgo
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It has been several years in the making but have reached the point where I have everything to attempt my first mescaline extract. I do not have any experience with mescaline and have been excited for the day where I have my first experience with the compound knowing I personally grew it, harvested, and extracted it being it's guide from start to finish. I found this grounded and connected me more to mushroom experience. Cacti has been a lesson in patience given it's lifecycle is far greater but has been nothing but a pleasure throughout.
When I first looked into mescaline extracting, a good five years ago plus, I had defaulted to Kash's A/B Mescaline Extraction. I then watched Madhattress journey a few years back in Mescaline: Kash AB HCl and Cielo Extraction Attempts(update: Extractions Complete) +New extractions, and that made me favor CIELO as my initial foray. pete666's recent Trichocereus potency testing also made me discover his STB Mescaline Extraction TEK and (Back-)salting mescaline by HCl titration. I am not prepared with the components necessary to do either of these extracts currently, but would enjoy doing both at a future date just for the fun of the extract.
I figured I'd make a post here where I can document my extract journey. Welcome to anyone who would like to tag along
, I'm not going to be doing anything ground-breaking but happy to have you.
All of my cacti material was cut and stored in the dark or at low ambient light conditions anywhere from six to twelve+ months. When it came time to cut and dry the cacti it was done at room temperature with circulating air being added. I used a multi-tool or needle nose pliers to break off large spines whenever it was convenient for the variety being worked with. I included the core with all of the material I have saved and did not de-skin / de-wax any. I currently have the material separated in a way where I can garner a potency of individual cultivars, much like pete666 shared recently ( thank you for that reference material! ).
CIELO Extract #1:
I have ~100g blended to a fine powder with both citric acid and fumaric acid at my disposal. I plan to go the fumaric acid route trusting the benefits that it has over the once default citric acid. My first batches cacti material also being a no name 'PC' cultivar from my collection lends to the assumption this batch may not be a high yielder.
When I first looked into mescaline extracting, a good five years ago plus, I had defaulted to Kash's A/B Mescaline Extraction. I then watched Madhattress journey a few years back in Mescaline: Kash AB HCl and Cielo Extraction Attempts(update: Extractions Complete) +New extractions, and that made me favor CIELO as my initial foray. pete666's recent Trichocereus potency testing also made me discover his STB Mescaline Extraction TEK and (Back-)salting mescaline by HCl titration. I am not prepared with the components necessary to do either of these extracts currently, but would enjoy doing both at a future date just for the fun of the extract.
I figured I'd make a post here where I can document my extract journey. Welcome to anyone who would like to tag along
, I'm not going to be doing anything ground-breaking but happy to have you.All of my cacti material was cut and stored in the dark or at low ambient light conditions anywhere from six to twelve+ months. When it came time to cut and dry the cacti it was done at room temperature with circulating air being added. I used a multi-tool or needle nose pliers to break off large spines whenever it was convenient for the variety being worked with. I included the core with all of the material I have saved and did not de-skin / de-wax any. I currently have the material separated in a way where I can garner a potency of individual cultivars, much like pete666 shared recently ( thank you for that reference material! ).
CIELO Extract #1:
I have ~100g blended to a fine powder with both citric acid and fumaric acid at my disposal. I plan to go the fumaric acid route trusting the benefits that it has over the once default citric acid. My first batches cacti material also being a no name 'PC' cultivar from my collection lends to the assumption this batch may not be a high yielder.
I'm reviewing the pictures of my mixture and was curious what called out to you the most as being under hydrated? My pictures in order were the mix, a ball when grabbing some and squeezing, and the ball when I crumbled it back. I'm guessing the first picture without my hands is the best indicator now that I review the pictures in the tek again. I had made an assumption that ideal hydration mix was in the clump then crumble stage for whatever reason. I added the 130ml of dH2O and it seemed to pass the 'forms a clump but breaks back apart easily when squeezed' so I did not use any of the reserve.
. Thanks for the insight and the work on the tek Loveall + Nexians!
