A question for tea experts

[Jammr]

Right, so I pulled from 28g's of dried torch outer skin. Light boil for a couple hours, mashing the pieces with a glass every 30 mins, then filtered with a french press. Put the flesh in the freezer, and then proceeded to burn the liquid from the pull to a cinder ( don't ask ). So, what I'm wondering is, can anyone guestimate how many alkaloids are left in the frozen flesh after that first pull? I'm guessing about 1/3, does that sound reasonable?

 

[Phlux-]

firsly -

see under the green cactus - the clearish stuff - thats cactus skin - alkaloid free - dont make the same mistake as some vendors - the stuff u have is not cactus skin

outer green flesh being separated from the inner white flesh

only 1 way to find out how much of the actives are left.

 

[Jammr]

Yep sorry for the typo, meant flesh not skin.

 

[polytrip]

If you boiled cactus flesh for a couple of hours in water, then there will be almost no mescaline left, since it is very solluble in water.
Maybe there are some less water solluble phenethylamine's left though.

 

[soulfood]

Check for bitterness.

 

[Jammr]

Thanks for the feedback. Just finished the second pull, same procedure. The flesh was initially bitter, not like it was before the first pull but bitter nonetheless. The resulting dark-brown liquid looks psychoactive, but I have no idea what kind of dose it'll provide SWIM with, which really sucks. Guess SWIM will drink it after slamming 10g's of powder from the same batch... oh well.

 

[Jammr]

So SWIM wound up taking 10g powder and drinking the tea from the second pull. Felt like a ~20g dose of powder. So the second pull from 28g dried outer flesh yielded alks worth roughly ~10g of the dried flesh.