mrwiggle
Rising Star
ok so my platypus posted awhile ago trying to pin down the best tek for cacti with available ingredients(food grade as possible) not completly strict on the food grade thing but def cannot have any suspect fumes or similar weirdness around..was previously looking at 69 rons limo mesc tek... forum side track and it got a little confusing with different ppls opinions, then life side tracked extract didnt happe.n but now it has begun and platypus found spicemans tek which looks pretty good...bottom line wants to get mesc salts from 500g of cactus powder with readily available ingredients... so far has mixed the powder with equal parts calcium hydroxide (based on the statement that one can readily use lime for base) then after doing this realized the "lime" spiceman refers to is calcium carbonate and the lime platypus had was calcium hydroxide...soo need to troubleshoot that are carbonate and hydroxide equivelent?....furthermore, on hand is distilled vineagar (5% acetic acid) d limonene, sunflower oil, so should platypus proceed with spicemans instructions or should variations be made for increased success?