can i do this to make cactus resin?

[remediosvaro]

r got 30g of san pedro skin cuts. if ground to small chips could i make a resin with ipa? some people say no, others say yes. r was thinking of mixing ipa with some 50% vodka. that way it evaporates quickly and theres still ethanol, ipa, and water. would acetone work instead of ipa?


does this stuff taste bad? if worst comes to worst r will just use vodka and water, but what temperature in the oven should i evaporate at? in Celsius.


thanks

 

[Mr.Peabody]

Are you talking the waxy outer skin, or the green layer just under the skin? There's a huge difference, there.

I am not sure about the solubility of mescaline in alcohol (it probably is), but I do know it is soluble in water. You could do a water extract, making a tea. Then evaporate the tea down to a resin. This has worked well for me.

You could boil for an hour, remove water, boil again for a couple hours, remove water then boil again for 4 hours (or until the pulp is no longer bitter to the taste). Then filter the best you can, reduce all of your collected tea on the stove to a small amount of fluid, and air dry with a fan/dehydrator/oven set on low.

Mescaline is not very soluble in acetone, so this would not be a good candidate.

 

[remediosvaro]

this is the flesh just under the skin. what temperature on the oven would evaporate within a few hours without killing the mescaline and other alks?

 

[Mr.Peabody]

It would be fine if you put it on "warm" setting, or just slightly higher. Keep an eye on it, you'd want to pull it out just before it is actually dry. It could heat up too high due to the radiation of the heating element. I have dried mescaline HCL extract in this same manner.

To get it really dry, you'd want to make a desiccant chamber, but this isn't absolutely necessary.

And yeah, this stuff tastes bad, but you can roll it into pill sized balls and swallow them, or put the resin into gel caps.

I have read reports of successful alcohol extractions, so maybe do some more research on that. Alcohol would definitely dry faster, if that's what you're after.