Changa: A smoking blend containing Ayahuasca and other herbs

[Pyramids]

Anyone have any insight as to using a fan during the evap process? Is it better to let the leaf sit in the ISO for an extended saturation process rather than greatly speedup that process with a fan?

 

[froggydays]

Anyone have any insight as to using a fan during the evap process? Is it better to let the leaf sit in the ISO for an extended saturation process rather than greatly speedup that process with a fan?

I think the leaf also has to saturate and if you use a fan that might be less effective. Also using a fan on such a chemical may be a bit unhealthy in a closed room / office.

 

[Pyramids]

I think the leaf also has to saturate and if you use a fan that might be less effective. Also using a fan on such a chemical may be a bit unhealthy in a closed room / office.

cool, thanks froggydays!

 

[Transform]

I think the leaf also has to saturate and if you use a fan that might be less effective. Also using a fan on such a chemical may be a bit unhealthy in a closed room / office.

Perhaps a soaking period followed by fan-assisted evaporation would be optimal, then? Definitely evaporate in a well-ventilated area, whichever way one chooses to go.

 

[Pyramids]

Perhaps a soaking period followed by fan-assisted evaporation would be optimal, then? Definitely evaporate in a well-ventilated area, whichever way one chooses to go.

Yeah, that's basically where i landed. It soaked for about 5 hours with continuous stirring and then the fan evaporated it rather quickly. It's curing now and I'll be able to test my first changa batch over the weekend. I added my caapi vine vodka extraction (that sat for a month) to the ISO along with 1.5g spice and added a botanical mix of leaf to soak it up. It was a lot of work—especially because of the oddly-behaving hetpane that messed up a bunch of batches—as well as my own inclination to want to improve and perfect on processes which, in this case, due to lack of understanding, resulted in a fair share of screw-ups. Anyway, sometimes that's what learning looks like. It ain't always pretty

 

[Pyramids]

Just reporting back on my above-mentioned changa. First off, I used black caapi, and this particular variety was crazy with the vibrations. The first time i tried it it was somewhat overwhelming physically. The second time I fell in love. Interestingly, to me, this was very much identical to traditional ayahuasca brews I've had from shamans in Hawaii, Brazil, and Peru. But it only lasted about 5-7 minutes. Then i'd hit the bong for more. So, the next batch I will double the amount of caapi and dmt in the ISO (making it 1g leaf mix: 2g dmt: 20g caapi) hoping that extends the duration a bit and the potency so I don't have to smoke so much.... It may be that I'll have to do a more targeted alkaloid extraction from the caapi and add that to the mix...