Holy heck - it's Jahvisions! Nice to see you resurface here
Hi,
Ah @_TRIP_the Citrate, that explains, now understand. Eileen is a famous strong clone, but not easy to get your hands on I read a while ago (or you will have to pay serious money). Beautfull plant though.
@Traqnsform, I was never gone, but glad you missed me ;-) (did some reading on Bluelight and Erowid about the research Lysergamides) sometimes more busy then other times. Sometimes Often only reading instead of posting but indeed it's been an while since the last time I logged in. But the passion remains, and actually keep working on my hobby now.
- I had a succesfull A/B extraction of NN-DMT a while ago, from a plant we don't advise anymore (hopefully the last time I needed that source, although they claim the leave the tree alive and is sort of eco-friendly only skin only one one side).
- I have bought 5 Psychotria clones in the summer: 3 Nexus, 1 UDV and 1 DW06 (two Nexus clones already came in a bad condition, one especially maybe partly my fault because I let them at the post office for almost a week. Later the third Nexus clone also died. The UDV and DW06, didn't grow much but do look healthy (The are now overwintering inside in pots, so we will see next summer). I contacted the seller and he said I would get a discount with my next order. When I brought them inside I discovered a heavy infection with fungus gnats, but I got rid of it with two treatments with nematodes which worked very effectively.
Further I did a micro-potency testing with my cacti, and the TLC showed promising results on the TBM B, a unnamed bridgesii, a Pachanoi, and also a smaller Peruvian from matacuna which grows pretty fast. No or little results on the Scopulicola and unknown yet which one where pachanoi's and one peruvianus but they where all young and small). Only the the eppendorf from the peruvianus got open during the pressure cooker so that one I couldn't estimate. The amount of cactus used and solvent weren't precise so I coulnd't do a quantitive measurement but it gave me a good indication. (buying younger plants is cheaper but then people need some patience before you have enough adult material. In my opinion you can better buy some bigger old plants, but then of course you have the risk if paying to much if the plant turns out to be of low potency).
I am doing an extraction on them now as we speak (except the TBM's, I first let them develop some more). So I am doing an extraction on a Pachanoi(s), Peruvianusis(what is the plural?), Bridgesii's, a Macrogonus and a combined extraction of different smaller species (since I had to make room, and wanted to selected the most potent ones/best producers (for instance the macrogonus is maybe twice as less potent but it outgrows any other cactus. The 1 Peruvianus and 1 Pachanoi I got at the same time when they were still young and small but the Peruvianus made pups far more easy and I have 5 times more plants of the now. So I can't wait to see the results and also if and how good they recover this summer and start new growth. (Then I can finally make a selection on which ones to keep and also maybe start grafting.
My pereskliopsis are also multiplying well but never used them for grafting.
I once tried grafting a young peruvianus clone on the macrogonus but the graft got rejected by the host or was infected and it started to rot and fell of. The infected part on the macrogonus was cut off and then treated with sulfur which stopped the infection.
I did tried to extract and separate harmine (and THH) from harmaline but it was only from a test sample of banisteriopsis caapi, but it was only from a little free sample so that got messy and was too little so that failed.
Furthermore I bought some new solvents so to have more "tools" at hand and maybe try different extraction methods, ways to clean up/wash and recrystallize. And also planning to buy some new apparatus. For instance I have little difficulty evaportaing of the water with a fan now it's near freezing point here outside. A real vacuumpump and/or a rotary-evaporator and a hotplate with magnatic stirrer would have come in handy now. (I some relatively cheap ones from second hand or at ali express.
I also have an extraction question about the one I now preform on my cacti but I will make a new thread for that question.
(But as you can see, I am still a busy psychonaut, probably for the rest of my life ;-), although it has been quite a while since I took a serious jouney myself because I was not ready at that moment and had to solve some issues with/about myself, my life, my work, my family. All things worked out pretty well (was close to a burn-out and started using the wrong kind of drugs also, but have either stopped and/or reduced this quite a bit and tapering of still. And I am feeling more happy and peacefull now then I felt in the last 3 years) and I think in short time from now, at the right moment, I will have another yourney soon again.
Greetings David (Jahvisions)