Ok, here are some results:

- Dry powder in leveled 1/4 cup (60ml): 34g

- Min water paste (see below) in leveled 1/4 cup: 51g

"min water paste": To 100g of dry finely powdered cactus I added 25g of lime and mixed well. Then slowly added water. Observations:

- 0 to 30ml: The paste remained looking dry, no change in color. Minor clumps formed towards the end of this range.

- 30ml to 200ml: Paste begins to look wet and dark green, but it still crumbles and does not stick to itself

- 200ml to 222ml: Paste begins to stick to itself. This is a change that is very easy to see.. Ammonia odor present. Also starts to make a fluffy sound while stirring. I stirred for 10 minutes and verified that texture stopped changing. Paste is completely sticking to itself and makes a sensual wet sound when pressed down. Arm was tired (it should be). I'm hoping this is a good paste (it looks good) it is easy to know when the transition happens. Calling this "min water paste". It is ~25% less water compared to what I was using before when starting with 69ron's paste ratios.

I think everyone can learn to hit this min water paste within +/-10ml of water. It could make results more consistent compared to prescribing a fixed amount of water. Extract is very dark and currently xtalizing (slow diffusion method).