First ayahuasca Brew, Caapi + MHRB, some questions

[Skrjabin]

Hi all,


I have successfully extracted dmt from bark multiple times, have been smoking dmt for a while now. I was at a two day aya retreat, and both times I didn’t journey. Now I’m trying it myself. I will have a sitter.

I’m starting my first brew somewhere in the upcoming days. I’m using Caapi red or yellow vine. I have 100g of both, and was thinking of combining the two for the Caapi tea. Or is this ‘not done’?

My Caapi dose will be somewhere between 50 and 70 grams, with more vine tea at hand in case I want some more inhibition. but I’m still confused about the quantities of the amount of MHRB used. Some threads I see 1g recommended, which, at 2% potency results in 20mg light. In other threads I see around 5 grams recommended, or in more extreme cases over 10 grams. That seems to be quite the difference. What would be recommended?

Much love
Skrjabin

 

[bismillah]

You'd hardly feel 1 gram. 5 grams is a pretty good middle-of-the-road amount—it's right around 5g of MHRB that I start having an actual trip, I would say (mind you, that's in combination with ~4g of syrian rue, not caapi).
I think 6.5 and up would be a "strong trip" by any standard, but keep in mind there is some guesswork with brew potency.

You can get more out of it by making a separate brew for both plants and spacing them about 30 minutes, by the way.

 

[Ramma]

MHRB is a bit of guesswork. start on 4-5g.

 

[Skrjabin]

Thank you all! I had the most wonderful journey with 4g of mhrb. I’m planning to make a second brew this weekend.

To not open a new thread, I have one more question!
I have some yellow and red vine left.
I was wondering if it would be ok to combine the yellow and the red caapi into one brew? Or would this affect the journey with different characters of the different vine?

I can’t seem to find an answer to this, help would be much appreciated.

 

[Aeroman]

I've been trying to perfect my Mimosahuasca experiences, so far I've tried about 7 times and finally found the perfect amount of MHRB to have an experience similar to when you vape enough freebase to breakthrough, with the same intensity but lasting much longer.
I have tried 2 different sources of MHRB and tested 10 grams of each, one is shredded and the other is powdered. At that dosage, I reach a threshold trip state close to breakthrough with some body vibrations but still easily distracted by the physical world, with a bit of meditative focus I can vibrate more but it's not what I was seeking.

After an accidental megadose* that had a scary overwhelming transition into a breakthrough state, I wasn't afraid to try a higher dose of 20 grams MHRB with 4 grams of Syrian rue seed tea. That was the most perfect trip I had experienced so far. There was no stomach issues and I phased straight into vivid DMT fractals with my body buzzing like crazy, I didn't stop there, I kept phasing into several different dimensions or planes, this is what I had hoped to experience with oral DMT.

Now anything less than 20 grams just feels uncomfortable and frustrating, so near yet so far! I know there are different potencies of MHRB available, 10 grams of bark seems like a good strength test for me.

*40 grams of MHRB - I started with a 1/4 of that brew but didn't experience anything, took some more and 2 hours later still nothing, so finished off all the brew - then it hit with a violence.
I had messed up my harmala timing and had mixed most of 10 grams of the Syrian rue seed tea into the brew. The following day I felt spaced out all day