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jbark

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After years of growing many many cacti (all from seed), I cut a good portion down, including 3 four footers that I have watched mature over 7-8 yrs.... It's at once exciting and sad...

I thought I'd share the pics here.

Enjoy!!

JBArk
 

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Beautiful yield! :love:

And some sound trust into the durability of the spine adjacent 'Incline' exercise ball. For the psychonaut with optimal core strength...

It won't let you down. :thumb_up:
 
downwardsfromzero said:
Save the growing tips! Double your output!

Looks like you've got enough there for a good few cuttings as well as a fair blob of medicine.
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No need for cuttings - I have a whole other forest to harvest in a few years, and then there's the pups from the leftover stumps from all these... I have it on a rotation :)


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soulfood said:
Beautiful yield! :love:

And some sound trust into the durability of the spine adjacent 'Incline' exercise ball. For the psychonaut with optimal core strength...

It won't let you down. :thumb_up:
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Yeah, I like to live on the edge - fragile polyurethane balloon object in close proximity to organic spike phallus.

Keeps me sharp. ;)

Though it begs the question: use the 'core' for extra goodies, or discard it out of fear of nausea? :p

JBArk
 
Here is a pic of the brew, and a pic of my old brewing: from 2013 and 2015 - the mason jars have been in the freezer; 'closet' indicates a 4-5ft cutting that sat in a dark closet for 15 months before brewing - after a year, in the dark, with NO ROOTS and NO WATER, it grew a thin length of about 4 inches (yellow, due to lack of light).


I will combine these with the new batch, then reduce again until it will fit in three-four mason jars.

The logic: in the past, i have brewed a large portion of cactus, then taken a third of the brew with noticeable but minimal effect. At that point, the 2/3s left are not really strong enough for a "full" dose... So I have decided to harvest and reduce quite a lot of it, to have a predictable doe with no cactus to cactus variation factor; this way, i can take 100ml; if there is little effect, keep upping the dosage until I have a decent point of reference, knowing that I will still be left with 2-3 litres of the same potency. :)


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And now, the final reduction of three different batches from 8 years of growing, cultivating and brewing, (estimated 3 litres, reduced from an approximate total of 50 litres from 3 boil sessions in 2013, 2015 and this 2017 monster batch):

All I need to do now is test a small amount (just licking the spoon twice had very minor but noticeable effects) and then decide on a dosage quantity (I am guessing 100ml, but I will try 50ml to begin with - this stuff seems strooooong. :twisted:


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