Hello Mugen,

Welcome to the Nexus.  Thank you so much for that Introductory Essay and experience(s) reports.  I really enjoyed reading them.

You are on the right track extracting your own.  There's a huge number of great extraction teks for a variety of plant sources in the wiki.

Please take some time to check out the links at the top of the forum pages as well as to take a good look around the forums themselves.  This place is huge and seems to have something for almost everyone who signs up.  I certainly hope you will enjoy explorations along these lines.

Again, welcome to the Nexus.