what actually makes the cactus psychedelic i would say is the synergistic effects of all alkaloids present, including mescaline. T brigdesii is known to contain peyote like alkaloids, forgive me this info is somewhere, also its known to contain things like tyramines and a suspected maoi. considering the vast difference in other psychedelics plus an maoi id say its a fair theory to attribute the alkaloids responsible to the potency of a freshly dried cacti.
a note on synergistic effects. people have consumed lost peyotes with mescaline cacti and had new and different experiences, i believe that they must all be present for a fair judgment to be made. not to say pure mesc wouldnt rock my socks, but much less work and raping of the plant perse would be needed. you should pet the cactus not dissolve it!
all of my cacti has been despined, peeled, and had the green layer sliced from the almost completely inactive core.
i have purchased 10 brigdesii from the bear and found that they indeed were potent, the only person i have ever known personally to have a bad trip from cacti got his when he exceeded the recomended 8 inch starting line. he definitely 'tripped his balls off" i have since brought cactus near him and he freaked out due to his connection with that apparently horrifying trip, beats me what he did wrong, all i can speculate is he got schooled and would fair better next time. doubt hell try again though.
with a 1 foot cutting of brigdesii i find that i get about 8 grams dried (10 if you count the tip i sever and grow)
with pachanoi i find that one needs about 3 times the weight of dried flesh for a similliar experience.
now to make sure i can gauge doses, when i get all my cacti, (last time i got 15 feet of brigdesii0 i prep it all and put all the dried skins in a bag, AND SMASH IT TO BITS!, this crumbles the brittle skin and mixes the more potent with the lesser, and all possible alkaloids are now prone to being picked due to the variety of the chips.
after testing each batch one can decipher what the experience will yield based upon the weight of the ingested flesh. i also find this very helpful when innitiaing a newb so you can preferably make them go balls to the walls, or if need be, like tomorrow initiating 2 newbs, theyll both be ingesting 4.5 g dried brigdesii.
ill post again after tomorrow and let you know how our new pscyhonauts fair, both are girls with odd odd psyches.
gotta love trip sitting, i wish i could charge an hourly fee... hah
ive heard of a shaman in training who consumed 55 grams of peruvianus
and ive also had a friend consume 45 grams pachanoi
ive tripped from ingesting 8 grams of pachanoi,
it also seems that the user must break thier head open to the cacti, each time the same dose is repeated, from my collected observations the trip is dramatically more intense, i would not dare eat the same amount i originally ate and had my first couple of times, i surely will get schooled for a long long time.
what type of dose are you looking for 69 ron, hyperspace? fractals? connectivity?
ive never gone into hyperspace via smoking dmt, and ive never had complete otherworld experiences via mescaline.
the most powerful cactus trip i had was from ingesting a plate of coatls chips and 13 hawaiian baby woodrose, this lasted a full 24 hours, things like aztec glyphs came and covered everything much like 'god code' i felt a connection with some spirit of long past and went in and out of consciousness at times.
if you are still unsuccessful i will send you my chips and well see what your report is like.
i always have a surplus.
