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expect more work both with wild strains and cultivars in the near future. I took time off from working with grasses this summer, aside from the odd walk into the bush to harvest..have been busy with festival season, work, exploring some other tryptamines and more novel synthetic things..but as I am settling back down into autumn and collecting up this seasons harvests etc this will again become a focus.

edit..also something interesting to ponder regarding one of the beta-carbolines that has been showing up in analysis..

"The Phalaris alkaloid 6-methoxy-2-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carboline was reported as a rearrangement product of 5-methoxytryptamine-N-oxide by Ghosal & Mukherjee 1966 [J. Org. Chem 2284] but Shannon & Leyshon 1971 pointed out that their UV spectrum does not support that assertion."

 
I love these simple thing..

 

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Nothing super mind blowing here, but here are the results of wild arundinacea harvested/extracted in mid January PNW.

With our mild coastal climate the stuff is already growing. It takes a lot longer to harvest at this time. The grass has a lot more of the red in it, due to higher anthocyanin levels. Some people have speculated that this occurs alongside higher tryptamine levels in relevant grass/acacia species.

I should have weighed the fresh grass but I picked it on my lunch break and threw it straight into a pot when home. It was enough to loosely fill a small pot on the stove.

I definitely notice the red most early on in the season when it’s still cold. It carries over into the tea.

Grass was boiled 3x quickly in water/vinegar. Evaporated. Sodium carbonate was mixed with water to make a paste which was extracted with iso 3x and filtered. Evaporated. Goo was scraped up dissolved in vinegar/water and defatted twice with naphtha.

Some pretty pink crystals were obtained..long and not DMT-like. Scraped up to a brown crystal/goo stuff.

I can smell the indole when I burn a bit of it, with grassy floral hints.

I will be cleaning it up more, and have started on a 200g dry yugo red extraction as well.
 

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forgot to mention, in the pic of the grass you can see 2 stems that are just green. Those ones were harvested 20ish feet away. They were out of the swamp area the others were in (rhizomes not submerged in water vs swampy area), as well as in the sun out of the shade. Temps were getting to just around 0 C at the time.
 
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