Reducing SP tea to powder

[Bdevall158]

Ive recently been atempting to dry my san pedro cuttings to a powder for easier storage. I dried one mostly by sun for two days and finished it off in the oven, but we've had consistently cloudy weather where im at so I cant really do the rest that way. Ive read countless times before that you can just cook up a regular batch of tea and reduce it down to a shots worth, and further dry in an oven to achieve a powdered result. Im currently at the oven stage, except my 2 shots worth has turned into a very sticky, dark tarry substance, and i cant tell if its actually going to dry all the way. Just wanted a second opinion from the experts, should I just keep it on low and wait for it to dry? I had it on 200 degrees or a little lower with the oven door cracked. I had it in last night for about 4 hrs and it went from dark thick liquid to goopy tar mess until I turned it off for the night, and in the morning i scrapped it all off (very hard to scrape) and threw it back in the oven to hopefully finish drying.

 

[antichode]

Don't bother trying to dry that to a powder it will remain sticky, your better off evaporating to a small amount of liquid like 50mls and then just freezing it to store. The resin can be very difficult to scrape up if you dry it out.

 

[EternalPeace]

I recommend getting a food dehydrator if you really want powder to store. Just chop up, dry on low heat, and blend. Voila--powder in a bag.

Otherwise, instead of following a complicated procedure, I recommend going from fresh to consumption in the simplest way possible. Keep the plant alive until you plan to use it, then make those shots you mentioned.

 

[Jees]

I had a tea once evaped in a double boiler and it stayed a goo when warm, but by cooling of it became glass hard, made it to powder with mortar and pestle. Job finished I thought. But then the powder took air humidity fast (like in few days) and became like hard semi-flex piece of rubber, bye bye powder.

I then almost forgot about it, and like few months later opened the container and the rubber was gone and it was a glass hard piece again, and it never took humidity again, and stayed hard.

 

[Wolfnippletip]

Powder can be made by evaporating tea in a ceramic crock pot set on low, and with a fan blowing over the top of the crock pot, until it reaches a thick gooey consistency, where it can be easily scraped from the surface, and then leave the scrapings to dry the rest of the way (Crock pot and fan still on). When the scrapings are dry enough, mortar and pestle it.