Tony6Strings
Rising Star
2019 saw me experience my first cactus trips. DFZ, Jees, Pete666, Endlessness, coastal, Grey Fox, Sunnyside and I'm sure others I'm missing or forgetting, thanks for all the direction and encouragement along the way! My first cactus trips were a magical time in my psychedelic education.
Cactus has turned out to be my favorite edible plant psychedelic. It is loving and caring and very positive every time I take it, then again I've only ever used it with great set and setting.
When I received my cactus material, I tried to make tea from San Pedro powder and ended up with a goopy slimy mess nobody could drink. The dried P. Torch chips were much better material for making the tea. So, what to do with the powder?
I tried eating some rolled up into little wet dough balls, an idea I got from an old post by Mew. It's difficult to eat enough material this way to have a strong experience (50gr+).
I had 100 grams powder left and decided to extract. I thought about a dry tek, I read through Lovealls recent work with mescaline extractions. I was very close to starting the Pete666 stb method... In the end I decided on a simple alcohol soak, shake, decant, repeat, collect, evaporate, scrape up resin.
100 grams San Pedro powder was placed in a jar and covered with 190° Everclear (grain alcohol, you can also use isopropyl). After a few shake and settle, the alcohol turned black with emerald tint. Decanted (it seperates into two layers very easily, most of the powder stays put at the bottom, so this wasn't difficult). I filtered through funnel with cotton in neck.
I used a pint of Everclear (the darker chunk in the picture) for the first round, collected, and evaporated. Since there was still color to the alcohol, I extracted further with one bottle 70% isopropyl (two pulls, half the bottle each pull, the lighter greenish tinged chunk).
All in all, after dried and scraped. The Everclear chunk weighed 6.4 grams, the isopropyl chunk weighed 5.9. So, 12 grams resin. Seems much more reasonable for me to eat this than 100 grams of powder dough balls (love ya Mew, but that is no fun).
Bioassay and trip report forthcoming.
Edit: Since I see they both look very similar in color in the photo, the left eye is the iso, the right is the Everclear. They worked very similar, save your money and go on down to the dollar store for some iso!
Cactus has turned out to be my favorite edible plant psychedelic. It is loving and caring and very positive every time I take it, then again I've only ever used it with great set and setting.
When I received my cactus material, I tried to make tea from San Pedro powder and ended up with a goopy slimy mess nobody could drink. The dried P. Torch chips were much better material for making the tea. So, what to do with the powder?
I tried eating some rolled up into little wet dough balls, an idea I got from an old post by Mew. It's difficult to eat enough material this way to have a strong experience (50gr+).
I had 100 grams powder left and decided to extract. I thought about a dry tek, I read through Lovealls recent work with mescaline extractions. I was very close to starting the Pete666 stb method... In the end I decided on a simple alcohol soak, shake, decant, repeat, collect, evaporate, scrape up resin.
100 grams San Pedro powder was placed in a jar and covered with 190° Everclear (grain alcohol, you can also use isopropyl). After a few shake and settle, the alcohol turned black with emerald tint. Decanted (it seperates into two layers very easily, most of the powder stays put at the bottom, so this wasn't difficult). I filtered through funnel with cotton in neck.
I used a pint of Everclear (the darker chunk in the picture) for the first round, collected, and evaporated. Since there was still color to the alcohol, I extracted further with one bottle 70% isopropyl (two pulls, half the bottle each pull, the lighter greenish tinged chunk).
All in all, after dried and scraped. The Everclear chunk weighed 6.4 grams, the isopropyl chunk weighed 5.9. So, 12 grams resin. Seems much more reasonable for me to eat this than 100 grams of powder dough balls (love ya Mew, but that is no fun).
Bioassay and trip report forthcoming.
Edit: Since I see they both look very similar in color in the photo, the left eye is the iso, the right is the Everclear. They worked very similar, save your money and go on down to the dollar store for some iso!