Hi friends,

I'm wondering if the dead leaves that fall off my SD plants are worth collecting and drying for consumption at a later stage, or the alkaloids are withdrawn from the leaf before it dies and falls off the stem?

Thanks!

Collect, extract, pm me and lets get it tested to answer the question if it hasnt yet

Sure endy, I've got a bunch of dead leaves already. How should I extract exactly so it's suitable for such a test? You'll have to walk me through it.

I'd be surprised if dead leaves were good for smoking/ingesting. The quality of the experience might be off. Using my gut sense, here.

Wash some with cold acetone for about a minute then filter and evaporate. If the leaves didn't get rained on or too much sun they might be fine.

I use dead fallen leaves and get good stuff out of them consistently

You can just collect only the dead leaves. Leave the live ones to do the photosynthesis and help the plant grow.
Salvinorin is very stable, dead leaves don't lose any content. Doesn't matter if the dry out on the plant or after being harvested.
I would only discard ones that died because of some nasty infection, like bugs or mold. Or got moldy after drying out adn then gettign wet. Don't want to ingest stuff like that.