Hello dear members,

Jarastlad here, I'm in my thirties, archaeologist (also blacksmith and woodworker) but train driver by trade (one has to earn a living).

I've been curious about psychedelics ever since my teenage-hood. Back then, I started to dwell in the Sixties counter culture, music and mind set. Through music (especially The Doors), I got to understand that psychedelics existed. I was curious, but cautious. I also followed the advice of a previous psychonaut who explained to me that "19 years old is young. Very young ! You have plenty of time. I don't advise you not to try these drugs, just to be patient". I am grateful I did follow his advice !

As I drifted into my twenties, I started to read a lot, especially Huxley, Watts, Buddhist manifests and oriental philosophy. Those readings reconnected me towards psychedelics. A friend of mine, avid psychonaut, offered me to try San Pedro Cacti. The following experience helped me release the apprehension I had towards these substances (as I am quite sensitive to some other substances). I followed this lead and discovered a world of insightful experiences from people of all kinds of life but usually animated by the same motives : discovery of what life is made of, looking towards a more peaceful existence with themselves and all other walks of life.

I always liked cacti and therefore started to cultivate them. At the same moment, my friend recommended me to try psilocybe mushrooms. The experience also related to me very much and him and I started to look further and further into these two mediums.

Which brings me to DMT-Nexus. The extraction of mescaline and insight of so many people before us brought us here. The experience of some of the members has helped us tremendously to achieve our reasearch. A scientist myself, but by no means a chemist, this website provided with an amazing amount of insight and actual knowledgeable experience which we could learn from. For that, I already thank deeply all of the members of this website !

I filled out the questionnaire and was absolutely baffled by the amount of things I didn't know about this website, having mostly just surfed the cacti and fungi section. I also really appreciated the safety part of it which I believe is too often overlooked nowadays.S Some answers are definitely clumsy, as I knew very little about DMT except for its existence and effects.

Hopefully, I can bring something to this edifice !

Welcome ! Nice to meet you
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Hello and welcome!

I hope you enjoy using this platform now that you've come to a point in your journey where you can signal your intentions. The Nexus is a great place to take (rolling?) stock of your experiences so don't be a'freight' to share
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Hello!
Welcome : )

Thanks for the welcoming messages ! I've been using the site quite extensively for the past few weeks as we did an extract with a friend. God this has helped us so much ^^ Having the first probing results is such an amazing experience when you've spent so much time trying to get anything at all.

Welcome fellow strawberry,

Mescaline is a lot of fun, but I'm more of a knockout person myself.

Not sure which taste is more horrid, yage or cacti

How do you enjoy your mesc?

Cacti is pretty horrid, definitely ^^ I've never had yage myself. But from recollection from a friend, it's pretty much as bad. We've had some powdered cacti and that was one of the most horrible thing that I had to eat ever.

I've actually tested our first batch of mesc HCl and we were really happy with the results ! Really nice slow on take with a smooth plateau and very smooth coming down as well. Basically cacti, but without any fuss.

That's what I like to hear. Personally I stopped with the cacti because they took too much space and time to grow. I got veggies too you know I really hope the peyotes will do a comeback in the wild someday; those days were glorious

We'd always do cacti-smoothies but there was nothing smooth about them to be honest. They did look appetizing but those looks were forever deceiving.

Do you grow your own or find them at nurseries/web?

I do grow my own. I like cacti, I think they're cute and they seem easy to take care of, but need a bit more attention that what people think.

I've bought a couple of living cacti on the web and we've been doing some grafting from then on. We've even tried something new when I left one to dry a bit too long. I've laid it on its side and, supposedly, it should (let me emphasize that : should, not will ^^) grow multiple shoots and create quite a bit of off-cuts. Fingers crossed !

Unfortunately for me, I live in a rather colder climate and growing inside takes ages. We've got a "cactus box" project going on and we're looking into maybe growing them with a little bit more efficiency but that remains to be proven.

There's a knack to growing cacti. The right Trichocereus, in the right soil mix, will grow pretty fast in northern Europe. They love being outdoors from late spring; some even tolerate being outdoors all year, although I would advise caution and due research on this - protection from simultaneous cold and damp is advised.

T. terscheckii seems to prefer being outdoors whatever the weather!

Thanks a lot for the advice !

I've found a guy in the Netherlands who's a complete cacti nerd. He provided me with proper soil as well as fertilizers to help. I'll look for good Trichocereus species for a better growing rate. So far, I've got one echinopsis peruviana, three T. pachanoi and one l. williamsii grafted onto a T. pachanoi. It's doing good, but it's still growing very slowly. Guess he'll just remain with me as an ornament plant ^^

A friend's been having some pest problems and I'm browsing the net and the nexus to help him with these little buggers. White guys, look like crustaceans, they make sort of a web and are really slowing the cacti grow. Maybe you've had to deal with them ?