Hello Nexus,

I have recently rediscovered an interest in psychedelics. It has been around 10 years since my last trip.

I'm currently prepping to start cultivating some mushrooms and bought my first T. Pachanoi in July, which is what led me here. Someone in The Trichocereus Community group on Facebook recommended checking here for the science behind mescaline content in these cacti. Also heard one of the hosts of Plus Three mention that he used to be an admin here a few times.

Turns out that I likely wound up with a PC, but it's all good. It'll make a nice grafting stock one day.

I plan to spend most of my online time between here and The Shroomery. If it keeps me away from Facebook, that will be enough.

Anyways, just wanted to drop a howdy and introduce myself. Glad to be here and looking forward to learning from all of you.

Edit: Not sure why it posted sideways, and not sure how to fix it.

Hey MycoTricho,

Nice specimen there bud. Got a lot of cactus lovers here and even more mushroom lovers.

Good to have you here. See you about the forums.

Hi MycoTricho!

Handsome cactus you got there.

Welcome to nexus, good to have you here

Hey thanks guys. I was starting to think I said something wrong, watching all of the other intro posts get replies.

I love trichocereus and I love mescaline and I love peyote - a lot. Only had peyote 10 times.. wonderfully said.

I have yet to try mescaline (in any form). I'm looking forward to it, though. I have heard wonderful things.

I did a lot of mushrooms in my late teens/early twenty's. Did a little bit of LSD and quite a lot of ecstasy as well. I have a feeling that my experiences now will be quite different from those back then, though. I have an entirely new understanding of the potential of these substances. Back in the day, the intent was to "party", so that is what I got.

Except mushrooms, those always felt different. They had their own agenda, and it wasn't to party.

I can't say it enough: mescaline is a lot of fun at any dose (like, I used to go to these ceremonies where you can get peyote in a community setting - not going into detail) and its pure: the best way to say it, is for me - it changed who I am. Sincerely changed so many aspects of life and peyote was and will always be the best and my favorite drug probably

I have seen one or two mishaps happen: actually as a result of other peoples ignorance and bad attitude. At these ceremonies you actually would run into someone who wasn't the best person to trip with - I can still attend the ceremonies i went to but both stopped as a result of losing the ability to get there transport wise lol but also just because I lost interest and it stopped being as important for me as it was previously

I will say it again: mescaline is so much fun.

I think that mescaline is the main drug that holds a special place in my heart. I think it works so well at breaking off the most negative residue clogging my thoughts and the word I'm looking for is: Loyalty.

Mescaline for me: was very loyal with what I asked for, It did a very thorough and gentle breakthrough each time (not like a DMT "Breakthrough" i mean a breakthrough: psychologically)

[note: I see I might've created a little confusion: I have only taken peyote - to clarify]

Hello! Welcome! From a healer's perspective, mescaline offers so many awesome functionalities. I really look forward to experiencing it's signature at some point

I would say the cactus looks as though it could do with a bit more light and maybe a feed too.
They can take plenty of water during the growing season and perform accordingly.

It has very white-haired, quite large areoles and rather longer spines than my pachanois that I always assumed were PCs but they have shorter spines and more off-white, smaller areoles. Also the areoles point upwards rather more on my PCs than yours do. Photo attached for comparison.

So one or the other of us doesn't have a PC pachanoi and we ought to find out 'somehow'.

OOOOH, don't tease me like that! I'm going to make a post in the Trich community on Facebook and see what they say. From what I heard, the non-pc's have a V indent above the areoles, and the areoles point upward like you said. So my reasoning for assuming it was PC was where I purchased it and the fact that it is missing the V. But maybe the V will appear when it gets older?

As for food, water, and sunlight; I have been adding nutes up until two weeks ago since the temperatures here are starting to drop and leaves on trees are starting to turn. Unfortunately the sunlight issue is just something I have to deal with. I live in an apartment and have it located in the area that produces the most light, that actually belongs to me. It only gets about 4 hours of direct light. My Painted Lady succulent is doing the whole Stretch Armstrong thing, and I hate it, but I have to work with what I've got. They get plenty of water, though. Obviously I've lowered my watering as the temps drop.

So the Trich Community gave a pretty quick "that's a PC" reply. So maybe yours isn't? Maybe post a picture on here and see what people say. Also, maybe watch this video. That's where I found that information about identifying PCs.

https://youtu.be/RX-iLSW0nCI

My suspected PC's certainly developed the v or "seagull" marking after 10 years or so, so I don't think that's necessarily a valid distinguishing mark. The picture is attached to my previous post. Maybe we have variants of essentially the same (PC) trich.

This cactus was never tasted without other cacti added for good measure, so it's impossible to comment meaningfully on its potency.