Well..... it's that time again. Cactus action back again for the first time. This time: no limo, no lime, no vinegar.

Just me, a couple knives, a pot, a spoon and some citric acid...a kitchen....some weed.... peaches....

I de-spined, ribbed and skinned a couple small cuttings. Totaling about 14-16 inches of pedro.

He's in the pot now!

More precisely, he was in the pot last night. He spent the day in the freezer and now he's back in the pot again. After this, I'm going to do it again and again until he is no longer bitter.

I'm reducing down the water from yesterday's simmer right now as well. Its an exciting evening in the kitchen. I'm toking a little bho (finally found a use for that bulb pipe I bought before I got a vg)

This is my very first bit of fresh cactus action! I have been growing cactus for a year now and have some great looking torch and pedro. I couldn't bring myself to take an untrained blade to any of my babies. I bought a couple live cuttings online and decided to work the kinks out on them. I saved the tips and am prepping them to propagate. (hopefully, they will prove potent when put to purpose)

The knifework wasn't bad at all. Phlux's cactus prep tek was a great manual for that process.

I left the chunks big and simmered lightly per the "resin update". I have really high hopes for this experiment because the thought of getting a even more full spectrum extract is appealling.

I will most likely do the acetone bomb on a portion of this to compare.

Will Post pictures of results...but did not take pictures of the process as its pretty much as described in so many posts.

Yeah, peaches.

Have you seen this cactus prep tek yet?

Indeed... it is the tek I used.

cant wait to see how this worked out for you

Ok ok ok .... awesome!

I am glad that I bought those cacti !!!

The resin is potent. I made many mistakes that think could have impacted potency and it is still strong enough to give a nice effect at 3-5 grams.

My first light simmer was evapped done and when scraped it was mostly light tan "wax" sorta crystalline sorta goo. There was some darker resin in the pan as well.

I tried to add a little water to get the resin workable because it was hardening quickly as I scraped it up. Instead of using fresh water I added the filtered remains of my second simmer. My tan wax dissolved and was never seen again... the evap yielded only darker reddish resin.

I floured my fingers and pinched that resin in to little balls and ate 3g. It came up quick (probably non mesc alk) and then subsided for a a bit before coming back on feeling more mesc-ish. I ate another 2g and headed out to play some UV minigolf. I also capped up gram of powdered cubensis.

Me and the lady played 36 holes. By the end of 18, I was rocking some colors!

When we got home I ate 70mg of a pretty clean trich acetate and took a shot of cubensis ethanol extract.

I think I am know ready to take a knife to my homegrown cacti now. I also can't wait to put the tips of these new cuttings in the ground.

UPDATE: Flew a little today as well and decided to take a blade to 2 of my (not so) babies