Well, I finally got this thing dialed I think. Roughly 2 kilos fresh(232g dry..not sure exactly what that is fresh) arundinacea was harvested late july into early august from a wild patch nearby, during an extended period of sunny hot days.
Extraction was typical a/b, only using sodium carbonate as a base and sunflower oil as the np solvent. Solvent was salted with acetic acid and water a number of times. Alkaloid liquid solution was then evaporated, mixed with baking soda/water and dried again and then pulled 2 times with 99% iso, filtered and evaporated to yield maybe 2-300mg(edit, more like 100mg when cleaned up more) or so of a potent red goo that smells strongly of tryptamines with floral overtones when vaped. The tryptamine smell from this extract is the strongest I have encountered from grasses so far. I made sure I was not just jaded, and got my gf to also smell the vapor and she agreed that it smells just like DMT.
A small eyeballed amount(maybe 20mg) was melted onto a few flakes of passiflora leaf and was slowly inhaled over the course of 2-3 minutes. Innitial effects were subjectively identical to that of a low dose of DMT, both in subjective experience and time of onset..no visual phenomenon at that level, just an entheogenic headspace that I instantly associate with a low dose of vaporized DMT. Even the way my body began to rhythmically sway a little was an indicator of DMT/DMT-like effects for me.
I figured I had only taken half the hit at this point, and maybe I can reach a visual level if I finish it. I finish the rest in another 2 spaced out, cautious hits. Same effect but kind of muted, which is to be expected. Probly got most of it on the first hit.
I walk out of the room into the hallway to tell my gf I think this grass was the best so far. It must be minute 4 at this point. Standing in the hallway I realize I am coming up, hard. This is not DMT..not anymore anyway. The hallway takes on a shimmering, enhanced quality and I feel a very pushy, highly energized deep tryptamine rush taking over.
I walk out into my living room and sit down and fumble to put on some mellow psy music and sit back.
All I can think is "oh fuck! I overdosed!.."calm down and breath".."oh fuck what if I smoked poison?!"
I calm myself and breath and feel this rushing tryptamine energy. It has all the craziness of mushrooms mentally, but with this super charged energetic activation that I kept thinking was like some kind of kundalini rush.
Then the music gets thick..maybe minute 8. There is a shift. It's like everything thickens with this ectoplasmic energy. Still not really anything I can call geometric at all, but I can sort of perceive the dimensions of the room kind of opening up..kind of crystalline but it's hard to really know what to call it.
But then..it's like it just blows up. I start tripping my brains out and loosing it. Everything is glowing from within. I have this box of baking soda on my table with a sun on it. I notice(for how long it was already doing this I don't know) that the rays around the sun are moving..like freaking radiating and extending past the limits of the box into the room and glowing with this golden aura and the ceiling is getting rounded and all shiny like it's smiling at me. At this point I am shaking(like I do with tryptamines) and feel like the amount of energy I am feeling is going to implode my being. This is NOT DMT. This is some other kind of tryptamine.
I stand up and all the rushing energy feels too overpowering..my ego is just struggling as it shrinks away. I am sure my pupils were bugging out because everything was soo bright with color..but in a very natural way. Saturated in it's own aura and animated. I must stress that. Everything was animated.
I just loose my shit. I freak out. I need sugar..I need food, water..I need to ground. I dosed too much of unknown weird tryptamines...but it's kinda cool, right? So I deal with it and drink some almond milk and some water and sit back down and breath. It starts to subside now. I feel okay, but I have a heavy tryptamine rush still. This is maybe minute 12-15.
Visuals only went for a couple minutes. It all subsides from there and I am baseline by 30-40 minutes.
Make no mistake. This is a real entheogen and should be respected. It is not DMT, even if there is some DMT in there. I would not give this to other people..I think the energetic and mental effects will freak some people out. I think it is some kind of powerful chakra activator, or kundalini awakener.
This is wild grass we are talking about okay, and I think this has proven that seasonal changes and weather conditions can alter the alkaloid level/ratios. My prior extracts were not this potent with grass from the same general location. Unless different patches within the same area are yielding different extracts that I can only assume that there is a right time and a wrong time to harvest this stuff. So all you people reading this wanting to run out and extract grasses, just know that I have being doing this for a while and the grass does not yield stuff like this all the time. Your milage can vary drastically.
Tryptamine levels should have been nearing a peak during the time of harvest, with beta carboline levels still rather low. Tryptamine levels might be at the maximum right now for a bit actually, before beta carbolines begin to rise towards fall. I will have to harvest some more this week to find out.
Some of this extract will be saved for analysis for sure. The rest will be bioassayed some more. I am not keen to ingest it again for a couple weeks though. I need to get back into yoga before I smoke this particular plant extract again, to deal with the intense rushing of psychedelic energy that it sees to blow out the crown of my head. This was not a launch into hyperspace. I was "here" the whole time but my ego was heavily dissolving into this energy and it frightened me.
I am going to guess the initial effect that came on pretty much right away was low levels of DMT, maybe boosted by beta carbolines..and the main peak effect that took a few minutes to come on was possibly 5meoNMT, again synergizing with beta carbolines.
It is "rougher" than smoking relatively pure DMT extracts, mentally and physically. Be careful.
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