iv seen this alot with torch and now with my other no spine - apparent pedro(which i recon could have some scop in it)
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its there everytime i make tea and even visible as is in the living cactus flesh sometimes

I don't know but I would def smoke it to find out ..... just kidding... it is probably some sort of inorganic-salt forming.... do you give the cacti nutrients....

hahaha - none of the cactus i extract off has has been given nutrients.

ive puked stuff up that sorta looked like that during a pharma experience....but i had been eating cacti for like a week

The little spherical white balls remind me of the sodium nitrate found in "Draino"

Could it be nitrate fertiliser found in the cactus soil?

Just speculatin'

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I had that in my San Pedro too. Also the no spine variant.

I tried to dissolve it in water, acetone and naphtha to no avail. Then I tried to burn it and it wouldn't burn either. It's just like sand, maybe it even IS sand.


Kind regards,

The Traveler

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hah i knew it - the rumours were tru - im making me a nice bowl right away.

I also get it on dry cacti, it likes to form on the dried white flesh

first time I read that i thought you said "its consious."

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it looks it i thought that 2

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Honestly I think it is sand, becasue I have noticed it in dried chips as well..Ive eaten the damn dried chips with the stuff in it, the chips are all gritty to chew on, just as sand is..

its definately not sand.... SWIMS see's this inside some fresh cactus as soon as it is cut, it is far more apparent in specimens that have not received much water at the time of harvest. It dossolves with heat and forms white fat like layers on tea sometimes. Some sort of cellulose perhaps?

edit.... SWIMs friend made a tea today and his cacti was full of this.... Although it wasn't dissolving at all... It just sat at the bottom of the pan. He must have gotten it wrong when he said it dissolves. Definitely more prevalent in water starved specimens.

Someone who has it needs to test its reactivity to various things like strong acids, strong bases, oxidizing agents... That may reveal some useful information.
If it forms a white oily layer on tea, then perhaps boiling hot water with detergent will dissolve it. That's another test worth doing.

ok this white stuff it seems is calcium oxalate xtals
a major component of kidney stones - probably best not to eat it - probably not a trainsmash if you do

That's pretty weird, no cactus I have ever harvested or eaten has had those present.

any idea why or how they from Phlux?
I thought they looked like insect eggs at first.

I found them often too in my in my San Pedro's. I tried to burn them to see what happens: nothing at all!

They are really small, just a bit larger as sand grains.


Kind regards,

The Traveler

I would begin by desiccating it and then going at it with a mortar and pestle. If you can grind it into a fine powder you can investigate better what it will and will not dissolve in (and if it won't dissolve in anything, it's likely sand).

If you CAN'T grind it into a powder then it's quite possible something organic...

EDIT: When I say "can't" grind into a powder I mean that when you try to grind and it tends to cohere into lumps, then it's probably organic. If you simply CAN'T turn it into powder because it's TOO HARD, then it IS probably sand.

Calcium crystals as previously stated.
Almost every trichocereus I have ever cut had these.

they are called druses