a little over a foot of fairly thin bridgesii cactus was cut and skinned. The outer green flesh was cut off in strips, then sliced and frozen. The material was then thawed, frozen and thawed again. The material was dried with fans and then dried with anhydrous epsom salts to give 11g of dessicated cactus. This was smashed into a powder and extracted with 60rons drytek with lime and limonene. Toluene was used in place of limonene, and the produced was salted out with 100ml of water with less than 1ml of 39% HCL. Evaporating with a little heat produced a plate of shards very much like mescaline HCL always looks like when dry- long streaky crystalline stuff with a slight yellowish tinge.

It weighed 608mg. From 11g of dry cactus. Odd...

With much scepticism it was rinsed 4 times with cold dry acetone, only a slight colour change was noticed in both the product and the acetone. Acetone was saved. Product was then dissolved in minimal water. It dissolved very quickly. Water was then poured into a funnel with a cotton ball which absorbed it. 30ml of warm water was poured through the funnel, rinsing through only the soluble product and trapping any solid contaminants in the cotton.

This water evaporated to yield 586mg of what appears to be mescaline HCL. It still has some yellowness to it and tastes intensely bitter. It scraped up into little not-so-sparkly pieces which are very fragile. This yield just seems ridiculous. However I don't see what it could be contaminated with. Any ideas ?

The yield sounds normal to me. Enjoy the mescaline!

It's over 5% doo! Even for a bridge that seems high.

I will though, cheers

Phlux- has a torch up there too. I've definitely had some cacti that were up there as well.

500mg is what I expect from a foot of good cactus. I think you have your drying and skinning technique down by the sounds of it!

You could probably make a sweet pictorial of that if you ever had the time.

I would eat all of that. It looks so delicious!

A number of bridgesii have been found by home chemists to clock in around 2% for the whole plant, so 5% outer green is certainly plausible (though I haven't seen any decent/believable published data on bridgesii's cortical stem chlorenchyma, a few pachanoi have showed similar numbers in studies). Still, you should definitely hold on to that plant. Hope you kept enough to keep growing!

Do you mind my asking why you bothered drying it before extracting?

It was about 50-60cm and I took just over half, and will root top portion.

Drying the cactus with fans and desiccant didn't require my presence or attention, so I was free to go about my day. Once I figured out an efficient way of skinning it (۩, I might make a post about that next time round), the process was done in minutes. Boiling and reducing requires me to be around checking up. The dry tek extraction itself was over very quickly. Very convenient, I won't be boiling and reducing ever again unless I intend to drink actual cactus juice.

This wasn't a particularly girthy cactus either, only about 2 inches thick. Yes indeed it will be cloned in the future

However I don't see what it could be contaminated with. Any ideas ?

calcium chloride?
but probably just a strong cacti. congrats

achuma from cali and from our favorite family clocks between 5-7%

every time ime

This thread makes me extremely excited for this weekend, i will be using 69rons d-limo tek to extract from a little over 80grams of trichocereus bridgessi. With a bit of luck i will have a similar yield albeit a little less pure