ugh, what a bummer... based on comments in the supplier thread, SWIM was under the impression that Heavenly was reputed to have good cactus and got a bunch of it

if you don't mind SWIM asking, were the original skins from HP?

SWIM has tried Pedro from HP and FV many times now and both were excellent with 100 g of skins always yielding over 1 gram (5 grams in one case!). Like anything natural though, the potency is going to vary from lot to lot. I suspect that the time of year its harvested affects potency.

When SWIM does this tech, he usually lets the d-limonene sit in the cactus mix overnight before doing a pull. Maybe that’s why his yields are so high.

I noticed that FV now has Trichocereus bridgesii powder. Has anyone tried that?

thanks ron, that makes SWIM feel a little better...

SWIM is using an oven set at 200 (as low as it goes) to evaporate with the door on the oven cracked. It seems to be working, but SWIM was worried about damaging the mescaline from the heat... any input would be awesome!

SWIM is considering using a dessicant rather than oven as ambient evap is much too slow. Throw in jar and then put the jar into a simple dessication bowl and use similarly to desiccating mushrooms. will post results when reached.

No, I purchased growing T.Pach and peeled them myself. This way I get growing rootstock and skins.

Crazy nite SWIM is having. SWIM tried 30 grams of bidgesii, and look out. Ron the tek seems great but I had no luck on my first go round. His supplier was trichoserieus.com great service top of the line quality. Well Swim is off to see the Wizard!!! AAAdios...

SWIM was successful! he is at 1100mg and doing one more pull.

So my buddy told me that he did this extraction but is having some problems..

His evaporations produced a good amount of white-yellow, orange, and red-brown crystals and goo which smells like bitter soy-sauce, but it doesn't seem to be active! He has taken up to 350mg with very little effect (some apparent sedative effects and goofyness, but It may have been only a placebo). After about 2 hours the 'effects' are gone. This same experience is reported by others who have tried this extract.

He dried the cactus in the oven at 150F, and evap'ed the vinegar in the oven as well. Also, lime was quite difficult to obtain - he ended up purchasing the lime from an indian grocery store (called "Raja Chuna" - says 100% CaOH), but it is obviously quite old.

He's trying to figure out the problem. Possible causes:
1) Bad cactus. Fresh San Pedro was found and dried. Misidentification is possible, but very unlikely. It's san pedro alright, but maybe it lacks the goods? Some is still left, he might be able to take picturs.

2) Bad lime. The stuff was olddd - all clumped together. Could this make a difference?

3) Heat. 150F *shouldn't* hurt the cactus or mesc. acetate, right?

4) Inaccurate weighing - some of the goo was not fully dried, potentially causing an over-estimation of weight due to residual vinegar.

Any thoughts?

BTW, my buddy would like to thank 69ron and everyone in this thread for the great info!
-z

swim uses the same lime (little green container eh ?) but has not bioassayed his product yet.

SWIM's almost done bioassaying his product. Next time he will not use any heat and see if there's a difference. 250mg has pretty much been his threshold psychedelic dose. He'll have a great chance to test 400mg quite soon.

finally got round to trying it and I'm stuck on the very first hurdle; my mix was sitting for 4 hours, no emulsion, but no separation either, maybe ~10mls limonene sitting on top of very sludgy cactus. So I made myself a coffee press from a bit of a sieve, a pen and a screw and tried to squash some solvent out of the mix, but this did nothing except mix the tiny limonene layer back in.

I was kind of sleepy, and forgot to scale up the other components to match 120g of cactus powder. This probably has something to do with it. I'm about to add another 20% of everything else to the sludge, mix it and leave it overnight - in the meantime, has anyone else experienced this / got any tips? I don't want to add any more water...

Is the mescaline acetate okay to store at room temperature?

ah, I'm a fool, I can just filter through muslin or coffee filters right, squeeze the material dry and then separate the solvent layers, recombine the cactus and the base solution for the next pull..?

Boiling over with excitement right now. Can't wait to test this stuff out (first extraction ever!). I have never taken mescaline.

Thanks everyone!

yeah, awesome tek isn't it? got my 3% target from the first limonene pull, everything else is gravy. Still waiting till tomorrow to test drive, mescaline virgin also, cant wait, I think me and mescaline are gonna be good friends.

smells so damn tasty

400mg was quite strong for SWIM, but he still hasn't quite reached the LSD-like levels that he's reached with the brew. He's still left wondering whether that's simply a matter of dosage or whether heating has effected it at all.

Looks like I'm waiting til tomorrow too, the weather is not going to permit getting lost in the forest tonight, and I don't feel like staring at the walls of my apartment for 10 hours.

Our first experiences will most likely match up!! Neat-o!

I'm excited. I like hearing about people getting turned on to mescaline for the first time!!!!!

Please let us know how it goes!!!!!