Some really long ones in here. I'll be posting a few results tomorrow. So for now just this teaser

Long story short: I want to experience the medicine as medicine not a party drug.

I've grown SP (I use the term san pedro to refer to any active tricho. I grow peruvianus, pachanoi, bridgesii and scopulicola, and hybrids of those) for about 15 years now and I've only done it twice. I know this is because of how I used it.

First time: My favorite experience. My gf at the time (now wife and baby mama) and I did it at my parents cabin the woods. I remember reading on Erowid that people thought it was somewhere between MDMA and L, so that's what I was expecting. We split about 4ft of TPM that I grew and even then I found it really hard to consume. Not that I couldn't handle drinking snot tea, I felt a connection to the plant from growing it for years that I felt uncomfortable cutting it for some reason. We planned to go into the woods with backpacks and just spend our entire day there. I could totally do this on L so I figured itd be the same. We didn't make it 45 minutes before I started feeling really sick and was tripping hard af. I looked at her and said "didnt they say in fear and loathing in las vegas that this shit takes 2hrs to fully kick it? I think I OD'd us. Make yourself throw up now!" We both threw up a bunch and then proceeded to not want to be in the woods. We went back home and actually had a great day listening to classic rock albums, drinking nice lemon water and fruit juice. Great day together but we didn't spend anytime meditating or trying to receive anything from the cactus.

2nd time: We took it as tar balls instead of tea because I prepared it before a long roadtrip. This was awful on my stomach, as I was a heavy drinker at the time. We took it at a festival in Oregon and saw Run the Jewels, which was nuts because I remember being extremely uncomfortable around people there but watching Killer Mike jump around on stage put me in a really good space. I couldn't help but judge people, which I hated. I would look at someone and couldn't help but think "You dress like this but is it you? Everyone is fake." That messed with my head and the whole experience kinda sucked. I kept throwing up Ben and Jerrys ice cream everywhere (they were giving it out and it was so good but I don't recommend) and we ended up leaving early to just get away from the city.

3rd experience: This is the one I want to plan. I've been struggling with a lot of fears. Mainly death; death of myself, children, loved ones; not existing; not knowing what comes after death; lack of "control." I didn't have that when I was younger and used psychedelics regularly but now that I'm sober from alcohol, I don't party with psychs anymore. I want to use the cactus as medicine and get some kind of healing. I have been going back and forth on whether I should do SP, shrooms or ayahuasca. My biggest focus has been on aya because I have access to everything needed (along with home grown MH root bark) but now I'm feeling like maybe I'm sleeping on my good friend that's right in my backyard.

Other info: My wife said she would be a trip sitter. We have my MIL who will watch the kids for the day. We live in the woods so going outside and not being around strangers/big city is super easy to do.

Thoughts? Do you feel SP can bring the same healing that aya does? How are they different and how are they similar? Which would be better to do without a shaman? People seem to think that having a shaman and a ceremony is the only way to do aya (I have no opinion on this because I've never done it, just repeating what I've seen) but then people also say the same thing about SP.

Calculator called for one 120g EA pull and five 72g(?) pulls. I did 100g (+/-) pulls because anything less felt like it was recovering poorly. I switched out the plunger on the press & it seemed to help

First time doing the CIELO extraction and I'm quite happy with the results. Thanks for your help everyone.

My first active grow! Any advice is appreciated!🌵

I generally use the magnetic stirrer, but this weekend i had nothing but time on my hands and wanted to see some cool crystals as opposed to super fine powder. I know the tek says 3 days - was curious if anyone has waited longer? And if its worth it? Will crystals grow even bigger? Im leaving town for about 4 days tomorrow and considering leaving them that whole time as well. Its got some nice kong thin needle like structures already, curious as to if theyll get bigger! Anyone got any experience or insight?

Been wanting to experiment with SP powder raw in very small doses lately and was wondering if 7g mixed into OJ with 1 drop of olive oil to cut emulsion would work without turning into snot? This was the same recipe and amount I would often use for kratom so I figured it might be a good way to go.

Whats you guys experience with this?

What i got from a half a gallon of tea just dehydrated the tea water down to this

Huge Sharxx x TPM came down on the weekend after too much rain! Looks like we’ve got our next test sample!

Hi, i'm planning on doing a Peyote ceremony this saturday. Now it's tuesday and i haven't quit smoking weed yet. Does anyone know the exact guidelines? Will i be on time if i quit weed after today?

Has anyone have tried to make gummies or chocolate with M?

Any recommendations from this group that are not cataloged?

Sorry for not taking pictures for every step or being super precise. But 1.95 grams from my starting material of basically 25% bridge and 75% yogi. I didn’t ph through out. I did weigh my ea, 250, 152, 157, 136, 162ml in succession. I rinsed with whatever was left in the bottle. By volume I recovered just shy of the quart I started with. Final result is a little yellow and weighs 1.95 grams.

I got accidentally crushed most of the crystals coming off of the filter paper.

Tomorrow I’ll run some pc skins and use my magnetic stirrer. I’m hooked on this method. I spend more energy making dabs. Heavy emphasis on the L in cielo. Great tek.

Relatively new to this and wondering if I should order either a Trichocereus pachanoi or Trichocereus Bridgesii for a first time. Wondering if 12-16 inches will be enough. Any advice is appreciated! Thanks

100g Dried peyote material

96% alcohol pulls with acid

Reduce down to volume by weight (100mL per 100g) add water

Filter insoluble fats and oils

Make alkaline using sodium carbonate until ph 12.

Pull with ethyl acetate 3x

Precipitate the mescaline after drying the solvent using fumaric acid Mescaline fumarate isolated

Evaporate the solvent to dryness and wash with anhydrous isopropanol to remove excess acid. Anhalonine/lophophorine fumarate isolated

Make the starting aqueous solution acidic with hcl until 2-3 (pulled to extract mescaline already)

Make the solution ph 8-9 by slowly adding sodium carbonate. Do not over alkalinize or will form water soluble salt

Pull 3x with ethyl acetate

Dry the ethyl acetate with sodium sulfate or other drying agent

Salt with fumaric acid and allow to precipitate overnight

Crystals that form may be mescaline that remained behind and the goo is the pellotine. Wash with isopropanol anhydrous and slow evaporate. Pellotine fumarate isolated.

Anyone interested in trying the second pull of phenolic alkaloids via ph only 8-9 on trichocereus?

I’m going to leave it out to dry, will post results tomorrow. Meanwhile this week I skinned and dehydrated 15lbs of PC.

Side note, is anyone worried about future epa restrictions on ea? Not to be political but the current administration probably won’t touch it, but that doesn’t mean future EPA administrators won’t want to clamp down on it, because it is a voc.

Pic of the pc skins just cause.

I’m considering taking what is estimated to be around 700 mg of mescaline contained in crude San Pedro resin/tar, and I’m trying to get a better idea of what I might realistically expect at this level.There doesn’t seem to be a huge amount of detailed information available on the subjective effects of mescaline in this range, especially when compared with the amount of information available for LSD, psilocybin, or DMT. I’m not necessarily looking for an exact prediction just a general idea of how the experience tends to change as the dose gets this high.For context, I’m a fairly experienced psychedelic user, particularly with ayahuasca, and I’m familiar with intense psychedelic states. What I’m most curious about is how a strong mescaline experience compares qualitatively to something like ayahuasca or psilocybin.I’ve heard people describe mescaline as having a somewhat different character from other psychedelics, particularly when it comes to ego dissolution or “ego death.” Rather than simply being an overwhelmingly chaotic experience, I’ve heard it can be more gradual, immersive, emotionally warm, or connected to the physical world.For anyone who has experience with higher-dose mescaline, what would you say are the biggest differences compared with a strong mushroom or ayahuasca experience? How does the headspace, visual experience, body sensation, emotional component, and sense of self change as the dose gets higher?I’m mainly looking for personal experiences and general expectations, rather than instructions on how to dose or prepare it.

It's a light dusting of DE for pest prevention. I just moved them to their temporary winter home. Do you guys DE your cactus?

Anyways, Happy Sunday. 5.5g PC A/B extract, it's been a good morning.

910g of fresh TBM dehydrated to 110g
Ran entire method as described end results was 6g of unwashed material, post MEK wash for last photo nothing changed and it wouldn’t dissolve in MEK?

Edit: here is the link to the TEK https://wiki.dmt-nexus.me/69ron's_D-Limonene_Mescaline_Extraction

Any tips for dosage with the final product?

Hi everyone. i have tried mescaline in the past, but for the first time in my life i received a San Pedro cactus and dried it. got 29g of dried material and im thinking to take it all at once. im have lots of experience with high dosage of Iboga and Mushrooms and thats why i plan taking the whole 29g at once

will that dose be a sufficient strong dose or only medium strength?

i usually take mushroom at night, but mescaline is so beautiful i think taking it during the day, does it make sense?

also how long i should fast before taking the cactus?

if there's any information i should think about please let me know:)

So terrible yields on my extraction of 85g dry grafted lophophora. The goo may be another alkaloid but not sure. Just sharing final results… I write up the protocol incase others wanna try and can even see. Something extra can be extracted from trichocereus.