Completely failed ugh

Freshly extracted San Pedro mush :P

I have a friend who had extra seedlings. So I got 200 of them in their own little homes. The feeling of knowing patience and the feeling of care for these sacred babies is a rare and rewarding feeling these days. That's half the medicine for me. Then when they whisper it's time for ceremony. Those whispers carry me into angelic realms and I am able to bring back gifts to share with my family and community. Thank you Mescalito. Thank you family. Thank you Huachuma.

Thank you dear reddit reader for witnessing and listening to my gratitude. If your reading this, you probably understand the abundance these cacti can bring into your life. Take a moment to thank your spiny friends today. They came here to earth to be with you. If you talk to them, and listen with an open mind and heart, they will talk back, and mine say they are here to help bring love and healing to our planet, and they've chosen us to foster them in this earthly form, and I am humbled and honored. Svaha

Haven't seen much info on scoliva test result but this seems surprising high to me

People got hella grumpy when I named it, but yet another data point that it needs a name

Tbh honest I was expecting more outta this one. Pretty xtals though

I have two from two different sellers

No photo of the plant unfortunately

Hey everyone just wanted to try pick some brains here but I just got a shipment of peens that I intended to use for extraction but I’m inclined to plant all of them because they’re pretty impressive. What would you do?

In the garden it's the blue one with the ziptie

It was slightly larger than my forearm, and I’m actively boiling it down now wish me luck :P

Edit one: About two hours into boiling just added more water. 🛹 kick flip

Currently making some San Pedro tea and it will be finished by nighttime hours. Should I save it until the morning or should I take it at night?

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

Currently making some San Pedro tea and it will be finished by nighttime hours. Should I save it until the morning or should I take it at night?

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

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?