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pantsboy
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Extraction Question
#5368857 - 03/05/06 10:12 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I have two feet of a dried peruvian torch cutting planted in my backyard. It's not growing, but it's not fully dead either. Would this be the type of situation where one should just go ahead and extract the cactus or is there still hope. Oh and I've read over the TEK and it doesn't seem impossible. I still don't fully understand it, but I think if I had all the equipment needed I could do it. But how much actual knowlege of chemistry is required to do a succesful eextraction. I'm pretty weak when it comes to chemical equations.
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Re: Extraction Question [Re: pantsboy]
#5368888 - 03/05/06 10:20 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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If you can follow directions, such as in a recipe, then you can extract mescaline. No chemistry knowledge needed.
If the cactus you have is dead I would definately try to extract it instead of letting it rot. You have nothing to lose.
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Re: Extraction Question [Re: Ekstaza]
#5368914 - 03/05/06 10:27 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Just keep the extremely large chance that it's t. cuzcoensis in mind.
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pantsboy
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It had a blue tint and everything when I first got it, so I'm hoping that it it's real. Then I let it sit in my garage for two weeks so the btotom part of the cutting could callous over. At the end of those two weeks it changed to a yellowish color. I planted it the next day, and although it's still planted in my backyard a year later, I'm wondering if it ever actually took root. It jsut kept getting more and more yellow. Here's a really early picture of it from the day I planted it:
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pantsboy
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Re: Extraction Question [Re: pantsboy]
#5368954 - 03/05/06 10:39 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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And the other thing is that it seems chemicals like Xylene and HCL acid would be hard to find. It's not like I can just go down to the hardware store to get them and they probably aren't sitting around my house. Do they have to be ordered specially?
As of right now, the materials list is the part of the project I'm having th emost difficulty with.
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Re: Extraction Question [Re: pantsboy]
#5368963 - 03/05/06 10:41 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Looks like a pachanoi.
How firm is it? If it feels healthy, the yellowing is maybe sun related. Is it getting too much water? Does it have roots? Is the bottom rotten?
If it isn't rotting or diseased, it should be capable of being totally fine. They don't just... die the way other plants do. Consider that nearly all pachanoi sold are clones from a plant brought over in the 30s or 40s. Maybe it's just too cold, and dormant.
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pantsboy
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the reason i thhought it was a p. torch was because of the long spikes it has. there hard to see in the picture, but you can see some of the more visible ones at the top of the cactus. those long spikes run all the way up and down the spines of the cactus but aren't really visible in the pcture because i took it at night. don't pachanois usually have short spikes?
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Re: Extraction Question [Re: pantsboy]
#5369013 - 03/05/06 10:54 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hmm, well I see some of them towards the bottom. They're not totally small, but nowhere near as long as the ones at the top. Maybe some hybrid pachanoid? Spine length can differ for cacti genetically identical depending on conditions, so who knows.
It doesn't really look like a cuzcoensis, and it certainly doesn't look like a macrogonus. Beats me...
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