TROUBLE202007 said:

Try standing your dish up and placing your light source behind your dish at a little bit of an angle, that should catch the light in the crystals just right, hey if you have ar recipe or something on how to make that could ya shoot it my way cause I just ordered a bunch of san pedro and would like to make my mes like that. Is it pretty potent, in that form?

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That sounds like the light would be shining at the camera, then... which is a no-no... It will get washed out. If you're looking for an extraction tek, search ODD for "mescaline extraction made easy", it's a very old, very large thread with all of the info you need to do a good job of extracting.

I did better on this try, with the low-angle lighting:
I wish I could combine the two of them, though... since each one shows the texture of a different region.



It's a shame they don't compare with my older extraction photos, though. I wish I had that kind of purity on this one, too!




Tasty!:D

Corporal Kielbasa said:

how much cacti did it take to produce that much?

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The white fluffy stuff? That's from something like 300g of dry cactus flesh of T. peruvianus, if I remember right. I'm going to try to repeat those excellent results, but I need to find a vendor within the US that sells cactus flesh... I'm having problems finding one.

I scraped the dirty sanchez mescaline up from the dish... I'm not very pleased with it. I think I'm going to do an acetone wash for the first time ever in order to clean it up... it's a shame I don't have a crucible or I'd heat away the hydrate from some MgSO₄ so I could make the acetone anhydrous before rinsing.

Anyhow, here's the little pile of crystals, next to my nifty little scraping tool. I'd say the photo without flash looks MUCH better.

my balance isn't the most accurate thing in the world, but that pile in the photo weighs in at about 1 gram. Combined with the 0.8g that I have in my amber glass vial, I've got a lot of good times in crystalline form

I've got pictars of the acetone wash process, too. I'd use a buchner setup, but I don't have a pump or aspirator... so I'm just using a standard funnel with some filter paper (lab grade... none of that coffee filter shit).






(note to self: no matter how much you like the scent of acetone, make a point of wearing a respirator next time you do this )

supra said:

hahaha....did you epoxy yourself a scraper tool there?

nice extractions...got a link to the tek you follow, or is it your own?

peace

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Not quite epoxy, it's JB-Weld

I started out following ekstaza's tek... and made a few modifications to suit my preferences once I knew what I was doing and procured some more equipment.