Extraction - color and transparency of san pedro tea

[analogger]

so swim made his first batch of san pedro tea. he blended a 7-inch, 220-gram piece of fresh cactus, with about a liter of water and simmered it at around 190 degrees fahrenheit (always had a thermometer in it) for about 3 hours, adding water occasionally. he strained it through 2 layers of cotton t-shirt, and had 1.5 cups of a green, opaque liquid. he put it back on the stove, kept it around 180 degrees fahrenheit, to evaporate some of the water. he noticed some particles in it so he strained the liquid through 4 layers of cotton t-shirt. he was left with about 1 cup of a lighter-green, more transparent liquid. this has swim worried. this will be swim's first experience with mescaline (he is experienced with tryptamines however), so it will hard for him to tell just how successful the experiment was. swim's question is, is it a bad sign that the liquid looks somewhat transparent and light green? did swim do something wrong?

thanks for any help.

analogger added 180 Minutes and 13 Seconds later...

...and it didn't make swim trip very hard at all. what did he do wrong?

[landisrebel]

idk maybe swim should use more than 200 and something grams but the way of method swim used sounds perfect did swim blend it up before cooking it

[analogger]

thanks, but...

he blended a 7-inch, 220-gram piece of fresh cactus

[Nemba]

When I last got so drunk that I vomited, the vomit fell in the shape of words which read: "I find that skinning (carefully) then chopping the cactus into small (1x1x1cm or less) bits, boiling these with lemon juice and straining through a muslin sack, making sure to squeee out at much as possible, then re-boiling the pieces with more lemon juice and straining again, then reducing the liquid to a drinkable portion provides a smoother texture and better taste than when the cactus is blended before cooking, with at least 90% of the effect if not all of it, depending on the time spent boiling. I would also suggest indeed that you use a lot more cactus than 200g. A foot per dose is not usually incredibly strong, but you should be safe with 9"-12". "

[landisrebel]

real talk swim should weigh out about 500 grams if its fresh most of the cactus is water rebel weigh out about 400 grams his first trip and it was cool but if rebel weigh out anything less than that i dont think rebel would have felt shit it really would be a waist of time

[analogger]

is it possible the temperature was too low? basically if swim ever saw bubbles he'd turn the heat down.

[landisrebel]

thats true maybe rebel did have the fire up to high

[analogger]

huh? i was wondering if my good friend swim possibly had the heat too low when my friend swim made his extraction.

can anyone answer that for me?

[landisrebel]

rebel think having the heat on low is maybe better

landisrebel added 0 Minutes and 50 Seconds later...

how many hrs did swim cook it for

[Nemba]

Originally Posted by analogger

huh? i was wondering if my good friend swim possibly had the heat too low when my friend swim made his extraction.

can anyone answer that for me?

Quite likely. Mescaline degrades at well over 200°C. The second paragraph of my vomit read: "I've left san pedro on a furious boil for 4-5 hours with no noticeable loss in potency."

[landisrebel]

rebel had no idea about Mescaline degrades at temps over 200°C i guess thats why 400 grams was not enough

[analogger]

Originally Posted by Nemba

Quite likely. Mescaline degrades at well over 200°C. The second paragraph of my vomit read: "I've left san pedro on a furious boil for 4-5 hours with no noticeable loss in potency."

thanks very much. swim is used to working with substances such as opium and psilocybin, so has a bit of anxiety about over-heating drugs.

analogger added 3 Minutes and 45 Seconds later...

can opacity and/or color indicate potency of san pedro tea?

i wasn't able to edit my last post, so hopefully this gets combined with my last one; if not, sorry.

[landisrebel]

i don't think so because if swim cooked it for a 1hr are 10 hrs it would still be the same color