Blue Lotus - 1st time - Nothing!

[Billyrubin]

Blue lotus

Appearance: 100g dried of flower heads almost like rose buds. Slightly pinkish colour. I have certainly been sold pink lotus rather than blue, as in vendors description.


Smoking
To fit a flower head into bowl for smoking I crumble it between my fingers. Problem is it crumbles far too finely and is small enough to pass through screen. Can anyone tell me how they smoke it and avoid this problem?


Smoking effects
Tried 2 bowls of lotus without crumbling and just ignite full flower head.
Taste is nice and mild, makes a pleasant smoke.
I had also had a glass of wine or two before hand.
Only possible effect is that half an hour later I felt pretty tired and heavy-lidded. It was late though so reckon I would have been tired anyway.

In reviews, most people seem to smoke more than this amount to get effect, but I'm not a fan of smoking, so I did not have much interest in using lotus this way, I just gave this a try to see.
So - on to the alcohol extraction!

Wine Infusion
Soaked 10g full lotus heads in half a bottle of white wine (350ml). Amounted to about two or three glasses of wine
This was left for two weeks and shaken daily.

I have to say, I had not expected it to taste as bad as it does. Most reports did not seem to find the taste too objectional, just describing it as bitter, so I hadn't prepared myself for this taste. I thought I could sit back and enjoy a few glasses of wine, but this really needs to be downed. It only has a bitter after taste, but I wasn't really expecting it (I have eaten cactus and heard so much about its taste that when i tried it I didn't even think it was too bad! This is just a lack of psychologically expecting a bad taste.). I had to drink it alongside eating to eliminate taste, which works fairly well.

For this reason I strongly recommend preparing it with a grain spirit (as there are reports of on Erowid) as you will have less to drink.

Wine Infusion Effects
None!
Felt drunker than I normally would on this amount of wine, but
given that I had to drink wine fairly quickly this is most likely what explains this effect.
I watched a film for half an hour and listened to music in bed for half an hour before going to sleep.
I felt relaxed and in a good mood for this time, but really this can be attributed to my own mindset and alcohol alone.

I have also read that lotus is an aphrodisiac, I did not find this at all. GBL, alcohol, mushrooms and weed all have an aphrodisiac quality for me, so I would consider myself as someone who easily gets this effect.

I experienced no next day after effects.

Conclusion
I felt no definite effects from this. I hadn't expected too much from it, I just decided to give it a go as it was so cheap.

Think that it may have a use as being smoked with weed in a joint as I hate tobacco. Taste was quite reasonable in pipe.

I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, but I wouldn't discourage anyone from trying it either as there are some very positive reports on erowid.

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[MistaSpace]

Nice 1st experience with blue lotus, mixed with MDMA and Ketamine

I have had a very pleasant first time with blue lotus, which i bought in a head shop in brighton. 12.5g cost £10.99. I had heard that smoking it had a very mild effect so decided to try the full-on technique by stuffing the dried flowers into a bottle of red wine and refridgferating for a couple of days. On the night before i had gone to an all night club night and took 4 and a half good pills (mdma) and some k. i had not slept that night and when i got home a freind and i ingested the blue lotus wine, roughly 6 grams each. When we took it the effects of the other drugs were wearing off and i was beginning to feel very rough.

Using a colander we seperated the mush of leaves from the wine and drank the wine with a little sugar.

about 20 minutes after ingesting it i felt very light headed and was sick, but i put this down to gulping lots of wine down in the state i was in. after being sick i began to feel much better - very merry and euphoric, talkative and relaxed. this lasted a good 2 or 3 hours, mild visual distortion and the desire to stare at stuff lots. after a while we ate most of the soaked flowers and dried the rest in the sun to smoke later on.

it had a very hypnotic and euphoric buzz to it, but was not too intense. it just felt nice! after a couple of hours of experiencing it on its own we decided to crack open the last 2 wraps of ketamine and did nice fat lines each. this intensified the blue lotus, rather than dominating it. it made the ketamine trip much more serene and chilled out than it normally is.

The sun dried flowers made a real nice smoking mix with a slight taste of the red wine still presant, a nice smoke that just made you feel a bit sleepy and realxed, but not trippy. I reccomend ingesting it with wine for the full on euphoria/sedative/trip

I am looking forward to trying blue lotus again without the other drugs, maybe in a higher dose, too. All in all a very nice experience that i am very much looking forward to doing again! %)