Recently I purchased a 3 foot live San Pedro cactus from one of Melbourne better known market places and shared it between 3 friends - each consuming approx 8" in length of the cactus.
Preparation basically consisted of de-spining and skinning a 25" portion of the cactus and carefully cutting away the dark green layer just beneath the skin, leaving the pale - white innards behind. The pieces of the green layer were then chucked into a blender with many kiwi-fruit and pureed, then shared between myself and 3 others.
My two issues are that - (not so important) the puree, rather than mixing down into a nice thick sludgy liquid, seemed to absorb a heap of air when it was blended and became a very whispy sludge, similar consistancy to light whipped cream - this made is fairly difficult to consume. More importantly, the trip itself was extremely weak - we all felt the effects, however it was hardly at the intensity we expected from reading trip reports and misc mescaline literature on erowid.
My question to any experienced cactii shamen and shaladies is this - Did we prepare the cactus wrong and thus didn't consume the mescaline amount required for a strong trip - or are the san pedro's available in our city generally bearing low mescaline content? I'm eager for any replies of any people who have consumed san pedro - any suggestions for preparation or helpful or ways to identify stronger san pedros would be really welcome. Although we didn't trip balls, what we did all feel was definately a prelude to something amazing.
Preparation basically consisted of de-spining and skinning a 25" portion of the cactus and carefully cutting away the dark green layer just beneath the skin, leaving the pale - white innards behind. The pieces of the green layer were then chucked into a blender with many kiwi-fruit and pureed, then shared between myself and 3 others.
My two issues are that - (not so important) the puree, rather than mixing down into a nice thick sludgy liquid, seemed to absorb a heap of air when it was blended and became a very whispy sludge, similar consistancy to light whipped cream - this made is fairly difficult to consume. More importantly, the trip itself was extremely weak - we all felt the effects, however it was hardly at the intensity we expected from reading trip reports and misc mescaline literature on erowid.
My question to any experienced cactii shamen and shaladies is this - Did we prepare the cactus wrong and thus didn't consume the mescaline amount required for a strong trip - or are the san pedro's available in our city generally bearing low mescaline content? I'm eager for any replies of any people who have consumed san pedro - any suggestions for preparation or helpful or ways to identify stronger san pedros would be really welcome. Although we didn't trip balls, what we did all feel was definately a prelude to something amazing.