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San Pedro Tea Shelf Life

Tryptamino

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I made a batch of san pedro tea (just one dose) 7 days ago, and has been sitting in a container for that entire time, and I'm starting to wonder if it's gonna go bad. Does anybody know how i should store it/ what the shelf life of it is? also, can i reduce the volume of the liquid by boiling, yet still preserve most of the active ingredient? thanks in advance.
 
Mescaline is quite stable, but I couldn't begin to guess at shelf life, other than saying a few months at least.

i would be concerned of bacterial growth more than anything.
 
it it has not been refrigerated for the last week- it is bad throw it out
 
You won't unless you sterilize the hell out of it and assume they aren't, or until there are so many bacteria on it that it becomes visible as splotchy and moldy spots (then it is too late).

Boiling it for a while does a good job of making it sterile, then prepare something like tupperware and sterilize it with some cleaning alcohol or something like that, and fill the tupperware while still hot. Let it cool down to room temperature. (This part would be like storing jam).

Then if you stick it in the freezer there is minimal contamination. The freezer only pauses contaminations by bacteria or fungus or slows it down a lot, it doesn't kill them - well most of them survive anyway. We should realize from food freezing that it doesn't keep things indefinitely.

I guess for extended storage it would be possible to occasionally thaw the tea and give it a boil again. But the better the boiling sterilizes it in the first place, the more redundant that would be.

Re-boiling could be okay to minimize germs but like dg420 said, if you haven't stored the tea in the fridge it is past the germ stage. After germinating, especially when forming visible colonies (this indicates another stage of growth after germination and consolidation because bacteria first prepare for the right time before signaling to each other to "go for it" all at the same time.

Just killing bacterial colonies may not be enough at that point because they can produce toxins that won't get destroyed as easily as the bacteria are killed.

Venrak is right in a way, but it depends how long you plan to store it. And just freezing the tea without treating it any way else, like I said, becomes less of a guarantee with exceedingly long storage periods.
 
You won't unless you sterilize the hell out of it and assume they aren't, or until there are so many bacteria on it that it becomes visible as splotchy and moldy spots (then it is too late).

Boiling it for a while does a good job of making it sterile, then prepare something like tupperware and sterilize it with some cleaning alcohol or something like that, and fill the tupperware while still hot. Let it cool down to room temperature. (This part would be like storing jam).

Then if you stick it in the freezer there is minimal contamination. The freezer only pauses contaminations by bacteria or fungus or slows it down a lot, it doesn't kill them - well most of them survive anyway. We should realize from food freezing that it doesn't keep things indefinitely.

I guess for extended storage it would be possible to occasionally thaw the tea and give it a boil again. But the better the boiling sterilizes it in the first place, the more redundant that would be.

Re-boiling could be okay to minimize germs but like dg420 said, if you haven't stored the tea in the fridge it is past the germ stage. After germinating, especially when forming visible colonies (this indicates another stage of growth after germination and consolidation because bacteria first prepare for the right time before signaling to each other to "go for it" all at the same time.

Just killing bacterial colonies may not be enough at that point because they can produce toxins that won't get destroyed as easily as the bacteria are killed.

Venrak is right in a way, but it depends how long you plan to store it. And just freezing the tea without treating it any way else, like I said, becomes less of a guarantee with exceedingly long storage periods.

thanks for the info, ive discarded the tea and am about to make a new batch and store it immediately, but only for a few days.
 
Sounds nice, good luck. Also, have you looked into crude extraction? It doesn't need to be advanced and complicated...
 
The mescaline itself is stable, the tea is not. As Solipsis said, bacteria in the tea will lead to mold. Happened to mine after just a few days on my desk. I was really annoyed. Lesson learnt: freeze immediately.
 
Have you ever actually tried drinking the foul tasting shit yet? It's worse than sucking moist excrement through a tramps sweaty underpants even when it's "fresh" so god knows how bad it is after it's been fermenting for a few days.
 
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