Will my peyote buttons be affected?

[doppelganga196]

I have a small collection of Lophophora williamsii, peyote buttons, set aside for future use, a collection i started earlier this year purchasing them legally.

The buttons are quite large & have bloomed small pink flowers in the past. I made the decision to re-pot one of the buttons in the hope it would grow significantly in a larger pot. For this i used a regular soil from a friends house, likely the same sort used planting tomatoes & such.

However the button now looks ready to explode! It has grown upward in a cone shape & generally looks rather mutant. I'm hoping some veteran button eater or even another 20 something with psychedelic wisdom, will know if the MESCALINE CONTENT is affected by this re-potting? Do they thrive in certain soils??


P.S I know nobody can tell me for sure & i need to eat them to be sure, its just this particular button seems to have grown in an unnatural way.

 

[ungelesene_bettlek]

they usually do this when they have too few sun and too much water. and of course tomato soil is totally wrong for peyote.

 

[islander20]

You should plant them in some cactus soil, or add in some sand to your soil. If your soil isnt well draining enough the cactus will rot. The new growth is probably from to much nitrogen in your soil. Also the mescaline content increases with age, not size. (You could try stressing the cactus to force it to create mescaline, but that doesnt sound like a good idea now considering how your cactus is.)

 

[Solipsis]

I think your peyote now thinks it's a ripening tomato.

Either that or I haven't the faintest idea what I'm talking about.

 

[doppelganga196]

update

You should plant them in some cactus soil, or add in some sand to your soil. If your soil isnt well draining enough the cactus will rot. The new growth is probably from to much nitrogen in your soil. Also the mescaline content increases with age, not size. (You could try stressing the cactus to force it to create mescaline, but that doesnt sound like a good idea now considering how your cactus is.)

Thanks islander, i have noticed that my bigger better pot, was in fact a non draining ceramic one. I've now made a new home for it in a nice lil draining one in some of the soil from my other ripe & healthy/normal cacti!

 

[Mr. White]

Lophs are incredibly slow growers, if you want to speed up the growth you're better off grafting the buttons onto a faster growing cactus like a trichocereus or pereskiopsis

If not then be prepared to wait a fair while (years) for them to do much growing