That pot is very narrow, which is all wrong for cactus. I suggest one about that tall (or a little taller), but much wider, maybe 25 cm or so across the top. Be sure to loosen and spread the roots when you repot, or they'll stay all tangled up in the same shape as that too small pot. When you...

That pot is very narrow, which is all wrong for cactus. I suggest one about that tall (or a little taller), but much wider, maybe 25 cm or so across the top. Be sure to loosen and spread the roots when you repot, or they'll stay all tangled up in the same shape as that too small pot. When you...

What is the best cactus to grow, the one that is strongest and grows fastest, producing the most delight? Not just the species, but the clone, if you know, please. And where to get it... Thanks.

Here's a method I've used. It gets me to stage 4 in a few minutes. I'm sure it could be improved upon, but before I started doing it this way I was not having much success. I make the strongest tincture I can make by stuffing a bunch of leaf into everclear. I'm no scientist. I don't know how...

I made some very strong everclear tincture. I made it from leaves, but you could make it from extract. You don't have to use everclear. You could use something more tolerable. However, the stronger the booze, the more packed with Salvinorin it will be. I took microsips because it was so hot I...

I've seen internet posts by people who extract salvinorin and vaporize it by "chasing the dragon," using a piece of aluminum foil and a glass tube.

Freeze it, or dry it in an oven at very low temperature, maybe 100 degrees C. Slice it up and spread it out to dry it. Tolerance is based on the doses of the recent past. If you did a lot in the recent past, there would be a lot of tolerance. If you only did a little, not much tolerance. By...

I think it was LSD that Aldous Huxley took when he died. It wasn't part of "research." There was plenty of LSD (and other psychedelic) trip research and therapy in the 1950's and early 1960's. I don't recall whether research involved terminal patients. I would be surprised if there was never a...

Quote: rather than risk the future health of young people The whole premise of these types of laws is that they own you. I feed my dog this. I don't let my dog eat that... They try to make this fact a little more palatable by mentioning "young people" since, like livestock and slaves...

Ok, here's an interesting thing. If I may call it my docetic ego death experience, I'd say this about it: The dose was not especially large. I've had much larger doses that didn't produce nearly as profound an experience. It was two hits of blotter. This was back when they were stronger...

I've been there. I've been smoking Cannabis for 35 years, but not steadily. I have been through what you've been through, or at least something that matches the description you give. Definitely. And more than once. I think it comes down to attitude. Taking a break can help, but it really...

Crysalis. Study the biology of the butterfly. Caterpillars do not become butterflies. The caterpillar is like the tadpole's tail, a food storage sack that stuffs itself, a sleeping bag, a changing room. Useful. Caterpillars look like worms, but they are not worms. Worms will never fly, and...

I recall reading somewhere that Fire Erowid gave a talk at a psychedelic conference in which he raised the purity issue as being of relevance. When LSD is made, there are many other substances produced in the mix. Then, people separate/purify the LSD. Some take this much more seriously than...

Brugmansia, we need to respect the meanings of words as denoted by their etymology and provenance rather than letting words mean whatever connotations they pick up in cultural usage. Most people who have used the word "psychedelic" probably never tried a psychedelic substance or had a...

I thank you for the information. Very interesting. A very international group here. I live in the western part of the US. Back when I first started, I was a kid, and whatever was around, I just bought it if I was in the mood to trip. I kind of stopped eating it for awhile. Then I went...

People talk so much about the personality of Salvia, like "she likes you" or "she doesn't like you." At first, it seemed like she didn't like me, but then I said wait a minute, I'm too smart to believe such rubbish about a plant liking me or not liking me. I started studying the situation. I...

Was said: Any dose can be a high dose with Salvia. Some extracts only require 25 mgs of substance to get full loss of visual reality and other high dose effects. You should ALWAYS use a sitter when experimenting with Salvia Divinorum. There is to many incidents when the explorer gets up...

I don't like the term ego death so much. First, it sounds morbid, but secondly, it seems false to me. Ego is self awareness. Ego is "I am." Now, we have so many constructed notions about what we are, and these are subject to destruction in the experience called ego death, but the awareness...

Long ago, met LSD. Long time no see. I don't hang out amongst the younger folks that tend to be involved with that scene. Just curious... what's it like now? How much does it cost? How strong or weak are the doses? What sort of quality is out there? Is a lot of it clean and good, or is most of...

I note some similarities. First, with respect to clothes, Salvia just plain makes my skin tingle, and clothes often become objectionable for that reason. Second, I have sometimes sensed a hollowness to my existence, a suction of sorts. There can be guilt, loneliness, regret, even...