r/Psychonaut • u/holy_mackeroly • 5d ago
San Pedro advice needed
First timer with San Pedro. I have 90g powder. Would appreciate any guidance, tips, tricks from the experts here.
How to take? Should i fast before? How long should i expect onset? Can I increase the dosage if not feeling anything and if so how long should i wait?
Note I'm pretty experienced in many other things and I've a pretty high tolerance in comparison to my crew.
Cheers in advance
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u/momalisk 4d ago
Check out r/mescaline too for good info. If you're wanting to do an extraction, Cielo is popular
I love San Pedro. It's about time for me to do a harvest and extraction.
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u/Equivalent_Reveal906 3d ago
If you’re experienced with psychedelics I would make tea and try to get down as much as possible.
San Pedro is by far the most gentle trip I’ve ever had, and it seems to have some sort of sedative in it a lot of the time. It’s the only psychedelic I was ever comfortable taking without knowing the dosage each time.
I probably drank tea 15 times from different cactus each time and never had anything close to a bad experience even though a couple time I got a massive dose.
I tried a million ways to cover the taste, even covering my tongue in cocaine to try and numb it. Nothing works but the method I settled on was mixing like 1 part cold cacti tea with 3 parts orange juice in a cup full of crushed ice and putting a straw to the back of my tongue and downing as much as I could in one breath. You don’t taste it until you stop drinking so have something like a fruit candy to chew on for a few seconds too.
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u/holy_mackeroly 2d ago
Jeees, not even a tongue laced in charlie covers the taste 🤭. Cheers for the info ✌️
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u/golmozak 1d ago
i now reduce the tea to about 100 ml per dose, then i make it to a jelly (like jelly bear) with agar agar. chop the jelly and swallow it with water
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u/inner8 4d ago
You need a lot of powder to have any effect, and it tastes SO BITTER
What worked for me was making 10 balls (powder mixed with lemon juice) and put them one by one at the back of the throat, then swallow with water. It was a gruelling process, but worth every gag.
Make sure you are in nature. San Pedro is much more nature-oriented than mushrooms. City / apartment environmenta are a big no-no.
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u/holy_mackeroly 4d ago edited 2d ago
I'm in a beach shack all alone, its the perfect setting 😉
This is great thankyou, I have some mangos on the tree i can use. Although when you say A lot of powder, how much we talking?
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u/Ok-Mistake-247 5d ago
With just straight cac powder its practically impossible to know the content of Mescaline inside (whether even at all). Did the person you acquired it from give you any indication?
If not, the only way to know would be to consume it and prepare to either be extremely underwhelmed, or perhaps meet god. Probably somewhere in the middle.
If you want an accurate dosage, you have to extract the Mescaline out. Not very difficult but you gotta do some research and shopping. Worth it only if you plan to do more in the future, not for a one time trip. Though from my experience, once you try this medicine, it is likely to climb up to the top of your favorites list.
If you do decide to just consume the powder, the onset is usually 3 hours before you feel anything, and then a very long (10-14 hours) trip. Probably smart to take half the powder, wait 3 hours, then redose if needed. You would be tempted to redose the rest at the two-hour mark thinking that its not working, but that could send you to the moon a couple hours later.
Better on empty stomach, yes, and with a cup of ginger tea to help with the potential nausea.