Hi

I am now in the process of my first preparation of cacti resin.


My steps:

- Cutting 777g of fresh cacti in little chunks
- Freeze -> Thaw x 2
- Simmered cacti in 3l Water + 3/4 Juice of 1 small Lemon @ 75-85°C for 4 hours
- Filtered through a T-Shirt into the 2nd Pot
- 2nd pot was put also on the stove for reducing @ 75-85°C
- Refilled the pot with the cacti with 2l water + 1/2 Juice of 1 small Lemon and simmered again for 4 hours @ 75-85°C
- Filtered through a T-Shirt, did a quick decant and poured it in the 2nd Pot
- Let the 2nd Pot reduce for another 4 hours
- Filtered again through a t-shirt to put it in big honey jar to let sit over night in the fridge
- after 14 hours in the fridge, the liquid was again decanted and filled into a pot to reduce further
- 4 hours later filtered again through a T-Shirt into a honey jar and placed it in the fridge overnight.


Today i took a look at the jar, to see if any remaining sediments have gathered at the bottom.


Now I am a bit confused, because there is a really thick white layer at the bottom. This doesn't look like the sediments I saw before.

My next step would be decanting (leaving the white behind) and let it reduce completely in a ceramic dish.


My Question : What does this white layer contain?


Here are pictures of the jar

not sure how old this is, but save the sediment to see if its active

i recall from a previous cacti thread someone was getting small white balls while extracting, and the general consensus was that they were calcium deposits.

swim did this resin tek last week but didnt cool or decant the liquid. It was showing a layer of white snot on the top which dissipated once swim had completely simmered down the liquid and left it for a day to evaporate fully. Also wasnt sure what this layer was but was left with about 60g of blackish/gold resin.

A friend ate roughly 20g then 25g but didnt feel any affects.. Think we might have over heated the liquid tho.. this tek has alot of good praise. Would be interested to hear your experience.