Greetings from Algeria
I've been following this wonderful place for years. The more i read the more i fell in love with the atmosphere. I read here for so long that i now memorize some of your names by heart π the likes of "jamie", "chimp z", "fourthripley", "dreamer", "nen". Your work and your courage has inspired me to initiate my own journey into world of psychedelics, starting with wachuma tea! And on to mastering the craft of extracting. From mescaline to harmala alkaloids alone to combination of both to finally last night (phalaris tryptamines)!.
Never had experience with DMT before this. I've only had an acquaintance with its plasticy smell from a very tiny extract from acacia longifolia which gave very mild effects upon vaporising on a peice of foil. It was too weak to not blame on placebo but helped me get to know the smell from the drying solvent..new sneakers!!!
Three days ago i harvested 630g of fresh phalaris. It's a mixture of approximately 60/40 of brachystachys and what i beleive is aquatica. The brachystachys is confirmed by seed morphology with the short infertile lemmaas, short fat panicles, and ruled out the possibility to be phalaris minor by the non existence of pink pigmentation at the new root tips as recommended by oram (more on him later) and the smooth edges of the glumes (unlike the teethed edges on the glumes of phalaris minor). The seeds are larger than minor. I haven't confirmed the phalaris aquatica and I'm still undecided on that taxonomy. I will attach pics of it at the end of the post.
The top two thirds of the leaves were harvested. The brachystachys was growing spontaneously in a field of cereals on a hill on soil heavy in clay (it clearly shows by the cracking of the soil when it dries up in summer, so messy and slimey when it rains you couldn't drive or walk if its wet: this is another property of clay soil because it has poor water permeability.
I wanted to increase my chances to succeed from my first bio-essay and that's why i decided to include other species than brachystachys. Thus i harvested from the suspected phalaris aquatica. I'm not too sure if it's an aquatica though. The inflorescence is long and thin and the leaves are quiet thinner than the aquatica i saw in an agronomic research center that was confirmed to me by an agronomic engeneer. I'd highly appreciate it if someone is keen to help me identify it. This suspected aquatica was growing on the side of a valley..sandy clay soil. Sheep has grazed it and was sending new fresh dark green shoots after some scantily rain following an unusual period of spring rain dearth. Some were heavily shaded by competing cardoon (wild variety of artichoke) landscape is heavily popularized with sulla; a very ancient plant in the fabacea kingdom very popular in north Africa and souther europe for its honey and for fixing nitrogen. It grows amongst the phalaris down the valley but not in the cereal fields. The soil at the bottom of the valley could be more concentrated in nitrogen and nutrients where the phalaris grows because of rain dissolving nutrients and carrying it down the valley streams. I'm just speculating here. This keeps me motivated while harvesting

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The total weight of the fresh harvest was 630g on my crappy kitchen scale. I wshed the grass blades with tap water then strained. I added boiling tap water to the grass to avoid tryptamine losses due to chlorine. Then i added a spoon of vinegar and two pinches of citric acid. Boiled for a collective of probably 5 hours..with rests in between. Changed water just once then ditched the biomass in the garden to break down. Tea was concentrated to about 800ml. Simultaneously i was extracting Syrian rue. Salted twice. Three 100mg gelatin capsules was filled with semi dry harmala HCl (my vinegar was unpure and it made my harmala extract hygroscopic and sticky. I didn't bother to wash it with further saturated salt solution) i was kind of on a a hurry.
00:00 capsules ingested
00:55 clearly feeling the effects of the harmalas (i'd say is a perfect dosage. Its strong enough to cause minor nausea and some shaking. Slightly psychedelic in nature with minor CEV). soon as i perceived this i began drinking a total of one cup of the ~800ml about 5 mins between each sip being cautious (at this period i was worrying if i reach the dmt time wall of tolerance before i hit the active dosage but also worried i might overdose on some funky alkaloid of no known toxicity and with delayed effects.. no amount of reading has prepared me for that stressful moment
01:40 shaking has increased, there is some buzzing in my head and back. Its a body feel like i'm feeling more conscious of my body and my form..its like the come up of something.. suddenly i get anxious and scared.. that's when i realize this grass is definitely active! Curtain is moving slightly but on staring hard at it it stops. Then something kicked in very sudden that made me sit up very quick and afraid. I felt this kind of come up only on a large dose bredgesii cactus tea. I stopped drinking by this time and went to lay in bed underneath a blanket to help with the shaking. My breathing sounded like somone shaking cold. It took some effort to control this initially.
02:00: full on trip with an aphrodisiac effect. Beautiful unfamiliar CEV but very little Open eye visuals. Its mainly colour enhancement and auditory hallucinations from tv and my own movement. My mind drifted in ecstatic thoughts i just laid back and had all these thoughts a and emotions washing me, very euphoric and intense. If became more and more enjoyable as the shaking and the intensity of the come up decreased. There was some scary thoughts here and there but controllable (i had bad trips on mescaline before this and it came handy in dealing with this) i managed to ride the wave and enjoy it.
03:00 feeling effects tapering off slightly ...few minutes later it completely comes to a halt something i never experienced on mescaline neither in harmalas alone...like back to baseline like i never drank anything. This took me
by sudden like (wait what??! Am sober

) This goes for few minutes then the trip comes back again with more CEV and last another whole hour but its noticeably less intense. Some effects lasted till morning but they were minor and gradually tapering off. On getting off bed early and standing in the backyard i had a psychedelic head space listening to the singing birds and watching them fly around with slight organic fractals.
The main theme of the trip was the land from which i harvested the grass communicating to me about its richness and history and tells me about myself as part of her. I wrote down what i experienced halfway through the trip screenshot it. I shall include the screenshot at the tail of this post.
There has been a clear ego boost effect during the trip ..its quiet reaffirming yet still spiritual. I could hear the mosques calling for prayer very early in the morning while it's still dark and the prayers visualize to me raising up in the air. The vocals too brilliant colours visualised them raising up towards the sky and a visual of the whole city dancing in bright aurora lights of green blue and violet.. lots of auditory hallucinations.
Had some guilt and confusion about the sexual and religious nature of the experience. This was influenced by my islamic upbringing
The thrill and the excitement from realizing how active this grass can be at such a small dose and the fact it was just "grass" added brightness to the theexperience. Hence feeling a tryptamine for the first time although not a classical tryptamine!
Hope someone will put this report in the thread (phalaris the way of the future) and hope i get upvoted to full membership so i can join the threads i'd like to join.
This grass is definitely the way of the future!
No toxicity felt at least not at this dosage. I've took some rhyzomes of each plant and transplanted them in our garden. I also gathered seeds from the brachystachys and i keep collecting more from the harvest sight every few days.
I also received a strain of aquatica from a tunisian friend who got it from an institute of agronomic research. The strain was in développement for 10 years the program started in 1968 ...bred from accessions from morroco, Algeria and tunisia. it's winter active.
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