acuall fresh hawaiian seeds, i have a friend on maui that can aquire them for me every now and then. when working with something like lysergamides from seeds (other than ergot) a larger scale is much more feasable when you think of it. first if you were to extract say 50g of seeds you would only get about 200mg of mixed lysergamides that on hydrolysis to lysergic acid would only give about 60mg mabey a little more if you were to make the hydrazide (150mg +/- 25). so you wouldnt be able to do very much with 150mg or less so if you can get your hands on half a kg or better you might be able to make something from it. the avrage hawaiian baby wood rose seed weighs 125mg so there are 8 seeds per a gram, go to a site like that shamanjungle bullshit place where they sell by seed count, 500 seeds would be a little over 60g for about $16 (not hawaiian seeds though) its gonna cost you $125+ to get 500g of seeds that might give you 1.5-2g of lysergamides to play with. my suggestion is that if you are gonna go as far as to mabey attempt this, it dosent cost that much to go to hawaii in September. make some friends, find a big old hbwr vine and ship seeds back in coffee bags. just make sure they are the foil lined ones and vacuum seal them before you ship. a few weeks squating on the pipeline for free will let you scroung up several KG pretty much for free (well you plane ticket S&H at least). so now when you fly home you will have 10, 20 whatever kg you gathered in your time there waiting for you. now you have something to work with, if you were to go the hydrazide and POCl3 route 10kg might get you 10-15g....... now would that be worth a $500 plane ticket?

I certainly have no interest in actually carrying out this procedure! And even if I were, it would certainly not be to sell! I couldn't survive prison.  Though just for a thought experiment I'd like to potentially get like 100 mg.  If you started with 100 grams of seeds, you don't think you could theoretically wind up with a 100mg LSD, all said and done?  Even 50 mg of nice pure fluff is 500 hits!  Even that seems so very excessive for personal use.

Well I just aquired 2 lb's of Mg shavings, so I'm curious about the Grignard with Bromocryptine.  Are there any confirmed procedures for this or is it merely a popular pipe dream?

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Nobody has anything to comment on the feasibility of a synth. starting with 50-100 grams of HBWR?

50-100g wouldnt make alot and you'd have to do it on a micro scale with 25-50ml glassware because after you convert the LSA to lysergic acid you wouldnt have too much to work with. youd get maby 350-400mg LSA from 100g HBWR and depending on how you convert that it could end up being 100-250mg lysergic acid.... it could be done though. just get all your ducks in a row first before attempting anything otherwise you'll loose product by the hour once its extracted.

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Pipe dream simply because there is no experimental data available on the topic.  I will however have the magnessium chips in the next few days, and am contemplating ordering some bromocriptine for a microscale experiment.

If anyone wanted to run this experiment parallel to my attempts I would be more then willing to share my magnessium for the cause.

You think its not a feasible reaction route?  Do explain and save me a headache.

well if you went all the way to 2-bromodelysid it would work but with that complex side chain and the fact that the amide is secondary it will not work.
there is another method proposed on SM that just might work by just heating in zinc and acetic acid at around 80 or so it works for debrominating thiophenes at the carbon alpha to the heterocylcic residue the sulfur in that case but in this case it is very similar you have a brominated carbon alpha to the nitrogen heterocylclic residue it should work the same exept sulfur chemistry is a bit quarky but i see no reason it won't work.
except ergolines have that touchy conjugated double bond that lewis acids like zinc acetate might influence and cause unwanted side reactions.
like dimerization for example because ergoline chemistry is a royal pain in the arse.
but if you got bromocryptine on hand give it a whirl.
it will only cost you a few quid to find out.