I stuck all the grass into a blender with some water..then threw it all into a pot andboiled it for a while, filtered it and reduced it..then defatted with naptha.. then let it fully evap in a dish near a heater..then added sodium carb and a bit of water to base..let it dry..
At that point it would not dissolve at all in the iso like I had hoped..so I added a bit of hot water, stirred it and it began to dissolve(only a tiny bot of water to make it soluble in the iso), then added 99% iso and stired it all up to get it to dissolve..then let it sit and some shit that wouldnt absorb along with some sodium carb dropped out and I removed the solution from this other crap with an eye dropper..
Then I again evapped it..added a bit more hot water(just a bit to get it to absorb..still to resiny for iso alone), then some iso and stirred it all up..thenI added some sodium carb again to clean it a bit and I was surprised to see that ALOT of shit dropped out of solution..so I let it sit again for a while and the solution at this point was a very very transparent light orangy liguid..removed and evapped it to what looked like orange oily oxides..very impure but I was satisfied enough to dissolve in iso and evap onto a bit of passionflower leaf to test..
I really only tested a very very small ammount..I need to do some more work to clean it up more to get it as concentrated as possible..but I dont know about xtals without zinc reduction due to oxides..
I am thinking that at this point it might be easier to get more of the fats that are not oxides with another naptha defat..I know that 99%iso mixed with napth will form one single solution..so..i add some iso to my final product orange oxide looking stuff, and let it dissolve and add some naptha to that..it should all dissolve that way. Then I add some vinegar(acetic acid) to this saturated solution to salt out the alkaloids. I did a small test mixing iso and naptha to form a solution, then added vinegar and that seemed to make both the iso and vinegar drop out..so I am hoping that the naptha will seperate, holding onto some of that extra fats, and that the iso/vinegar will seperate with more pure spice and oxides, meo,whatever..and evap it.
So thats my tek for now, until I get some zinc..because pulling with naptha wont grab oxides and I have no limo at the moment.
At that point it would not dissolve at all in the iso like I had hoped..so I added a bit of hot water, stirred it and it began to dissolve(only a tiny bot of water to make it soluble in the iso), then added 99% iso and stired it all up to get it to dissolve..then let it sit and some shit that wouldnt absorb along with some sodium carb dropped out and I removed the solution from this other crap with an eye dropper..
Then I again evapped it..added a bit more hot water(just a bit to get it to absorb..still to resiny for iso alone), then some iso and stirred it all up..thenI added some sodium carb again to clean it a bit and I was surprised to see that ALOT of shit dropped out of solution..so I let it sit again for a while and the solution at this point was a very very transparent light orangy liguid..removed and evapped it to what looked like orange oily oxides..very impure but I was satisfied enough to dissolve in iso and evap onto a bit of passionflower leaf to test..
I really only tested a very very small ammount..I need to do some more work to clean it up more to get it as concentrated as possible..but I dont know about xtals without zinc reduction due to oxides..
I am thinking that at this point it might be easier to get more of the fats that are not oxides with another naptha defat..I know that 99%iso mixed with napth will form one single solution..so..i add some iso to my final product orange oxide looking stuff, and let it dissolve and add some naptha to that..it should all dissolve that way. Then I add some vinegar(acetic acid) to this saturated solution to salt out the alkaloids. I did a small test mixing iso and naptha to form a solution, then added vinegar and that seemed to make both the iso and vinegar drop out..so I am hoping that the naptha will seperate, holding onto some of that extra fats, and that the iso/vinegar will seperate with more pure spice and oxides, meo,whatever..and evap it.
So thats my tek for now, until I get some zinc..because pulling with naptha wont grab oxides and I have no limo at the moment.
:d