Jagube
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I'm extracting home-grown Acacia floribunda, the low-branching (bushy) form.
I pruned 300 g (fresh weight) of twigs with phyllodes. The seed was sown in March or April 2018, so it's a bit over a year old. It's growing very fast and has proven hardy to at least -6C.
I boiled it with vinegar (pH ~5), in a small amount of water, just to cover the plant material, and only twice. Then reduced it to ~500 ml and did Cyb's Max Ion tek (with salt and lye), but pulling with a cold mix of limonene and sunflower oil instead of naphtha. The mix was roughly 1 part limo to 4 parts sunflower.
It was intended as an experiment to see what's in the plant, rather than extract all the goodies (if there are any). So I only made 3 pulls and kept the basic soup for later, should the results prove promising.
The pulls were salted with distilled vinegar and washed with vinegar water.
The combined washes were reduced, based with calcium hydroxide and evaporated.
Then I proceeded to pull it with IPA. I pulled it twice and I'm doing FASI precipitation. The clouding takes a long time to settle, so the process is slow and I'm filtering to speed it up.
I've already collected some precipitate. It's off-white and when I dissolve it in water, the water turns milky. Could this be a good sign?
Come to think of it, since the material I was pulling with IPA was already coming from NP pulls, there was no need for IPA pulls and FASI; I could have washed it with dilute ammonia just to remove the oil residue and excess base from the potential freebase alkaloids?
I'll be sending this for testing as per Endlessness's offer and bioassays may ensue before the results are in. Will keep you updated.
I pruned 300 g (fresh weight) of twigs with phyllodes. The seed was sown in March or April 2018, so it's a bit over a year old. It's growing very fast and has proven hardy to at least -6C.
I boiled it with vinegar (pH ~5), in a small amount of water, just to cover the plant material, and only twice. Then reduced it to ~500 ml and did Cyb's Max Ion tek (with salt and lye), but pulling with a cold mix of limonene and sunflower oil instead of naphtha. The mix was roughly 1 part limo to 4 parts sunflower.
It was intended as an experiment to see what's in the plant, rather than extract all the goodies (if there are any). So I only made 3 pulls and kept the basic soup for later, should the results prove promising.
The pulls were salted with distilled vinegar and washed with vinegar water.
The combined washes were reduced, based with calcium hydroxide and evaporated.
Then I proceeded to pull it with IPA. I pulled it twice and I'm doing FASI precipitation. The clouding takes a long time to settle, so the process is slow and I'm filtering to speed it up.
I've already collected some precipitate. It's off-white and when I dissolve it in water, the water turns milky. Could this be a good sign?
Come to think of it, since the material I was pulling with IPA was already coming from NP pulls, there was no need for IPA pulls and FASI; I could have washed it with dilute ammonia just to remove the oil residue and excess base from the potential freebase alkaloids?
I'll be sending this for testing as per Endlessness's offer and bioassays may ensue before the results are in. Will keep you updated.
