eastlancsguy
Rising Star
Hi all,
My friend recently carried out an extraction on the bark of a species of Acacia that we think was Acacia Mangium. We had seen some reports that this species may contain actives, so he decided to try and find out for sure so that the community can either rule in or rule out this species as one of interest.
Here are some photos of a couple of plates. Where shown (pics 2 & 3) 1 denotes a sample of known DMT, 2 denotes a sample of the orange waxy substance my friend managed to extract from the bark.
Firstly, the separations under a UV lamp. The known DMT sample is in the first column, the Acacia extraction samples are in columns 2 and 3:
Next, the same plate with ehrlich used on the spots from the sample known to contain DMT, and ehrlich and mecke used on the spots from the extracted substance:
Finally, a second plate with marquis and mecke used on the DMT spots (columns 1 & 2), and marquis on the extracted substance (column 3).
Neither of us have much chemistry knowledge, but I suspect these results imply there's no DMT within the extraction he completed, and therefore (most likely) none in the bark. There's always the chance that my friend carried out the extraction incorrectly, but he's fairly confident that's unlikely as he followed it to the letter (Cyb's Salt Tek).
I guess the following observations have our heads scratching a little bit...
1) The known good sample of DMT produced two very clear separation spots. One of these must be DMT, but what could the other be? DMT N-Oxide? NMT?
2) The reagent tests didn't really look like the reference ones on the Bunk website. This is making it tricky for him to identify which of the DMT sample spots is actually DMT.
3) He's no idea what the substance identified from the extraction separation is!
He's completely new to all of this but is going to investigate a little more to see if he can find out the answers to any of the above. Hope this has been of some use to the community.
My friend recently carried out an extraction on the bark of a species of Acacia that we think was Acacia Mangium. We had seen some reports that this species may contain actives, so he decided to try and find out for sure so that the community can either rule in or rule out this species as one of interest.
Here are some photos of a couple of plates. Where shown (pics 2 & 3) 1 denotes a sample of known DMT, 2 denotes a sample of the orange waxy substance my friend managed to extract from the bark.
Firstly, the separations under a UV lamp. The known DMT sample is in the first column, the Acacia extraction samples are in columns 2 and 3:
Next, the same plate with ehrlich used on the spots from the sample known to contain DMT, and ehrlich and mecke used on the spots from the extracted substance:
Finally, a second plate with marquis and mecke used on the DMT spots (columns 1 & 2), and marquis on the extracted substance (column 3).
Neither of us have much chemistry knowledge, but I suspect these results imply there's no DMT within the extraction he completed, and therefore (most likely) none in the bark. There's always the chance that my friend carried out the extraction incorrectly, but he's fairly confident that's unlikely as he followed it to the letter (Cyb's Salt Tek).
I guess the following observations have our heads scratching a little bit...
1) The known good sample of DMT produced two very clear separation spots. One of these must be DMT, but what could the other be? DMT N-Oxide? NMT?
2) The reagent tests didn't really look like the reference ones on the Bunk website. This is making it tricky for him to identify which of the DMT sample spots is actually DMT.
3) He's no idea what the substance identified from the extraction separation is!
He's completely new to all of this but is going to investigate a little more to see if he can find out the answers to any of the above. Hope this has been of some use to the community.