simplexus
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…. So let's go now,
After almost one year looking at this forum, taking advices among topics … I finally decide to make a report of my experiments with acacia simplex.
Taking the bark
I first began taking bark from big trees but only taking outside thick and hard bark in a way not to damage the tree itself.
The 5 first extractions gave me my first conclusion: DO NOT take dead bark for your extractions, the bark should be alive. Even the bark still on a living tree but completely dry is not suitable for an extraction.
So I first take the bark out of the tree with a knife, and after taking out the lichens and dead bark on it (it's easier on a small tree, 4-5 meters high). The bark is red (old trees) or pink (young ones) outside and white/cream inside. Fresh bark is easy to cut into small pieces by hand. Then you can put it in a mixer, if you don't want your mixer to be damaged, you have to do it when bark is still fresh and moisten. You obtain not a powder, but something like sawdust which is ok for our purpose. Last step, you put it in a large dish and in the oven at 80°C or outside letting the sun doing the job. Once it's well dry you almost loose half weight and you can store it in a hermetic black box for months.
Extractions
- For details, please refer to dmt handbook to have basis for extraction.
My first extraction was with a mix of dead and alive bark. But as result was oily goo and expecting having crystals, I throw it away…
After 15 extractions I can give you my tek. My tek is inspired and very similar with thicklight tek.
Here it is for 100mg of dry bark:
Prepare in a 5 liters jug: 4 liters of water + 200 ml of white vinegar
Mix dry bark with 500 ml of water/vinegar and boil it for 1h30-2h, keep brown tea
Do this acid bath 5 or 6 times until brown tea is becoming very clear
You finish with 2.5 or 3 liters of brown tea, filter it (the more you can) and reduce it to 0.5 liter. Boiling the brown tea to reduce, will result also in a settling operation, so filter and settle is much better when the liquid is hot.
At this time I do 2 defat with 200 ml of naphta each, but I'm not sure it's useful, may be you can cancel it.
Add 1 soup spoon of salt (without iode) call "gros sel de Guérande"
Add 75 cl of "lessive de soude 30.5% " this is approx. 30g caustic soda/lye. pH should increase to 12 or more.
To obtain white fluffy xtals, and separate NMT from DMT you should do that way:
When you do your pull with naphta, you should do it at high temperature.
Put your basic solution in a 1L glass bottle and add 200-300ml of naphta.
Put the bottle in a hot bath with boiling water (be very careful, and let the pressure release from time to time). Shake the bottle, let the pressure release. Try to keep the temp as high as your hand can handle the bottle (I guess 45°C). When naphta and basic solution are at the same hot temp, there is no more pressure to release. You can shake it like hell, if your solution is well filtered, pH high enough, and temperature high enough, you shouldn't have big emulsion. Once well shaked, let the emulsion disappear, this can be helped by pouring some boiling water on the closed bottle directly on the emulsion (again be very careful to release the pressure). Once the emulsion is gone, pull the naphta out from the bottle, this should be done when all is still hot.
The naphta is now oversaturated and very hot, by cooling, dmt xtals should appear at room temperature.
Put the hot oversaturated naphta in a dish, cover it with plastic film (no evaporation) and let it sit at room temp. After only 30 min you should observe xtal formation, wait 3 hours or more until xtals stop growing. You can now pour the naphta out from the dish letting crystals dry.
It's better to reuse the saturated naphta for next pulls. Do pulls until there is no more xtals forming at room temp. Using 1L of naphta is ok but for 100g of bark, may be you can use less.
Once you collect a maximum of xtals, keep the naphta and let evaporate (or freeze precipitation). You should obtain an oily orange/brown goo which is nmt and other compound like beta-carboline.
I have check quality of dmt by doing fumarate: from 500mg of xtal, I obtain 630mg of fumarate. I guess quality of crystal are over 90%
So for my last extraction, with 100g of bark I obtain:
1.61g of dmt
1.22g of nmt
I know it's a very high yield
Does somebody can confirm that if I can obtain fumarate, It cannot be anything else than dmt?
Testings:
I have tested full spectrum, and xtals, both are definitely psychoactives but still no breaktrough
I only use a classic VG and my vaping technique is not good, I have to buy a GVG.
Waiting for my GVG to go further in my experiments
Thank you very much to all of you for all advices found over this forum
After almost one year looking at this forum, taking advices among topics … I finally decide to make a report of my experiments with acacia simplex.
Taking the bark
I first began taking bark from big trees but only taking outside thick and hard bark in a way not to damage the tree itself.
The 5 first extractions gave me my first conclusion: DO NOT take dead bark for your extractions, the bark should be alive. Even the bark still on a living tree but completely dry is not suitable for an extraction.
So I first take the bark out of the tree with a knife, and after taking out the lichens and dead bark on it (it's easier on a small tree, 4-5 meters high). The bark is red (old trees) or pink (young ones) outside and white/cream inside. Fresh bark is easy to cut into small pieces by hand. Then you can put it in a mixer, if you don't want your mixer to be damaged, you have to do it when bark is still fresh and moisten. You obtain not a powder, but something like sawdust which is ok for our purpose. Last step, you put it in a large dish and in the oven at 80°C or outside letting the sun doing the job. Once it's well dry you almost loose half weight and you can store it in a hermetic black box for months.
Extractions
- For details, please refer to dmt handbook to have basis for extraction.
My first extraction was with a mix of dead and alive bark. But as result was oily goo and expecting having crystals, I throw it away…
After 15 extractions I can give you my tek. My tek is inspired and very similar with thicklight tek.
Here it is for 100mg of dry bark:
Prepare in a 5 liters jug: 4 liters of water + 200 ml of white vinegar
Mix dry bark with 500 ml of water/vinegar and boil it for 1h30-2h, keep brown tea
Do this acid bath 5 or 6 times until brown tea is becoming very clear
You finish with 2.5 or 3 liters of brown tea, filter it (the more you can) and reduce it to 0.5 liter. Boiling the brown tea to reduce, will result also in a settling operation, so filter and settle is much better when the liquid is hot.
At this time I do 2 defat with 200 ml of naphta each, but I'm not sure it's useful, may be you can cancel it.
Add 1 soup spoon of salt (without iode) call "gros sel de Guérande"
Add 75 cl of "lessive de soude 30.5% " this is approx. 30g caustic soda/lye. pH should increase to 12 or more.
To obtain white fluffy xtals, and separate NMT from DMT you should do that way:
When you do your pull with naphta, you should do it at high temperature.
Put your basic solution in a 1L glass bottle and add 200-300ml of naphta.
Put the bottle in a hot bath with boiling water (be very careful, and let the pressure release from time to time). Shake the bottle, let the pressure release. Try to keep the temp as high as your hand can handle the bottle (I guess 45°C). When naphta and basic solution are at the same hot temp, there is no more pressure to release. You can shake it like hell, if your solution is well filtered, pH high enough, and temperature high enough, you shouldn't have big emulsion. Once well shaked, let the emulsion disappear, this can be helped by pouring some boiling water on the closed bottle directly on the emulsion (again be very careful to release the pressure). Once the emulsion is gone, pull the naphta out from the bottle, this should be done when all is still hot.
The naphta is now oversaturated and very hot, by cooling, dmt xtals should appear at room temperature.
Put the hot oversaturated naphta in a dish, cover it with plastic film (no evaporation) and let it sit at room temp. After only 30 min you should observe xtal formation, wait 3 hours or more until xtals stop growing. You can now pour the naphta out from the dish letting crystals dry.
It's better to reuse the saturated naphta for next pulls. Do pulls until there is no more xtals forming at room temp. Using 1L of naphta is ok but for 100g of bark, may be you can use less.
Once you collect a maximum of xtals, keep the naphta and let evaporate (or freeze precipitation). You should obtain an oily orange/brown goo which is nmt and other compound like beta-carboline.
I have check quality of dmt by doing fumarate: from 500mg of xtal, I obtain 630mg of fumarate. I guess quality of crystal are over 90%
So for my last extraction, with 100g of bark I obtain:
1.61g of dmt
1.22g of nmt
I know it's a very high yield
Does somebody can confirm that if I can obtain fumarate, It cannot be anything else than dmt?
Testings:
I have tested full spectrum, and xtals, both are definitely psychoactives but still no breaktrough
I only use a classic VG and my vaping technique is not good, I have to buy a GVG.
Waiting for my GVG to go further in my experiments
Thank you very much to all of you for all advices found over this forum
The extract looks delicious 
