Hi there!
Our great Member 69ron also had an Account at the
shroomery and there he stated this line:
Bufotenine is soluble in both acidic water and alkaline water (see the Merck Index). That is why it can be extracted from DCM using pH 10 water. It’s very soluble in it. DMT, 5-MeO-DMT and the majority of the other compounds that are supposed to be present will stay in the DCM after the pH 10 water washes.
Well this sounds extremely nice, meaning that you could purify the Bufotenin out of your water phase (there are some steps that involve using water as the liquid of that step, so I guess you could do exactly this at 1 or more steps).
Now no other TEK mentions this and I also did not see him here talk about this, so this already is a strange sign.
But the worst sign is:
Doesnt everywhere get stated that at
pH 10 Bufotenin is INSOLUBLE in water?
For example
here at the *no smell* TEK at step 8. Bufotenin crash out after you dissolved the fumarate in water and basify it, forming a *caramel clump*.
Add enough water (about 50 ml) to dissolve the bufotenine fumarate then add about a gram of sodium carbonate powder directly to this solution. Like magic a caramel coloured lump of freebase bufotenine will form.
I mean - yes - it is already
far more polar than Spice. But how can this well accepted and repeated TEK tell it is insoluble?
And even IF it would be soluble, I guess that between a mixture or DCM and pH 10 water
most should stay in the DCM by far. I mean this sounds as if you would throw water on it and 90 % get into the water and 10 % stay in the DCM. But IMO Bufotenin looks far more to be soluble in DCM.
I know it's all about to be tested, but I do not have enough seeds to try it ...
Maybe someone else has an opinion on this?