Nice advice from everyone I'm glad to have started a productive discussion and very happy to be here at the Nexus. The long evap times and undesirable flavour from the Bartoline are definitely not ideal. Think I'll pop to the pound shop and get me some Bull Brand to try it out.
What do you guys use to powder your mhrb? I tried mum's fancy food processor and it started smoking...my extractions thus far have been with pretty crudely chopped material. It feels wasteful, I feel as though I'm gaining a TRUE respect for the plant--it's funny i talk so much shit but DMT made me actually FEEL it. The trick is applying it when you're straight
I've had a busy week...work and stuff. I have a little DMT left which I'm going to offer to a friend when they come to visit. Funny story, last time i was with this person we took some acid, and they did 2 hits, for the first time. it was all good but then something triggered them and they were all kinds of people but not themself. they were screaming all kinds of weird, dark, personal shit, kept stripping naked, attacking us, trying to rape us. i was on 4 tabs, i'd never seen someone have a trip like that, it was heavy. but i'd read "the experiment at la chorrera" and i remembered how terence stayed with dennis and shamanised him while he was lost in the cosmos and guided him out of it in stages, so i took them into a room and did exactly that, and it worked and they were fine. my friend was drowning and i swam them home. anyway this person has had dmt before and all went smoothly so here's to sharing, this will be the first person to have tried my dmt other than me.
I'll attach some photos from my last extraction. you can see my (butchered) mimosa bark and subsequent poor yields. it's in a jug and i'm stirring it with a chopstick. my first purchase of bark was mostly to just to see if i could do it. i put my tek together by altering ones i'd read. but mostly it's that noman thing. i now understand my shit is really ghetto and i need to step it up with some proper gear...but it's a learning process. i was curious as to what would happen if i dropped a bud of weed in one of my evaporating dishes, so i did that. this weird grey colour emanated from the nuggy (chlorophyll? thc?) and now it's still evaporating. did i get weed in my dmt or did i get dmt in my weed? and, a couple more questions:
how long does the lye solution take to extract everything from the wood? upwaysidedown, are you suggesting it might be worthwhile to soak it for a couple days or so and doing another pull, resulting in DMT and also other alkaloids that would enhance effects?
my understanding is that during the naptha phase it should be warm--how warm are we talking here? I've been placing the jug in a deep pyrex with hot water but it doesn't seem to do much to change the temperature. i don't have a electric stove. and how about during the previous stage with the lye solution? what's the ideal temp for sucking all the good shit out of the wood shit?
anyway thanks for all the lovely warm welcomes and advice folks i haven't used a forum like this in about 12 years but i used to be a part of some great communities and...well let's just say it feels very positive and also like i'm moving in the right direction. "find the others"
