So, if I understand your steps, in both cases you needed to triturate the goo/glue with fresh solvent AND some mescaline citrate.

I think a big difference between your goo run and previous good xtalization runs is going to be mescaline concentration in your EA. Let us know your yields and amount of solvent you were Xtalizing from please.

It seems that with low mescaline yield/concentration, a goo can form with excess citric acid. That would also explain orchidist's results (~0.35% yield gave goo). If so, orchidist has shown that fumaric is not as sensitive to this parameter region. This jives with comments that Mindlusion made about xtalization dynamics and how important concentration is.

Just a possible theory. Not sure it is right. Your yields will be an interesting data point (including yields from previously successful runs).