Completely new to this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[pattycakespnw]

So my first ever extraction was a mild success. 200g of MHRB yielded about .68g of spice. I bought a top down vape box. Specifically the Aegis Solo 3, I have just received my PG and my Samsung 18650 batteries along with one .5g empty cartridge. Cartridge has a ceramic core atomizer with medical grade stainless steel internal components. The mod box has power settings that will allow for me to make sure wattage doesn’t go above 8 watts. It’s currently set at 5watts, with a max temp of 285°F. My question is, how do I create a 3:1 cart with everything here? I do have a scale that is accurate to the hundredths, but not milligram graded. Googles ai said it was safe to round up to the next number in the hundredths. With everything I have what would be the best way to create a solution that would work?

 

[Transform]

Googles ai said it was safe to round up to the next number in the hundredths.

Well, this is yet another example of why it's a bad idea to rely on "AI" (i.e., LLMs) for safety-critical information. With certain substances, following this 'advice' - a probability-weighted assemblage of words, the more arcane the subject, the less based in reality the answer - could prove deadly. Fortunately, DMT is safer than that, at least from a viewpoint of physical effects; a 10 mg increment in dosing might result in, shall we say, unprecedented astonishment should you manage to employ a fully efficient delivery method.

As regards the rest of your question, have a look at the subforum index right here where you've just posted.

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There's a 'sticky' thread posted by @Propello where you'll find most of the technical details of how to get this done.

For another approach to e-juice you could search, say, "HIELO" for some ideas about smoothing things out with a little citric acid for pH-balancing.

Maybe you could post a bit about your first extraction over in its own thread, as there may be room for considerable improvement if your bark's any good. The sub-0.5% result verges on disappointment, so we'd love to help you in pushing that figure higher both for you and out of respect for the plants.

Anyhow, great to have you here, hope you find this useful - and feel free to ask some more specific questions as and when they arise.

Welcome to the Nexus!

 

[pattycakespnw]

Well, this is yet another example of why it's a bad idea to rely on "AI" (i.e., LLMs) for safety-critical information. With certain substances, following this 'advice' - a probability-weighted assemblage of words, the more arcane the subject, the less based in reality the answer - could prove deadly. Fortunately, DMT is safer than that, at least from a viewpoint of physical effects; a 10 mg increment in dosing might result in, shall we say, unprecedented astonishment should you manage to employ a fully efficient delivery method.

As regards the rest of your question, have a look at the subforum index right here where you've just posted.

Vaping/Smoking

We float around, hang out on clouds

forum.dmt-nexus.me

There's a 'sticky' thread posted by @Propello where you'll find most of the technical details of how to get this done.

For another approach to e-juice you could search, say, "HIELO" for some ideas about smoothing things out with a little citric acid for pH-balancing.

Maybe you could post a bit about your first extraction over in its own thread, as there may be room for considerable improvement if your bark's any good. The sub-0.5% result verges on disappointment, so we'd love to help you in pushing that figure higher both for you and out of respect for the plants.

Anyhow, great to have you here, hope you find this useful - and feel free to ask some more specific questions as and when they arise.

Welcome to the Nexus!

Thank you for your helpful advice and insight. And yes I do agree that my first extraction didn’t yield quite what I was expecting. I use the Noman’s tek from the older wiki page. I think my error was in my lack of patience with the gentle agitation of the solution containing bark, lye, distilled water, and Naptha. I maybe did about 15 end over end rotations, set the jar down to settle and did about 10 more and then instead of using the sep funnel I purchased for just this purpose I chose to use micro pipettes to suck up the non polar solvent to then freeze. I’m learning that patience is not only a virtue, but it is vital in the preparation of my sacrament. I feel foolish for wanting to the end result so quickly without considering the disrespect that I may have unintentionally bestowed upon the plant just so that I could receive its essence. My next extraction will certainly be done with intention set and my mind cleared of distractions and instead treat the plant with the proper respect and patience it deserves for what it brings to us in its sacrifice. Thank you for sharing with me your thoughts.

 

[Transform]

Thank you for your helpful advice and insight. And yes I do agree that my first extraction didn’t yield quite what I was expecting. I use the Noman’s tek from the older wiki page. I think my error was in my lack of patience with the gentle agitation of the solution containing bark, lye, distilled water, and Naptha. I maybe did about 15 end over end rotations, set the jar down to settle and did about 10 more and then instead of using the sep funnel I purchased for just this purpose I chose to use micro pipettes to suck up the non polar solvent to then freeze. I’m learning that patience is not only a virtue, but it is vital in the preparation of my sacrament. I feel foolish for wanting to the end result so quickly without considering the disrespect that I may have unintentionally bestowed upon the plant just so that I could receive its essence. My next extraction will certainly be done with intention set and my mind cleared of distractions and instead treat the plant with the proper respect and patience it deserves for what it brings to us in its sacrifice. Thank you for sharing with me your thoughts.

OK, no worries. It sounds like maybe you only did the one pull from your bark soup? Depending on the volume of naphtha you used, there' a good possibility that your yield will have been limited almost solely by the naphtha becoming saturated with DMT.

You'll likely get at least the same again from another pull, and almost as much from a third one, so I hope you've saved the soup. It's also advantageous to reuse the same naphtha after freeze precipitation since it's 'primed' with the small amount of DMT which remains in solution at freezer temperatures.

A separatory funnel isn't necessarily directly all that useful when pulling from a basic phase with naphtha - the thick soup tends to clog the outlet valve. It would come in useful if you were cleaning up the naphtha with a basic water wash before freezing, however - and the sep funnel is also great for pulling out of the naphtha into some acidic water as part of an A/B clean-up cycle.

How's it looking with your plans of turning (some of) your product into vape juice? One of the key things seems to be that you're hoping to get 3 g/mL in solution if that's what you mean by 3:1 juice. Given the current amount of active material you're working with, that would be a tiny volume - so maybe I'm getting the protocol backwards and you only want a 1:3 DMTG ratio. For that, if you weigh out 900 mg DMT you'd clearly need to add 0.9×3 = 2.7 mL of PG and warm it gently until the DMT all dissolves.

It may, however, be wiser to start with a smaller amount, like 300 mg, and mix that up accordingly. The juice is not indefinitely stable.

Another thing to take into account is that the final volume of the juice will be a bit more than the amount of PG used. To correct for this, dissolve the DMT in a smaller portion of PG and make up to the final desired volume with careful addition of the necessary amount of PG, ideally in a small [~5 mL] graduated cylinder.