does jungle spice look like syrup before it dries?

[I am.]

first time trying to pull jungle.

did an a/b. pulled with naptha. then ran xylene through it and have been evapping it. i think it's nearly evapped...it's down to a thick syrup consistency and looks like maple syrup with a red tinge to it.

my camera is dead and charging right now (already tried to take pics) so i will put up [ics in a bit if it will help.

thanks for any advice!

 

[Hyperspace Fool]

It can look that way if you get enough oils. It can also take a long time to dry.

Honey spice never fully dries, actually.

As long as you were meticulous with your seperation (siphoning or however you do it), then it should be fine and dandy. If bits of the basic soup make their way into your pulls, it is possible to have some purple looking droplets from that as well. They usually crash out immediately, though, and can be resiphoned up and returned to their proper jar if you happen to zone out and accidentally get some.

Xylene & toulene can both pull some pretty deep purple stuff. Even moreso with a bit of heat.

 

[PrimalWisdom]

Yeah alot of my "jungle" took over a week to dry and then some of it was still very oily. It smokes like a charm though

I found if I used heat during my xylene pulls that they came out alot darker and more oily, so that's definitely got something to do with it.

 

[I am.]

It can look that way if you get enough oils. It can also take a long time to dry.


As long as you were meticulous with your seperation (siphoning or however you do it), then it should be fine and dandy. If bits of the basic soup make their way into your pulls, it is possible to have some purple looking droplets from that as well.

yeah. i pull all the solvent out (along with the very top layer of the basic soup) with a glass baster...drop that into a glass jar...let the little bit of basic soup settle to the bottom and then siphon off all the solvent with the baster and put all of that into a pyrex bowl and have had it under a fan for a total of about 8 hours..and it's down to a honey consistency but still has a slight solvent smell.

couple pics:

 

[PrimalWisdom]

Yeah that looks about right, leave it to dry for at least a week and it will solidify a bit more. Sometimes I get small waxy crystals forming on the top.

 

[I am.]

the way i'm drying it (please tell me if i'm wrong):

i've got like a dish drying rack with a wire screen laid across it and a small fan on top...blowing down, with the pyrex bowl under the rack...the screen under fan so that the fan won't suck flies into it and spit it into the syrup.

 

[Hyperspace Fool]

Lookin' good.

The fan can blow across the dish as well so it won't keep disturbing the stuff. It will dry pretty slow regardless. Once the smell of solvent is gone, it is generally fine to just cover it with a cloth (make sure the cloth doesn't fall in!) and leave it somewhere with good ventilation.

You can always take some of the oily liquid (again once there is no trace of solvent smell) and rub it on some neutral smoking herbs like mullein or mint and test it out already. Mix a bit with some ethanol and infuse it onto some caapi leaves for a very nice smoke.

Congrats, and welcome to jungle land.

 

[athousandeyes]

Oi friend, that looks marvelous! Jungle is very nice, but be sure that it is all you have. Mimosa droplets like to migrate especially if one is using a turkey baster to siphon, the things have monster suction. Wash solvents with sodium carbonate water! 2x! Evaporation doesn't have to take week(s) either. If one has the time, agitate the honey with a razor, exposing the surface area thus allowing trapped solvent some air to evaporate into, and also simultaneously creating a homogeneous consistency. Be sure to remove the packing oil on the razor blade with solvents!

 

[I am.]

how does it look so far? left it sitting, covered, at a slight angle all weekend. if you look in the big glop of honey...there are larger crystals...almost chunks in real life.

 

[q21q21]

yep, that looks like jungle.
Now you kinda have 3 options and it is up to your preference and plans.

1: evaporate it a bit more to a solid freebase (maybe a little gooey) with possibly xylene trapped in the crystal lattices, UGH!

2: Dissolve that in acetone (or IPA) and let it evaporate it to a solid, acetone is in tiny amounts in bananas and is generally accepted as one of the (or THE) safest re-xing solvent.

3: (this is really only if you don't have acetone or IPA) Do the exact same thing with vinegar, dissolve evaporate, with heat if you want. It probably won't crystallize but result in a very smoke-able goo which may have a vinegary taste on the first toke.

#1 just worries me a little, looks really cool though!

 

[I am.]

thanks q21q21...i have 99% ipa already. would you suggest i use it or acetone? i'm about to make some more changa, so i need go go get some acetone anyways. also...jungle spice changa...yay/nay?


also...this is only after 2 pulls and these were tiny pulls. this was doing 2 separate 25ml pulls on 2 separate lbs of mhrb. so again...very small pulls. i've a feeling there's gonna be a good bit more left in there.
thanks