Does yield vary in potency?

[DoggerelTravels]

Hello all! I’m brand new to this but something seems off.

I’m using 50g MHRB powder per batch to learn.
I’ve used Cyb’s Hybrid Salt Tek and Noman’s Tek.
I’m using a YoCan Orbit to vaporize it.

I seem to be getting good yield for such a small amount of bark, but it doesn’t register on my cheap scale (photos attached) and it seems to take a lot of product to produce one inhale.

My questions:
1. Does yield have varying potency?
2. Does yield have varying weight (density)?
3. Am I using the wrong instrument to ingest?
4. Could I have poor quality bark?

I’m OK with learning slowly, just want to check for something I might have missed in my self-education.

Thank you!

 

[froggydays]

Yield is the amount you obtain in %. The potency depends on the purity of the final extraction but from what I've seen the basic extraction method obtains high purity.

Your yield seems to be low. For 50gr mhrb you would expect around 0.5-0.7gr final product.

For weighing on a mg scale it needs a bit of starting weight, you could weigh it inside your container for example (glass vial).

 

[DoggerelTravels]

Yield is the amount you obtain in %. The potency depends on the purity of the final extraction but from what I've seen the basic extraction method obtains high purity.

Your yield seems to be low. For 50gr mhrb you would expect around 0.5-0.7gr final product.

For weighing on a mg scale it needs a bit of starting weight, you could weigh it inside your container for example (glass vial).

Thank you!

 

[blig-blug]

Note that your scale is set to a precision of centigrams (1 centigram is 10 milligrams). So it will only measure DMT in increments of 10mg.
It probably has some setting to show "0.000g" when empty instead of "0.00g" as it currently does.

 

[DoggerelTravels]

Aha! I use the plastic part of the razor blade package on top of the scale. I use the tare function to start at 0 with the plastic piece on it, but the spice doesn’t register. Maybe I need to read the directions for the scale again!

I’ve got a batch in the freezer - we’ll see how it turns out. Thank you for the note!

 

[Transform]

Have you tried calibrating your scales in any other ways? Presumably you tared the scale with the plastic bit on it before putting the DMT on it...? It does look as though your scale should be responding to that amount of product, unless the DMT is incredibly fluffy.

Cue @Voidmatrix's picture...

 

[blig-blug]

Have you tried calibrating your scales in any other ways? Presumably you tared the scale with the plastic bit on it before putting the DMT on it...? It does look as though your scale should be responding to that amount of product, unless the DMT is incredibly fluffy.

Cue @Voidmatrix's picture...

Look at the picture: the scale seems to be a centigram scale. It only shows two decimals and doesn't seem to have a "mode" button.

Edit: it does seem to have a "mode" button. So it probably can and should be set to milligrams.

 

[DoggerelTravels]

Thank you Transform!

I took my scales to my partner to check against his scales (mostly used for jewelry) and discovered that my set is pretty accurate. And as we tested it became clear to me what Froggydays said: when I weighed a filled vial with an empty vial there was half a gram difference. But I couldn’t get that measurement from spice by itself.

Neither of our scales will measure out to three decimal places ( as in 0.000). And a quick search of Amazon leads me to believe they are not prevalent in my willing-to-spend price range.

Of course, this is important to me because not only am I trying to measure yield, but also dose. Am I vaping 10mg, 12mg, 4mg? I’m trying to begin slowly to get comfortable in the sub-breakthrough space because even that is pretty disorienting to me! I suppose what I will need to do is determine 30mg by how much LIGHTER the vial weighs, split that in thirds by sight, and find some kind of scoop, so I can measure the dose by scoops. Does that sound right to y’all?

 

[blig-blug]

What region are you located at? There are affordable milligram scales in Amazon in my location (Spain, but they're Chinese). They're not too precise but still better than using a centigram scale.

 

[Voidmatrix]

Have you tried calibrating your scales in any other ways? Presumably you tared the scale with the plastic bit on it before putting the DMT on it...? It does look as though your scale should be responding to that amount of product, unless the DMT is incredibly fluffy.

Cue @Voidmatrix's picture...

Both vials contain 1g of DMT... weigh your doses please.

One love

 

[DoggerelTravels]

Aha!! This is what I wasn’t understanding!

Extracted essence can vary in weight depending upon any number of factors I suppose. I think this is what I meant by potency. A “scoop” could be “mild” or “strong” depending on how dense it is!

Thanks for everyone’s help getting my head wrapped around that. You’ve all been so kind!

What region are you located at? There are affordable milligram scales in Amazon in my location (Spain, but they're Chinese). They're not too precise but still better than using a centigram scale.

I’m in the US. I’ll look around a little more. Thank you!

 

[Transform]

Aha!! This is what I wasn’t understanding!

Extracted essence can vary in weight depending upon any number of factors I suppose. I think this is what I meant by potency. A “scoop” could be “mild” or “strong” depending on how dense it is!

Thanks for everyone’s help getting my head wrapped around that. You’ve all been so kind!

I’m in the US. I’ll look around a little more. Thank you!

Yes, one of the key words here might indeed be 'density'. Glad to see you've benefited from this exchange