dried chakruna grey?

[christian]

My old dried chakruna is grey, black looking. is this normal?

Also, i have powderized it for ease of extraction. Do you think 3x 20 min boils of this black stuff should be enough to get most goodies out, before reducing?

Thank's.

 

[rOm]

Green grey leaves I have also, but grey black no. Looks dead tissue to me.

20min x3 times is enough to get the active out IMO.

 

[christian]

Thanx rom. I'm starting to think maybe they are a brazilian variety or maybe even salvia leaves?

 

[3rdI]

My chacruna leaves are also green grey

 

[christian]

mine were dark grey, looking sortof black. When powdered it made a black mess. Managed to boil out some deep reddish drink. I guess it must be old Chakruna then!

 

[jamie]

black no..grey green yes. IME chaliponga is darker.

 

[christian]

black no..grey green yes. IME chaliponga is darker.

I guess they were grey, Jamie.

They were also very thin and easy to crumble, almost dust like...sound familiar?

 

[rOm]

Yes, maybe chaliponga leaves, that are darker also IME, but it depends if they were dried in sunlight (darker) or in black room.
See, I dried salvia leaves and the one that drops and stay on ground go brown dark, the one I hand pick and dry in cupboard are green. dark green but green, no brown, grey or black.
Was your supplier legit ?

 

[christian]

Was your supplier legit ?

I guess so. The Caapi was fine, so i guess the Chakruna is ok, maybe old stock. I've had it hanging about 2 years now, but it always was that colour!

 

[3rdI]

Just checked mine and they are not noticeably thin and don't crumble very easily

 

[christian]

I guess i can try a little bit of the leaves maybe like 10g worth to test. Should be ok if it's Chaliponga, or Salvia...but not if they are TOE! :shock: ....