Northerner
Rising Star
So I've been mucking about with psychotria trying to figure out a better extraction tek and have hit a bit of a sludge wall with one attempt.
The leaves were dried and cut up in small pieces than based for a maybe a month in a large jar. I hit the leaves with a stick blender and added plenty of solvent. As the glug was gluggy under the solvent I was struggling to get much surface contact, so I used the stick blender to spin the glug under the solvent. It actually worked great. Then a second time about 20 minutes later, and about 30 seconds into the spin, the glug swallowed my solvent and it hasn't been seen since. This was about a month ago.
I've added copious amounts of salt and tried vibrating and heating it, pH is already over 12... I'm kind of at a loss right now.
Any ideas?
The leaves were dried and cut up in small pieces than based for a maybe a month in a large jar. I hit the leaves with a stick blender and added plenty of solvent. As the glug was gluggy under the solvent I was struggling to get much surface contact, so I used the stick blender to spin the glug under the solvent. It actually worked great. Then a second time about 20 minutes later, and about 30 seconds into the spin, the glug swallowed my solvent and it hasn't been seen since. This was about a month ago.
I've added copious amounts of salt and tried vibrating and heating it, pH is already over 12... I'm kind of at a loss right now.
Any ideas?