Loveall and shroombee, thanks for your ongoing optimization efforts.

I really love the tek and will give it another try soon. Loveall: Your detailed report from plant to xtal will be very helpful for many.

Shroombee: A FAQ would help many as well! Great idea!

I want to make some comments to my experiments. After evaporating and letting dry my complete collected resin from 3 trys from around 270g of dried cacti material.

I ended up with a sticky brown (maybe from to much heat) resin.

I think I added to much citric acid somehwere in the process.

During my drying process I also had a phase in the oven with to much heat which let the resin boil for a short moment and small bubbles showed. Maybe that destroyed everything? In the end I let it finally dry on a heat mat for several days. after drying I scraped all the sticky material and redisolved into new fresh Ethylacetate because I had the feeling it was to much to be only the desired product. And it was tasting really like citric acid.

The resin dissolved really slow and I had to warm it up with a heat pad for several days.

finally it decomposed into something which looked like white, grey, brown powder which collected on the floor. The ethylacetate got yellow brown during the process.

I filtered the fluid and got a fine sandy powder in the filter. After drying it the powder quickly collected fluid from the air and got a sticky mass again . Whats going on here?

Might there be another good way of separating the xtals from the ethylacetate? Without citric acid or with an alternative?

Would a simple water pull work? Is there something else in the ethylacetate I would pull but dont want to extract?

I plan another try with the updated tek with different citric acid, no heat and much more patience. Maybe a automatic stirrer would be handy.

I also realized that different cacti material sometimes needs different proportions of water and lime to get the same smooth consistency.